Drupal 6.0 will include jQuery 1.2

jQuery 1.2 was released 3 days ago (September 10th), and in just 2 days later a patch was committed to Drupal 6.0, just in time before the first beta (which was due many days ago;).

Why is this important?
Because jQuery 1.2 has several API changes, and if the first Drupal 6.0 beta was with jQuery 1.1.x there would be no chance that the Drupal 6.0 release would ship with jQuery 1.2.

Whats up with jQuery 1.2 anyway?
Well, not very much since jQuery 1.1.4 already was included in the upcoming Drupal 6.0 beta. jQuery 1.1.4 introduced some amazing speed improvements.
However it was strongly recommended by digitalspaghetti, one of the jQuery core team members to upgrade to jQuery 1.2, because of the lack of maintained jQuery 1.1.x compatible plug ins. Remember that Drupal 6 will be "in the wild" for some years, so an up-to-date JavaScript library with up-to-date plug ins is extremely important.

So, way to go all of you that made jQuery 1.2 go into Drupal 6.