# \[Announce\] Dashboard version 2.12.0
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-dashboard-version-2-12-0/5562
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [7 December 2018 11:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-dashboard-version-2-12-0/5562 "2018-12-07T11:37:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [7 December 2018 11:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-dashboard-version-2-12-0/5562/1 "2018-12-07T11:37:56Z")
I have pushed version 2.12.0 of Dashboard to npm - as usual don't forget to flush your browser caches to ensure you get the latest updates loaded.
**Enhancements**
- Introduce concept of spacer nodes in groups to allow more widget layout options
- Within a group this allows you to position widgets with a bit more flexibility. They are still on the defined grid. The spacers can also be resized. They are not nodes in the palette - but can be added via the dashboard side menu at the group level.
**Fixes**
- Set order value correctly for newly added ui nodes
- hopefully this will stop things moving around randomly which has been seen on occasions.
- Let ui\_text node handle buffers without mangling to utf8
- Fix ui\_template info odd/even example to work again (after theme changes)
- Ensure colour picker retains old value on multiple reloads when in dynamic mode - Issue #452
- Fix missing page titles (mea culpa) - Issue #453
- apologies - I dropped the titles when adding the permanent sidebar capability in 2.11. Now restored.
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### Author:  [@Dave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Dave)
#### Post date: [7 December 2018 20:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-dashboard-version-2-12-0/5562/2 "2018-12-07T20:47:13Z")
I need to install a specific release of the dashboard ie 2.9.8 , I guess i need to
cd ~/.node-red
npm uninstall node-red-dashboard
then re install it but what is the syntax to get release 2.9.8 is it as simple as
npm install node-red-dashboard 2.9.8
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [7 December 2018 20:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-dashboard-version-2-12-0/5562/3 "2018-12-07T20:50:26Z")
npm i node-red-dashboard@2.9.8
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### Author:  [@Dave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Dave)
#### Post date: [7 December 2018 20:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-dashboard-version-2-12-0/5562/4 "2018-12-07T20:50:59Z")
OK thank you very much
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### Author:  [@JoseGodinho](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JoseGodinho)
#### Post date: [8 December 2018 14:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-dashboard-version-2-12-0/5562/5 "2018-12-08T14:41:48Z")
Hello
When I change the size of the spacer, the browser freezes ( CHROME) any suggestion?
JLG
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### Author:  [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)
#### Post date: [8 December 2018 15:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-dashboard-version-2-12-0/5562/6 "2018-12-08T15:22:54Z")
What version of Chrome?
Do you see any messages in the Developer Console (In Chrome)
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### Author:  [@Andrei](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Andrei)
#### Post date: [8 December 2018 15:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-dashboard-version-2-12-0/5562/7 "2018-12-08T15:38:58Z")
I could reproduce the issue . After adding the spacer it is not possible to deploy the flow.
It happens in Chrome (71.0.3578.80 ) as well as in Micrsofot Edge ( 42.17134.1.0).
My configuration for the testing:
> 8 Dec 23:37:16 - [info] Node-RED version: v0.20.0-beta.2
> 8 Dec 23:37:16 - [info] Node.js version: v8.11.3
> 8 Dec 23:37:16 - [info] Linux 3.10.80-121 arm LE
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> 8 Dec 23:37:22 - [info] Dashboard version 2.12.0 started at /ui
Add: running Node-RED in an ODROID board but acessing remotely from a windows10 laptop.
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### Author:  [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)
#### Post date: [8 December 2018 15:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-dashboard-version-2-12-0/5562/8 "2018-12-08T15:43:29Z")
And also freezes FireFox 65
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [8 December 2018 15:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-dashboard-version-2-12-0/5562/9 "2018-12-08T15:58:30Z")
Vivaldi latest (based on Chromium) on W10 with Node.JS v8 and Node-RED 0.20.0-beta.2.
Adding a spacer, reordering in the sidebar and deploying gives this in the browser console:
Resizing the spacer and pressing "Done" (not deployed yet) produces:
which hangs the browser.
Interestingly, when I reloaded the admin interface, the spacer had disappeared even though it had previously been deployed.
In fact, it seems clear that doing a "Modified Nodes" deploy doesn't actually deploy the spacer. Trying a full deploy doesn't actually work at all, you get the first error shown above and Node-RED does not stop and restart the nodes.
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [8 December 2018 16:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-dashboard-version-2-12-0/5562/10 "2018-12-08T16:14:32Z")
Also, is it possible to bring JQuery v1 and JQuery\_UI v1 up to their latest versions?
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [8 December 2018 17:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-dashboard-version-2-12-0/5562/11 "2018-12-08T17:28:54Z")
This is Dashboard.... it already uses jquery 3.3.1 (and doesn't use jquery\_ui)
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [8 December 2018 17:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-dashboard-version-2-12-0/5562/12 "2018-12-08T17:34:43Z")
Oops, sorry, it was the admin ui that reported old versions of JQuery & JQuery\_UI in use - my bad. Both versions have some serious security issues that wouldn't be good for folk exposing their admin UI's to the web.
Actually, I wonder if that might even come from an installed node?
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [8 December 2018 18:05 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-dashboard-version-2-12-0/5562/13 "2018-12-08T18:05:14Z")
Thanks all - wrinkle squashed ... now v2.12.1 of course ....