[OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers 2.5 RC1 Available!

[Erik Uzureau]

2.5!!

Three cheers to everyone involved in this release. Special high fives
to Chris Schmidt for once again being the muscle behind the movement
to get all the loose ends together these last few weeks and for a
brilliant job as always getting the packaging, release notes, and
announcements all together.... and all that on a sunday night! Now
*that's* dedication :-)

There are tons and tons of closed tickets for this release and lots of
them thanks to great bug reports that come from the very people on
these email lists. THANK YOU! OpenLayers is really coming into its own
and we could never do it without such a careful and supportive
community.

Erik

ps. Hopefully we'll see some of you in Victoria next week at the
FOSS4G conference :-)

On 9/17/07, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> OpenLayers 2.5 Release Candidate Announcement
>
> The OpenLayers Development Team is proud to announce the first release
> candidate of OpenLayers 2.5.  This release features a number of major
> developments, including:
>
>  * Date Line Wrapping: Tiles wrap around the earth (#487)
>  * New/Improved Formats:
>    * KML (#927)
>    * GeoRSS Simple (#973)
>    * GeoJSON (#915)
>  * New/Improved Feature Digitization:
>    * Control to Drag Features (#638)
>    * Control to Modify Features (#941)
>    * RegularPolygon drawing/creation Support (#828)
>  * SphericalMercator support on commercial layers (#686)
>  * Tons and tons of bug fixes!
>
> We have also begun to move towards deprecating some of our outdated
> functionality. For information on that, and other important changes to
> the library before updating your applications, please refer to the
> Release Notes, at http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Release/2.5/Notes.
>
> As of 2.5-RC1, the OpenLayers 2.5 release closes 164 outstanding
> tickets, more than any other OpenLayers release to date! For this we
> are indebted to the many members of the community, and especially the
> hard work of organizations like The Open Planning Project via Tim Schaub
> and a number of developers like Pierre Giraud, Eric Lemoine, and Fred
> Junrod of the Camptocamp team, as well as continued support from Chris
> Schmidt and Erik Uzureau of MetaCarta.
>
> We invite you to help us test the 2.5 release candidate! To test 2.5 in
> your applications, include the following tag in your !OpenLayers-powered
> page:
>
>   <script src="http://openlayers.org/api/2.5-rc1/OpenLayers.js"></script>
>
> As always, the source is available at http://openlayers.org/download/.
> Bug reports can be filed in Trac, under the 2.5 version and milestone.
>
> We look forward to your feedback!
>
> Regards,
>
> The OpenLayers Team
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