Version 2.0 of the most popular JavaScript-library was released.
In the release, they threw out support for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8. Due to this, they won in the amount of 12% and added speed. You can win even more if you make your build by killing unnecessary from the 12 built-in default modules.
Those who need old IE remain on the 1.x branch, which supports them and which they did not abandon (1.10 will be released soon) and plan to maintain for several more years. Although API 2.0 is compatible with non-deprecated 1.9, there are still a lot of changes . ')
A detailed list of changes is in the official announcement .