Is Concrete5 development at a halt? No new releases since Nov 2010?
PermalinkAlso why is concrete5 using such an old version of jquery by default?

You should play with the beta copy in the developers section.
I'm not sure that jquery update is on our list, i'd love to see a discussion start in the beta are on if/why it should be and which stable version to use.
An answer to JohnTheFish about how to be able to load jQuery and jQueryUI in a more flexible way would also be highly appreciated !
here's a good place to watch:
http://www.concrete5.org/about/blog/core-releases/...
a point release should be out to 5.4.2 shortly to catch a few small bugs that slid thru.
apologies for making you wait this year, we just kept getting sucked into one big project after another and frankly kinda lost track of the fact that everyone wasn't using the code in Beta. ;) Certainly development has not been at a halt.
Whilst this doesn't wholly precludehttp://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/fallback-f... for jQuery itself, the issues are interrelated when it comes to including different versions of UI.
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/fallback-f...