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Development Status

Last updated December 10, 2010

jQuery UI 1.8.7 has been released and is compatible with jQuery 1.4.4.

jQuery UI is now on GitHub and it's never been easier to contribute. How to submit a fix to jQuery UI – The Easy Way

We're now working on bug fixes for the 1.9 release as well as development of new widgets:

Join Us

Interested in helping out with jQuery UI? We'd love to get to know your skills and interests. Please introduce yourself on the Developing jQuery UI forum.

Finding and Fixing Bugs

We use the Trac system at http://dev.jqueryui.com/. Get started by viewing all open tickets and the timeline of activity.

Found a bug? To avoid duplicates, search existing tickets before you create a new ticket.

For help on how to fix a bug, read our bug fixing guide.

Don't have a Trac account? Register here.

Tickets for next release

These are the most important tickets to focus on now:

Tickets needing Triage

New, TBD Bugs not yet triaged (status: New, Milestone: TBD)

Ways to Get Involved: Developer Resources

We'd love to have your help with jQuery UI. There are many ways you can contribute:

Fork jQuery UI on GitHub

jQuery UI is on GitHub. If you're new to git, start with our beginner guide: How to submit a fix to jQuery UI – The Easy Way.

Commit Message Style Guide

Learn how to write commit messages that are clear and complete. This will help ensure we can easily accept your changes.
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Bug Fixing Guide

Learn how to log and verify issues, work on an issue, close issues and commit changes.
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jQuery UI Developer Guide

Learn our API, design and coding standards.
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Forum: Developing jQuery UI

Discuss bugs, bug fixes, and development of new components and features. forum.jquery.com/developing-jquery-ui

jQuery UI Dev & Planning Wiki

Help us plan and design new jQuery UI components. wiki.jqueryui.com

Documentation

Help us write and improve the documentation for all stable and released jQuery UI plugins. docs.jquery.com/UI/

Google CDN for jQuery UI

Multiple stable versions of jQuery UI are hosted on Google's CDN as well as all the ThemeRoller 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, vader.