The following is a changelog for JavaScript 1.6. This version was included in Firefox 1.5 (Gecko 1.8), which was released in November 2005. The corresponding ECMA standard is ECMA-262 Edition 3 and ECMAScript for XML (E4X) with some additional features. Several new features were introduced: E4X, several new Array methods, and Array and String generics.

New features in JavaScript 1.6

Changed functionality in JavaScript 1.6