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.
Let's see the release dates of jQuery versions.
| Version No. | Release Date |
|---|---|
| 1.0 | 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 |
