Release 1.4.0

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This release will include long open features and will continue to clean up the huge list of open issues and pull requests.

Feature

• implemented beforeShowMonth option #1074 - implemented beforeShowMonth option (Fixes: Add an option like beforeShowDay but for months #807)
• Added option to disable touch keyboard input #842 - Added option to disable touch keyboard input (Fixes: Input disableTouchKeyboard #787)
• Chainable methods #722 - All datepicker methods are chainable
• datesDisable option #515 - Added a datesDisable option
• Option to prevent date picker to show when input field receives focus #802 - Added option to prevent date picker to show when input field receives focus
• adding container option, and tests #918 - adding option to define the container the datepicker will be appended to (Fixes: Scroll page, when show datepicker with fixed input #384, Options "container" #896)
• Backported some placement fixes for the container option #1227 - Backported some placement fixes for the container option (Fixes: Datepicker in bootstrap-modal #325, Scroll page, when show datepicker with fixed input #384, The datepicker calender position bug #410)
• Option default view date #893 - Option default view date
• Add toggleActive option #883 - Add toggleActive option
• Added clear method, fixes #857 #1245 - Added clear method
• Added version to datepicker object #1205 - Added version property to datepicker object
• Added option to not show datepicker on readonly field #1280 - Added option to not show datepicker on readonly field (Fixes: 1.3.1 - Won't popup if field is ReadOnly #1231)

Bugfix

• Removed blank space before the previous button when calendarWeeks is true; #670 - Removed blank space before the previous button when calendarWeeks is true;
• Singledate clear prevention #843 - Fixed date deselection with single date picker (Fixes: disable toggle? #775, Date toggles instead of selecting #813, Selected day "toggles" even though multidate is false #816)
• Added case-neutral matching for text months #832 - Added case-neutral matching for text months
• Update datepicker3.less: input-daterange to full width #887 - Changed input-daterange to full width for bs3
• Fix placement for RTL languages #1192 - Fix placement for RTL languages (Fixed: Wrong width when set direction RTL #1079)
• Additional bug fix to range picker when next date is before previous date #1036 - fix for range picker when next date is before previous date (Fixes: The first time of date changed bug in DateRangePicker #914, can choose the end date before the start date when using the rang pincker #821, Bootstrap 3 :: Date range selection :: Disabling dates in the past once start date is selected.  #1031, Date to must be always greater than date from. (Question) #1122)
• Fix for moving box on first selection #1212 - Fix for moving box on first selection
• Do not show datepicker for readonly inputs #1136 - Do not show datepicker for readonly inputs
• Fix getUTCDate when datepicker has no selected date #1213 - Fix getUTCDate when datepicker has no selected date (Fixed: "getDate" returns "Invalid Date" if this.dates is empty #923)
• Using {todayBtn: true} trigger changeDate #754 - Only a linked today button should trigger the changeDate event
• Fixed bug. Keybord left and up do not work after clicking right/down. In... #1165 - Fixed bug with keyboard navigation when startdate/enddate was defined
• Right align calendar on right window edge conflict #546 - Right align calendar on right window edge conflict
• Prevent ENTER propagation on form #826 - On "ENTER" keydown on picker, prevent the closest form to be submitted too
• Update bower.json #853 - fixed bower.json twitte bootstrap dependency
• Replaced named entities with decimal entities #961 - Replaced named entities with decimal entities
• Fix for #1112, assigning plugin to a local variable #1117 - assigning plugin to a local variable to fix bug in noConflict

Repository

• Added empty ignore option in bower.json. Fixes: Bower issue with 1.3.1 #1199
• Added editor config #1195 - Added .editorconfig
• Rework grunt tasks #1185 Reworked grunt tasks

Translations

• Fix translation of French months #1024 - Fix translation of French months
• Update khmer letter and key index #1178 - Update cambodia translations
• Update Turkish locale #1230 - added clear and weekStart to turkish translation
• FIX: Days/months should start lowercase #1240 - Days/months should start lowercase in dutch
• FIX: Month/daynames should be lowercase #1239 - Month/daynames should be lowercase in french
• Add 'clear' and 'format' to Ukrainian locale #1271 - Add 'clear' and 'format' to Ukrainian locale
• Added Montenegrin locale #1276 - Added Montenegrin locale

Docs

• add example for inputs option #1232 - added example for inputs option
• Missing Documentation for embedded mode #699 - added missing documentation for embedded mode
• Add additional documentaion to methods #1287 - Add additional documentaion to update method

Todo

• Merge new demo features after release: Added example for beforeShowMonth callback added in #1074 #1206, Added sandbox example for dateDisabled introduced in #515 #1220, Added some missing examples #1281
• add docs for these issues
• add examples to the sandbox page for these issues
• Publish package on npm (Publish package on npm #1191)
• Update download link on sandbox page
• Create 1.4 branch for bugfixing and use master for the next feature release