The fifth edition of ECMA-262, the industrial standard scripting language specification , which should later become the fifth edition of ISO-16262, has now reached the "Final Draft" state and will enter the testing and validation phase, on target for approval later this years.
In case you missed it, ES5 is the effort formerly known as ES3.1, and got renamed to ES5 in order to clean up the confusion with the version numbers of the different proposals, skipping the ES4 version. "ES Harmony" would therefore one day be called ES6, not ES4.
8.4.2009, 23:31