Announcing Add-on SDK 1.14!

[Jeff Griffiths]

I’m terribly pleased to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.14! You
can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format:

* https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/labs/jetpack/addon-sdk-1.14.zip
* https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/labs/jetpack/addon-sdk-1.14.tar.gz

As I’ve written previously, SDK 1.14 will be the last release of the
SDK to include the SDK APIs. Once Firefox 21 ships the version of
Firefox you are using will always have the latest and greatest version
of the SDK apis. What is more, add-ons packed with Add-on SDK 1.14
will always prefer the APIs embedded in Firefox if they exist,
providing a forward-compatibility benefit to developers.

What’s new?

* Initial support for Per-window Private Browsing. Firefox 20 replaces
the existing Private browsing ‘mode’ with an new feature that allows
users to open private windows. A significant amount of work has been
done to make this work for SDK-based add-ons.
* Unique tab ids on both Android and Desktop, for easier tracking of
specific tabs.

You’ll find much more detail about SDK 1.14 in the release notes:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Jetpack/Release_Notes/1.14

Some interesting stats about this release ( from the Github history
between the 1.13.2 & 1.14 tags ):
* 329 changes in 117 pull requests between tags 1.13.2 and 1.14
* Special thanks to our community contributors Brett Zamir,
Cykesiopka, Dan Stevens, Dương, H. Nguyễn, Gregg Lind, Marc Chevrier
and slash_at_ac.auone-net.jp

As always, we'd love to hear from you about your experiences with this
release, in particular via this email list or in #jetpack on
irc.mozilla.org

cheers, Jeff

[Jeff Griffiths]

Also: we are working to update Add-on Builder and the Add-on validator
on AMO within the next couple of days so that they properly support
1.14. I’ll update this thread and twitter once this work has been
completed.

cheers, Jeff