jQuery 1.4.2 Released

February 19, 2010 in JavaScript, jQuery, Programming

Such quick turn around for the last two point releases are building my confidence in jQuery! I love to see the huge performance improvements, its almost becoming an issue to try and fit each release into our codebase at work. Love jQuery nonetheless… keep up the good work.

Relase notes: http://blog.jquery.com/2010/02/19/jquery-142-released/

Quick Summary:

• New  Methods
  • delegate()
  • undelegate()
• Performance Improvements:
  • The performance of calling .bind() and .unbind(). (Ticket)
  • The performance of .empty(), .remove(), and .html(). (Ticket)
  • The performance of inserting a single DOM node into a document. (Ticket, Additional Commit)
  • The performace of calling $("body"). (Commit)
• Event Rewrite: Internal Changes (not much affect our end)
• Bugs Fixes: 40 bugs fixes

Api Changes: http://api.jquery.com/category/version/1.4.2/

Tags: JavaScript, jQuery