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We've been looking to provide a higher-quality, spam-free experience at the plugins site for some time, and a major error on our part forced us to shut down the current site before we could put the new one in place. We are developing a new site, and you can follow along with its development on GitHub. For more information about this transition, including steps you can take as a plugin author to prepare, please read our post about what's going on.
DataTables 1.4.3
DataTables 1.4.3 includes a couple number of bug fixes. These fixes are all back ported from the 1.5 beta series (and as such are all fixed in that branch):
New (back ported from 1.5.0 beta 4): Added option for using original data for sorting and filtering (when using fnRender) - bUseRendered ( http://datatables.net/usage#bUseRendered )
Fixed (back ported from 1.5.0 beta 4): $ and ^ are escaped as regex characters now
Fixed (back ported from 1.5.0 beta 4): Filtering with a string as anything but a post fix filtered on the old result, rather than the full table.
Fixed (back ported from 1.5.0 beta): sClass is now applied to DOM read cells as well as dynamically created ones
Fixed (back ported from 1.5.0 beta): sAjaxSource didn't do an initial sort on the retrieved data
This is effectively a stabilisation release for the 1.4 series and is likely to be the last 1.4 release (unless there is something seriously wrong!)
Along-side this release, DataTables 1.5 beta 4 has been released: http://datatables.net/download