[OSGeo-Announce] OpenLayers 2.7 Released

[Frank Warmerdam]

The OpenLayers Development Team is proud to announce release of
OpenLayers 2.7.

As always, the source is available at http://openlayers.org/download/.

This release features a number of major developments, including:

    * Vector-Behavior: Strategies, Protocols, Filters
    * Improved Vector rendering for better performance
    * Canvas rendering class
    * Z-Ordering and Y-Ordering for Vector layers
    * New Basic Measurement Control
    * New OpenLayers.Request interface for AJAX
    * Smarter Popups

... and tons of other new features and bug fixes that you can see detailed here:
http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Release/2.7/Notes

Furthermore, we are proud to announce two new additions to the AddIns
directory! Yes, it is an exciting day for everyone in the OpenLayers
Community. Please take the time to check out:

    * Bookmark Control -- Allows user a simple way to 'bookmark'
locations on the map and navigate to them. (Author: hpbrantley, URL:
http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Addins/Bookmark)
    * Loading Panel -- Provides a convenient and sexy animated status
monitor so users know their layers are loading (Author: bartvde, URL:
http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Addins/LoadingPanel)

We even have a nice new UML Diagram to help people out with
understanding the new classes in 2.7 and their relationships. Thanks
Emanuel! http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/UML

A thank you again to all the people who helped to make this release
happen.

Regards,

The OpenLayers Team