Please see also http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/wiki/ReleaseNotes.

2012-06-20: Version 1.6.0 "Lavender"

    New features

      * Added support for passing arguments to WebPage's evaluate (issue 132)
      * Added callbacks for JavaScript onConfirm and onAlert (issue 133)
      * Added stack trace when error occurs (issue 166)
      * Added initial support for cookies handling (issue 354)
      * Added support for header footer when printing the page (issue 410, 512)
      * Added headers support in the loading request (issue 452)
      * Added support to render the web page as base64-encoded string (issue 547)
      * Added hooks for navigation event (issue 562)
      * Added command-line option to show debug messages (issue 575)
      * Added support for the zoom factor for web page rendering (issue 579)
      * Added crash reporter for Mac OS X and Linux, based on Google Breakpad (issue 576)
      * Added 'os' object to the system module (issue 585)
      * Added support for asynchronous evaluation (issue 593)

    Improvements

      * Fixed remote debugging to work on Mac OS X and Windows (issue 430)
      * Fixed web server getting the dropped connection for empty response (issue 451)
      * Fixed text rendered as boxes (squares) on headless Linux (issue 460)
      * Updated Qt to version 4.8.2 (issue 495)
      * Updated CoffeeScript compiler to version 1.3.3 (issue 496)
      * Fixed the build script to detect and use MAKEFLAGS (issue 503)
      * Fixed the build script to properly pass Qt config flags (issue 507)
      * Changed Info.plist to be embedded in Mac OS X executable (issue 528)
      * Fixed wrong module require in the imagebin example (issue 536)
      * Fixed example scripts to exit with the right exit code (issue 544)
      * Fixed build failure with glib 2.31.0+ (issue 559)
      * Fixed error handler failures in some cases (issue 589)
      * Fixed Twitter-related examples to work with the new site (issue 609)

2012-03-20: Version 1.5.0 "Ghost Flower"

    New features

      * Added interactive mode, also known as REPL (issue 252)
      * Added setting for web security, to allow cross domain XHR (issue 28)
      * Added error handler for WebPage object (issue 166)
      * Added support for custom HTTP header in the network request (issue 77)
      * Added support for read write encoding in the file system module (issue 367)
      * Added remote debugging support on Linux (issue 6)
      * Added support for proxy authentication (issue 105)
      * Added System module, to retrieve environment variables (issue 271) and arguments (issue 276)
      * Added fs.readLink function (issue 329)
      * Added support for reading and writing binary data (issue 400)
      * Added support to retrieve request data in the WebServer? module (issue 340)
      * Added support for individual top/bottom/left/right print margins (issue 388)
      * Added command-line option --help (issue 347)
      * Added short command-line options -v and -h (issue 408)
      * Removed support for Flash and other plugins (issue 418)

    Bug fixes

      * Fixed multiple console.log arguments (issue 36)
      * Fixed file upload (issue 307)
      * Fixed the web server instance to be asynchronous (issue 326) and still support Keep Alive (issue 416)
      * Workaround Qt 4.8.0 crash due to empty URL scheme (issue 365)
      * Fixed a Content-Type problem where POST does not work (issue 337)
      * Fixed reading body request in the web server even without specific Content-Type (issue 439)
      * Fixed Jasmine test runner with Jasmine 1.1 (issue 402)
      * Fixed request URL formatting in the web server (issue 437)
      * Don't display debugging and warning messages (issue 323)

2011-12-31: Version 1.4.1

    Bug fixes

      * Fix setting the proxy type (issue 266)
      * Workaround for file upload regression (issue 307)
      * Fix extraneous messsages in non-debug mode (issue 323)

2011-12-22: Version 1.4.0 "Glory of the Snow"

    New features

      * Added embedded HTTP server (issue 115)
      * Added convenient build script for Linux (issue 197)
      * Added support for SOCKS5 proxy (issue 266)
      * Updated CoffeeScript compiler to version 1.2 (issue 312)

    Bug fixes

      * Fix potential crash in QUrl with Qt 4.8 (issue 304)
      * Fix bug in CookieJar with QSettings and string (PyPhantomJS issue 10)
      * Prevent showing the icon on Mac OS X Dock (issue 281)

    Examples

      * Added a new example to detect browsers sniffing (issue 263)
      * Added HTTP server example (issue 115)

2011-09-23: Version 1.3.0 "Water Lily"

    Bug fixes

      * Fixed open() and POST method, without specifying the finished handler
      * Fixed script execution warning dialog (issue 165)
      * Added WebPage.release() to free the web page from memory (issue 154)
      * Added special handling of about:blank (issue 235)
      * Made a separate network access manager for each page (issue 190)

    New features

      * Introduced file system API based on CommonJS Filesystem proposal (issue 129)
      * Added support for persistent cookies (issue 91)
      * Added event handling, currently only for mouse events (issue 234)
      * Added page scroll position (issue 162)
      * Added HTTP authentication support (issue 45)
      * Added callback for page initialization (issue 143)
      * Added support to specify script and output encoding (issue 186)
      * Added option to allow local content to do cross-domain access (issue 28)
      * Added support to apply configurations from a JSON file (issue 180)
      * Added a convenient WebPage initialization construction (issue 206)
      * Added option to limit the size of disk cache (issue 220)

    Examples

      * Added a new example on using Modernizr to detect features (issue 144)
      * Fixed pizza.js example to use Mobile Yelp (issue 200)
      * Fixed netsniff.coffee example due to wrong indentation (issue 225)
      * Added an example to show live network traffic (issue 227)
      * Added an example demonstrating different output encodings (issue 186)

2011-06-21: Version 1.2.0 "Birds of Paradise"

    Version 1.2.0 is a major update. It introduces a whole set of new API.

    Bug fixes

      * Fixed rendering a very large web page (issue 54)
      * Fixed reporting of CoffeeScript compile error (issue 125)

    New features

      * Added callback for console message (issue 12)
      * Improved security model via WebPage object (issue 41)
      * Added support for POST, HEAD, PUT, and DELETE (issue 88)
      * Scripts filename is now passed as phantom.scriptName
      * Added callback to capture resource requests and responses (issue 2)
      * Added the ability to load external JavaScript (issue 32)

    Examples

      * Ported examples to use WebPage object
      * Added a new example to upload an image to imagebin.org
      * Added a new example to show HTTP POST feature
      * Added a new example to sniff network traffic and save it in HAR format


2011-04-27: Version 1.1.0 "Cherry Blossom"

    Fixed the script loading to use UTF-8 encoding (Yasuhiro Matsumoto).

    Added check for system proxy setting (Yasuhiro Matsumoto).

    Fixed building with Cygwin and Qt 4.5 (John Dalton).

    Added a new example: driver for QUnit tests (Łukasz Korecki).

    Fixed issue #20: problem with JPG transparent color (Alessandro Portale).

    Fixed issue #9: ignore first line starting with #! (Matthias, aka fourplusone).

    Fixed issue #7: support for file upload for form submission (Matthias, aka fourplusone).

    Fixed issue #35: support for disabling images loading (Ariya Hidayat).

    Fixed issue #14: enable or disable plugins (Ariya Hidayat).

    Added a new example: using Canvas to produce the color wheel (Ariya Hidayat).

    Added support for rasterizing as GIF image (Ariya Hidayat).

    Added support for CoffeeScript (Ariya Hidayat).

    Fixed issue #19: option for setting the proxy (Clint Berry, Ariya Hidayat).

    Python implementation using PyQt (James Roe).

    Fixed issue #17: Specify paper size for PDF export (Alessandro Portale).

    Fixed issue #60: Win32 and OS/2 icon files (Salvador Parra Camacho).

    Added clipping rectangle to the render function (Wouter de Bie).

    Added an example on sychronous waiting (Gabor Torok).

    Added command line option to use disk cache (Jon Turner).

    Added text extracting example (Weston Ruter).

    Fixed issue #93: Build with Qt < 4.7 (Ariya Hidayat).

    Ported all examples to CoffeeScript (Robert Gieseke).

2011-01-17: Version 1.0.0

    Initial launch.

    The API is centralized at the 'phantom' object (as child of
    window object) which has the properties: args, content,
    loadStatus, state, userAgent, version, viewportSize, and
    the following functions: exit, open, render, sleep.

    Several examples are included, among others: web page rasterizer,
    weather service, headless test framework driver, and many others.
