Kendo UI

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Kendo UI® 2012.31114

November 13, 2012

Kendo UI Web

Framework Constructs

What’s New

  • Added: WAI-ARIA support for all Kendo UI Web widgets
  • Added: Added/improved keyboard navigation for all Kendo UI Web widgets
  • Added: RTL support for all Kendo UI Web widgets
  • Added: Five new themes - Bootstrap, High Contrast, Metro Black, Moonlight and Uniform
  • Added: Utilize CSS3 gradients in themes
  • Added: Support for read-only binding via kendo.bind method and data-bind attribute setting

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Widgets with popup leak some memory after destroy
  • Fixed: Nexus 7 not detected as a tablet
Kendo UI DataSource Icon

DataSource

What’s New

  • Added: sync event

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Sync after remove does not trigger change event with LocalTransport
Kendo UI DragAndDrop Icon

Drag And Drop

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Destroying a DropTarget widget leaks memory through element references
  • Fixed: Drag & Drop does not work on touch-enabled desktop Chrome
Kendo UI Web Globalization Icon

Globalization

What’s New

  • Added: Support for more than three "f" (fraction of the second) specifiers in the time format
  • Added: Support for parsing a value as Date/Number object when Globalize.js is included
  • Improved: parseDate returns null if the entered year differs than the format

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Added leading zeros to the 'year' if required
  • Fixed: kendo.parseDate parses incorrectly 0001-01-01 date
Kendo UI HierarchicalDataSource Icon

HierarchicalDataSource

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: get method does not find child items with custom id field
Kendo UI MVVM Icon

MVVM

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: MVVM raises change event incorrectly when setting the same value to a property
Kendo UI Web Validator Icon

Validator

What’s New

  • Improvement: Read-only inputs should not be validated

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Range validation should not be triggered if input is empty

UI Widgets Features and Updates

Kendo UI Web AutoComplete Icon

AutoComplete

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: AutoComplete raises change event when the value is set with value() method
  • Fixed: The width of the popup element is not persisted
  • Fixed: AutoComplete throws an error when calling the destroy method
Kendo UI Web Calendar Icon

Calendar

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Calendar renders two equal days in Brazil timezone (DST issue)
  • Fixed: Calendar renders incorrectly last day of month if DST occurs
Kendo UI Web ComboBox Icon

ComboBox

What’s New

  • Improvement: Clear selection of the child widget if no data

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: DropDownList gets hidden if initialized twice
  • Fixed: ComboBox does not persist custom value on refresh
  • Fixed: ComboBox reverts entered value if filter is not enabled
  • Fixed: The width of the popup element is not persisted
  • Fixed: Empty ComboBox does not select first highlighted item on key down
  • Fixed: ComboBox does not select item after rebind if the dataSource is filtered with the API
Kendo UI Web Date/Time Pickers Icon

Date/Time Pickers

What’s New

  • Improved: DatePickers update calendar's selection when input value changes before opening
  • Improved: DateTimePicker rebinds TimeView using options.dates when the selected date is part of the dates array

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Calendar renders two equal days in Brazil timezone (DST issue)
  • Fixed: Calendar renders incorrectly last day of the month if DST occurs
  • Fixed: DateTimePicker does not wire the clock icon after destroy and initialization
  • Fixed: Pickers do not work when initialized after MVVM binding
Kendo UI Web DropDownList Icon

DropDownList

What’s New

  • Improvement: Clear selection of the child widget if no data

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: DropDownList gets hidden if initialized twice
  • Fixed: focusout event is raised infinitely
  • Fixed: The width of the popup element us not persisted
  • Fixed: DropDownLists closes on click if it is still focused
  • Fixed: iOS Widget styling is wrong
  • Fixed: DropDownList cannot be bound to an empty array
Kendo UI Web Editor Icon

Editor

What’s New

  • Added: Image file browser
  • Added: Introduced keyup and keydown events

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Updating the editor value through the viewHtml dialog does not trigger a change event
  • Fixed: Selection is lost when using asynchronous toolbar buttons on a MVVM-bound editor
  • Fixed: Ordered lists at end of document show numbers as zeroes in IE9
  • Fixed: Editor is not focused by clicking below content in IE
  • Fixed: Serialization is broken for inline styles which contain absolute URLs
Kendo UI Web Grid Icon

Grid

What’s New

  • Improvement: Support for binding by name of radio button elements when set as a custom editor

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Sorting on nullable string or numbers does not work as expected
  • Fixed: Dates are not sorted correctly if nulls and dates earlier than 1970 are present
  • Fixed: Grid table layout does not re-adjust when hiding a column in IE8
  • Fixed: Additional values are displayed in columns context menu when viewed in IE8
  • Fixed: Columns cannot be resized after a previous one is hidden in IE8
  • Fixed: Filtering with "endswith" sometimes returns wrong results
  • Fixed: Grouping with column reordering does not work if columns are not specifed
  • Fixed: Destroy fails when scrolling is disabled
  • Fixed: Cell cannot be switched to edit mode if the previous one contains a table and batch mode is enabled
  • Fixed: Data is in incorrect order when grouped on a field with same date value and sorted by another
  • Fixed: Foreign key column values cannot contain apostrophe
  • Fixed: Grid column resizing does not work if browser window is scrolled horizontally
Kendo UI Web Grid Icon

ListView

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: ListView item does not set uid attribute when model field changes
Kendo UI Web Menu Icon

Menu

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Menu doesn't work in desktop browser with both touch and mouse events
  • Fixed: Menu doesn't work in IE10 Metro
  • Fixed: Root-level links do not get color from k-state-highlighted user rule
Kendo UI Web NumericTextBox Icon

NumericTextBox

What’s New

  • Added: NumericTextBox allows entering digits with pressed Shift key
  • Added: NumericTextBox copies class names from the input element to the wrapper

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Step with more than two decimal places does not work as expected
  • Fixed: NumericTextBox requires two presses to focus in mobile device
Kendo UI Web Slider Icon

Slider

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Slider track is invisible in some skins
Kendo UI Web Splitter Icon

Splitter

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Adjacent panes are selected when resizing (jQuery 1.8.2)
  • Fixed: Initially collapsed resizable panes cannot be resized after they are expanded
Kendo UI Web TabStrip Icon

TabStrip

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: TabStrip select() method does not work correctly when nesting TabStrips
Kendo UI Web TreeView Icon

TreeView

What’s New

  • Added: Allow MVVM binding through kendo.observableHierarchy
  • Added: Honor checked field when rendering checkboxes

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Child items overlay other items after drag& drop
  • Fixed: Drop event does not report proper dropTarget on touch devices
  • Fixed: Double-clicking disabled items expands them
  • Fixed: Checkboxes cannot be enabled through data-checkboxes
  • Fixed: checkboxes.name allows rendering of name attribute on each checkbox
  • Fixed: text() method removes sprites and images from nodes
  • Fixed: Changing spriteCssClass and imageUrl fields does not update rendered item
  • Fixed: Specifying Checkboxes(false) renders checkboxes
Kendo UI Web Upload Icon

Upload

What’s New

  • Added: async.batch option
Kendo UI Web Window Icon

Window

What’s New

  • Improved: Title text gets trimmed with ellipsis

Kendo UI DataViz

Framework Constructs

What’s New

  • Added: Candlestick and OHLC series
  • Added: Five new themes - Bootstrap, High Contrast, Metro Black, Moonlight and Uniform
  • Added: DataViz Theme Builder
  • Added: dragStart, drag and dragEnd events
  • Added: zoomStart, zoom and zoomEnd events
  • Added: 'justified' option to categoryAxis to allow positioning of series points at the axis edges. Default value is false
  • Added: roundToBaseUnit option for categoryAxis (default: true)
  • Added: "auto" baseUnit option for automatic date grouping that tries to fit available data on screen
  • Added: baseUnitStep option for aggregating date series into multiples of days, weeks, etc.
  • Added: Support for aggregating categorical series into weeks
  • Added: "narrowRange" option to value/x/yAxis options. Setting it prevents the automatic range from snapping to 0
  • Added: Customizable panes for organizing complex charts
  • Added: x/yAxes aliases. They take precedence over x/yAxis
  • Added: valueAxes alias. Takes precedence over valueAxis
  • Added: categoryAxes alias. Takes precedence over categoryAxis
  • Added: axisCrossingValues alias. Takes precedence over axisCrossingValue

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Nexus 7 not detected as a tablet
  • Fixed: Tooltip font set in series is not applied

What’s Changed

  • Breaking Change > Improvement: missingValues defaults to "zero" for area, stacked area and stacked line series
  • Breaking Change: DataViz widgets require theme-specific stylesheets

New UI Widgets

Kendo UI DataViz Stock Chart Icon

Stock Chart

New stockChart widget for visualizing financial data. Supports panning and zooming on desktop and mobile devices.

UI Widgets Features and Updates

Kendo UI DataViz Bubble Chart Icon

Bubble Chart

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Bubbles can sometimes appear below grid lines

Kendo UI Mobile

Framework Constructs

What’s New

  • Added: Refined/enhanced animation framework and API
  • Added: iOS 6 styling
  • Improved: Default iOS styling is now iOS 5
  • Improved: Enhanced Android styling
  • Improved: Enhanced BlackBerry styling (based on BB10)

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Nexus 7 not detected as a tablet

What’s Changed

  • Breaking Change < Improvement: Font icons enabled by default, WebKit mask icons are deprecated

UI Widgets Features and Updates

Kendo UI Mobile ActionSheet Icon

ActionSheet

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: iOS Widget styling is wrong
  • Fixed: ActionSheet open method does not work on tablets
  • Fixed: Artifacts left on the screen after closure (Android)
Kendo UI Mobile ListView Icon

ListView

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Textarea is not styled in ListView
  • Fixed: Default border - bottom for <li> elements does not render in iOS
  • Fixed: Fixed: Arrow gap on iOS 6
Kendo UI Mobile NavBar Icon

NavBar

What’s New

  • Added: ButtonGroup NavBar specific styling

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Better sizing of NavBar depending on its contents
Kendo UI Mobile Scroller Icon

Scroller

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Scroller inside a ScrollView should pass non-handled events to it
Kendo UI Mobile ScrollView Icon

ScrollView

What’s Fixed

  • Fixed: Paged scrollview does not retain its page when orientation changes
Kendo UI Mobile Switch Icon

Switch

What’s New

  • Improved: Changed styling to match Switch in Jelly Bean (4.1)
For previous versions please refer to the Kendo UI Web, DataViz and Mobile release history