Backbone Change Log

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New Features

• Collection#update

• Collection#clone

• once

• Event Maps

• History.extend

• History outside of the browser

• View#dispose (destroy)

• Backbone.ajax

• Optional groups for Routes syntax

Enhancements

• Collection#reset accepts { parse: true } option

• Collection#add accepts { merge: true } option

• Model#destroy() returns false if the model.isNew()

• View#options, View#el and View#tagName can be provided as functions

• View accepts an events option

• Backbone extends Events object

• Router#navigate is chainable (huh?)

• Backbone.sync accepts emulateHTTP and emulateJSON as options

Minor Changes

• Null and undefined are invalid model id's

• Normalizing trailing and leading slash behavior in routes

(Potentially) Breaking Changes

• Collection#sort triggers sort event instead of reset

• Validation is always run if defined, even when { silent: true }

• Model#parse is run on initialization if defined

• View#remove now calls #dispose for event cleanup

• Routes querystring behavior ???