{"id":2541,"date":"2011-05-05T13:50:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T20:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2011-05-05T14:02:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T21:02:46","slug":"announcing-add-on-sdk-1-0b5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/05\/05\/announcing-add-on-sdk-1-0b5\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Add-on SDK 1.0b5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jetpack team is happy to announce the release of Add-on SDK, version 1.0b5. This version is the last beta version before the 1.0 release of Mozilla&#8217;s downloadable software development kit for building Firefox add-ons. This version includes new APIs, some enhancements, and a great deal of bug fixes and stability improvements. Notable are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New Hotkeys API to let you easily create new keyboard shortcuts.<\/li>\n<li>New APIs for communicating with Content Scripts <\/li>\n<li>New Window-specific widget to change the widget content on a per-window basis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To get started building add-ons with the Add-on SDK, <a href=\"https:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/labs\/jetpack\/addon-sdk-latest.zip\">download it<\/a> and then <a href=\"https:\/\/jetpack.mozillalabs.com\/sdk\/latest\/docs\/\">check out the<br \/>\ndocumentation and the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/Jetpack\/Release_Notes\/1.0b5\">Release Notes<\/a> for more details about this release.<\/p>\n<p>As always we&#8217;d love to hear from you about your experiences with this release! You can contact us in a variety of ways:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla-labs-jetpack\">post to our discussion group<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mibbit.com\/?channel=%23jetpack&#038;server=irc.mozilla.org\">chat with us on irc.mozilla.org #jetpack<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/enter_bug.cgi?product=Add-on%20SDK&#038;component=General\">report a bug<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/mozilla\/addon-sdk\/\">check out the source<\/a> and contribute bug fixes, enhancements, or documentation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jetpack team is happy to announce the release of Add-on SDK, version 1.0b5. 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