About jQuery :
- jQuery was first released in January 2006 by John Resig at BarCamp NYC. It is currently headed by Timmy Wilson and maintained by a team of developers.
- Nowadays, jQuery is widely used technology. Most of the websites are using jQuery.
The release dates of jQuery versions are:
Version No. Release Date1.0 ----------- 26,August,2006
1.1 ----------- 14,January,2007
1.2 ----------- 10, September, 2007
1.3 ----------- 14, January, 2009
1.4 ----------- 14, January, 2010
1.5 ----------- 31, January, 2011
1.6 ----------- 3, May, 2011
1.7 ----------- 3, November, 2011
1.8 ----------- 9, August, 2012
1.9 ----------- 15, January, 2013
1.10 ----------- 24,May, 2013
1.11 ----------- 24, January, 2014
2.0 ----------- 18, April, 2013
2.1 ----------- 24, January, 2014