Why is the jquery_update module not supporting the latest jQuery version?

Question

The recommended jquery_update module only supports 1.10. Why recent jQuery security version 3.4.1 not updated? https://jquery.com/download/

So is it recommended to make my Drupal site to update with latest jQuery version for security reasons?

When I try to make the module to support latest jquery version, I am facing issues with other jQuery UI files. What are the additional UI files need to be addressed to work with latest jQuery version?

Thanks,

Answer 1

You'll want to use the latest dev version of jQuery update, 7.x-3.x-dev to get the latest version of jQuery, or at least jQuery 3.1. See this drupal issue for more insight.

You can see in the 7.x-3.x dev branch, it has jQuery 3.1.

Note, there is also a patch for jQuery 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4 against the 7.x-2.7 branch.