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V8 upgrade process

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Julien Gilli edited this page Apr 15, 2015 · 26 revisions

Introduction

This document aims at describing what needs to be done when upgrading the version of V8 that is included in Node.js' source tree.

Floating patches

https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/6ebd85e10535dfaa9181842fe73834e51d4d3e6c. See https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/9439 for more information about why it actually does not fix the original problem. Still, we might want to keep it for now for consistency
https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/3589a62104eac1daae782ab479bec09f4df4dc9a.
https://github.com/v8/v8-git-mirror/commit/2ad2237507c5b5f9047b8d94d2f4997327eae852: fixes issues with using --debug-brk with --use-strict.
https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/ac21a5390c6e02f0bc9052c7794dcabc33a0a0c3. However the commit message needs to be changed to something like: mdb_v8: fix dictionary properties access.
https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/2320210639516025a5ad0744e8ff45b687212422: allows to not lose IRHydra support.
https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/1314cfe4760744de2bebe3e54abdf957c57caeae.

Patches that need to be upstreamed

https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/9147.