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No new releases this week, but here's a reminder about upcoming deadlines for the current development cycle (Sprint 5).
- February 12: Feature Complete Pull Request Deadline.
- February 15: Feature Complete Code Freeze.
- February 19: Stable Release Pull Request Deadline.
- February 22: Stable Release Code Freeze.
- February 26: Stable Release.
AlloyYUI v2 (built on top of YUI) is out! Check out the examples, API documentation, and its Rosetta Stone to compare APIs between YUI, jQuery, and AUI. Congrats to the team at Liferay and all of the contributors to the project.
yui-contrib mailing list activity for the week:

Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community. If you have any interesting demos or links you’d like to share, leave a comment below.

Development is winding down for the next release of YUI, currently scheduled for for February 26th. While today marks code freeze for new feature development, the pull request window is still open until February 19th for any bug fixes. With the new feature window closing, we've seen a few notable pull requests being merged into the 3.x branch (aka: 3.9.0), including Y.Tree, Normalize.css, A+ Promises, and more. Give 'em a spin and file a ticket (or [issue](https://github.com/yui/yu

Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community. If you have any interesting demos or links you’d like to share, leave a comment below.

This week saw the release of YUI 3.9.0pr3, our last scheduled preview release before 3.9.0 GA next week. This preview release includes the addition of Y.Tree, Normalize.css, A+ Compatible Promises, Graphics Chaining, and more! See this blog post for a recap of everything that has changed since 3.9.0pr2.
Added to the YUI Theater this week was YUI Open RoundTable 02/21/2013, where we discussed performance benchmarking with yui-bench, YUI CSS, YUI Web Font, and as wel

Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community.

As announced a few days ago, the 3.9.0 GA release originally scheduled for this week has been delayed at least a week. In the meantime, you can begin using YUI 3.9.0pr3 to satisfy your v3.9 cravings.
We have a new team member, so here's a big YUI Weekly welcome to Eugene Kashida (@ekashida)!
The instance of Wordpress that powers yuiblog.com experienced a change last week which has broken the commenting capabilities. We don't have an ETA on a fix, but hopefully soon. In the meantime, you can always find us on of IRC in #yui (Freenode) and on Twitter at @yuilibrary.
Yesterday's [Open Roundtable](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Bdh

Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community. If you have any interesting demos or links you’d like to share, leave a comment below.

As you've probably seen, 3.9.0 is out! Thanks for your patience while we double-triple checked everything was stable for this feature-filled release. We've compiled a blog post containing all the goodies included in this release. FYI, the next release window is tentatively scheduled for April 16th, but we'll let you know when something is formalized and posted on our Development Schedule wiki.
Jeff Burtoft (@boyofgreen) contributed a great blog post explaining how he converted the duck shooter example from yuilibrary.com, and turned it into a fully functional Windows 8 app! Check it out @ [W

Promises are a tool to help write asynchronous code in a more readable style that looks more like synchronous code.

In short, promises allow you to interact with a value that may or may not be available yet.

Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community. If you have any interesting demos or links you’d like to share, feel free to leave a comment below.

This week saw the release of [YUI 3.9.1][1], a patch release that includes bug fixes and enhancements for [Handlebars][2], [LazyModelList][3] Fixes, and [Y.Tree][4]. Details of all changes can be found in the [YUI 3.9.1 History Rollup][5].
With the 3.9 release out the door, planning for the next release of YUI is underway! While it's too early to predict exactly what will be included, something we're hoping to include in a upcoming preview release (hopefully next week) is work from Satyen Desai on Base performance improvements. By including [these updates][6], we're seeing a 2-5x improvements in the [base-benchmark][7] perf tests in Chrome/OSX. Improvements in Base will affect anything extending it, which includes many parts of the library. Stay tuned!
For those anxious to get started with t

YUI Open Roundtable for June 13th, 2013

Discussion about recent YUI releases (3.10.2 and 3.10.3)
Pure 0.2.0
Datatable update and review of its roadmap
Sprint 8 review
WebRTC discussion and demo
Responsive grids demo
Up for Grabs review

	Y.Model: Instantiate a bare model
	┌──────────┬────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
	│ │ Firefox │ Chrome │
	├──────────┼────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
	│ v3.8.0 │ 3971.37 ±2.80% (-87%) │ 11258.29 ±4.26% (-163%) │
	│ v3.9.0 │ 3596.12 ±5.37% (-107%) │ 11661.04 ±3.15% (-154%) │
	│ WIP │ 7444.50 ±3.80% (Fastest) │ 29661.83 ±3.30% (Fastest) │
	└──────────┴────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

	Y.Model: Subclass and instantiate a bare model

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