jQuery 1.14 (jQuery UI 1.13 Upgrade Guide)

[Chealer]

The Reminder: API Redesigns section of the jQuery UI 1.13 Upgrade Guide contains:

Although the redesigns introduced breaking changes, 1.12 & 1.13 maintains a lot of compatibility with the 1.11 API by default. This is accomplished by rebuilding the 1.11 API on top of the 1.12/1.13 API. The default behavior for all 1.12 & 1.13 releases will be to simultaneously use the 1.11 and 1.12/1.13 APIs where possible. If you would like to load just the 1.12/1.13 API without the 1.11 API to prepare for jQuery UI 1.14, you can set the $.uiBackCompat flag to false.

Yet, the jQuery maintainers update and transition jQuery UI as part of overall modernization efforts blog post contains:

Today, jQuery UI announced version 1.13 — its first release in 5 years and the project’s final planned release. [...] jQuery UI is in maintenance-only mode. Users should not expect any new releases, though patches may be issued to resolve critical security, interoperability, or regression bugs. Trac, the project’s bug-tracking tool, has been put in read-only mode and developers are asked to file any critical issues on the project’s GitHub repository.

These quotes are contradictory about whether a 1.14 version of jQuery UI is planned.

[mgol]

I think we will release 1.14. This won't be a big release as previous updates were; we'll just focus on whatever is needed to reduce maintenance burden - dropping some browsers & legacy patches, perhaps turning the $.uiBackCompat flag to false by default, reducing support for compatible jQuery Core releases.

[mgol]

I published a blog post https://blog.jqueryui.com/2024/04/plans-for-jquery-ui-1-14-dropping-support-for-ui-1-12-in-the-download-builder/ and I added a reference to it in https://blog.jqueryui.com/2021/10/jquery-maintainers-update-and-transition-jquery-ui-as-part-of-overall-modernization-efforts/. Hopefully that solves your concerns.

[Chealer]

It does!
Thanks a lot Michał, for this and all the rest of the work 👏