We’d like to give you updates on the planned releases. The plans have briefly been mentioned in previous posts like the recent news about the big improvements to the desktop widget layer. The regular roadmap page has a summary of upcoming releases. Here are some more details:
Major release qooxdoo 3.0
The next release will be a significant update, particularly for qx.Desktop and its widget set. The release date as planned is 2013/07/17. Some of the highlights include:
qx.Core
- HTTP backend mocking infrastructure
- Cleanup of qx.lang namespace
- Mouse emulation for touch devices
- SCSS support in the toolchain
- Mini webserver via toolchain
- Live reload support
- Tooling support for JSON schema, config file validation
qx.Desktop
- Reduced DOM element count, down to one for each widget to increas performance
- Overhauled decorator system based on pure CSS
qx.Website
- REST layer module
- More samples to the qx.Website API viewer
- Support for this.base() superclass calls
qx.Mobile
- Dynamic locale switch
- Moving from LESS to SCSS
- Retina display support
- New widgets, e.g. drawer and collapsible
For more details, check out the resolved and open enhancements in bugzilla.
Maintenance release 2.1.2
Adhering to our double release scheme there will also be a qooxdoo 2.1.2 release at the same time as 3.0.
Minor release 3.1
Another release, qooxdoo 3.1, is planned for the end of November 2013.
So we’ve got seven weeks from now to get everything together for the next major release. As usual we keep you updated on what’s going into master – and with that into the next releases. Make sure you keep following at least the weekly blog posts.



