v1.8.6 fixes

• Regions
  • Region.show now returns the region instance to allow for region operation chaining.
  • Region.show triggers the view's native triggerMethod if it exists. This is to handle the case that triggerMethod is wrapped by a Marionette.Behavior.
• General
  • Update jquery 2.x upper bound dependency restrictions.
  • The grunt test command will now complain if you do not have bower components installed.
  • Readme cleanups.

v2.0.0-pre.1 - First Glimpse

The changelog is quite large, please refer to the google doc for a summary
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fuXb9N5LwmdPn-teMwAo3c8JTx6ifUowbqFY1NNSdp8/edit#

For a more in-depth look at the changelog do check out the changelog detail
https://github.com/Puppets/marionette-changelog-detail

If you are interested in upgrading an existing app it is quite simple using this tool
https://github.com/marionettejs/Marionette.Upgrade

Please reach out with questions and or feedback here
https://gitter.im/marionettejs/backbone.marionette

Updated Docs can also be found here
https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette/tree/v2.0.0-pre.x/docs

v1.8.5 Unwrap UMD's for bundled babysitter and wreqr

• Fixes
  • Update the UMD build to be inline with the 2.x branch UMD implementation. Details here #1301

v1.8.3 Minor changes

• Fixes
  • Behaviors now have access to the views options and events during their initialize.

bug fixes

• Fixes
  • Behaviors now calls stopListening on close.
  • Behaviors now undelegate modelEvents and collectionEvents when the parent view calls undelegateEvents.

V1.8.0 - The Road

• General

  • Update Gruntfile.
  • The default task (grunt) now runs tests.
  • $ grunt dev watch for watching.
  • $ grunt build runs the tests and compiles.
  • Add better inline documentation for module implementation.
  • Add better inline behavior documentation.

• Fixes

  • Behaviors now correctly lookup methods for modelEvents and collectionEvents.
  • The CollectionView now triggers close on its children in the correct order.

• Features

  • Add onRoute to the appRouter.

    Backbone.Marionette.AppRouter.extend({
      onRoute: function(route, params) {
      }
    })

  • Region.show now takes an option to prevent closing the previous view in the region. By default a region will automatically close the previous view, however you can prevent this behavior by passing {preventDestroy: true} in the options parameter.

  myRegion.show(view2, { preventDestroy: true })

  • Add a getRegion method to Layout. This is in line with the eventual goal of not attaching regions to the root layout object.
  • Behavior instances now extend from Backbone.Events, allowing you to use .listenTo and .on.
  • Allow Behaviors to have a functional hash lookup.

    Marionette.ItemView.extend({
      behaviors: function() {
        // “this” will refer to the view instance
        return : {
          BehaviorA: {}
        }
      }
    })

  • RegionManagers now calls stopListening on a regions on removal.

• Refactors

  • Abstract underscore collection method mixin into a generic helper.
  • Use built in marionette extend for behaviors.

• Tests

  • Add a whitespace linter to the text coverage. Trailing whitespace now causes travis.ci to fail.
  • Add test coverage for bindEntitiyEvents and unbindEntityEvents.
  • Test public API for the regionManager.
  • Improve view trigger tests for better control when testing.

v1.7.4 fixes

• General
  • Update bower dependencies to take advantage of the fact that marionette repos follow semver.
  • Fixes
    • Behaviors events no longer collide with each other.
  • Revert stopListening call on stop for modules. While this was a "fix", the docs were quite vague leading to breaking changes for many people.
  • startWithParent is now respected when using a moduleClass property.

v1.7.3 Behavior Improvements

• Behaviors
  • Adds the ability to use @ui interpolation within the events hash on a behavior.
• Fixes
  • Corrects broken view $el proxy in behaviors.

v1.7.2 Behavior Event Context

• Fixes
  • Binds behavior events to the behavior instance, as compared to the view.

Minor Fix

There was a bug in string based behavior events when using a string instead of a method.

The problem was caused by backbone's delegateEvents. It expects if
the method is not a function that the named function is a property of
the view.