Blaze 3.1.0-beta.0 is out!

The alpha shipped on June 25 and then sat there long enough that people started asking whether Blaze was still breathing. It is: blaze@3.1.0-beta.0 is on Atmosphere, published by the core team today Here is everything that landed in 3.1 since 3.0, what the beta adds on top of the alpha, and what changed on the Meteor core side What is in 3.1 jQuery is now optional ( feat: dual-mode JQuery/native DOM backend by dupontbertrand · Pull Request #493 · meteor/blaze · GitHub , Tests: jquery + native DOM backends by jankapunkt · Pull Request #497 · meteor/blaze · GitHub ). Blaze ships a native DOM bac