Release 1.9.0.

Update release notes and README for the new release

Author: gbrail

README.md

@@ -10,10 +10,13 @@ Rhino is licensed under the [MPL 2.0](./LICENSE.txt).
 
 ## Releases
 
-The current release is <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/releases/tag/Rhino1_7_15_Release">Rhino 1.7.15</a>. Please see the [Release Notes](./RELEASE-NOTES.md).
+The current release is <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/releases/tag/Rhino1_9_0_Release">Rhino 1.9.0</a>. Please see the [Release Notes](./RELEASE-NOTES.md).
 
 <details><summary>Releases</summary>
 <table>
+<tr><td><a href="https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/releases/tag/Rhino1_9_0_Release">Rhino 1.9.0</a></td><td>December 22, 2025</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/releases/tag/Rhino1_8_1_Release">Rhino 1.8.1</a></td><td>December 2, 2025</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/releases/tag/Rhino1_8_0_Release">Rhino 1.8.0</a></td><td>January 2, 2025</td></tr>
 <tr><td><a href="https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/releases/tag/Rhino1_7_15_Release">Rhino 1.7.15</a></td><td>May 3, 2024</td></tr>
 <tr><td><a href="https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/releases/tag/Rhino1_7_14_Release">Rhino 1.7.14</a></td><td>January 6, 2022</td></tr>
 <tr><td><a href="https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/releases/tag/Rhino1_7_13_Release">Rhino 1.7.13</a></td><td>September 2, 2020</td></tr>

RELEASE-NOTES.md

@@ -1,3 +1,43 @@
+# Rhino 1.9.0
+## December 22, 2025
+
+This release represents about a year of work on Rhino by a growing team of contributors.
+
+Some of the improvements include:
+
+* Compatibility improvements in areas like destructuring and spread syntax.
+* Performance improvements from 10 to 30% in benchmarks like Delta Blue, Earley-Boyer, and Crypto in both interpreted and compiled mode
+* Better support for generics and other things when Java integration is used.
+
+Some other improvements:
+
+JavaScript Language Updates:
+  * ES6+: Significant advancements in destructuring, spread syntax for
+    arrays/objects, Symbol API, and improved let/const scoping.
+    TypedArray.from/of and BigInt.asUintN/asIntN fixes.
+  * RegExp: New features like named capture groups, lookbehind
+    assertions, and Unicode mode support.
+  * Future ES (ES2024/2025): Early implementation of proposals such as
+    Promise.withResolvers, Promise.try, ArrayBuffer transfer methods, and
+    new Set methods.
+
+Core Engine Enhancements:
+  * Major Refactoring: Extensive migration of built-in objects to a
+    lambda-based architecture and a comprehensive overhaul of the
+    interpreter bytecodes for better performance and maintainability.
+  * Concurrency & Interop: Continued focus on thread safety improvements
+    and enhanced Java interoperability, including better generics
+    support.
+
+Going forward -- we have lots of plans for Rhino, including some changes that may 
+affect compatibility for projects that embed Rhino into larger frameworks. We think
+that these changes will be worth it because they will unlock better language 
+compatibility and performance.
+
+As such, the next version going forward will be 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT.
+
+Thanks to everyone who contributed!
+
 # Rhino 1.8.1, Rhino 1.7.15.1, Rhino 1.7.14.1
 ## December 2, 2025
 

RELEASE-STEPS.md

@@ -57,13 +57,8 @@ to the new tag. Include the following:
 
 ## Push the release to Maven Central
 
-The "Publish to Maven Central" action on GitHub Actions will automatically
-build the release, sign the JARs, and push it to oss.sonatype.org in the
-"org.mozilla" area. Kick off this job using the "Actions" tag in the GitHub UI.
-
-Next, Log in to oss.sonatype.org, verify that all the checks
-that happen there were successful, and "close" the release. It will appear
-on Maven Central a few hours later.
+With the new changes at Sonatype, publishing is a process that currently
+involves the web interface at https://central.sonatype.com.
 
 ## Update Homebrew
 

gradle.properties

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 rootProject.name=rhino-root
 group=org.mozilla
-version=1.8.2-SNAPSHOT
+version=1.9.0
 mavenReleaseRepo=https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/
 mavenSnapshotRepo=https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots
 githubPackagesRepo=https://maven.pkg.github.com/mozilla/rhino

rhino-kotlin/build.gradle

@@ -18,10 +18,11 @@ publishing {
     publications {
         rhinokotlin(MavenPublication) {
             from components.java
-            artifacts = [jar, sourceJar]
+            artifacts = [jar, sourceJar, javadocJar]
             pom.withXml {
                 def root = asNode()
 
+                root.appendNode('name', 'rhino-kotlin')
                 root.appendNode('description', "Rhino reflection interfaces implementations for Kotlin")
                 root.appendNode("url", "https://mozilla.github.io/rhino/")
 
@@ -42,6 +43,11 @@ publishing {
                 def o = root.appendNode("organization")
                 o.appendNode("name", "The Mozilla Foundation")
                 o.appendNode("url", "http://www.mozilla.org")
+
+                def d = root.appendNode("developers")
+                def dd = d.appendNode("developer")
+                dd.appendNode("name", "Greg Brail")
+                dd.appendNode("email", "gbrail@users.noreply.github.com")
             }
         }
     }