For its part, the V8 team has released version 5.4, a new branch of the engine. “V8 5.4 delivers a number of key improvements in memory footprint and startup speed,” the team said in a bulletin.

Google LLC on Thursday released an update for Chrome to fix a high-severity security vulnerability in the browser that's believed to be exploited by hackers.The update, the search giant detailed i ...

In addition to fixing the zero-day buffer overflow flaw, the Chrome releases also patch a type confusion flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine tracked as CVE-2022-2295 and reported June 16 by ...

V8, an open source Google project, is a powerful JavaScript engine for Chrome that's helped advance the web and web applications. V8 also powers the server-side runtime Node.js.