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:http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2b1.jsOh, 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 ...

We’ve gotten a lot of feedback since last week’s announcement about the plugins site’s unfortunate tumble into oblivion, and I’d like to address a few of the most important concerns that have surfaced since.“Could you make the old backup available for posterity?”Yes. We can -- and have. Over the weekend, we restored the most recent backup we had, and the original site is now living at archive.plugins.jquery.com; you should be able to browse through everything that’s there to your heart’s content. We also applied the most recent user information we had, so if you had an account on the old site at any point in the last year, it should still wo...

For about a week, instead of hosting several hundred jQuery plugins and several thousand advertisements for laptop batteries, our plugins repository has been serving up a pretty pathetic message about spam and an allusion to some “new submission process.” This happened very suddenly, and we’re sorry to everyone who’s been inconvenienced. Please allow me a few minutes to explain what happened, where we’re headed, and how it impacts you. If you’re in a rush, here’s the short version.The Backstory Though the plugins site you’ve known and loved was a valuable tool when it was first set up, it gradually became something of a white elephant for th...

We are very happy to announce two training workshops for this years United Kingdom conference. The trainings will be given by Doug Neiner, Ralph Whitbeck and Mike Hostetler of appendTo. The general admission tickets for the conference are now sold out but you can buy conference/training bundles and still attend the conference. appendTo will be giving Introduction to jQuery and jQuery Mobile workshops. The workshops will be held on Thursday, 8 February, 2012 at the Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, UK.Introduction to jQueryjQuery has become the most popular JavaScript library for developers because of it’s easy to learn and write. This course takes students through the basics of jQuery...

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 description, or implementations that represent your idea. We’d like to have all your input by December 5 so we can read and discuss them before setting the 1.8 roadmap.Many thanks for the suggestions left on our earlier blog post about how we can improve jQuery by trimming it down. We’ve gone through those comments and have a few thoughts about how we can address some of them in fut...

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 in these traditions.To kick off the festivities, the jQuery Team is quite thankful to be releasing version 1.7.1! In this go-round we made Pilgrim’s progress on a cornucopia of bugs, listed below. We are serving up our delicious copies on the jQuery CDN, fresh and warm from the oven:http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.jshttp://code.jquery.com/j...

TL;DR The body responsible for overseeing jQuery’s finances and administration, which was until today known as the jQuery Team, is now called the jQuery Board. The jQuery Team is for anyone who invests a significant amount of time contributing to jQuery and its related projects.As jQuery has grown from a cool idea in 2005 to the most widely used piece of JavaScript on the Internet today, so too has the organizational structure required to support its development and its community. Over time, e-mail chains became mailing lists, and out of those lists evolved a casual confederation known as the jQuery Team. To join this team, all you had to do was make a consistent contribution to som...

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 and reported a bug, it should be fixed in this release.You can get the code from the jQuery CDN:http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1rc1.jshttp://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1rc1.min.jsYou can help us by dropping that code into your existing application and letting us know that if anything no longer works. Please file a bug and be sure to mention that you’re testing ag...

jQuery Summit 2011It’s that time of the year again (no, not Christmas!, something almost better!) – the annual (online) jQuery Summit. This year Environment For Humans (E4H) have a terrific line-up including sessions on jQuery plugin authoring best practices, creating interactive experiences with HTML5 and Popcorn.js and best practices for testing your jQuery code amongst others.With some of the web’s most experienced jQuery and JavaScript professionals on board to share tips, tricks and their own experiences, you’ll be sure to learn something new that could help with your own projects. If you haven’t attended the summit before, you’re in for a real tre...

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 to support into perpetuity. It may not be an issue on a desktop PC with a high-speed connection, but we want jQuery to be a good solution for mobile devices as well. Along with our continuing push for higher performance, our priority for upcoming versions is a smaller gzipped file size. It’s hard to do that when every new feature or bug fix must also preserve all existing feat...

jQuery 1.7 is ready for download! You can get the code from the jQuery CDN:http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.jshttp://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.min.jsThis 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 release. If you do find problems, file a bug and be sure to choose jQuery 1.7 in the version selection. Also be sure to provide a jsFiddle test case so we can quickly analyze the problem.pre { padding: 4px; }What’s New in jQuery 1.7The Version 1.7 tag at the API site is a great way to get up to speed with the new things in this releas...

We are very happy to announce jQuery Conference 2012: UK, the first jQuery conference in the UK, on 10th February 2012. The conference will be held at the Saïd Business School in Oxford with a line-up including six jQuery team members and four industry experts:TicketsYou can read more about the line-up, talks and location on the event site and tickets are on sale now at EventBrite.OrganizersThe event is being organized by Oxford based digital agency White October with the permission of the jQuery project and with the help and support from jQuery team members. Last year, the jQuery events team tried to put together an event outside the USA and we found how very hard it was to secure a venu...

Today, after a very scary Halloween, the jQuery team is releasing jQuery 1.7 RC2 from our Github crypt, er, repo. Barring a report of really terrifying problems or a mob of townspeople at our door with torches, this code will be exactly the same code that becomes the version 1.7 final. If anyone knows of any reason why this code should not become a final release, we need to hear you scream!div.downloadlist { position: relative; height: 6em;}div.stone { float: right; width: 9em; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font: bold 100% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #fff; text-shadow: -1px -1px #000; padding: 20px 4px; background: #777; background-image: linear-gradient(bottom, #333 3%, #777 73%); backgr...

The team is getting closer to jQuery 1.7, and today we’re putting out a release candidate. The full list of fixes and features can be found below. We urge everyone to start testing this code in their applications, so we can make sure that there are no major problems before the final release.Testing couldn’t be simpler, you can get the code from the jQuery CDN:http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7rc1.jshttp://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7rc1.min.jsPlease help us by dropping that code into your existing application. If you see something, say something. File a bug and mention that you’re testing against jQuery 1.7 RC1. If there’s a problem we want to fix it.In the meantime, ...

Today we’re happy to announce the creation of a new jQuery sub-team called the jQuery Standards Team to give web developers a voice in the standards process.IntroductionWe all know that web standards are important. They help ensure the code we write works across different technologies, for people of different abilities and most importantly across all browsers. That said, how often do we all feel our voices, suggestions and ideas are heard by those groups responsible for defining these standards? The reality is that whilst many of us would like to see change, due to time restrictions and lengthy formal processes we’re unable to participate in standards discussions, get involved...