{"id":5058,"date":"2012-07-10T14:25:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T21:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=5058"},"modified":"2012-07-10T16:14:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T23:14:04","slug":"announcing-add-on-sdk-1-8-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2012\/07\/10\/announcing-add-on-sdk-1-8-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Add-on SDK 1.8.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following along from last week&#8217;s 1.8 release, we&#8217;ve released a 1.8.1 patch release today to address a regression logged in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=771825\">bug 771825<\/a>. You can download the SDK directly in either <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/labs\/jetpack\/addon-sdk-1.8.1.zip\">zip<\/a> or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/labs\/jetpack\/addon-sdk-1.8.1.tar.gz\">tarball<\/a> format.<\/p>\n<p>This bug was reported by Yonatan Ben-Nes on the Jetpack <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!msg\/mozilla-labs-jetpack\/5JgnMRCD69U\/0AbIGpXPxh4J\">google group<\/a>. The problem can affect any add-on that uses the exports.main() function in main.js and attempts to react to the property <code>options.loadReason<\/code>:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nexports.main = function(options, callbacks) {\r\n    if (options.loadReason === 'install') {\r\n        \/\/ do something\r\n    }\r\n};\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>In SDK version 1.8 this code will fail with an error &#8216;options.loadReason is undefined&#8217;. A workaround with 1.8 is to look at <code>self.loadReason<\/code> instead, however we have fixed this regression and restored the original behaviour in Add-on SDK version 1.8.1.<\/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<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>Following along from last week&#8217;s 1.8 release, we&#8217;ve released a 1.8.1 patch release today to address a regression logged in bug 771825. You can download the SDK directly in either &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2012\/07\/10\/announcing-add-on-sdk-1-8-1\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7117,588,227,742],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Announcing Add-on SDK 1.8.1 - Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2012\/07\/10\/announcing-add-on-sdk-1-8-1\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeff Griffiths\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2012\/07\/10\/announcing-add-on-sdk-1-8-1\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2012\/07\/10\/announcing-add-on-sdk-1-8-1\/\",\"name\":\"Announcing Add-on SDK 1.8.1 - 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