JQuery library version 1.7.1 released

The jQuery blog just recently announced the release of version 1.7.1 .

Like any update, differing only in the number after the last point, here we are talking not about the introduction of major new products, but about correcting a number of unpleasant bugs (and changing the bug-like minor features), which this time number three dozen.

Everyone is free to select among them the most important for them. Personally, the following seemed to me significant:

• $ (document) .text () will always stop returning an empty string;
  
• $ .error now throws instanceof Error;
  
• when creating DOM elements by calling $ ('<...>'), memory will not leak;
  
• An animation of the width specified by the percent increment in the spirit of $ ('div'). animate ({ width: '- = 5%'}) will cause the width to change in percent the same (as it was in jQuery 1.6.4), rather than in pixels (as in jQuery 1.7).