Last modified: 2012-07-27 13:49:40 UTC
jQuery 1.8.22 was released two days ago. http://blog.jqueryui.com/2012/07/jquery-ui-1-8-22/ Looks like minor bugfixes. An idea that passed my mind was adding jqueryui repository (github) as a core submodule, but I'm not sure if it'd be a good idea or not.
(moving bugs not related to ResourceLoader to JavaScript)
I don't think its possible (for the same reason we can't use jquery directly) because the repository contains raw source files. Even more raw then just being not-minified. e.g. they require a "make build" (or rather "grunt", as we call it in node-js land) to generate release files.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/16793/