Download

File Downloads

• Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-1.8rc3.zip

Svn

• Tag: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.8rc3/

Changelog

See the 1.8rc3 Changelog for what’s been fixed since 1.8rc2. For a list of all issues fixed since 1.7.2, see previous 1.8 changelogs.

Upgrade Guide

A full Upgrade Guide for easing the transition between 1.7 and 1.8 is in the works. This will be ready in time for the final release. In the meantime, one of the more significant (and breaking) changes in 1.8 already documented there is a refactor of the widget factory. This means anyone that has built their own plugin that uses the widget factory will need to make a number of changes for compatibility with 1.8. For a view of these changes, see the widget factory section of the Upgrade Guide. Also, see this sample implementation of a simple widget with both the 1.7 and 1.8 widget factories, and the differences, by Scott González.

Plan for 1.8 final

We hope to release jQuery UI 1.8 final after a couple days, assuming there aren’t any blocking issues present in this release candidate.

Thanks

A big thanks to all that have worked on all the bug fixes and other improvements that have gone into this release. We’ll have a proper listing of all contributors in the final release announcement.

How to report issues

If you find any issues in this release, please do not put them in comments on this post, but instead head over to the Developing jQuery UI Forum. Thank you.

Download

File Downloads

• Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-1.8rc2.zip

Svn

• svn checkout http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.8rc2/
• Browse source code: http://code.google.com/p/jquery-ui/source/browse/#svn/tags/1.8rc2

Changelog

See the 1.8rc2 Changelog for what’s been fixed since 1.8rc1. For a list of all issues fixed since 1.7.2, see previous 1.8 changelogs.

Upgrade Guide

A full Upgrade Guide for easing the transition between 1.7 and 1.8 is in the works. This will be ready in time for the final release. In the meantime, one of the more significant (and breaking) changes in 1.8 already documented there is a refactor of the widget factory. This means anyone that has built their own plugin that uses the widget factory will need to make a number of changes for compatibility with 1.8. For a view of these changes, see the widget factory section of the Upgrade Guide. Also, see this sample implementation of a simple widget with both the 1.7 and 1.8 widget factories, and the differences, by Scott González.

Plan for 1.8 final

We hope to release jQuery UI 1.8 final after a couple days, assuming there aren’t any blocking issues present in this release candidate.

Thanks

A big thanks to all that have worked on all the bug fixes and other improvements that have gone into this release. We’ll have a proper listing of all contributors in the final release announcement.

How to report issues

If you find any issues in this release, please do not put them in comments on this post, but instead head over to the Developing jQuery UI Forum. Thank you.

We are aware of the problems with the Download Builder and ThemeRoller and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.  We have disabled those components on our web site until the problems with these components can be resolved.  In the meantime, we would like to offer these static links for jQuery UI and jQuery UI Themes.  The Development bundle includes code for all jQuery UI plugins and the base theme.  The Themes Package includes all 21 pre-built themes from the ThemeRoller gallery.

jQuery UI 1.8rc1 (Preview)

• Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-1.8rc1.zip
• Themes Package:  http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-themes-1.8rc1.zip

jQuery UI 1.7.2 (Stable)

• Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-1.7.2.zip
• Themes Package: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-themes-1.7.2.0.zip

jQuery UI 1.6 (Legacy)

• Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery.ui-1.6.zip

Google CDN

Multiple stable versions of jQuery UI are hosted on Google’s CDN as well as all the ThemeRoller themes for 1.7.2: base, black-tie, blitzer, cupertino, dark-hive, dot-luv, eggplant, excite-bike, flick, hot-sneaks, humanity, le-frog, mint-choc, overcast, pepper-grinder, redmond, smoothness, south-street, start, sunny, swanky-purse, trontastic, ui-darkness, ui-lightness, vader.

With Download Builder and ThemeRoller out of commission you will not be able to create custom downloads or themes. We understand that this is inconvenient and we are working as hard as we can to solve the problems as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience!

Download

File Downloads

• Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-1.8rc1.zip

Svn

• Tag: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.8rc1/

Changelog

See the 1.8rc1 Changelog for full details on what’s included in this release.
Barring any catastrophic problems this code will become jQuery UI 1.8.

How to report issues

If you find any issues in this release, please do not put them in comments on this post, but instead head over to the Developing jQuery UI Forum. Thank you.

Thanks

A big thanks to all that have worked on all the bug fixes and other improvements that have gone into this release.

Download

File Downloads

• Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-1.8b1.zip

Svn

• Tag: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.8b1/

Changelog

See the 1.8b1 Changelog for full details on what’s included in this release.
Please help us test this and beat it up. The plan is to have one more beta release, and then an rc1 before final.

Thanks

A big thanks to all that have worked on all the bug fixes and other improvements that have gone into this release.

Download

File Downloads

• Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-1.8a2.zip

Svn

• Tag: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.8a2/

Changelog

See the 1.8a2 Changelog for full details on what’s included in this release.
Please help us test this and beat it up. The plan is to have two beta releases. New plugins may be added still before the first beta. The plugins in the first 1.8 beta will be the plugins in 1.8 final.

Thanks

A big thanks to all that have worked on all the bug fixes and other improvements that have gone into this release.

Download

File Downloads

• Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-1.8a1.zip

Svn

• Tag: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.8a1/

Changelog

See the 1.8a1 Changelog for full details on what’s included in this release.

New Plugins

In addition to a number of bug fixes, this release adds three new plugins:

• Position
• Stackfix (update: later removed, changed back to bgigframe)
• zIndex

Please help us test these out and beat them up. The plan is to have one more alpha releases, and then two beta releases. New plugins may be added still before the first beta. The plugins in the first 1.8 beta will be the plugins in 1.8 final.

Thanks

A big thanks to all that have worked on creating these new plugins, incorporating them into this release, as well as all the bug fixes and other improvements that have gone into this release.

Download

File Downloads

• Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-1.7.2.zip
• Themes Package: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-themes-1.7.2.0.zip

Svn

• Tag: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.7.2/
• Themes: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.7.2/themes/

Google Ajax Libraries API

• Uncompressed: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/jquery-ui.js
• Compressed: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/jquery-ui.min.js
• Themes:
  base, black-tie, blitzer, cupertino, dark-hive, dot-luv, eggplant, excite-bike, flick, hot-sneaks, humanity, le-frog, mint-choc, overcast, pepper-grinder, redmond, smoothness, south-street, start, sunny, swanky-purse, trontastic, ui-darkness, ui-lightness, and vader.

Custom Download Builder

Changelog

See the 1.7.2 Changelog for full details on what’s included in this release.

New Themes

Filament Group has done it again. They’ve given us 7 more beautiful themes in the ThemeRoller Gallery:

Dark Hive

Eggplant

Flick

Le Frog

Overcast

Pepper Grinder

Sunny

Overhauled Download Builder

A huge thanks to Gavin Mulligan, one of our newest contributors, for doing a complete overhaul of our download builder, fixing issues people were having with invalid zip files and missing theme files on certain browsers and platforms.

Also, a big thanks to all that helped identify issues in the old and test the new download builder: Aaron Barker, agnawt, Attila, Bear, Beaver6813, boater21, Brian McManus, brucealdridge, cblaze22, cioa, Cloudream, compsagnathus, davidcoallier, dgm, dp, dpaviani, engemasa, evo, garrardkitchen, Glauco Morais, gmaddockgreene, gtrplayer5150, hanmari, Hans Petter, hdragomir, joern.zaefferer, joldag, Julián C. Pérez, kareem, Karl, Keith Barrows, Kelheinz, khinester, Kim Rowden, KingCode, Lakshmi, latrippi, linuxjuggler, Logictrap, Matthew, mawcs, MorningZ, nilicule, p8w, Paul Bakaus, Petre KOSTOV, Phoenix Sol, pnanduri76, rdworth, rsm08, rwalsh, Rwhitbeck, Scott González, Scott Jehl, SexyBeast, SiCo, smorgen, sosensible, sotonin, Spencer, ssr, steenbag, steve_goodman, Todd Parker, tonybibbs, utobia, WanderingZombie

Releases

I mentioned the jQuery UI 1.6 release last week as it was available for download. Now the full changelog and blog post are out.

Next up is 1.7.2. We made some progress on that during the sprint. A few more issues to wrap up, and that should be out this week. Speaking of the sprint, thanks to all that participated.

Design & Development

With 1.6 finalized and 1.7 nearing a freeze, the jQuery UI team is shifting focus to 1.8 and beyond. With the recent plugin prioritization, we updated the planned plugins list on the Dev & Planning wiki home. Our focus is currently on the high priority plugins. Please take a look at those plugin pages and see if we’ve missed anything. If you have ideas about each plugin’s requirements, design, or specifications, feel free to edit the page, or leave a comment. If you’ve don’t have a wiki account, there’s a link at the top to request access. We’d love your input.

Sites Using jQuery UI

We maintain a list of Sites Using jQuery UI. If you have a site or find a site using jQuery UI, feel free to add it to this wiki page. New this week:

Sites

• AxiList
• BEST MEDIAFORGE – Webdesign and Develoment from Bielefeld, Germany
• BlackBerry. Storm
• J&P Cycles – Keeping the World on Two Wheels!!
• kendericks.com – Specialty retailer of professional products to graduate and undergraduate students in the US
• momo – a private memo application for the Web and iPhone/iPod touch
• Osimo Community Forums – Official forums for the open-source forum project Osimo
• UniFaction – A roleplaying forum community using a modified version of Osimo
• VersionOne – V1 IdeaSpace

Open source projects

• Osimo – A jQuery/jQuery UI enhanced forum system
• pqp – PHP Quick Profiler
• Remedie – Pluggable media center application

Tutorials and Blog Posts

• Filament Group, Scott Jehl: Update: jQuery UI Slider from a Select Element – now with ARIA Support
• blog.nemikor.com, Scott González: Loading a page into a dialog
• bassistance.de, Jörn Zaefferer: Contributing to jQuery UI Autocomplete
• Design-Notes: Build a simple cost estimator with jQuery UI Slider
• MSDN Magazine, Dino Esposito: Cutting Edge: Build Rich User Interfaces with jQuery
• Smashing Magazine, Sam Swyer: Progressive Enhancement: What It Is, And How To Use It?
• Remote Synthesis: Adding and Removing Tabs with jQuery and jQuery UI
• Remote Synthesis: Cross-Browser, User-Sorted Tables with jQuery

ThemeRoller-ready Plugins

• jQuery UI Multiselect

See also

As always, be sure to follow This Week in jQuery on the jQuery blog.

Download

File Downloads

• Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery.ui-1.6.zip

Svn

• Tag: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.6/

Google Ajax Libraries API

• Uncompressed: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.6/jquery-ui.js
• Compressed: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.6/jquery-ui.min.js

Custom Download Builder

Changelog

See the 1.6 Changelog for full details on what’s included in this release.

Reminder

This is a legacy update release for 1.5. It is intended for anyone still using jQuery 1.2.6. If you’re able to upgrade to jQuery 1.3+, it is highly recommended that you use jQuery UI 1.7, which is the latest stable release.