JavaScript - Versions

Versions

See also: ECMAScript#Dialects and ECMAScript#Version correspondence

The following table is based on a history compilation forum post, jQuery author's blog post, and Microsoft's JScript version information webpage.

Version Release date Equivalent to Netscape
Navigator		 Mozilla
Firefox		 Internet
Explorer		 Opera Safari Google
Chrome
Old version 1.0 March 1996 2.0 3.0
Old version 1.1 August 1996 3.0
Old version 1.2 June 1997 4.0-4.05
Old version 1.3 October 1998 ECMA-262 1st + 2nd edition 4.06-4.7x 4.0
Old version 1.4 Netscape
Server
Old version 1.5 November 2000 ECMA-262 3rd edition 6.0 1.0 5.5 (JScript 5.5),
6 (JScript 5.6),
7 (JScript 5.7),
8 (JScript 5.8)		 7.0 3.0-5 1.0-10.0.666
Old version 1.6 November 2005 1.5 + array extras + array and string generics + E4X 1.5
Old version 1.7 October 2006 1.6 + Pythonic generators + iterators + let 2.0
Old version 1.8 June 2008 1.7 + generator expressions + expression closures 3.0 11.50
Old version 1.8.1 1.8 + native JSON support + minor updates 3.5
Old version 1.8.2 June 22, 2009 1.8.1 + minor updates 3.6
Current version: 1.8.5 July 27, 2010 1.8.2 + ECMAScript 5 compliance 4 9 11.60

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