We are happy to announce a comprehensive maintenance release qooxdoo 0.7.3. It includes many bugfixes and improvements that any qooxdoo application should benefit from. It is recommended that existing custom applications built with previous qooxdoo versions are being migrated to this stable and mature release.

Besides the many bugfixes, there are a few new features to mention:

  • Cross-browser logging features based on Firebug Lite
  • A source-code validation utility similar to JSLint, executed by a simple "make lint"
  • Re-worked feedreader to demonstrate best practices for application development
  • Early preview of the next-generation build tool generator2.

For more information about the many bugfixes and other improvements of 0.7.3 please see the detailed release notes. Be careful that a very small number of changes (particularly related to theming the virtual table widget) might effect your custom application and require manual adjustments. Other than that migration to the current release should be fairly easy, since the (semi-)automatic migration support doesn't really have anything to cover. Most changes were made "under the hood".

Thanks to all the people that not only noticed some problems, but made them known to everybody else by either posting to the mailing list or opening a ticket in bugzilla. Some community members took the chance to further analyse, and fix some issues, and contribute them back to the project. Whatever your involvement into this open source project is, it is highly appreciated.

Enjoy the new release!