Hey there Internets, it’s the jQuery Core team! We haven’t talked in a while, but over the holidays we were busy fixing the bugs you reported. The result of that hard work is jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1. We decided to get a beta out by Groundhog Day so you wouldn’t be in the shadow of six more weeks of unfixed bugs.
You can get the code from the jQuery CDN:
Oh, we know what you’re thinking: “Cool, a new version of jQuery; I’ll wait until the final release has been out a few weeks and then I’ll give it a try.” Right, and then you’ll find some bug that keeps you from upgrading. Nothing makes us sadder than finishing up a release and only then seeing a report of a serious bug that could have been fixed earlier.
So please, come out of your burrow and try this beta with your code. Did we miss an old bug? Did we create a new bug that makes you feel like Bill Murray waking up to “I Got You Babe?” We want to know. You can use the bug tracker to report bugs; be sure to create a test case on jsFiddle so we can figure it out easily. If you’re not sure it’s a bug, ask on our forum or on StackOverflow.
jQuery 1.7.2b1 Change Log
The current change log of the 1.7.2b1 release.
Ajax
- #10978: jQuery.param() should allow non-native constructed objects as property values
Attributes
- #5571: Allow chaining when passing undefined to any setter in jQuery
Build
- #10692: Configure the jshint options to more accurately match the style guide
- #10902: ability to test a built version of jQuery in unit tests
- #10931: Unit tests shouldn’t require internet access
Core
- #10466: jQuery.param() mistakes wrapped primitives for deep objects
Css
- #10639: outerWidth(true) and css(‘margin’) returning % instead of px in Webkit
- #10754: have jQuery.swap return the return of the callback instead of just executing it
- #10782: Incorrect calculating width
- #10796: Bug in IE7 with $(‘#el’).css.(‘background-position’)
- #10858: css.js regular expressions are incomplete
- #11119: The curCSS function only need 2 arguments
Effects
- #8498: Animate Hooks
- #10006: method show is not working as expected in all browsers when called for document fragment
- #10848: Animation toggling loses state tracking in certain atomic edge cases
Event
- #8165: .live(‘click’, handler) fires on disabled buttons with child elements in Chrome
- #10819: Eliminate “this.on.call(this, “
- #10878: $(“select”).live(“change”, function(){ …broken in IE8 in jQuery 1.7
- #10961: Error in XRegExp using jQuery 1.7.1 in IE6-9
- #10970: The .on() selector parameter doesn’t work with :not(:first) selector
- #10984: Cannot off() custom events ($.event.special)
- #11021: Hover hack mangles a namespace named “hover”
- #11076: .clone(true) loses delegation filters
- #11130: jQuery.fn.on: binding map with null selector ignores data
- #11145: $(document).on() not working with name=”disabled”
Manipulation
- #9427: Passing undefined to .text() does not trigger setter
- #10753: inline the evalScript function in manipulation.js as it’s only used once
- #10864: text() method on a document fragment always returns the empty string
- #11055: Update HTML5 Shim elements list to support latest html5shiv
Misc
- #10952: .fired() doesn’t work on Callbacks object when it is flagged with “once”
- #11257: Wrong path to source files in test suite if PHP missing
Support
- #11048: Support Tests affect layout for positioned elements in IE6-9