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 Pure v0.3.0, which improves grid support, use of custom fonts, and more. For all the details, check out the release announcement and changelog. In YUI news, the Sprint 10 calendar was announced, and the next milestone for this development cycle is the Code Freeze Pull Request Deadline on September 25th.

• If you are located in the Bay Area, come hang out and hack with YUI & Mojito team members at Yahoo's Hack Day September 28th & 29th! It's free, but you'll need to register.

• At this week’s Open Roundtable, discussion topics included cats inheriting the Earth, more Widget/Button updates, a demo of node-inspector, ExoBrowser, SimpleYUI's deprecation, and a review of open pull requests. You can find a video of that Hangout here.

• Go Combo is a YUI combo handler built using Go, written by Mike Li.

• This week the team announced that the old YUI Forums are going to be made read-only on September 16th. Please direct all support discussion to the new yui-support forum.

• New and updated modules in this week’s Gallery build include: itsa-animatespin, itsa-arrows, itsa-base, itsa-controll, itsa-datetime, itsa-edit, itsa-editoradvanced, itsa-editorbase, itsa-form, itsa-grid, itsa-hands, itsa-music, itsa-shop, itsa-social, itsa-special, itsa-users, Paginator Port, and pathogen-encoder.

• Links of the Week

  • Eloquent JavaScript: second edition
  • Understanding ECMAScript 6 arrow functions
  • Anti-pattern: data in prototype properties
  • Promise Patterns
  • ... and more over at JavaScript Weekly