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jQuery 1.4.1 Released

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Only 0.0.1 away from being production ready. I kid, but jQuery does have a history of quick revs after a major release, which despite my cynicism, I appreciate.

I'm always surprised how phenomenally hard it is to get people to test alphas and release candidates - it isn't until the actual major release hits the floor that a ton of input starts to roll in. Every release I think it'll be different but I have yet to be proven right.

That being said, 1.4.1 is effectively "it" for a while (at least a month or so). It's shipping in Visual Studio and Drupal 7 so it doesn't matter what bug fixes come in after this, a lot of people will be using this version of jQuery.

I should clarify: We do get a ton of feedback during the alpha/release candidate phases - it's just that there always seems to be a few things that end up slipping through in the end, one way or the other, hence the soon-after .1 release.

But the key thing here is that the project responds very quickly to the new feedback and releases an updated version. How many projects do that? Not many.

Serious kudos for creating such a responsive culture in the project.

Sorry John, I didn't intend that to come off as negative. I know it's challenging to get people to test. I'm a big jQuery proponent and I don't even test until after the release (sorry). I'm happy to see the release and to know this is the Visual Studio version.

No worries - I definitely appreciate feedback. Glad you're enjoying jQuery :)

Why would a significant portion of jQuery users want to be unpaid QA testers? It surely is a noble cause and is great for the community at large, but it's naive to expect that more than a tiny minority will actually contribute when they can just sit back and reap the rewards. ;)

After playing with the RC1 for a while at work I noticed that the live() methods with mouseenter and mouseleave are incredibly hungry processes and can easily max out a CPU by moving the mouse quickly and erratically. Changing this to a bind() method caused some CPU spike, but not enough to max out the browser like the live() method.

Mind you, this is purely anecdotal and I understand the fundemental differences in the methods (event bubbling versus binding), but it kind of shows that it should be employed cautiously when detecting mouse movement related events.

Just how many times in January is jQuery going to be released?

If your question is "How many times in January is [there going to be a code release of] jQuery" then the answer is only twice: jQuery 1.4 and 1.4.1. However we've also released the 14 Days of jQuery (jquery14.com), jQuery.org, the new jQuery Forum (forum.jquery.com), and the new jQuery API browser (api.jquery.com). Today we're releasing jQuery Meetups and tomorrow is jQuery UI 1.8. And none of that is counting the oodles of videos that we've uploaded as well.

You can see more of the details about the releases here: http://jquery14.com/

We also have a whole bunch slated for post-January, you'll be hearing a lot more for sure.

When will it be available on the googleapis servers?

Presumably when the Google team wakes back up on the west coast.

The mere thought! They actually sleep!

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