Please get jQuery and jQuery Mobile teams to agree on version compatibility

Please get jQuery and jQuery Mobile teams to agree on version compatibility

The jQuery and jQuery Mobile teams have repeatedly made conflicting statements about version compatibility, and this has just occurred once again.

This is from yesterday's release announcement for jQuery 1.8.1:


Use jQuery UI 1.8.23 and jQuery Mobile 1.1.1 or later for best compatibility with jQuery core 1.8.1.
At the same time, the jQuery Mobile development blog says:


Support for jQuery 1.7.2 (and soon 1.8)

jQuery Mobile 1.2 now supports versions 1.6.4, 1.7.1, and 1.7.2 of jQuery core. We recommend that you use 1.7.2 to take advantage of all the improvements in the latest release. We’re working on fully testing 1.8 and hope to support that soon.

It's unfortunate that there is so little coordination between the JQM and jQuery teams, and this is leading to a lot of developers wasting their time.

And for jQuery Mobile 1.1.1, the jQuery Mobile development blog says that:

Query Mobile 1.1.1 Final
Requires jQuery core 1.6.4 or 1.7.1
Yet jQuery Documentation has suggested for some time that 1.7.2 is compatible.

Could the two teams please coordinate and agree on what versions are compatible with which and make a joint clarifying announcement?