Jetpack SDK 0.5 release candidate 1 now available!

[Myk Melez]

Hi all,

We've just released the first release candidate of Jetpack SDK 0.5! Download it as a tarball or ZIP archive via the following links:

  https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/labs/jetpack/jetpack-sdk-0.5rc1.tar.gz
  https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/labs/jetpack/jetpack-sdk-0.5rc1.zip


Notable enhancements in this version:

• Tabs API - The tabs module provides easy access to tabs and tab-related events.
• Request API - The request module lets you make simple, yet powerful network requests.
• load/unload reasons - Add-ons can now find out when they are being loaded for the first time after being installed or enabled and unloaded because they are being uninstalled or disabled.
• localization API - The localization module provides simple localization functionality. It makes it possible to retrieve localized versions of the strings in your code. And it doesn't require you to solicit localizations from localizers or bundle localizations with your code, as the module retrieves them automatically from a web service based on the strings your code is using.
• selection API - The selection module provides a means to get and set current text/HTML selections as well as observe new selections.

Unless we discover any late-breaking issues that must be fixed before we release, these are the builds we will release as Jetpack SDK 0.5. The release is tentatively scheduled for next Wednesday, June 23.

Thus now is the perfect time to test these builds and let us know about any issues you encounter! Feel free to post feedback to this discussion forum or file a bug in Bugzilla. And to keep a closer eye on the status of the release, check out the release tracking bug 572303.

- Myk, on behalf of Team Jetpack