[OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers 2.6 Final Release

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:17:57AM +0100, Rob wrote:
> 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?).

Nope, it's in SVN. I passed out last night before I finished updating
everything; I've gone ahead and finished up now.

-- Chris

> 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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Christopher Schmidt
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