jQuery UI 1.8.5

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The fifth maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8 is out. This update brings bug fixes for jQuery UI Core, the Widget Factory and the Position utility as well as the Autocomplete, Button, Datepicker Dialog, and Tabs widgets. For the full list of changes, see the changelog. You can download it here:

Download

File Downloads

• Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-1.8.5.zip
• Themes Package: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-themes-1.8.5.zip

Svn (contains final files as they are in the zip, with @VERSION replaced with 1.8.5, all themes)

• Tag: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.8.5/
• Themes: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.8.5/themes/

Git (contains pre-build files, with @VERSION not yet replaced with 1.8.5, base theme only)

• Tag: http://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/tree/1.8.5

Google Ajax Libraries API (CDN)

• Uncompressed: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.5/jquery-ui.js
• Compressed: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.5/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.

Microsoft Ajax CDN (CDN)

• Uncompressed: http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.8.5/jquery-ui.js
• Compressed: http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.8.5/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

New CDN

We’re pleased to announce that Microsoft is now hosting jQuery UI on the Microsoft Ajax CDN. Microsoft is hosting uncompressed and compressed versions as well as all of our pre-built themes. For more information check out Stephen Walther’s announcement from Microsoft.

New Features

In this release, we’ve added jQuery.support.minHeight which detects whether the browser supports the minHeight style.

Dialog

You can now pass an object containing specific properties to set in the buttons option.

Changelog

See the 1.8.5 Upgrade Guide for a list of changes that may affect you when upgrading from 1.8.4. For full details on what’s included in this release see the 1.8.5 Changelog.

Thanks

Thanks to all who helped with this release, specifically: ahsan_cse2004, andreas, andreinjquery, AndrewNewcomb, awirick, AzaToth, Ben Hollis, BrianHV, bugbegone, cardmeister, chrismckee, Christopher McCulloh, Dave Methvin, d3r1v3d, dazzx, dreamershl, duckumu, ehynds, galo2099, iangrainger, jdalton, jlesueur, joern.zaefferer, jogep, jokerx, juergen.furrer, Karl Swedberg, keturn, klaus.hartl, malsup, NotionCommotion, Paul Irish, pdevemy, ph.ausseil, pjk, rdworth, robertstrait, Robson Braga Araujo, Scott González, spudly, srycroft, steida, Tony Ross, vjt, ya_diman.

Comments

Note: please do NOT use the comments section of this blog post for reporting bugs. Bug reports should be filed in the jQuery UI Bug Tracker and support questions should be posted on the jQuery Forum.

If you have feedback on us doing our fifth maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8, feel free to leave a comment below. Thank you.