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Dojo 0.4.2

Submitted by alex on Tue, 03/20/2007 - 09:46.
We're happy to announce that Dojo 0.4.2 is available. We recommend that all 0.4.x users upgrade at their earliest convenience. 0.4.2 is a minor patch update to 0.4.1 and includes a tightly selected set of fixes for 0.4.1 issues. As a result, we anticipate that 0.4.2 will be a straightforward upgrade for existing 0.4.x users. Getting 0.4.2 is simple (just follow the download link at the top of the page), but there some new goodies for advanced toolkit users:
  • A new version of the web based build tool has been released for creating custom dojo.js files. You can replace the dojo.js from any release with these files to improve the page loading performance of your application
  • 0.4.2 has been adopted by AOL for hosting in their CDN, and we've updated instructions on how to use it
  • Cross-domain package loading is significantly more robust in 0.4.2, style operations are much faster, and common-case event connection speed has been improved on IE. Big-ish apps should benefit from all of these changes.
Every release has it's heroes, and for 0.4.2 I'd like to extend my personal thanks to James Burke for the amazing work he's put into ensuring that the build system and cross-domain issues were 100% sorted out so that everything works. It's a tremendous accomplishment that AOL considers 0.4.2 to be "prime time", and we couldn't have done it without James.

What happened to all of the

Submitted by RhysU on Mon, 04/02/2007 - 18:25.

What happened to all of the 0.4.1 demo pages over at dojotoolkit.com? Those were invaluable, and they've been borked for awhile now.

http://download.dojotoolkit.o

Submitted by dmachi on Mon, 04/02/2007 - 18:48.

http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-0.4.1/dojo-0.4.1-ajax/tests/widg...

I don't think this url has changed since the release of 0.4.1

Sorry for the confusion-- I

Submitted by RhysU on Tue, 04/03/2007 - 13:45.

Sorry for the confusion-- I meant the "See it in action" link along the top banner of dojotoolkit.org. Over the past three weeks links over there have slowly been breaking, and then there was a changeover to make dojotoolkit.com and .org look identical. Well and fine by me of course, but I can't find the "See it in action" demos now.

Well dojotoolkit.org is the

Submitted by dmachi on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 00:12.

Well dojotoolkit.org is the actual site. The only reason they looked different is because I didn't remember having a dojotoolkit.com, so I didn't point it at the new site. Sorry about that. Anyway, the demos that were in the "see it in action" section previously, were really just a fancy wrapper on the files available at the link I sent you previously (our test files) and the demos, which are available under "Demos", here.

Dustin

Given the extreme sparseness

Submitted by RandyGobbel on Sun, 04/15/2007 - 06:31.

Given the extreme sparseness and disorganization of the Dojo documentation (sorry, but that's how I see it), these examples are some of the most valuable bits of information out there for anyone trying to build something with Dojo. Please, please, put them back somewhere more easily accessible.

They are still available,

Submitted by ktiedt on Sun, 04/15/2007 - 07:25.

They are still available, please READ all the comments before repeating whats already been said, and replied to...

-Karl

I did read the comments, and

Submitted by RandyGobbel on Thu, 04/19/2007 - 21:15.

I did read the comments, and I repeat, please put a link to this page in some place that is MORE EASILY ACCESSIBLE.  It should be accessible from the documentation, without having to rummage around.  The fact that the URL has not changed is irrelevant.  What HAS changed is that there is no longer a top-level link to this material.

I finally found it after

Submitted by RhysU on Sun, 04/15/2007 - 19:04.

I finally found it after lots of digging. The old "See It In Action" link I wanted is the demoEngine from underneath the widgets test. It's by far the best tour of dojo's capabilities that I've seen, it's excellent from a "cookbook" perspective, and it'd be a great addition to the current Demos page pointed out just above.

On that cookbook note, having a dojo cookbook published in the 0.9 timeframe (similar to O'Reilly's Perl or Python Cookbooks) would help newcomers quite a bit. It'd increase dojo's adoption rate. It'd also make some money for the enterprising author or authors.

The browserio build is

Submitted by sgamon on Tue, 04/03/2007 - 20:36.

The browserio build is missing stuff...

http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-0.4.2/dojo-0.4.2-browserio/

Looks like the build process

Submitted by jburke on Tue, 04/03/2007 - 22:24.

Looks like the build process goofed on that build. Not sure what happened there. You can build it yourself by downloading the Dojo source from here:
http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-0.4.2/dojo-0.4.2-src.zip

Unzip it, cd to the buildscripts directory, and run the following command:

ant -Dprofile=browserio -DreleaseName=browserio -Dversion=0.4.2 clean release intern-strings strip-resource-comments

That will create a release/browserio directory with the distribution.

I'll also see about getting it fixed on the download.dojotoolkit.org site, but that might take a little time.

The main download link

Submitted by kschneid on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 20:04.

The main download link (http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-0.4.2/dojo-0.4.2-ajax.tar.gz) doesn't reference an actual file...
...not any longer! ;-)

Working fine here... -Karl

Submitted by ktiedt on Fri, 04/06/2007 - 15:10.

Working fine here...

-Karl

0.9 Release Date

Submitted by cooolblue on Mon, 04/23/2007 - 14:31.

 Hi Guys,

When are we expecting the 0.9 release...I saw there is some release M1....

THnks

BLUE

download link broken?

Submitted by brianh on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 23:10.

The download link is not working anymore. I get this error :

"The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster."

Can someone post the correct link?

Thanks!
brianh