{"id":4963,"date":"2012-06-26T07:54:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T14:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2012-06-26T09:47:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T16:47:38","slug":"announcing-add-on-sdk-1-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2012\/06\/26\/announcing-add-on-sdk-1-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Add-on SDK 1.8!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought the SDK couldn&#8217;t get any better, we&#8217;ve rolled a new release! On behalf of the Jetpack team and various community contributors, I&#8217;m very happy to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.8! You can download the SDK directly in either <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/labs\/jetpack\/addon-sdk-1.8.zip\">zip<\/a> or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/labs\/jetpack\/addon-sdk-1.8.tar.gz\">tarball<\/a> format. This new version includes a variety of new features and bug fixes, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Localization of text in HTML files<\/li>\n<li>Configure content scripts with a set of read-only options<\/li>\n<li>New low-level heritage module to implement inheritance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more new features and a list of the bug fixes that are shipping in this release, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/Jetpack\/Release_Notes\/1.8\">Release Notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The complete documentation for the SDK is located here:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/developers\/docs\/sdk\/1.8\/\">https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/developers\/docs\/sdk\/1.8\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you happen to be off-line or on an airplane you can always generate a full copy of the docs locally by running <code>cfx docs<\/code> on the command-line.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in perusing working code examples to use with the SDK, Will Bamberg has published a large number of them on the Add-on Builder under the &#8216;Jetpack Examples&#8217; user account:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/builder.addons.mozilla.org\/user\/jetpack_examples\/\">https:\/\/builder.addons.mozilla.org\/user\/jetpack_examples\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some interesting stats about this release ( from the github history between the 1.7 &#038; 1.8rc2 tags ):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>99 changes in 32 pull requests between tags 1.7 and 1.8rc2<\/li>\n<li>Community contributors ( aside from the core SDK team ):\n<ul>\n<li>Gregg Lind<\/li>\n<li>Shane Tomlinson<\/li>\n<li>Till Schneidereit<\/li>\n<li>louisremi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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<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>Just when you thought the SDK couldn&#8217;t get any better, we&#8217;ve rolled a new release! 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