[OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers 2.6 Final Release

[Rob]

Great work guys - looking forward to playing with the latest version!

I know its only 9 hours old, but the openlayers.org homepage still refers to
2.5, and I cant figure out a way to login and change it for you ( the
homepage doesnt seem to be part of the wiki?).

On 16/04/2008, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
>
> The OpenLayers Development Team is proud to announce release of
> OpenLayers 2.6.  As of this final release, the OpenLayers 2.6 release
> closes 294 outstanding tickets, 75% more than any OpenLayers release to
> date.
>
> The OpenLayers.js hosted at
>
>   <script src="http://openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js"></script>
>
> has now been changed to use the 2.6 API.
>
> As always, the source is available at http://openlayers.org/download/.
>
>   md5sums:
>     ce957a47ad9bc8356d990417d61cc8a4  OpenLayers-2.6.tar.gz
>     43c82d5a9ae9e0b18c1fa37a97065e02  OpenLayers-2.6.zip
>
> This is a large release: the largest of any OpenLayers release to date.
> This release features a number of major developments, including:
>
>   * Integration of the CloudAmber "Google Like" popups for advanced
>     visual display of information in popups
>     * Resulting improvements throughout all popup code, including
>       autosizing popups to the content they contain.
>   * Improved panning of commercial layers like Google Maps and Yahoo!
>     Maps
>   * Animated panning of the map, using OpenLayers.Tween support
>   * Layer Image transitions, for keeping images visible when zooming
>     to allow smoother transitions
>   * Client side reprojection support using built in transformations for
>     spherical mercator, or the proj4js library for other projections.
>     * Support for reprojecting vector data layers
>     * Support for reprojecting user-facing controls like mouseposition
>     * Support for programatically reprojecting points and geometries
>   * Improved OpenLayers Styling, including:
>     * OpenLayers.Style, OpenLayers.StyleMap, OpenLayers.Rule,
>       OpenLayers.Filter support for improved feature-attribute based
>       styling
>     * SLD read/write support
>   * Support for reading and writing multiple versions of WMC.
>   * Improved KML support, including KML styling support.
>   * Improved GeoRSS Format support, including GeoRSS GML read support.
>   * New ScaleLine Control for displaying visual scale
>   * New NavigationHistory control for map history navigation
>   * Localization/Better Internationalization support
>   * Layer support for MapGuide Open Source
>   * A number of new / improved handlers to make handling user
>     interactions easier
>      * Handler.Hover
>      * Handler.Click
>
> A thank you again to all the people who helped to make this release
> happen. My earlier post[1] on the topic covers that as well as any
> single email can hope to.
>
> We look forward to your feedback!
>
> [1] http://openlayers.org/pipermail/users/2008-April/005329.html
>
> Regards,
>
> The OpenLayers Team
>
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