Upgrading Drupal to use jQuery 1.8

jQuery 1.8.0 has been released! It has probably been brought to your attention a billion times by now. :)

Sadly, Drupal by default loads jQuery 1.4. :( But no worries, I'm gonna show you how to use jQuery 1.8 in your Drupal 7 theme without installing any crazy modules. :)

function ThemeName_js_alter(&$js) {
$js['misc/jquery.js']['data'] = drupal_get_path('theme', 'ThemeName') . '/path/to/jquery-1.8.0.min.js';
}