When I wrote my previous blog post I was in a rush to make the release announcement because we had a lot of users waiting eagerly for it. But I did not get a chance to thank our users who contributed patches to the Toolkit and made the release a success. I would like to call out their names and the fixes they made.

Contributor	Toolkit Work Item #	Description of the fix
Phani Raj	9043	AutoComplete list items can now have additional data associated with them which allows them to behave like an ASP.NET ListItem with its Text and Value properties.
Koen Verheyen	9129	Calendar PopupPosition setting.
Ryan Heath	11874	CascadingDropDown PromptValue and EmptyValue added.
Jesse Mandel	8181	CascadingDropDown default PromptValue fix.
G Morgan	10902	MaskedEdit fix to make it work right in 24 hour and AMPM format.
Crymsan	12431	MaskedEdit fix to ensure that it respects the page culture.
Tomasz Jastrzebski	11578	IClientStateManager in UpdatePanel fix.
Tomasz Jastrzebski	10277	DropDown panel positioning fix.
Andrew Ventura	11513	ValidatorCallout performance improvement.

Thanks again! We hope to see more of these in the future. It is a clear sign that the community is taking charge of the Toolkit and shaping it the way they would like it to be. The Patch Utility has helped users provide us fixes for existing controls in the Toolkit but what about new controls? We should have a Toolkit control gallery coming up which will serve as a staging ground for new controls before they can be added to the Toolkit. I will provide more details in a following blog post very soon.