Please check out the followup post before jumping to the wrong conclusion. As the last blog post discussed, jQuery version 1.8 is undergoing a spring cleaning to remove insecure, inefficient, ineffective, and inadvisable features. We’ve also begun the work to allow you to build custom versions that exclude parts of the library for even greater … Continue reading
Hello fellow jQuery users! It’s been a while since you’ve heard from us, but we haven’t been asleep. The jQuery Core Team has been heads-down working on jQuery 1.8, and our first beta release is now available! You can get the code from the jQuery CDN: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8b1.js Give it a try on your current jQuery … Continue reading
jQuery 1.7.2 is looking good! The release candidate went smoothly so we’ve made only one small change and are releasing it to your eager hands today. You can get the oven-fresh code from the jQuery CDN now, with Google and Microsoft CDNs soon to follow: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.min.js (minified, production) http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.js (unminified, debug) Note: If you’re using … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
We’re ready for our next round of community input, this time for version 1.8! This is your chance to suggest things we can fix, add, change, or remove in jQuery to make it better. You can add a suggestion using this form; whenever possible provide links to a bug report, a page with a detailed … Continue reading
Here in the United States, we’re celebrating Thanksgiving this week. For those of you living elsewhere in the world, it’s a time when we install and test new versions of Javascript libraries while feasting on Mom’s homemade goodies. Kind of like a code sprint, but with better food. We invite everyone worldwide to join us … Continue reading
Just to let you know we’re not asleep at the switch around jQuery Central, we’ve got a new preview release of jQuery. It fixes the problems reported by the community since the original 1.7 release. Please test the code in your applications, making sure that there are no major problems. If you tried jQuery 1.7 … Continue reading
jQuery is more than five years old now! Over that time it has evolved along with the browsers, web sites, devices, developers, and users that it serves. It has also, um, grown quite a bit over that time. jQuery has added a lot of useful features, but it’s also accumulated cruft that we’d prefer not … Continue reading
jQuery 1.7 is ready for download! You can get the code from the jQuery CDN: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.js http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.min.js This new release should also be available on the Google and Microsoft CDNs within a day or two. Thanks to your help in testing and reporting bugs during the beta period, we believe we have a solid, stable … Continue reading