[OpenLayers-Users] OpenLayers 2.6 Final Release

[Christopher Schmidt]

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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