In case you're wondering why old news has a new headline...

This is pointing to the Community Update blog post, which covers the jQuery 1.5 release (from last week), the upcoming jQuery UI grid components, jQuery Conference videos, training and yayQuery.

Correct, Paul. Here is a direct link to the official announcement from a week ago: http://blog.jquery.com/2011/01/31/jquery-15-released/

It only got 7 points and no discussion on HN (bad submission timing, no doubt), so I decided it was worth it to submit this post to let everyone could hear about 1.5 (I had missed it until today, myself).

Whilst the link was just to the js file, a discussion with 263 points is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161614 - which probably explains why the blog link got so few upvotes.

Best new feature, in my opinion: the Deferred object (http://api.jquery.com/category/deferred-object), which allows for a more legible and consistent approach to mixing synchronous and asynchronous flow.

Here's an article with a few examples of deferred in action. Pretty cool.

http://intridea.com/2011/2/8/fun-with-jquery-deferred

Wow congrats guys - looks like a lot of hard work went into jQuery 1.5!

Also - yes, thank you, the Grid is looking like a great addition to the tool-belt as well. Something I have honestly not been happy with to date. Good stuff.

I love being able to change one number in my call to the Google servers for what jQuery branch I want and immediately see speed improvements in my apps/sites. Although some updates require you to make some changes to code, I haven't noticed that be the case this time around though.

edit: oh yeah, and that grid looks sexy. I was looking for something like that ages ago and they all failed pretty bad.

According to the comments it looks like DataTable works well: http://datatables.net/

I'm very excited about the new sub method. It should (hopefully) be very helpful for dealing with stubbing jQuery methods for testing.