Rocketeers!
Yet another 6 weeks has gone by and we have just released Add-on SDK version 1.5! This release has two major features and quite a few important bug fixes. As always, there is quite a bit more and you can read all about this release in the official Release Notes.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Jetpack/Release_Notes/1.5The two major features in 1.5 are:
* Mobile add-on development! Now you can start developing add-ons for the mobile version of Firefox! For this initial release we have the page-mod API working so that you can, among other things, create add-ons that will display mobile-friendly versions of websites that do not have that option. We have a brief introduction to developing mobile add-ons on the add-ons blog as well.
* l10n! We now have the beginnings of localization in the Add-on SDK! For this initial support localizers will be able to translate javascript strings. For a primer on how to make your add-on localized see the documentation:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/1.5/dev-guide/addon-development/l10n.html Look for more APIs to have mobile support as well as more options for localization in coming versions of the Add-on SDK.
We have made our usual announcement about this release
on the Add-ons Blog.
The version we shipped is the same as the 1.5RC2 candidate and represents revision 28749058b4a71637f663ef8074a6ea3fe98da77d in the source code repository.
https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/commit/28749058b4a71637f663ef8074a6ea3fe98da77dor
https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/tree/1.5There is a great deal of work that has gone into this release which is scary and exciting at the same time. We are turning a corner on new features landing in the SDK after a few stability releases. Expect great new things from the Jetpack project!