How to prevent wordpress from loading old versions of jquery in wp_head();?

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I noticed my twenty twelve theme is including outdated versions of jquery and js so I want to replace the scripts with the newer versions, however the scripts are in the file included by wp_head() (which I think is in wp-includes) so adding the scripts to my header means jquery will be loaded twice, I see now way to remove the scripts from wp_head() without messing with wp-include and any changes I do will probably be lost if I update wordpress.

So how can I remove the scripts from wp_head() permanently?

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  1. add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'no_more_jquery');
function no_more_jquery(){
    wp_deregister_script('jquery');
}

    That will deregister jquery. But why wouldn’t you want jQuery at all?

    If you mean to simply use your own, you should do it in that function, like this:

    add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'no_more_jquery');
function no_more_jquery(){
    wp_deregister_script('jquery');
    wp_register_script('jquery', "http" . 
    ($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] == 443 ? "s" : "") . 
    "://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js", false, null);
    wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
}

    This example loads Google’s jquery, but you could easily load one that you have in your own theme folder. You can read more about this process here: Function Reference/wp enqueue script « WordPress Codex

    P.S. That would go in functions. And it is not a great idea to just stuff jquery library calls in your header, as it conflicts with plugins or other things that might be looking for jQuery to be present.

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