{"id":3108,"date":"2011-09-13T17:06:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T00:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2011-09-13T17:06:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T00:06:43","slug":"announcing-add-on-sdk-1-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/09\/13\/announcing-add-on-sdk-1-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Add-on SDK 1.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jetpack team is pleased to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.1. This version is the first update since the 1.0 release of Mozilla\u2019s downloadable software development kit for easily building Firefox add-ons. This release mostly contains stability work and bug fixes. Beyond the stability work the 1.1 release also contains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Better transition\/porting of modules that use &#8220;Components&#8221; to help developers porting traditional XUL\/XPCOM add-ons to the Add-on SDK.<\/li>\n<li>Context-menu module now supports adding images to your context menus<\/li>\n<li>Made &#8211;strip-xpi the default to reduce the size of your add-on<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information on these and other new features, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/Jetpack\/Release_Notes\/1.1\">Release Notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first release that puts the Add-on SDK on a train model release schedule that mirrors Firefox&#8217;s. We will be releasing a new version of the Add-on SDK about two weeks before each new release of Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>To get started building add-ons with the SDK, <a href=\"https:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/labs\/jetpack\/addon-sdk-1.1.zip\">download it<a\/> and then check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/developers\/docs\/sdk\/1.1\/\">documentation<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>As always, we\u2019d love to hear from you about your experiences with the 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<p>For more information on the Jetpack Project <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Jetpack\">check out our wiki<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jetpack team is pleased to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.1. 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