A note about 1.6rc2.5

A note about 1.6rc2.5

We released 1.6rc2.5 tonight. See <a href="http://blog.jqueryui.com/2009/03/jquery-ui-16rc25/"> http://blog.jqueryui.com/2009/03/jquery-ui-16rc25/</a> . It was based on 1.6rc2 (r709), plus all revisions between r709-r1039 (pre jQuery UI CSS Framework). After that I merged only the following revs
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1045">r1045</a> - Dialog: Fixed <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3637">#3637</a>: Added role of button to close link.
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1046">r1046</a> - Core: Removed some UTF-8 BOMs causing problems in the download builder versions of files.
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1051">r1051</a> - Datepicker: Fixed <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3610">#3610</a>. Error in French l18n file.
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1052">r1052</a> - Datepicker: Fixed <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3598">#3598</a>. Datepicker Japanese translation replacement
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1053">r1053</a> - Datepicker: Escape text to prevent date info substitution
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1054">r1054</a> - Datepicker: Fixed <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3610">#3610</a>. Error in French l18n file.
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1055">r1055</a> - Datepicker: Fixed <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3642">#3642</a>. firstDay displays day names incorrectly.
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1077">r1077</a> - Core: Removed UTF-8 BOM again. Turns out it was added by Notepad.
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1078">r1078</a> - Core: Removed names from ui.core.js as all contribution credit is given in AUTHORS.txt and <a href="http://ui.jquery.com/about">http://ui.jquery.com/about</a>
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1079">r1079</a> - effects.core.js: Fixed character encoding so Notepad will stop adding UTF-8 BOM
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1090">r1090</a> - Dialog: Fixed <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3638">#3638</a>: Added closeText option (default 'close').
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1096">r1095</a> - Sortable: fixed containment issue (with 'parent', height was miscalculated due to wrong append order)
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1096">r1096</a> - Sortable, Draggable: fixed issues with _convertPositionTo, missed from latest re-factor, miscalculated the absolute position including scroll
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1098">r1098</a> - Sortable: fixed connectToSortable option, wasn't working with Arrays as described in the documentation
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1136">r1136</a> - removed tree test file from trunk
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1145">r1145</a> - corrected some invalid html <div/> to <div></div>
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1156">r1156</a> - Fixed <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3655">#3655</a> - $.keyCode should be $.ui.keyCode
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1170">r1170</a> - Sortable: accurateIntersection using outerWidth/outerHeight
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1171">r1171</a> - Sortable: removed default tolerance "guess" for the simplier (and better working) default mode, and the plain "pointer" intersection
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1173">r1173</a> - release build: Fix for <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3577">#3577</a>; also fixed min target to set correct charset (UTF-8)
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1183">r1183</a> - Dialog: Fixed <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3564">#3564</a>: Proper positioning in Opera.
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1184">r1184</a> - Dialog: Fixed <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3221">#3221</a>: Use outerWidth/Height for positioning.
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1189">r1189</a> - functional demos: show instructions when navigating back to no-hash
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1211">r1211</a> - fixed my name and Scott's in AUTHORS.txt
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1212">r1212</a> - Build: Fix for <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3576">#3576</a>, adding headers to minified and packed files; current solution is rather ugly, need to refactor; also removed unnecessary files from old build scripts, while adding ant-contrib-0.6.jar
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1213">r1213</a> - Build: Fix for <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3576">#3576</a>, adding headers to minified and packed files; current solution is rather ugly, need to refactor; also removed unnecessary files from old build scripts, while adding ant-contrib-0.6.jar
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1214">r1214</a> - Build: Added back packed folder to replace version
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1245">r1245</a> - fixed alsoResize to also accept vanilla DOM nodes ( fixes <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3693">#3693</a>: Resizable errors when alsoResize option is a jQuery object )
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1246">r1246</a> - fixed alsoResize to also accept vanilla DOM nodes ( fixes <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3693">#3693</a>: Resizable errors when alsoResize option is a jQuery object )
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1287">r1287</a> - Adding email to AUTHORS.txt
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1293">r1293</a> - Fixed <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3708">#3708</a> - Resizable: all classes added should have 'ui-' prefix, 'proxy' should be 'ui-resizable-helper'
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1319">r1319</a> - droppable: missing default for option 'accept' (set to "*" = everything)
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1324">r1324</a> - draggable: changed default for scroll option to true
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1336">r1336</a> - draggable: made connectToSortable work fine with helper: 'original' (by removing top/left properties at sort end)
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1375">r1375</a> - Resizable containment acurrate - Fixed <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3714">#3714</a>
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1439">r1439</a> - release/build.xml: corrected build to place additional folder level in zip file
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1313">r1313</a> - draggable: fixed positioning issue with relative positioned elements relative to the body during scroll
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1325">r1325</a> - draggable: containment doesn't respect margins anymore (logical, and fixes <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/3538">#3538</a>: Sortable elements not staying inside container)
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1326">r1326</a> - sortable: merged draggable fixes into sortables (<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1313">r1313</a>, <a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1325">r1325</a>)
as the rest were related to the jQuery UI CSS Framework, refactors, or new demos. That bring us up to 1.6rc3 (r1440), except for the following revs, which I wasn't able to merge
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1222">r1222</a> - Dialog: Setting the correct element for alsoResize.
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1223">r1223</a> - Dialog visual test: Removing duplicate ids.
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1224">r1224</a> - Dialog: Passing in a DOMElement instead of a jQuery object for alsoResize to avoid resizable bug.
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1225">r1225</a> - Dialog: Move to top on mousedown instead of mouseup.
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1226">r1226</a> - Dialog: Removed unnecessary call to moveToTop in drag start.
<a href="http://ui.jquery.com/bugs/changeset/1249">r1249</a> - Resizable: Partial fix for supporting jQuery objects in alsoResize. Dialog: Fixed bug with content resizing.
We should take a look at these over the next two weeks, as well as any others that need to be cherry-picked from the rc3-rc6 timeframe (as long as it doesn't include API or markup changes, just critical bug fixes). Thanks.
- Richard