We just released Jetpack SDK 0.9!
This version continues our drive toward the first beta release of this new SDK for making Firefox add-ons. Our focus for this release was to land important changes to the APIs, particularly those changes that pave the way for the integration of Electrolysis, the project to move add-on code execution to a separate process to improve application responsiveness and make it easier to measure add-on resource consumption.
This version of the SDK contains the following notable changes:
- The Context Menu API has undergone large changes in order to support Electrolysis. Read more in the mailing list posting about the changes and the context-menu module documentation.
- The Private Browsing API has seen significant changes to become Electrolysis-compatible. Learn about the new version of the API from the private-browsing module documentation.
- The Widget, Simple Storage, Notifications, Selection, and Request APIs have been changed to use the “EventEmitter” model for registering events, which is similar to the web event model and is used by a number of JavaScript libraries, including NodeJS. Learn more by browsing the module documentation for those APIs in the addon-kit package.
For more information about this version of the SDK, see its release notes. To get started building add-ons with the SDK, download it and check out its tutorial.
And keep on giving us feedback! It really helps us figure out what we need to do to make building add-ons with the SDK the best possible experience.
To provide feedback and participate in the Jetpack project:
- Discuss, debate, and get help in the discussion forum.
- Chat via IRC in #jetpack on irc.mozilla.org.
- Submit a bug report.
- Grab the source code and fix a bug or add a feature.
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