[OpenLayers-Dev] Announcing: OpenLayers 2.7 RC1

[Tim Schaub]

Thanks for your great work as release manager, Erik!

Tim

Erik Uzureau wrote:
> The OpenLayers Development Team is proud to announce the first release
> candidate of OpenLayers 2.7!!
> 
> As of 2.7-RC1, the OpenLayers 2.7 release closes 182 outstanding
> tickets, split nearly down the middle between bug fixes and new
> features. Although this ticket count is less than previous releases,
> the 2.7 release is the first release which has been executed as a
> date-based release (instead of feature-based)... which represents a
> bit of a departure for the project. Whether or not we will continue to
> make releases based on this fixed date style is up in the air, but the
> experiment has proved interesting and mostly successful.
> 
> The 2.7 release should not present the drastic changes that we've seen
> in previous releases (like 2.6). Overall, it turns out to be much more
> of a bug fix release, although it does include some exciting new
> functionality. Highlights include:
> 
>     * Vector-Behavior: Strategies, Protocols, Filters (though the
> completion of this going in at RC2)
>     * 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
> 
> For information on possible changes that will need to be made between
> this version of OpenLayers and previous versions, please look at the
> Release notes, available at the Release Notes information[1].
> 
> We invite you to help us test the 2.7 release candidate! To test 2.7
> in your applications, include the following tag in your
> OpenLayers-powered page:
> 
>     <script src="http://openlayers.org/api/2.7-rc1/OpenLayers.js"></script>
> 
> As always, the source is available at http://openlayers.org/download/.
> Bug reports can be filed in Trac, under the 2.7 version and 2.7 RC1
> milestone.
> 
> There are so many people who have really made this release happen, too
> many to name here. OpenLayers is not about the fame, it's about the
> glory. You know who you are. Thank You.
> 
> A special thanks, though, goes out to John Frank/Josiah Strandberg at
> MetaCarta and Chris Holmes from TOPP for putting up the funds and
> clearing away the time so that we could have an excellent 'bunker
> week' out in Cambridge at the end of July. That bunker was a critical
> pow-wow for us in terms of getting things under control for the 2.7
> release and also in general for project synergy and getting some great
> patches in. Thank you!
> 
> Finally, a small plug for the FOSS4G conference in Cape Town at the
> end of the month. Several of us from the ore development team will be
> there, listening to and making presentations about OpenLayers and
> other projects... and hopefully bragging about this release! If you
> are planning to be there, please come out of the woodwork and say
> hello!
> 
> Furthermore, we plan on having a little mini coding bunker on
> Saturday, October 4th, if people are around and interested. If you'd
> like to participate, sign up here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2008_CodeSprint#OpenLayers
> 
> All forthcoming RC announcements will be sent only to the Developers
> list: anyone interested in tracking the progress to a final release
> should subscribe[2] to that list.
> 
> We look forward to your feedback on this release.
> 
> [1] http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Release/2.7/Notes#Changestoexistingapplicationsfrompreviousversions
> [2] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
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