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Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community.

• As announced a few days ago, the 3.9.0 GA release originally scheduled for this week has been delayed at least a week. In the meantime, you can begin using YUI 3.9.0pr3 to satisfy your v3.9 cravings.

• We have a new team member, so here's a big YUI Weekly welcome to Eugene Kashida (@ekashida)!

• The instance of Wordpress that powers yuiblog.com experienced a change last week which has broken the commenting capabilities. We don't have an ETA on a fix, but hopefully soon. In the meantime, you can always find us on of IRC in #yui (Freenode) and on Twitter at @yuilibrary.

• Yesterday's [Open Roundtable](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Bdh

derek

Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community. If you have any interesting demos or links you’d like to share, leave a comment below.

• This week saw the release of YUI 3.9.0pr3, our last scheduled preview release before 3.9.0 GA next week. This preview release includes the addition of Y.Tree, Normalize.css, A+ Compatible Promises, Graphics Chaining, and more! See this blog post for a recap of everything that has changed since 3.9.0pr2.

• Added to the YUI Theater this week was YUI Open RoundTable 02/21/2013, where we discussed performance benchmarking with yui-bench, YUI CSS, YUI Web Font, and as wel

derek

Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community. If you have any interesting demos or links you’d like to share, leave a comment below.

• Development is winding down for the next release of YUI, currently scheduled for for February 26th. While today marks code freeze for new feature development, the pull request window is still open until February 19th for any bug fixes. With the new feature window closing, we've seen a few notable pull requests being merged into the 3.x branch (aka: 3.9.0), including Y.Tree, Normalize.css, A+ Promises, and more. Give 'em a spin and file a ticket (or [issue](https://github.com/yui/yu

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• No new releases this week, but here's a reminder about upcoming deadlines for the current development cycle (Sprint 5).

  • February 12: Feature Complete Pull Request Deadline.
  • February 15: Feature Complete Code Freeze.
  • February 19: Stable Release Pull Request Deadline.
  • February 22: Stable Release Code Freeze.
  • February 26: Stable Release.

• AlloyYUI v2 (built on top of YUI) is out! Check out the examples, API documentation, and its Rosetta Stone to compare APIs between YUI, jQuery, and AUI. Congrats to the team at Liferay and all of the contributors to the project.

• yui-contrib mailing list activity for the week:

derek

Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community. If you have any interesting demos or links you’d like to share, leave a comment below.

• No new releases this week. The current stable is YUI 3.8.1, and latest preview is YUI 3.9.0pr2. If you are curious about what is coming up next, checkout this week's "Development Schedule Updates" blog post.

• Yesterday's Roundtable (video) featured a preview of @rgrove's Y.Menu, some discussion around Y.Tree, deprecation of node-menunav and node-focusmanager (proposal), [YUI.Features](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/yui

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#!/bin/bash

function sync() {
	BRANCH=$(parse_git_branch)
	git fetch --all;
	git checkout master && git merge upstream/master;
	git checkout dev-master && git merge upstream/dev-master;
	git checkout 3.x && git merge upstream/3.x;
    git checkout dev-3.x && git merge upstream/dev-3.x;
	git checkout live-docs && git merge upstream/live-docs;

derek

Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community. If you have any interesting demos or links you’d like to share, leave a comment below.

• This week saw two releases of YUI. 3.8.1 was released as a patch to 3.8 for iOS6 compatability improvements in addition to updates for DataTable, Attribute, and Template. Also released this week was 3.9.0pr2, a follow-up preview release to last week's 3.9.0pr1. Jenny posted some details about our release process policy on the mailing list. Happy upgrading!

• A huge thanks and welcome to YUI's newest external contributor, Joey Smith, who offered to [take over management](http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2013/01/24/yui-compressor-has-a-new-own

derek

Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community. If you have any interesting demos or links you’d like to share, leave a comment below.

• This week saw the release of 3.9.0 Preview Release 1, which focused on Charts, JSONP, Responsive Grids, iOS6, and more. You can read all the details in the 3.9.0pr1 blog post and we are scheduled for 3.9.0 GA on January 22nd. Happy testing!

• A congratulations to Eric Ferraiuolo (@ericf) for his nomination to Reviewer status!

• Yesterday we flipped the switch and enabled Github's Issues as an alternative bug tracker. See the [blog post](http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2013/01/1

derek

Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community. If you have any interesting demos or links you’d like to share, leave a comment below.

• And we're back! Over the coming week we're wrapping up development on the next release of YUI, scheduled for release on January 22nd.

• Milestone - YUI reached 500 forks on Github! Thanks for the contributions and involvement to everyone in our community.

• Are you an exceptional JavaScript engineer and passionate about library development? If so, YUI Is hiring!

• This week's Gallery deployment includes two new CSS modules developed by YUI team member Tilo Mitra (@tilomitra). The first is csstables (demo), which will make it super simple to style tables of data without the overhead of JavaScript. T

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Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community. If you have any interesting demos or links you’d like to share, leave a comment below or email contributions to weekly@yuilibrary.com.

• With 3.8.0 out the door, if you are curious about what's next head over to the YUI wiki where you can always find the latest details on the future releases. Next up, a release on January 22nd which will either be a patch release for 3.8 or the first 3.9 release, depending on changes & updates planned. Stay tuned for more details.

• This week, the team officially launched the YUI Resposive Grid Builder. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of [responsive web design](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsi