Valerio posted over on the Mootools blog today about the release of Mootools 1.2 beta. I argued with him that this should be Mootools 2.0 because, once again, nearly every single method and class has been tweaked or rewritten wholesale.

Mootools 1.11 was released just over five months ago and since then the development team has been hard at work (I’ve been slacking, mostly reading code commits and giving feedback; you won’t see my name in the commit log very much on this release) and the product is something I’ve been eagerly awaiting. The list of what’s new is daunting and will take you a few minutes to read and many more to grok.

I especially look forward to Fx.Tween and Fx.Morph, the awesome test suite integration, the new and improved Hash, and the new Sortables (which I’ve already been using in a version I ported back to 1.11 for myself). But that’s not all! Call now and you get like a bazillion other new methods and shortcuts and browser fixes (oh, I forgot the new Iframe class).

SRSLY, this release is awesome. Congrats all around to the Mootools dev team, myself excluded.

A note on our stuff: The Mootorial will be a few weeks in the updating but it’ll catch up eventually. Our code base is a different story. It’s going to take a while to migrate all our stuff to 1.2 as we haven’t started yet (I learned my lesson previously; don’t start migrating for a Mootools release until the release is done or else you’re chasing a moving target, and Valerio and team are far more productive than I am). It should continue to work with the compatibility script for 1.2 installed, but we haven’t tested for that. Stay tuned as we start on this process.

The first beta for MooTools 1.2 is finally here!

After months in the making, we can confidently say that MooTools 1.2 is now feature complete. However, there are still some bugs left to squash.

Head over to MooTools download page to start playing with it right away.

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