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<p>LiquidJS 9 has some fundamental improvements, including bugfixes, new features and performance improvements due to a higher target (see #137). There are also some breaking changes.</p>
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<li>Sync rendering: renderSync, parseAndRenderSync, renderFileSync</li>
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<li>Rewrite boolean expression evaluation order, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener external nofollow noreferrer" href="https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/issues/130">#130</a>;</li>
<li><code>break</code> and <code>continue</code> tags omitting output before them, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener external nofollow noreferrer" href="https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/issues/123">#123</a>;</li>
<li>Fixes errors in React.js demo during yarn install, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener external nofollow noreferrer" href="https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/issues/145">#145</a>;</li>
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<li>Performance Improvements due to targeting Node.js 8, see <a target="_blank" rel="noopener external nofollow noreferrer" href="https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/issues/137">#137</a>;</li>
<li>Memory footprint is reduced by 57.5%, see <a target="_blank" rel="noopener external nofollow noreferrer" href="https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/pull/202">#202</a>;</li>
<li>Render performance is improved by 100.3%, see <a target="_blank" rel="noopener external nofollow noreferrer" href="https://github.com/harttle/liquidjs/pull/205">#205</a>.</li>
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<li>LiquidJS no longer has a default export, use <code>import &#123;Liquid&#125; from &#39;liquidjs&#39;</code> instead. The <code>window.Liquid</code> for the UMD bundle is also changed to <code>window.liquidjs.Liquid</code>;</li>
<li>The duplicate static method <code>Liquid.evalValue</code> is removed, use the instance method <code>liquid.evalValue</code> instead;</li>
<li>Shipped to Node.js 8, the CJS bundle (main entry in Node.js) no longer supports Node.js &leq; 6. ESM (dist/liquid.node.esm.js) and UMD (dist/liquid.browser.umd.js, dist/liquid.browser.min.js) bundles are not affected.</li>
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