Announcing Add-on SDK 1.7!

[Jeff Griffiths]

Rocketeers!

Every six weeks like clockwork we release a new version of the Add-on
SDK into the wild! Version 1.7 is now available for download. This new
version includes a number of new features, improvements and bugfixes:

* our l10n localization features now include pluralization
* you can now inject css files into web content using the page-mod api
* we now include a promise pattern abstraction to make asynchronous
code easier to manage
* the contentURL property of panel and page-worker can be modified
dynamically
* a number of important bug fixes!

There are plenty of other new bits in the release and you can read about
those in the release notes:
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Jetpack/Release_Notes/1.7>

We have made our usual announcement about this release on the Add-ons
Blog. The version we shipped represents revision
075becdd649500d845fa15aea09129e6aef02bef in the source code repository:

https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/commit/075becdd649500d845fa15aea09129e6aef02bef

As of this writing the documentation for SDK 1.7 is not available in the
usual place, however they should be available by Thursday, May 17th. I
will update this post when they are live, but in the meantime you have
two options:

1. view them on Github:
- Tutorials & Guides: http://is.gd/s2G9QU
- Addon-kit API Docs: http://is.gd/s8wBkw
2. download the SDK, activate the SDK environment and then run cfx docs
to generate your own local copy of the documentation.

Warning: any embedded links in the above documentation will not work
correctly when viewing the markdown files via github.

cheers, Jeff