Incoming webui changes in 3006

[RMerlin]

As a heads up: 3006.102_36xxx has two significant changes that may impact addon developers.

1) Jquery was updated to version 3.7.1.
2) Asus now loads js/jsquery.js before loading any other Javascript script, so there may be new depdencies on top of those added in httpApi/client_functions in the last release

I wouldn't be surprised to see these changes also make it to 3004 at some point.

 

[sfx2000]

jquery 3.7.1 release notes

jQuery 3.7.1 Released: Reliable Table Row Dimensions | Official jQuery Blog

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

blog.jquery.com

 

[RMerlin]

jquery 3.7.1 release notes

jQuery 3.7.1 Released: Reliable Table Row Dimensions | Official jQuery Blog

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

blog.jquery.com

This is an upgrade from jQuery 1.x, so... assume pretty much everything changed. Nobody is going to read through 10+ years of changelogs...

 

[RMerlin]

There are definitely new dependencies, as I've just had to update two of my own pages so they work properly. So, script writers should start early - move loading jquery.js as the very first Javascript that you load in your web pages. I haven't analysed which specific files now requires it, but state.js seems to be one of these now requiring it.

I am working with temporary/uncleaned GPL code at the moment, so I don't want to push anything to Github, and potentially waste multiple megabytes of repo space with unnecessary object files that would be removed in the next merge, yet still waste repo space. The Github update will have to wait until the "official" GPL updates that I am expecting in a couple of weeks.

So far, at least with my own code, the version update doesn't seem to break anything. I cannot speak for you guys, who might be using more advanced or more esoteric features of jquery than I am.