jQuery version and Kendo UI

[Miika]

Good morning,

I wasn't able to find any reliable seeming information about what version of jQuery Kendo UI requires/supports. Would it be possible to get some sort of official confirmation on this, as I would rather not tie my website to any legacy version of jQuery and then possibly break other libraries.

This page (Javascript Dependencies) shows the jQuery version 1.7.1. But what exactly is meant by this? Is this exact version the only one that Kendo UI supports? Is this the minimum jQuery that is supported (and if that is the case, shouldn't it be listed as 1.7.1+, or 1.7.1 - 1.8.x)? Some of the specific widget examples also use jQuery 1.7.2.

This forum post by Vladimir Iliev says that jQuery 1.8+ can be used with Kendo UI from the 2012 Q2 SP1 version onwards. However, this is the only place I have been able to find that says so. This would be useful information to be "made official" for example in the release blog post for this service pack.

I would like to use Kendo UI, but I don't want to be tied to a legacy jQuery. I can understand if it takes some weeks to confirm compatibility with the very latest version (e.g. 1.8.1 is supported, but 1.8.2 not supported is acceptable. 1.7.x version is not).

[Dimo]

Hi Miika,

jQuery 1.7.1 which is mentioned in the documentation is the minimum required version - you can't use an older one.

jQuery 1.8.0 introduced breaking changes, which made it incompatible with existing Kendo UI versions. But now it can be used with the latest Kendo UI release (Q2 2012 SP1).

A good way to check what si the "best" jQuery version for Kendo UI is to see what version is used on our online demos. Currently this is 1.7.1, because this was the version used in Q2 2012 and we do not change the "official" jQuery version for service packs. We will most probably upgrade to the latest 1.8.# for Q3 2012 (due next month)

Greetings,
Dimo
the Telerik team

[Miika]

Thanks for the speedy reply, and this was exactly what I was hoping to hear.

Regards,
Miika

[Andrew]

Sorry to reopen an old thread - but now that Q3 2012 has been replaced, the dependencies state that a minimum of jQuery 1.8.2 is required. Does this mean that using jQuery 1.7.x will break Kendo after updating to Q3 2012?

[Dimo]

Hello Andrew,

The explicit jQuery 1.8.2 requirement stated in the documentation implies that we do not claim Kendo UI will work correctly with older jQuery versions, and we are testing primarily with the version specified in the documentation.

Regards,
Dimo
the Telerik team