You’ve been good boys and girls this year, so look what Santa left under the source tree: jQuery 1.9 Beta 1! We’ve made a lot of changes this time, so we need your help in testing more than ever. Please don’t leave us feeling awkward at the holiday party with that punch bowl full of … Continue reading
Woo hoo, Thanksgiving arrived early this year! jQuery 1.8.3 is available for download. You can get it here: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.3.min.js (compressed, for production) http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.3.js (uncompressed, for debugging) We’ve notified the Google and Microsoft CDNs as well; we trust they will endeavor to post these files tout de suite. The complete change log for jQuery 1.8.3 is … Continue reading
We’re pleased to announce that jQuery 1.8.2 is available! This version fixes several bugs and performance regressions reported from the past couple of releases, and we think the 1.8 line is pretty solid at this point. The only way to know for sure that it works with your code is to test it–so please do! … Continue reading
Some important changes have occurred in the latest releases of several jQuery projects such as core, UI, Mobile, Sizzle, and QUnit. You may not have noticed them because they didn’t really change the actual code, documentation, or functionality. Instead, these changes were designed to clarify the ownership and licensing of the software. If you’re not … Continue reading
It’s been a frantic but productive few weeks, and the jQuery core team is pleased to announce that jQuery 1.8.1 is released! This version fixes the issues reported by the community following the final release of 1.8.0. Here are the files, ready for you to use: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.1.min.js (production, compressed) http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.1.js (development, uncompressed) The Google and … Continue reading
One of the great new features in jQuery 1.8 is a built-in understanding of box-sizing: border-box which is supported by every modern browser. (Sorry, IE6 and IE7, please take one step back; I said modern browser.) If you showed people an element with a border on the screen and asked them the width of that … Continue reading
August just got a little hotter, because jQuery 1.8 final code is here! You can pick up the code from jQuery’s CDN: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.0.min.js (compressed and minified, for production) http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.0.js (uncompressed, for debugging) As usual, the Google and Microsoft CDNs will also have the file soon. Please don’t ask us about when they’ll be there, we … Continue reading
jQuery 1.8RC1 is here. Yep, RC as in Release Candidate. The good news is that this release is a few days later than I expected it to be. It’s good news because we received several valuable but last-minute bug reports we were able to fix. Many thanks to those of you who took the time … Continue reading
It’s been a crazy few weeks around jQuery Central, what with the release of Beta 1 and the jQuery Conference in San Francisco following that. Fear not! Between all the travel, conferences, meetings, and blog posts about the future of jQuery, we’ve actually managed to write some more code. As proof, here is jQuery 1.8 … Continue reading
It seems that many people had questions and misconceptions about the last post, so let’s try a short Q&A format to answer some of the comments left there. Why is the jQuery core team dropping support for oldIE (IE 6/7/8)? We’re not! jQuery 1.9 will support oldIE when it’s released next year. The jQuery team … Continue reading