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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