qooxdoo 1.0-beta1 is a preview release for the upcoming 1.0 version.

• Disposing of objects takes less time
• Assertions are faster now
• qx.html.element.Style.setStyles has been improved
• Improved qx.lang.String.pad

• #2891 Mouse capturing now works even if the user leaves the browser view port.
• #2919 Mouse Capturing: Captured events are now bubbling
• #2795 All native events can now be cloned without breaking any of the public API
• #2856 Drag and drop events are now bubbling
• qx.event.Command has been split up into two different classes. One, qx.bom.Shortcut, handles the shortcut functionality. The other, qx.ui.core.Command is the high level command.

• All legacy code has been removed.
• Improved browser detection and added qx.bom.client.Browser which can be used to get the browser name and version number. Thanks to Sebastian Werner for contribution.
• Fixed some issues with the size calculation on qx.bom.Viewport and qx.bom.Document.
• Safari 3 always returned the wrong value for isStandardMode on qx.bom.Document, this is now fixed.
• Fixed an iframe issue in Firefox. Whenever the iframe got a new parent element Firefox did load the wrong source under certain circumstances
• Prevent inline root from growing endlessly if the height of the element is implicit (=defined by the content)
• New method qx.util.DisposeUtil.disposeTriggeredBy()
• Corrected several destructors
• Fixed wrong format and size return values in qx.io2.ImageLoader
• Added a Serializer util class that produces a native JavaScript object.

• Firefox 1.5 is working again
• #2230 For Internet Explorer 8, fixed unreachable TextField when a TextField is lying over a image.
• Fixed mouse events in iPhone.

• qx.io.remote.RequestQueue stopped sending when too many requestHandler throw an exception. Applied a patch that places the request handler in a try/catch block to prevent a program crash upon exception. If an exception is thrown, an "aborted" message is now issued to the application.

• History manager has been refactored. It now supports the native hashchange event and IE support has been improved. Additionally the state is now available as property which makes it bindable.
• Fixed loading issue in BOM libraries in IE
• Improved low-level blocker class.

• #3075 Fixed size hint calculation for some edge cases
• Removed the color grey as valid color, because this is not a valid color for IE6 and IE7.
• Added property wrap to qx.ui.basic.Label, to allow or deny line breaks. But this feature only works with rich labels.
• Added property blockToolTip to qx.ui.core.Widget to disable a tool tip.
• Removed limitation of not be able to change the scaling mode and/or the source of a qx.ui.basic.Image widget during runtime.
• Fixed alpha PNG issue at decoration util class.

• The data binding is no longer experimental!
• Added two new data stores:
  • JSONP data store.
  • YQL data store.
• Two new delegate methods for the data stores:
  • Added the possibility to change settings on the created request.
  • Added the possibility to manipulate the data returned from the request.
• Improvements to the form controller concerning init values and binding options.
• Improvements to the selection handling of the controller

• Form validation is no longer experimental!
• The placeholder now also supports password fields.
• Minor improvements to the resetter.
• The model selection array for RadioGroup's, RadioButtonGroup's, List's, SelectBox'es and Trees has been changed from a native JavaScript array to a qooxdoo data binding array.

• #730 Large menus are no longer cut off at browser window
• #2847 Option to use native browser scroll bars in all widgets.
• Changed unblock and unblockConten behavior from our Blocker. Both methods take now care of the number of block and blockContent calls, before the Blocker is removed. To force a unblock, two new methods are added forceUnblock and forceUnblockContent.
• Adjust the Table to the Selection API and renamed the clearSelection method to resetSelection.
• Table column model has a new method setColumnsOrder(), the remote table model new setters for attributes sortColumnIndex and sortAscending
• The getPreviousSiblingOf() method of Tree has new param allowing search to be restricted to current nest level
• Progressive: removed experimental indications. The Progressive interface is now considered reasonably stable. Contributed and maintained by Derrell Lipman.

• The auto completion now works with the key word this and you can type the tab key without having a valid sub key like qx..
• Done some improvements on the property window do make it more reliable for internal exceptions.

• Demobrowser GUI and demos are now generated jointly in one generator process
• A search field has been added to the demo browser which makes it possible to search for the names of demos.

• Added table demo
• Added a YQL demo.

• #1649 throw information will now be displayed for every method which can throw errors.
• #1780 You can now include API doc for all used libraries of the application, using the API_INCLUDE config macro.

• #2907 Generator jobs "test" and "test-source" now honor the "libraries" job, so that additional libraries used in the application are also considered for the test application.

• A new bash COMPSPEC file allows tab-completion of generator jobs (tool/bin/generator_compspec.bash)

• The generator now only prints stack traces when invoked with the -s command line option
• #2376 Dependency checking is more accurate now, also after library changes; unknown global symbols are warned about
• #2800 Add new option to split off I18N data in separate files, using config key packages/i18n-with-boot = false [experimental; not working for source versions]
• #2129 Resource information is now maintained on the package level, not globally in the loader script, which greatly reduces loader script sizes; using this with the new packages/<part>/no-merge-private-package key allows theme-specific packages to retain their own resources
• #2879 Add facility to hook JS code into qx.$$loader.decodeUris(), using compile-source/decode-uris-plug or compile-dist/code/decode-uris-plug
• Parts are now being verified after package collapsing, to make sure they contain all required classes
• Speed up in the generation of .po files
• "#ignore" compiler hints in class code are functional again
• The clean-files action key now allows Python-style file globs
• Improved logging when checking/downloading contribs
• Various parser bugs fixed
• [BUG #3031] If create-application.py is invoked with both namespace and application name parameters, only the namespace will be modified to only contain valid JavaScript identifier characters.
• [BUG #2038] New generator job "info": Prints some basic environment information for debugging.
• [BUG #2220] The "copy-files" job will now overwrite target files that are write-protected.

• #2868 Set translate/poentry-with-occurrences = false, to disable the generation of location comments in .po files
• New add-script config key allows inclusion of arbitrary Javascript files
• The loader template for the source/build versions is now configurable (compile-dist/paths/loader-template and compile-source/loader-template)
• A new generator option -m/--macro allows specification of let macros on the command line
• extend and run config keys now allow the use of macros; bear in mind that these keys are evaluated very early, so the referenced macros should usually be within the same file to take effect

• Various updates to the translation handling module (polib)

• #2886 Compiler hints (#require, #asset, …) now allow leading white-space

• qx.util.ColorUtil.hsbToRgb now returns the RGB value as array instead of a map.