2.0 Progess Update, Lockdown

As of this week ExpressionEngine 2.0 has achieved “feature lockdown,” meaning its highly unlikely anything new will be added to the initial release at this point.

There are still components and code that need to be converted to CodeIgniter or implemented but nothing new will be added. The majority of these are small improvements under the hood or to various sections of the Control Panel and not “features” in the Plugin, Extension, or Module sense.

The jQuery module, a module new to 2.0 for both Core and Licensed versions, also still needs to be completed. We’ve mentioned this module before but here’s a quick refresher. The jQuery module will allow people to use jQuery and its plugins in their templates without worrying about the location of the jQuery files. This way developers have access to jQuery in a secure way from just about anywhere in EE’s template engine.

Once these things are finished up the next step is a thorough internal code review (which we do in-addition to reviewing code along the way of course).

The next 2.0 update will be January 30-ish.