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Kendo UI® 2012.1322

March 21, 2012

Kendo UI Web

Framework Constructs

What’s New

  • Added: MVVM framework extension
  • Added: All widgets support kinetic scrolling on touch devices
  • Added: Redone zoom and fade effects - now single using directions 'in' and 'out'
  • Aded: Unified all input and picker control sizes, including .k-textbox and .k-button
  • Improved: Numeric custom formatting now supports literals

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: kendo.parseFloat does not parse exponential numbers correctly
  • Fixed: IE Popup resize event bug (causing various dropdowns to fail to close)
  • Fixed: Open/close event wired with widget bind event was not raised (Applicable for DatePicker/TimePicker/ComboBox/AutoComplete/DropDownList)
  • Fixed: PanelBar, Menu and TabStrip now constrain element search to their root element
Kendo UI DataSource Icon

DataSource

What’s New

  • Added: OData CRUD support
  • Improved: DataReader converts raw data values to types defined in the schema model fields declaration

New UI Widgets

Kendo UI Web Editor Icon

Editor

Kendo UI Web ListView Icon

ListView

UI Widgets Features and Updates

Kendo UI Web ComboBox Icon

ComboBox

What’s New

  • Added: value() method will fetch data if autoBind: false

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: ComboBox posts the text of the OPTION element instead of its value
  • Fixed: Cannot clear value of the combobox with .value("")
Kendo UI Web Date/Time Pickers Icon

Date/Time Pickers

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: TimePicker repeats hours in day with DST
Kendo UI Web DropDownList Icon

DropDownList

What’s New

  • Added: value() method will fetch data if autoBind: false

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: DropDownList wrapped in a label cannot be opened
  • Fixed: DropDownList post the text of the OPTION element instead of its value
  • Fixed: DropDownList popup closes on arrow click in IE9
  • Fixed: DropDownList bound to list of strings and optionLabel does not render its first item correctly
Kendo UI Web Grid Icon

Grid

What’s New

  • Added: Grid Edit modes - inline, popup
  • Added: Support for custom editors
  • Added: Support for aggregates
  • Added: Footer template
  • Added: Keyboard support for inline edit mode

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Impossible to collapse a grid group in IE
Kendo UI Web Menu Icon

Menu

What’s New

  • Added: Menu items now support any image sizes
Kendo UI Web NumericTextBox Icon

NumericTextBox

What’s New

  • Added: Spin event
  • Added: Set input type depending on the platform

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: NumericTextBox with configuration decimals: 0 does not prevent the inclusion of decimal separator

What’s Changed

  • Breaking Change: Cannot set value out of range using .value() method
Kendo UI Web PanelBar Icon

PanelBar

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Root item removed after removing the last item
  • Fixed: TreeView in a PanelBar stops working
Kendo UI Web Slider Icon

Slider

What’s New

  • Added: Tooltip template support
Kendo UI Web TabStrip Icon

TabStrip

What’s New

  • Added: activate event, fired after the content element starts to show (and can be measured)

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: TabStrip can select 2 tabs simultaneously while doing ajax request
Kendo UI Web TreeView Icon

TreeView

What’s New

  • Added: Support for checkboxes for treeview nodes
  • Added: detach() method that removes nodes without destroying them
  • Improved: Allow arrays to be passed to insertBefore()/insertAfter()/append() methods

What’s New

  • Fixed: Moving nodes with append()/insertBefore()/insertAfter() deletes their jQuery.data()
  • Fixed: select(selector) does not limit the selector to sub-items
  • Fixed: remove(selector) does not apply treeview context to selector
Kendo UI Web Upload Icon

Upload

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: File list is unavailable in remove event (async mode)

What’s Changed

  • Changed: The uploaded files are no longer removed on form reset. Instead, only the file list is cleared
Kendo UI Web Window Icon

Window

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Window throws JavaScript errors in IE9 when it contains an iframe
  • Fixed: Calling refresh() with remote URL does not render iframe, if it is not initially rendered
  • Fixed: Metro-themed window doesn't have a border

Kendo UI DataViz

Framework Constructs

What’s New

  • Added: Support for multiple value axes in categorical charts
  • Added: Support for binding to grouped data source
  • Added: Mirror option for controlling the axis labels position
  • Added: Label step property for category axis (area, bar, line and scatter charts)
  • Added: Axis reverse option
  • Added: Visible property for axes
  • Added: Pie Chart gradients in VML
  • Added: Axis labels skip property
  • Added: visibleInLegend option for series and pie data points
  • Improvement: Make SVG and VML renderers pluggable
  • Improved: Style chart tooltip in kendo.dataviz.css

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Value axis line is clipped to last minor tick (line, bar and scatter charts)
  • Fixed: Grid lines do not extend to the full size of the axis (line, bar and scatter charts)
  • Fixed: Chart animations break when playing in background tab with jQueryUI on the page
  • Fixed: Security exception when using the Chart in WinRT
  • Fixed: Tooltip remains visible if the mouse pointer leaves the chart immediately

What’s Changed

  • Breaking Change: Axis orientation property deprecated in favor of dedicated verticalLine and verticalArea chart types
  • Breaking Change: The kendo.chart(.min).js file is replaced by kendo.dataviz(.min).js
  • Breaking Change: DataViz suite now requires kendo.dataviz.css to be included
  • Changed: Chart is moved to kendo.dataviz.ui namespace. Previously it was part of kendo.ui

New UI Widgets

Kendo UI DataViz Area Chart Icon

Area/Stacked Area Chart

Kendo UI DataViz Gauge Icon

Linear and Radial Gauge

UI Widgets Features and Updates

Kendo UI DataViz Bar Chart Icon

Bar Chart

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Stacked bar series should extend from the 0 line, not from the category axis line
Kendo UI DataViz Line Chart Icon

Line Chart

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Line chart is not visible in IE8 standards mode when transitions are enabled
Kendo UI DataViz Pie Chart Icon

Pie Chart

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Pie chart padding is 60px by default instead of percentage of the container
Kendo UI DataViz Scatter Chart Icon

Scatter Chart

What’s New

  • Added: Support for multiple X/Y axes in scatter charts

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Scatter and Scatter Line charts can't be used simultaneously
  • Fixed: Error occurs when a chart contains static and bound scatter line series

Kendo UI Mobile

Framework Constructs

What’s New

  • Added: BlackBerry platform support
  • Added: Platform-specific layouts
  • Added: Data attributes for events/templates/data source
  • Added: Support for multi-size application icons (iOS and Android)
  • Added: New View/Layout events (view and show), bound through data attributes
  • Added: Application loading display when loading remote views
  • Added: Declarative dataSource/event handlers support method accessors (i.e. data-click="foo.bar"; data-sorce="foo.bar")
  • Added: Mobile Views MVVM integration via data-model option
  • Improved: Major Scroller performance optimizations
  • Improved: Styling in horizontal mode

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Blank page state should no longer appear
  • Fixed: Several scroller bugs
  • Fixed: iOS PhoneGap now properly detected

New UI Widgets

Kendo UI Mobile Scroller Icon

Scroller

UI Widgets Features and Updates

Kendo UI Mobile Application Icon

Application

What’s New

  • Added: Application enhances form elements in listview

What’s Changed

  • Changed: Application viewInit/viewShow events are no longer supported, in favor of view/layout specific events
Kendo UI Mobile Button Icon

Button

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Buttons multitouch issue in Android
Kendo UI Mobile ListView Icon

ListView

What’s New

  • Added: Pull-to-refresh feature (appending more items on demand via swipe gesture)
  • Added: Items are highlighted on press

What’s Changed

  • Changed: buttonName event parameter is no longer supported
Kendo UI Mobile ScrollView Icon

ScrollView

What’s New

  • Added: scrollTo method
  • Improvement: ScrollView supports pages that automatically scale to the screen width
  • Improvement: ScrollView locks scrolling in horizontal only mode
Kendo UI Mobile TabStrip Icon

TabStrip

What’s New

  • Improvement: TabStrip select event can be canceled to prevent navigation

What’s Changed

  • Changed: Tabstrip widget name is modified to TabStrip (letter casing change)
For previous versions please refer to the Kendo UI Web, DataViz and Mobile release history