The Alpaca project team is pleased to announce the release of Alpaca 1.1.3.
What is Alpaca?
Alpaca is a JavaScript plugin that makes it easy to render web forms using JSON schema. It consists of a core engine and a control library to let you change form layouts, plug in validation logic and adjust form presentation with simple changes to JSON.
Alpaca is the web forms engine for Cloud CMS. It can be used within your own standalone projects. It is free to use without restriction within both non-commercial and commerical applications.
Download
To download the latest release of Alpaca, visit http://www.alpacajs.org. We make available distributions with all of the source code and examples.
Or you can visit our GitHub project, pull the source and build it yourself:
https://github.com/gitana/alpaca
What's New?
This release introduces some bug fixes, new features and a new control field.
- Added the CurrencyField control to provide currency input format and syntax
- Fixes to TypeAhead support on TextField with additional examples of remote data loading
- Added options-defined postRender callback on items within ArrayField after rendering
- Added I18N support for Polish (locale pl_PL)
- Added support for Ruby on Rails attribute convention on form post
- Updated copies of all web libraries to the latest releases (grab yours from /lib directory)
Special Thanks
This release features a number of community driven improvements as well as pull requests contributed from @DSoa, @yaworsk, @tperrysov and @sebast26.
Thanks to everyone involved for all of their hard work.
Muchas gracias por todo!
Coming Soon - 1.5.0
Concurrent with this release, we will be offering a preview of the Alpaca 1.5.0 release. The Alpaca 1.5.0 release is a major refactoring with a number of improvements, including Handlebars support, separate template files and a 3x performance improvement. The 1.5.0 release will be the next release of Alpaca.
Download and Contribute
We encourage everyone to download and try out the 1.1.3 release. For all active projects, we encourage developers to upgrade to the 1.1.3 release for all the latest bug fixes and updates.
For code-level information on what has changed, please check the commit log.
Alpaca is a community-led project and benefits greatly from community code fixes, patches, issues and feedback. Want to add a feature? Found a bug? Feel free to fork the code and submit a pull-request. Or submit an issue and ask the community what they think. We're building Alpaca for you and would love to have your contributions.