Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community. If you have any interesting demos or links you’d like to share, feel free to leave a comment below.

• This week saw the release of YUI 3.12.0. You can find all the details in the release announcement. Thanks to the dozens of contributors who have submitted hundreds of commits over the past month. With Sprint 10 will beginning next week, expect an update to the development schedule wiki soon.

• A big YUI welcome to Ezequiel Rodriguez who joins the team this week! Stay tuned to for a more formal introduction here on the blog, but in the meantime you can find him on Github as @ezequiel and Twitter at @ziggyism.

• At this week’s Open Roundtable, discussion topics included data binding in YUI, Models and ModelLists, Promise control flow, nested Views, and ES6 modules. You can find a video over on YouTube.

• Recent threads on the contributor mailing list include a Git tip to help out with the new release workflow, and continued discussion on Button improvements.

• SmugMug Map is "an ordered map data structure with an interface and behavior similar to (but not exactly the same as) ECMAScript 6 Maps." Coming soon to a YUI Gallery near you! Speaking of the Gallery, there was no deploy this week due to a few technical glitches. We hope to have those resolved for next week's deployment.

• Links of the Week

  • mdn.io - Passive URL shortening for MDN
  • ECMAScript Internationalization API
  • Protecting Objects in JavaScript
  • Understanding Scope and Context in JavaScript
  • ES6 Generators Deliver Go Style Concurrency
  • Debugging Modern Web Applications Part 1
  • ... and more over at JavaScript Weekly

• And finally, happy birthday to YUI Weekly who turns 1-year old this month!