jQuery 1.6 Released

The jQuery Team and the jQuery bug triage team have released jQuery version 1.6 today.

You can use CDN’d copies of the file at:

• http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.js
• http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.min.js
• http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.6.min.js
• [Google is still uploading]

Included in the recent version:

• Significant speed improvements to the attribute module (attr(), val())
• data() has been improved to match the W3c HTML5 spec, and had speed improved
• Changes to the usage of prop(), removeProp() and attr() (prop now reflects the changed portions of the DOM, and attr is the original value — IMPORTANT: this will require some code to be changed)
• Upgraded jQuery.map(object)
• Relative CSS attributes (from .animate(), such s “+=20px” — useful for font size changes)
• Improved animation syncing
• Smoother animations
• Auto-deffered’s are in animations now

Tags: attr, John resig, jQuery, prop, removeprop