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30th Apr 2025

By Allan Jardine -

DataTables 2.3

I'm delighted to announce the release of DataTables 2.3.0. This release adds a number of new options and updates, plus a number of patches for issues discovered in previous versions. There is a particular focus on how the column headers of the table are drawn and controlled, as this sets out the groundwork for a new extension to the DataTables family which will be released soon, ColumnControl (keep an eye on this blog for more details when it is released)!

If you are keen to get going with DataTables 2.3 it is available now:

Full release notes are available here.

Example table

Let's take a look at a table rendered by DataTables 2.3:

Name	Position	Office	Salary
Tiger Nixon	System Architect	Edinburgh	$320,800
Garrett Winters	Accountant	Tokyo	$170,750
Ashton Cox	Junior Technical Author	San Francisco	$86,000
Cedric Kelly	Senior Javascript Developer	Edinburgh	$433,060
Airi Satou	Accountant	Tokyo	$162,700
Brielle Williamson	Integration Specialist	New York	$372,000
Herrod Chandler	Sales Assistant	San Francisco	$137,500
Rhona Davidson	Integration Specialist	Tokyo	$327,900
Colleen Hurst	Javascript Developer	San Francisco	$205,500
Sonya Frost	Software Engineer	Edinburgh	$103,600
Jena Gaines	Office Manager	London	$90,560
Quinn Flynn	Support Lead	Edinburgh	$342,000
Charde Marshall	Regional Director	San Francisco	$470,600
Haley Kennedy	Senior Marketing Designer	London	$313,500
Tatyana Fitzpatrick	Regional Director	London	$385,750
Michael Silva	Marketing Designer	London	$198,500
Paul Byrd	Chief Financial Officer (CFO)	New York	$725,000
Gloria Little	Systems Administrator	New York	$237,500
Bradley Greer	Software Engineer	London	$132,000
Dai Rios	Personnel Lead	Edinburgh	$217,500
Jenette Caldwell	Development Lead	New York	$345,000
Yuri Berry	Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)	New York	$675,000
Caesar Vance	Pre-Sales Support	New York	$106,450
Doris Wilder	Sales Assistant	Sydney	$85,600
Angelica Ramos	Chief Executive Officer (CEO)	London	$1,200,000
Gavin Joyce	Developer	Edinburgh	$92,575
Jennifer Chang	Regional Director	Singapore	$357,650
Brenden Wagner	Software Engineer	San Francisco	$206,850
Fiona Green	Chief Operating Officer (COO)	San Francisco	$850,000
Shou Itou	Regional Marketing	Tokyo	$163,000
Michelle House	Integration Specialist	Sydney	$95,400
Suki Burks	Developer	London	$114,500
Prescott Bartlett	Technical Author	London	$145,000
Gavin Cortez	Team Leader	San Francisco	$235,500
Martena Mccray	Post-Sales support	Edinburgh	$324,050
Unity Butler	Marketing Designer	San Francisco	$85,675
Howard Hatfield	Office Manager	San Francisco	$164,500
Hope Fuentes	Secretary	San Francisco	$109,850
Vivian Harrell	Financial Controller	San Francisco	$452,500
Timothy Mooney	Office Manager	London	$136,200
Jackson Bradshaw	Director	New York	$645,750
Olivia Liang	Support Engineer	Singapore	$234,500
Bruno Nash	Software Engineer	London	$163,500
Sakura Yamamoto	Support Engineer	Tokyo	$139,575
Thor Walton	Developer	New York	$98,540
Finn Camacho	Support Engineer	San Francisco	$87,500
Serge Baldwin	Data Coordinator	Singapore	$138,575
Zenaida Frank	Software Engineer	New York	$125,250
Zorita Serrano	Software Engineer	San Francisco	$115,000
Jennifer Acosta	Junior Javascript Developer	Edinburgh	$75,650
Cara Stevens	Sales Assistant	New York	$145,600
Hermione Butler	Regional Director	London	$356,250
Lael Greer	Systems Administrator	London	$103,500
Jonas Alexander	Developer	San Francisco	$86,500
Shad Decker	Regional Director	Edinburgh	$183,000
Michael Bruce	Javascript Developer	Singapore	$183,000
Donna Snider	Customer Support	New York	$112,000

12th Feb 2025

By Allan Jardine -

Download builder updates

The download builder is a cornerstone of getting DataTables installed and working in your project. Over the last few weeks, I've been working on several updates for it and will introduce the changes in this post. These include:

SubResource Integrity (SRI) hashes for security
Improved npm install instructions
React and Vue components
StackBlitz integration

In this post I go into more detail about the need for the download builder and these changes.

8th Jan 2025

By Allan Jardine -

Editor 2.4 and DataTables 2.2

It is always nice to start the New Year with some freshly baked software, so I'm delighted to announce the release of Editor 2.4 and DataTables 2.2. Both are iterative releases, building on the solid foundations of each and introducing new features to make both the development of software with them and the end user use of the software, even more present and flexible.

Editor 2.2 adds two new field types: autocomplete and tags, as well as improved ES module support:

Meanwhile, DataTables 2.2 adds automatic column resizing when the container width changes, improved state saving, ordering for diacritics in columns with HTML content, and more:

Read on for more details of these releases!