I am pleased to announce the addition of three incredible Dojo community members into the Dojo committer family. Everyone please extend a warm welcome to the newest members of our team: Shane O'Sullivan (shaneosullivan), Nicola Rizzo (nic), and Ben Hockey (neonstalwart). Each have shown continued support and dedication to the project, and have rightfully so "earned their stripes" in the eyes of the fellow Dojo developers.

What a busy couple of months we've had! Nothing brings me more pleasure than to push a bunch of code to an open community, and today I get to do exactly that. I am proud to announce the release of the first of the Dojo 1.3 series: Dojo 1.3.0. Buen Provecho.

Hello Dojo'ers, Welcome to March!

After many months of hard work and innovation, the Dojo Toolkit is proud to present to you the first beta of Dojo 1.3.0.

We encourage you to place this beta release into any existing applications and report any discrepancies or issues you encounter.

I am proud to announce what is now officially the coolest-numbered-dot-release in Dojo history: The Dojo Toolkit 1.2.3

Both 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 were released silently and were relatively short-lived. 1.2.3 is expected to be the last release of the 1.2 branch, and is very stable. This release includes several critical fixes to ContentPane, and many low-risk changes to the 1.2 release. It should be a 100% safe migration for 1.2 users, and offers better support for 1.1 users wishing to migrate.

A lot has been going on in Dojo-land, and we're finally ready to push out the release. I have tentatively named this the 'Sliced Bread' release, as over the last six months each new item has truly felt like "the best thing since sliced bread". This iteration of the Dojo Toolkit has a very large delta, countless levels of innovation, cleverness, polish, and usefulness, as well as several internal changes regarding the overall project.

If you haven't already noticed, we're having some issues with http://api.dojotoolkit.org - we're working to correct the issue as we speak, but is proving to be difficult. We have taken the API site offline for the meantime, and apologize for any inconvenience this may be causing you.

If you are able to run AIR, the 1.1.1 docs are available in off-line format via the SitePen Dojo Toolbox application. You can use this if you need immediate API docs while we work to fix this issue.

http://sitepen.com/labs/toolbox

Earlier this month, we released beta1 of the much anticipated Dojo Toolkit 1.2 ... We released 1.1 in March of this year and the critical-fix branch 1.1.1 in May, making the 1.2 release the longest interval between releases to date. The wait was/is worth it, the visual polish in Dijit layout alone will please most users.

Oh, but it isn't truly released yet - one more round of testing to go! Today, we cut the first candidate for Dojo 1.2:

http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-1.2.0rc1/

We need you!

This morning I had the pleasure of running our `build_release` script for the first time, and am proud to announce the availability of the first cut of the much-anticipated 1.2.0 release. Secretly, I tried to do it on a holiday (yesterday), but had to nurse the script a little due to internal ops changes regarding svn locations.

So without further ado, I give you:

Dojo 1.2.0 beta1

Today, Alex Russell closed the voting on the unanimous selection of a new Dojo Project Lead: me. It is with great pleasure that I write this brief note announcing the change, and look forward to serving the Dojo Toolkit and it's developers, users, and contributors. Both Alex and I have both posted some notes about the change. Thanks to everyone for their vote of confidence, and to Alex, who has dutifully served in this position for the past four years.