After a few months of development it's was way over due to release the 3.3 version but we wanted to get all the planned features in there and make them as stable as possible.

This release includes the new text formatter engine. This means that applying formats like bold, italic, font size etc will produce the same results in all browsers. It also means that overriding existing formats and adding custom ones is now easy.

The jQuery support has now been improved even more. We added a new jQuery plugin that Todd Northrop (Speednet) developed and added API integration with jQuery.

We also added a new advlist plugin this enables you to set the style you want on specific list blocks. Such as roman letters or squares instead of bullets.

A new autosave plugin is also included. This one enables you to autosave the contents as a draft in local storage on supported browsers. It is an minimalistic version of the tinyautosave plugin Speednet developed as a separate project.

The paste plugin now has the ability to retain and convert formatting from Word. This feature is not enabled by default for compatibility reasons.

The safari plugin is now removed since we moved all those fixes and more into the TinyMCE core. The support for WebKit based browsers have been improved.

The performance especially on IE has been improved a lot. We needed to rewrite the bookmark engine since it was very slow on larger documents.

We will blog about each of these features to give you more details on how to use them.

This version is released as beta since it has so many modifications to the core that there might be bugs and issues. But it has been well tested and there is currently no known regressions.

We want to thank the TinyMCE community for all bug reports, patches and code contributions. And since it's now easier to contribute to this project over GitHub we recommend that you use their service for patches etc.