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A comment on PhantomJS 2.

Re:PhantomJS 2 by alandarev on Monday February 02, 2015 @04:21AM (#8983377)
Can anyone actually explain what is so important in Version 2? All I can see in release-2.0 notes, is an upgrade to Qt5
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Re:PhantomJS 2 by chipsambos on Monday February 02, 2015 @04:29AM (#8983388)
There are better release notes in the download:

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2015-01-23: Version 2.0.0

    New features

      * Switched to Qt 5 and updated WebKit (issue 10448)
      * Implemented clearing of memory cache (issue 10357)
      * Added support for HTTP header change for every request (issue 11299)

    Improvements

      * Fixed rendering of CJK text by always linking the codecs (issue 10249)
      * Ensured onResourceReceived is still fired on an error (issue 11163)
      * Fixed possible crash in handling network requests (issue 11252)
      * Removed hardcoded GhostDriver launching message (issue 12681)
      * Allowed disk cache more than 2 GB (issue 12303)

    Examples

      * Netsniff example should exit when fails to load (issue 11333)
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Re:PhantomJS 2 by anoopelias on Monday February 02, 2015 @05:05AM (#8983488)
Function.prototype.bind[1] issue was quiet painful to many, so this release will be a relief.

[1]https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/10522

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Re:PhantomJS 2 by Touche on Monday February 02, 2015 @05:27AM (#8983535)
Phantom 1.x was using an ancient version of WebKit.
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