jQuery 1.7.2 RC1 Released

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jQuery 1.7.2 will be arriving soon! To make sure that we’ve fixed the bugs voted “Most Likely to Annoy” without introducing any new bugs, we need your help in testing this release candidate. You can get the code from the jQuery CDN:

• http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2rc1.js

It will only take a few minutes to drop in this latest file and test it with your code. If you’ve got a lot of pages, the list of fixed bugs below may be a helpful guide for determining what to test. And of course, if you reported a bug or were affected by one listed below, please re-test to be sure we fixed it for good. We’ve tested it internally against the current builds of jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile. There is one compatibility issue with jQuery Mobile 1.1 RC1 that has already been fixed and will be addressed by their next release.

Looking for an even easier way to test your web site with the latest jQuery? On Windows you can use the excellent Fiddler tool and create an AutoResponder rule to point your HTTP script requests for jQuery to the file location above. Then you are testing your live web site with the latest jQuery on your PC, without having to edit any files at all! If you know of similar tools for other platforms, leave a message in the comments below.

If you are particularly interested in IE6 support, please help us out. We are having sporadic trouble running the unit tests in IE6. It hasn’t been possible for us to determine the cause of these problems, but the problem doesn’t happen consistently and the sheer size of our test suite may just be overwhelming a browser that is more than a decade old. If you observe any reproducible failures in real code, please let us know and try to provide the smallest possible test case.

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. Please don’t use the blog comments below to report bugs.

jQuery 1.7.2rc1 Change Log

Here’s the current change log of the 1.7.2rc1 release.

Ajax

• #4624: Charset in default ajaxSettings.contentType
• #10978: jQuery.param() should allow non-native constructed objects as property values
• #11264: evalScript() uses defaults set by ajaxSetup()
• #11426: jQuery.ajax() always fails when requesting JPG images in IE

Attributes

• #5571: Allow chaining when passing undefined to any setter in jQuery
• #10828: attr(“coords”) returns undefined in IE7
• #10870: Incorrect behaviour of $.removeAttr(“selected”)
• #11316: Consider looking through valHooks by element type first, then by nodeName instead of the other way around

Build

• #10692: Configure the jshint options to more accurately match the style guide
• #10693: generalize the “test something in an iframe” code in unit tests
• #10901: have unit tests fail if the tester is running from file:// or doesn’t have PHP
• #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

Data

• #11309: hexadecimal-formatted data-* attributes parsed incorrectly

Deferred

• #11306: calling .disable() or .lock() on a $.Callbacks object breaks its fired() status

Dimensions

• #3838: $(document).height() incorrect in IE6

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
• #11415: Silently ignore negative CSS values where they are illegal

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
• #11217: Append problem with webkit
• #11291: Cloning XMLDoc’s with HTML5 nodeName’s breaks on IE
• #11323: script tags with type=”text/ecmascript” leak into the DOM
• #11356: safeFragment memory leak

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

Queue

• #10967: .promise() does not attach methods onto target

Support

• #7986: Bug in $.support.boxModel if page has DIV-element CSS
• #11048: Support Tests affect layout for positioned elements in IE6-9
• #11337: Bug in $.support.reliableMarginRight

Traversing

• #11370: $(‘<div>’).siblings() throws exception