Backbone 0.9.0 released

Hey folks -- this should be considered a release candidate for a 1.0. We're currently running 0.9.0 on DocumentCloud.org; let me know if you have any trouble upgrading. There's a few things to watch out for, listed here: http://backbonejs.org/#upgrading Really, in the little over a year since the initial Backbone.js code drop, it's been incredible to see how many amazing apps have been built with it, a sentiment expressed concisely on Twitter this morning…

For anyone who's looking for the changelog, it's at the bottom of the page so it's easy to miss. * Made the return values of Collection's set, add, remove, and reset more useful. Instead of returning this, they now return the changed (added, removed or updated) model or list of models. * Backbone Views no longer automatically attach options passed to the constructor as this.options, but you can do it yourself if you prefer. * All "invalid" events now pass…

"Most importantly, Backbone events have two new methods: listenTo and stopListening... When you destroy Views with view.remove(), this will now be done automatically" Well that seems incredibly useful.

One of the major differences between Ember and Backbone I enocuntered almost immediately was the lack of explicitness within Ember. It felt to me, in Ember, that I was creating arbitrary objects and attaching to arbitrary objects and from that arbitrariness instances were created... Coming from the Backbone world where you create a definition and then initialize it manually, this was a very disconcerting change. Unlike the Backbone community, I was also unable to get any sort of help or…