The developers of V8, Google's JavaScript engine, have expanded on how the latest release improves async functions and promises, as well as making it easier to debug async code. V8 is Google’s open ...

The latest release of V8, Google's open source JavaScript engine, will reduce heap size by 40 percent by using pointer compression when it is released alongside Chrome 80 stable in a few weeks. V8 is ...

‘Super-fast’ non-optimizing Sparkplug compiler, which compiles bytecode to machine code, makes its debut in V8 9.1 and Chrome 91. With the Sparkplug compiler, Google is looking to improve JavaScript ...

Google confirmed Thursday that attackers were already exploiting a type confusion flaw in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine before a patch existed, marking the sixth zero-day of 2026 — and the third to ...