jQuery UI Introduction

jQueryUI stands for jQuery User Interface. It is a collection of animated visual effects, GUI widgets, and themes implemented with jQuery, CSS, HTML and JavaScript. These new plug-ins add a lot of new functionalities in the jQuery core library.

It is a very popular and powerful mobile first front-end framework used for faster and easier web development. According to a survey it is used on over 176000 websites, making it the second most popular JavaScript library on the Web.

jQuery UI History

jQueryUI is a free and open source software first published and released in September 2007. It is distributed by jQuery foundation under the MIT license.

jQuery UI Release History

jQuery was first launched on Sep, 17, 2007. After that, there have been many versions released with additional functionalities.

jquery version no.	jquery dependency	release date
1.5	-------	Jun 8, 2008
1.6	1.2.6	Apr 16, 2009
1.7	1.3.2+	Mar 3, 2009
1.8	1.3.2+	Mar 18, 2010
1.8.9	1.3.2+	Jan 19, 2011
1.8.10	1.3.2+	Feb 22, 2011
1.8.11	1.3.2+	Mar 15, 2011
1.8.12	1.3.2+	Apr 13, 2011
1.8.13	1.3.2+	May 12, 2011
1.8.14	1.3.2+	Jun 17, 2011
1.8.15	1.3.2+	Aug 1, 2011
1.8.16	1.3.2+	Aug 15, 2011
1.8.17	1.3.2+	Jan 10, 2012
1.8.18	1.3.2+	Feb 20, 2012
1.8.19	1.3.2+	Apr 16, 2012
1.8.20	1.3.2+	Apr 30, 2012
1.8.21	1.3.2+	Jun 5, 2012
1.8.22	1.3.2+	Jul 24, 2012
1.8.23	1.3.2+	Aug 15, 2012
1.8.24	1.3.2+	Sep 28, 2012
1.9.0	1.6+	Oct 8, 2012
1.9.1	1.6+	Oct 25, 2012
1.9.2	1.6+	Nov 23, 2012
1.10.0	1.6+	Jan 17, 2013
1.10.1	1.6+	Feb 15, 2013
1.10.2	1.6+	Mar 14, 2013
1.10.3	1.6+	May 3, 2013
1.10.4	1.6+	Jan 17, 2014
1.11.0-beta.1	1.6+	Apr 25, 2014
1.11.0-beta.2	1.6+	May 23, 2014
1.11.0	1.6+	Jun 26, 2014
1.11.1	1.6+	Aug 13, 2014
1.11.2	1.6+	Oct 16, 2014
1.11.3	1.6+	Feb 12, 2015