1.6.1 Milestone Release
- New date/time formatting and parsing capability (issue #166)
- Support for comments in expressions (issue #75)
- Higher-order extension functions (issue #259)
- Allow Boolean to be cast to a number (issue #257)
- New functions
- $eval - parse/evaluate the contexts of a JSON/JSONata string (issue #134)
- $formatInteger - format an integer to a string using picture string definition
- $parseInteger - parse an integer from a string using picture string definition
- Non-functional enhancements:
- Split codebase into multiple files; fixed multiple issues with ES5 generated library
- Multiple conformance tests in a single file
- Documentation moved to main jsonata repo; generated using docusaurus.io
- Minimum node.js runtime v6 (dropped support for v4)
- Numerous bug fixes (#236, #179, #261, #236, #245, #246, #233, #250, #247, #242, #249)
Note v1.6.0 was not released