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Scheme2Js 20080430 has been released. It is a Scheme compiler that emits JavaScript.

This release includes: runtime and compiler bug fixes.

RubyJS 0.7.0 has been released. RubyJS compiles Ruby source code to JavaScript.

This is the first public release of RubyJS.

Scheme2Js 20071220 has been released. It is a Scheme compiler that emits JavaScript code.

This release includes: support for Infotrons, and bug fixes.

Strands has been announced. It is built upon Narrative JavaScript, and "adds coroutine and cooperative threading support to the JavaScript language to enable blocking capabilities for asynchronous event callbacks."

OSSP js 1.6.20070208 has been released. OSSP js is a stand-alone distribution of the Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript implementation.

This release includes: an update of the build environment to GNU autoconf 2.61, and the addition of a jspack command.

DMDScript 1.13 has been released. DMDScript is an ECMAScript implementation written in D.

This release includes updates for changes to D 1.003.

Chris Double has announced that he has made some updates to his Factor to JavaScript compiler. Factor is dynamically typed stack-based language, drawing from Forth, Common Lisp, Joy and Slate.

The updates include: an FFI interface to JavaScript, parser improvements, AJAX support, and other changes.

The Mozilla Foundation and Adobe have announced the creation of the Tamarin project. It aims to "implement a high-performance, open source implementation of the ECMAScript 4th edition (ES4) language specification."

Tamarin is based off of the source code to the ActionScript Virtual Machine, contributed by Adobe. "The ActionScript Virtual Machine features a Just In Time (JIT) compiler that translates ActionScript bytecode to native machine code for maximum execution speed."

Narrative JavaScript Beta1 has been released. "Narrative JavaScript is a small extension to the JavaScript language that enables blocking capabilities for asynchronous event callbacks."

This release includes: a client-side load-and-compile API based on XHR, a formal threading API, a Java-based compiler using Rhino, and bugfixes.

OSSP js 1.6.20060820 has been released. OSSP js is a stand-alone distribution of the Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript implementation.

This release includes support for building SpiderMonkey with UTF-8-based C strings.

Simple ECMAScript Engine 2.0 has been released. SEE is a portable, open-source ECMAScript Edition 3 implementation.

This release includes: improved Netscape compatibility, support for GC finalizers, dynamic module support, API improvements, plus other changes and bugfixes.

OSSP js 1.6.20060803 has been released. OSSP js is a stand-alone distribution of the Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript implementation.

This release includes support for dynamically loading C extension modules.

OSSP js 1.6.20060730 has been released. OSSP js is a stand-alone distribution of the Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript implementation.

This release includes support for Cygwin and MinGW.

DMDScript 1.11 has been released. DMDScript is an ECMAScript implementation written in D.

This release includes updates for changes to Digital Mars D 0.163.

php-js 0.1.0 has been released. It embeds the Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine into PHP via an experimental PHP extension.

This is the initial release.