script.aculo.us V1.5.3 comes with new InPlaceCollectionEditor

V1.5.3 of script.aculo.us is now available!

• Added Ajax.InPlaceCollectionEditor which uses a SELECT element instead of a text field (see test/functional/ajax_inplacecollectioneditor_test.html for usage), #3491 [thx anna]
• Added Sortable.setSequence to programmatically reorder a Sortable, #3711 [thx Mike A. Owens]
• Enable in place editor to use RJS (implements a new evalScripts option for the in place editor), #3490 [thx Richard Livsey]

Also, various fixes made it in (especially important the fix for the broken Sortable.serialize name option in V1.5.2):

• Make name option on Sortable.serialize work again, fixes #3873
• Make dragging cancel only on ESC key, not on any key, fixes #3817
• Fix span positioning for sliders with ranges not starting at 0, fixes #3731 [thx michal]
• Remove unneeded height restoring in Effect.BlindDown as that is handled internally by the restoreAfterFinish option to Effect.Scale, fixes #3667 [thx Ross Lawley]
• Added unit test for #3732 (currently fails due to Prototype #3877) [thx michal]

The Rails trunk has been updated to V1.5.3, too.

This will be the last version of script.aculo.us using Prototype 1.4.0 – switching to Prototype 1.5.0 for the next release (note that script.aculo.us V1.5.3 is fully compatible with both versions).

As always, big thanks to all the contributors! 🙂