Standalone Nashorn 15.0 is out!

[Nils Kilden-Pedersen]

Congrats! ����

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 12:36 PM Attila Szegedi <szegedia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I’m happy to announce that the first standalone version of Nashorn, 15.0
> is now available on Maven Central[0]!
>
> This version of Nashorn requires minimum of Java 15 to run. If you want to
> use Nashorn on older Java version, just use the version bundled with the
> JDK, this version has no new features compared to the one in Java 14.
>
> This has been quite a journey, from discussing the idea with OpenJDK
> stakeholders three months ago in August, taking over the Project Lead role,
> getting the project set up on GitHub, actually doing the work on code and
> the build system, and finally getting the artifact publishing set up with
> Sonatype today.
>
> As usual, it takes a village, so I’d like to thank (in approximate
> chronological order of them showing up on this journey) Georges Saab, Mark
> Reinhold, Jim Laskey, Iris Clark, Vladimir Kozlov, Dalibor Topić, Erik
> Duveblad, Sundararajan Athijegannathan, Rémi Forax, Mandy Chung, and
> Aleksey Shipilev for help, support, and advice along the way.
>
> Very excited to hear back from users!
>
> Attila.
>
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> https://search.maven.org/artifact/org.openjdk.nashorn/nashorn-core/15.0/jar