The Jetpack team is pleased to announce the release of Add-on SDK version 1.5! This version of the SDK has two major new features as well as many smaller ones and some important bug fixes. The two most important new features of this release are: Mobile Support! – Developers can now start developing add-ons for… Continue reading
We have identified a serious bug in the 1.4.* releases, and have made a hotfix release of the Add-on SDK. The hotfix release is version 1.4.3. If you are potentially affected by the bug, then you will need to take action to recover from it. This note explains: how to work out whether you are… Continue reading
In the 1.4 release we tweaked the manner in which the SDK determines its own version (it now uses git-describe when possible). Yesterday, we discovered that this new versioning process conflicted with the way the Add-on Builder deploys the SDK in their application. Today we released the hotfix version 1.4.1 to address this issue so… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is proud to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.4! This version of the SDK has the most new features of all the releases we have made since the 1.0 release. Some of the new features include: – Thanks to community members Hernan Colmeiro and Erik Vold, we have a new Simple… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is proud to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.3! This version of the SDK has some bugfixes, and some new features. Highlights of this release are: – Fixed a bug where panel-based content scripts don’t work after reloading or changing location – We now officially support Python 2.7 – Loads of… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is proud to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.2! This version of the SDK, like 1.1, contains mostly stability work and bug fixes. This release also includes: The ability to reload a tab via a new reload method in the tabs module The self module now contains a “name” and “version”… Continue reading
One thing we have planned to make part of the Add-on SDK story is to have “automatic repacks” for developers using the SDK. What this means is that if you host your add-on, built with the SDK, on AMO (addons.mozilla.org), we would automatically rebuild it everytime we release a new version of the Add-on SDK… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is pleased to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.1. This version is the first update since the 1.0 release of Mozilla’s downloadable software development kit for easily building Firefox add-ons. This release mostly contains stability work and bug fixes. Beyond the stability work the 1.1 release also contains: Better transition/porting of… Continue reading
Its been quite a few months since we shared the greater vision for the Jetpack project and the Add-on SDK as a product. A lot has happened since then, including the release of Add-on SDK 1.0 and the growth of a team of talented people to keep the momentum going. Still, its always good to… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is happy to announce the release of Add-on SDK, version 1.0b5. This version is the last beta version before the 1.0 release of Mozilla’s downloadable software development kit for building Firefox add-ons. This version includes new APIs, some enhancements, and a great deal of bug fixes and stability improvements. Notable are: New… Continue reading
Dave is an old-hand at open source software, previously working on GNOME and Linux goodies, as well as taking open source to African public health efforts. He is now sticking his toes into getting Mozilla's new Add-on SDK to the hungry masses.
