jQuery UI 1.5b4Attention: We originally intended to release 1.5b3 a couple of hours ago, but we had two serious issues that forced use to deprecate it and go for b4. Sorry for the inconvenience.The third and last beta has finally arrived to jQuery UI 1.5. Hundreds of hours went into fixing more than 50 bugs for this release - it’s all about stability. jQuery UI 1.5b4 is the last release before pushing out a release candidate - and with only 5 major bugs left, you can expect to see the next release in the next couple of days!Although it’s mainly a stability release, we also introduced many new API helpers, removed the dimensions dependancy and made all plugins a bit smaller by ...

jQuery 1.2.6 is primarily a bug fix release for jQuery 1.2. You can view the full list of what was fixed on the bug tracker.This is the next release immediately following jQuery 1.2.3. Releases 1.2.4 and 1.2.5 were skipped (1.2.4 was built incorrectly, rendering it effectively identical to 1.2.3, and 1.2.5 was missing a patch).The entire jQuery team did a fantastic job in pulling this release together - I want to take this opportunity to thank them all for their continued hard work.I’d also like to take this opportunity to welcome Ariel Flesler to the core jQuery development team. He provided valuable help in pulling this release together - contributing bug fixes, performance improv...

jQuery UI 1.5: Rethinking Our Approach to UIWhen we first started with the UI project, we set out to build a generic, basic, and simple way of adding and extending core interaction to DOM elements. However, we soon found that our approach wasn’t working for UI. Using the “simple” approach, we were only able to serve simple interaction modules, but not full featured UI widgets. The second problem was that some plugins came from external sources making the UI suite seem disjointed and inconsistent.All of this occurred right after we released 1.0 and we immediately realized it was time to reconsider our path. We had to find a approach that kept the simplicity of jQuery whil...

Hey everybody,The jQuery team is proud to release the first beta release of the new upcoming version of UI, jQuery UI 1.5! It has been a long path to this release - originally intended to be a bugfix release, it was growing into something we just couldn’t call 1.0.1, not even 1.1, no, it’s so damn delicious we had to call it 1.5.jQuery UI 1.5 is a complete overhaul of the library - many of the components have been completely rewritten from scratch to improve overall stability and performance, and we finally managed to settle on a unified API for all components. So let’s get straight to a list of all the changes:Unified APIThe API has been updated for all UI components. I...

Attention: We found about about a regression in the rc3 release that breaks datepicker in Internet Explorer. We’re working hard to roll out another rc4 release that will come with only a tiny fix to make datepicker work correctly. We apologize for the inconvenience.I’m absolutely thrilled to announce the latest release candidate for the long awaited jQuery UI version 1.6. It has been a busy couple of months, and not only our team but also our processes, specifications, and codebase has been updated. This means that rc3 isn’t simply a bugfix release on top of rc2, but really a whole different level of code. Using a our new interaction design processes, we build up the fou...

Starting at 10PM MT on August 20th, code.jquery.com will start redirecting (301) to ajax.googleapis.com [http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/ ... ntation/index.html#jquery].Immediate Impact: NoneRedirection will occur using 301 “Permanent Moved”Packed version will be replaced with minified version Long Term: Migrate any sites using code.jquery.com to Google’s AJAX Libraries APIFull documentation of Google’s Ajax API are available at http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/ ... ntation/index.html#jquery. For your convenience here are the old URLs on code.jquery.com and their new Google Ajax API counterpart:jquery-latest.jshttp://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquer...

Here at jQuery we’ve been using Amazon S3 to host the jQuery code and static site files for quite some time. It’s remained dependable and quite responsive.Yesterday Amazon released their new service, called CloudFront. The major difference between it and S3 (they are both designed to serve files) is all about network performance. Whereas S3 was just about instantaneous control (being able to upload a file and see it live, instantly) - CloudFront tries to serve up a file as quickly as possible.Yesterday we made the switch to using CloudFront for the jQuery site. The two domains that are affected are:code.jquery.com - Hosts the jQuery source code.static.jquery.com - Hosts all th...

Here’s some holiday cheer: Flot, a new plotting library/plugin for jQuery by Ole Laursen. The initial 0.1 release has some stunning features, including interactivity with your charts. Flot looks very promising, and we like to highlight promising developments in the jQuery community!See also:Flot AnnouncementFlot ExamplesAjaxian article on Flot

I’m pleased to announce the release of jQuery 1.1.3. After many months of testing, developing, and more testing, we have a very solid release available for download. It comes with roughly 80+ fixed bugs and a handful of enhancements for good measure. Highlights include:Improved speeds, with DOM traversal over 800% faster than in 1.1.2.A re-written event system, with more graceful handling of keyboard events.A re-written effects system (with an accompanying fx test suite), featuring faster execution and better cross-platform support.Update - July 4th: We just finished a quick bug fix release, versioned 1.1.3.1, which fixes a couple of outstanding issues.Download:jQuery 1.1.3.1 (Compr...

jQuery UI 1.6rc6 is available.Download jQuery UI 1.6rc6You can download the entire development bundle directly athttp://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery.ui-1.6rc6.zipThis includes a default theme, as well as all the test and demo files. Or you can create a customized download of individual componentshttp://jqueryui.com/download/and a custom theme athttp://jqueryui.com/themerollerThis is the final step before releasing 1.6 final tomorrow (Saturday night). Since we only have two days, we really need you help us test if there are no major blockers left we might have overseen. Please create a ticket for any issue you find on the jQuery UI bug tracker:http://dev.jqueryui.com/ (note: requi...

The sold-out jQuery Conference 2008, being held in Boston on September 28th, is nearly upon us. With 13 sessions being delivered by the jQuery team as well as prominent industry experts such as Jonathan Snook, Aza Raskin and Cody Lindley, this is sure to be a stellar event.The conference has been broken out into two tracks, Beginner and Advanced, to allow developers of various jQuery expertise to take full advantage of the sessions that will be suit their needs. Below you will find the agenda for the conference. In the interest of sharing information, we wanted to put up the agenda as soon as possible. We will be releasing another page shortly that will provide topic descriptions as well ...

The jQuery UI team has had a busy and productive fall and wanted to give everyone an update on what we’ve been up to.  First off, we’re happy to announce that our team of contributors has grown significantly in the past few months and want to thank everyone for their support. To round out the great group of developers on the core team, new sub teams and team roles have been created, to focus on areas such as evangelism, design, builds, testing, website, and documentation. Most noticeable is the recent activity of the Interaction Design sub team focusing on UI design, widget planning, and theming. To learn more about who’s on the team and what we all like to do, check out...

The jQuery UI team has been working for over 9 months on the 1.6 release and during this long process, we’ve deeply re-factored every plugin and introduced a very big shift in how we write markup and styles with the new jQuery UI CSS Framework. Also during that time, the jQuery core library released the new 1.3 version which incorporates a lot of improvements that we wanted to leverage.We hear yaWe clearly have heard the confusion as these fairly large changes were made between release candidates in the 1.6 development cycle (post 1.6rc2). Based on feedback from the jQuery UI community, we want to address the confusion around compatibility between jQuery 1.2.6 and 1.3 and the jQuery...

About 4 days ago, many have noticed that we had uploaded another minor bugfix release to our Google Code account. While there’s, again, no new API introduced, more than 30 issues have been cleared and the codebase is growing more stable every day.The full changelog is available here if you want to find out if a specific issue has been addressed. As with 1.5.1, updating to this version is highly recommended and likely not to break anything in your written code.You can grab the latest release as always via the downloader or as developer package at http://ui.jquery.com/download or if you prefer, get it as latest tag from Subversion.As a last comment, this is probably the last minor rel...

jQuery 1.4.2 is now out! This is the second minor release on top of jQuery 1.4, fixing some outstanding bugs from the 1.4 release and landing some nice improvements.I would like to thank the following people that provided patches for this release: Ben Alman, Justin Meyer, Neeraj Singh, and Noah Sloan.DownloadingAs usual, we provide two copies of jQuery, one minified (we now use the Google Closure Compiler as the default minifier) and one uncompressed (for debugging or reading).jQuery Minified (24kb Gzipped)jQuery Regular (155kb)You can feel free to include the above URLs directly into your site and you will get the full performance benefits of a quickly-loading jQuery.Additionally you can...