Now available, and ready for your web app!
The Dojo 1.6 release was a substantial undertaking and involves efforts from the largest Dojo team ever. We’re reinventing Dojo for the present and the future, and this release is the first major step towards our plans for Dojo 2.0. The tremendous efforts and work of the Dojo community has made this release possible, with significant improvements in a short amount of time.
What’s New in 1.6?
Dojo 1.6 contains a number of great additions and refinements. Key highlights include:
- Object store: Rethinking data stores in a manner that’s generally easier to work with and more flexible than dojo.data.
- LESS Dijit themes: Use the popular LESS CSS framework for simplified theme creation.
- HTML5 data attributes: Use data-* attributes instead of custom attributes, so your markup will validate against the HTML5 validator.
- Widget watch(): Follow changes to widget attributes with watch().
- Dojo WebSocket: A simple API for working with WebSockets and other real-time Comet techniques.
- CommonJS AMD: Dojo now supports the CommonJS AMD format for defining modules.
- Charts: The project now contains new Spider and Gantt charts, and support for Canvas text.
- Scene Graph: Dojo Mobile’s scene graph implementation enables powerful replay capabilities.
- Fixes: Many, many improvements to support new browsers including IE9, compatibility with non-browser environments, widget improvements, and shiny polish all around.
We’ve also made substantial progress on Dojo Mobile, available now for your mobile web apps!
Visit the new Dojo Features section to watch interviews with key Dojo committers and users and learn more about this release, as well as the thousands of outstanding features that have been in Dojo for several years.
Testing and Compatibility
In total, we’ve resolved more than 600 issues since Dojo 1.5. The DOH test suite of tens of thousands of tests passes in all officially supported browsers:
- Chrome: 8.x and newer
- Firefox: 3.5.x and 3.6.x
- Internet Explorer: 6, 7, and 8
- Opera: 11.x
- Safari: 4.1.x and 5.0.x
The code was completed before Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 were released. That said, we’ve fixed all known issues with these browsers as well (testing was done with IE9 RC and Firefox 4 RC1).
Dojo is also tested with popular mobile browsers including iOS 4.x, Android 2.x and 3.x, and passes for all supported features in Dojo Mobile, and most features throughout Dojo. Work is also near completion for support with Blackberry 6 on mobile phones and the PlayBook.
Use Direct from the CDN, or Download
Get the Dojo release that’s right for you. Choose from CDN, optimized builds, or source versions with full demos and utilities.
Documentation
Many improvements have been made to the Dojo documentation. Most notable is a collection of new tutorials on using Dojo 1.6, in addition to the reference guide and API documentation.
Roadmap
Work on Dojo 1.7 is already underway. We’re anticipating releases every 3 months in 2011 as we make progress towards Dojo 2.0! A full roadmap will be available shortly so you’re aware of the latest changes, and to know how to get involved.
Release Notes
Read the complete Dojo 1.6 release notes for full details on everything that has changed with Dojo since 1.5.
Thanks!
And as always, we appreciate your interest and usage. If you find an issue with Dojo, have a suggestion, or see anything on the site or within the documentation that you think should be better, please register for a Dojo Foundation account and open a ticket.
Congrats Dojo Team! I was just about to get on the forums and ask about 1.6 and am now excited to see that is available for me to start playing with! Thanks!
Congrats on a fantastic release!! I’m really enjoying all the new features, and the revamped website looks great. Keep up the awesome work!
That are really great news! We have integrated Dojo 1.6 into one of our products with almost no effort.
But what about a maintenance release for Dojo 1.5? There is still another product of us stuck with that release, and we’d like to get IE9 support in there. The 1.5.1rc1, available for download since more than a month without a final release appearing, doesn’t seem to be IE9-capable either…
Any hope that there will be an IE9-compatible Dojo 1.5 in near future?
Yes, there’s a plan for Dojo 1.5.1 or 1.5.2 to include fixes for IE9.
Congrats on the new release! Can you provide more details on the plans to support IE9 and FF4 in Dojo 1.5.x and Dojo 1.6.x?
Thanks!
seriously, I got to ring up my client and say: “about that list of showstopper issues you sent through last night -I just tried the new Dojo release and the issues ALL went away”
brilliant, thankyou -take the afternoon off 🙂
question: I had an idea that better support for client side templating/content generation etc was on the 1.6 list -was I just dreaming or did it fall off (or did it quietly happen..)
That are really great news! We have integrated Dojo 1.6 into one of our products with almost no effort.
But what about a maintenance release for Dojo 1.5? There is still another product of us stuck with that release, and we’d like to get IE9 support in there. The 1.5.1rc1, available for download since more than a month without a final release appearing, doesn’t seem to be IE9-capable either…
Any hope that there will be an IE9-compatible Dojo 1.5 in near future?
Use dojo since version 1.3.0 and i am glad as their updates van on a par with the current browsers I6 until I8, FF3, FF4, Google.
When versions will be available to work with I9?
Thank You.
Hi,
Iam new to dojo.we are using dojo 1.5. Some of the functionalities are not working in firefox 3.6.18, but the same functionalities are working in IE8. Does dojo 1.5 supports firefox 3.6.18.
Please help me.
Regards
Ravi