Update release to 1.7.8-RC1 including release notes.

README.md

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Rhino builds with `Gradle`. Here are some useful tasks:
 ```
 ./gradlew jar
 ```
-Build and create `Rhino` jar in the `build/libs` directory.
+Build and create `Rhino` jar in the `buildGradle/libs` directory.
 ```
 ./gradlew test
 ```

RELEASE-NOTES.md

@@ -1,3 +1,55 @@
+# Rhino 1.7.8-RC1
+## December 22, 2017
+
+Most important changes in this release:
+
+* JavaScript objects are no longer (somewhat) thread-safe by default
+* Rhino is resistant to "hash flooding" attacks
+* Rhino is only supported for Java 8 and up
+* Rhino only builds with Gradle.
+
+The primary change in this release is that the object storage format has changed
+for objects derived from ScriptableObject (which is nearly all objects).
+
+First, objects are no longer thread-safe by default. (They were thread-safe previously, but
+not in a way that we could prove was 100 percent correct in all cases.) We do not believe
+that the vast majority of Rhino code depended on this capability. 
+
+The feature flag Context.FEATURE_THREAD_SAFE_OBJECTS may be used to enable locking on all
+objects by default in case it is needed. Furthermore, the built-in "sync" function is still
+supported, which can be used to wrap a function in a similar way to the "synchronized" keyword
+in Java.
+
+Second, when an object grows to a large number of properties, the native hash table implementation
+is replaced with java.util.HashMap. This more complex (but slightly slower) hash implementation
+is resistant to hash collisions. This makes Rhino in general resistant to "hash flooding" attacks.
+
+Rhino now depends on Java 8. It also works on Java 9, although a few tests are currently breaking
+around Date parsing and UTF-8 encoding.
+
+Additional changes:
+
+[Issue 290](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/issues/290) Resist hash flooding attacks
+[Issue 303](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/issues/303) Arrow function position set error
+[Issue 323](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/issues/323) Possible OutOfMemory due to
+infinite loop on parsing
+[Issue 341](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/issues/341) Objects are only thread-safe when
+feature is enabled
+[Issue 351](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/issues/351) Function-level use-strict breaks
+backward compatibility
+[Issue 357](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/issues/357) Array.sort() can throw
+ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
+[Issue 295](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/issues/295) Change WrapFactory to only wrap
+"true" primitive types and not subclasses.
+[PR102](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/pull/102) Fix regexp parsing for "/0{0/"
+[PR108](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/pull/108) Attach jsdoc nodes to function params.
+[PR 169](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/pull/169) Enable calling default method
+on Java 8.
+[PR322](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/pull/322) Fix static array functions
+[PR353](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/pull/353) Member box call error.
+[PR355](https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/pull/358) Support array-like parameters to 
+Function.prototype.apply().
+
 # Rhino 1.7.7.2
 ## August 24, 2017
 

gradle.properties

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #Sun, 26 Apr 2015 10:43:55 +0300
 rootProject.name=rhino
 group=org.mozilla
-version=1.7.8-SNAPSHOT
+version=1.7.8-RC1
 buildDir=buildGradle
 mavenSnapshotRepo=https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots
 mavenReleaseRepo=https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven

maven/maven-pom.xml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   <groupId>org.mozilla</groupId>
   <artifactId>rhino</artifactId>
   <name>Mozilla Rhino</name>
-  <version>1.7.8-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.7.8-RC1</version>
 
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <description>

release-steps.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 Update version in:
 	src/manifest
-	build.properties
 	gradle.properties
 	maven/maven-pom.xml
 
@@ -28,7 +27,6 @@ Update release in GitHub
 
 Update to new snapshot version in:
 	src/manifest
-	build.properties
 	gradle.properties
 	maven/maven-pom.xml
 

src/manifest

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Manifest-Version: 1.0
 Main-Class: org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main
-Implementation-Version: 1.7.8-SNAPSHOT
-Implementation-Title: Mozilla Rhino 1.7.8 SNAPSHOT
+Implementation-Version: 1.7.8-RC1
+Implementation-Title: Mozilla Rhino 1.7.8 RC1
 Implementation-Vendor: Mozilla Foundation
 Implementation-URL: http://www.mozilla.org/rhino