--- title: Look Who’s Back: jQuery 4.0.0 is Now in Beta | daily.dev description: jQuery 4.0.0 is now available in beta with bug fixes, performance improvements, and breaking changes. It drops support for IE10 and older, uses ES modules, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/look-who-s-back-jquery-4-0-0-is-now-in-beta-tfsjvwxhk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Look Who’s Back: jQuery 4.0.0 is Now in Beta | daily.dev og:description: jQuery 4.0.0 is now available in beta with bug fixes, performance improvements, and breaking changes. It drops support for IE10 and older, uses ES modules, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/look-who-s-back-jquery-4-0-0-is-now-in-beta-tfsjvwxhk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TFsjVwXhK.png og:image:alt: Look Who’s Back: jQuery 4.0.0 is Now in Beta og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Look Who’s Back: jQuery 4.0.0 is Now in Beta **[WP Tavern](https://daily.dev/sources/wptavern)** · 4 min read · 10 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary jQuery 4.0.0 is now available in beta with bug fixes, performance improvements, and breaking changes. It drops support for IE10 and older, uses ES modules, and switches to Rollup for packaging. Despite being considered uncool, jQuery has a significant market share and is bundled with WordPress, possibly ensuring its longevity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@tipiirai** · 3 upvotes > Because jQuery is awesome! > > Or more specifically: the idea that websites can be built with vanilla HTML, CSS, and _optional_ JS. jQuery embraces progressive enhancement and separation of concerns pattern, which is quite the opposite of how websites are built these days. Web development starts with 10+ React import statements for components, CSS, images, and whatnot. 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