jQuery (version 1.7) is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library
jQuery version 1.7 was released on August 9th, 2012.
New features
- New Event APIs: .on() and .off()
- Improved Performance on Delegated Events
- Better Support for HTML5 in IE6/7/8
- Toggling Animations Work Intuitively
- Asynchronous Module Definition
- jQuery.Deferred
- jQuery.isNumeric()
Removed features
- event.layerX and event.layerY
- jQuery.isNaN()
- jQuery.event.proxy()
See also the official homepage and the release notes.