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Did they release the script yet? I have not read anything about it.

-Dan Grosp

CEO

http://www.grosp.com

Hi guys. What's changed? And what's happening about Vista?

Cheers

Matt

I also like to know what's changed!

Please provide a "release note" or "version history" or "what's changed" documentation.

As far as I know it is best practice to provide such documentation. But somehow the official download page from MS doesn't provide this basic information.

/Michael

The download contains below mentioned things:

1. All the security fixes/updates made in Windows Scripting from Windows Script 5.6.

2. The adaptive GC fix which was done in Jscript that ships with IE7. This is now available publicly on down level OS and for all hosts.

Thanks,

Don.

This is great to hear. I quickly upgraded to 5.7 version and for me performance of some application/site in IE6 are compatible with IE7. Great thinking of providing the good fixes in scripting to IE6 users.

Kim.

Cool, thanks. Is this "adaptive GC fix" the fix mentioned at http://blogs.msdn.com/jscript/archive/2007/05/01/legacy-ie-jscript-circular-memory-leak-problem.aspx?

And is that the same as the fix for IE6 described at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830555 and released as part of http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933566? I can't find out what files make up this patch, so don't know if it includes the 5.7 script engines.

And I've just noticed that Vista already comes with 5.7 - is this the same one we're talking about here?

But more importantly, if this does fix the circular reference problem, can we please have a post explaining how it was fixed? I'd be very interested to hear your solution...

Cheers

Matt

I don't think the circular reference problem has been fixed entirely. As they mentioned it in the blog the complete problem will be fixed in some upcoming release of IE. That's what my understanding is. I am saying this because I can still see memory leaks in some scenario. My scenario was having a JavaScript object (newly created) assigned to a DOM and that DOM object referring to the some expando of that JavaScript object. This is leaking in IE7 too. The same can be reproduced using function closure. I think in IE7 they just fixed this scenario as described in:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929874/

And yes, Windows Scripting 5.7 download is same as Vista as mentioned in the current blog.

Now that all the things are clear I would like to know when the fix for all the memory leaks (JavaScript-IE circular) will get fixed and also the solution. Please do write about that.

Thanks,

Kim.

Nice way to tease around. But I would still like to know the solution and it seems Microsft is really taking scripting seriosuly.

Thanks,

Kim.

Are you aware that there is something amiss with the security catalog?  After installing WS5.7, Windows File Protection reports errors with the files' digital signatures and reverts all of them back to WS5.6.

what about other languages? (e.g. French)

What about x64 version (this doesn't install on XP x64)

Uh, yeah...I'm wonder where the official realease notes for this point upgrade are. Saying it fixes things from 5.6 that up to the vista release doesn't really cut it.  I'd like to know what the "fixes" are.  

Is there, in fact, any release notes?

How do you revert back if this new 5.7 causes problem? Do I have to use use last good profile?

This is an update to 5.6 web package, which has never been available for 64-bit. This update for 64-bit will appear in the next SP of the OS.

It will be about a month before other language packages are available. However, you can install the ENU package on any language. The package UI will be English, of course, but script will work normally.

We were not able to reproduce the catalog problem. We'd need to know the specific package, OS+SP level to do more.

Release notes for Script 5.7 can be downloaded directly from here:

"http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/f/e/ffea3abf-b55f-4924-b5a5-bde0805ad67c/Windows Script Release Notes.rtf"

Its been a long time since I touched any classic ASP, apart from the odd quick fix to legacy projects

Recently, Microsoft made a public release of Windows Script v5.7 which ships with different flavors of

Recently, Microsoft made a public release of Windows Script v5.7 which ships with different flavors of

A version of x64 Windows 2003 would be nice!

Reproducing the catalog problem.

0) OS: XP Pro 32-bit @ SP2

1) Download the XP version of WS5.7

2) Run installer

3) Run SFC /SCANNOW

4) Notice in the event log the reports from Windows File Protection about the unsigned WS5.7 files that it detected during the scan.

Thanks for repro details. We've figured out the problem and will release new packages shortly.

I modified my last blog many times. I was really amazed at the kind of response I got on this blog. Thanks

How would this update affect JScript based Classic ASP websites?

We have pretty code intensive pages and are evaluating the new script engine.

So far our benchmarks showed that the new engine is usually faster on pages with complex code.

Do you have any recommendation against updating classic asp servers?

Regards,

Sandor

This is a great update and it would be even more great if you spread it to all Windows users through Windows Update. I currently cannot find it there. It does not help much the AJAX developers if they have to ask their users to download it from Microsoft's website.

Cheers,

Vlad

Don, will be a 64-bit version (Itanium and Win2003 x64) of WSH 5.7 available?

After installing this none of my ASP pages now work

Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0201'

Invalid Default Script Language

The default script language specified for this application is invalid.

Thank you Microsoft

I tried to reproduce this issue on Windows XP, IIS 6.0, ASP classic (not ASP .net) but could not succeed. Everything works fine for me. Here are the steps I tried...

1. On XP machine (with 5.6 Scripting), created an .asp page, set up a Virtual Directory.

2. Opened the page in IE. Worked fine.

3. Installed 5.7 scripting for XP from www.microsoft.com.

4. Rebooted the machine (as it was required to

5. Opened the same .asp page in IE again. This time also it opened fine.

Could you please give us few more details like...

1. What OS you are on?

2. Which IIS you have on your machine?

3. Your app is ASP classic or ASP .net?

BTW, the same issue has been faced by different users in the past too when they just tried updating IIS or script (even 5.6) or some other related component. I am just putting two such links here wherein users have overcome this issue in different ways. Please do go through these links and see if they are of any use.

1. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1539719&SiteID=1

2. http://forums.aspfree.com/microsoft-iis-12/error-asp-0201-invalid-default-script-language-31394.html

Sometime back Don blogged about Windows Script 5.7 release . We got lots of feedback on this, people

Sometime back Don blogged about Windows Script 5.7 release . We got lots of feedback on this, people

Thank you brother

Yes both VBScript and JScript are part of the installs.

Thanks,

It's been some time that I wrote a blog. We started this blog to get some real customer feedback

Now a 64-bit version (Itanium and Win2003 x64) of WSH 5.7 available? 30-01-2007

Thanks

Oups Sorry

Now a 64-bit version (Itanium and Win2003 x64) of WSH 5.7 available? 30-01-2008

Thanks

Eric

Is there an updated file set as mentioned in the blog (dated 27th AUgust 2007) that fixes the Windows File Protection issue? The download site still has files with a published date earlier than that. Thanks.

Hello Friends, Today I am going to talk about some of the Garbage Collector improvement we have done.

Ian, follow this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/jscript/archive/2008/04/23/gc-improvements-in-jscript-for-internet-explorer-8-beta-1.aspx

Any chance that this can be released in as a standard KB article and made available for installing via WSUS?

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Great article, and with this amount of feedback on this script 5.7 release, it has to be a great script!

Yes, it is a great script! It still is... But is it also in different languages? (e.g. French)

And are there any updates or better scripts in the mean time?

Few days back I worked upon an issue where we were trying to write into the Events logs from classic

if I want to install windows script 5.6 in vista system, how to do it?

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