OpenLayers Blog

OpenLayers 2.5 has been released.
As of this final release, the OpenLayers 2.5 release closes 190 outstanding tickets, more than any other OpenLayers release to date! For this we are indebted to the many members of the community, and especially the hard work of organizations like The Open Planning Project via Tim Schaub and a number […]

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Based on past experience with releases, it seems like the 2.5 release may be imminent: If we don’t receive any bug reports by the start of the FOSS4G conference on Tuesday, my hope is that the PSC will decide that the time has come to release the software as a final version.
I’m excited about this […]

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OpenLayers 2.5 RC1 has been released:

Announcement
Release Notes

Bugs are best now There still might be time to get a release out before the end of FOSS4G…
As of 2.5-RC1, the OpenLayers 2.5 release closes 160 outstanding tickets, 50% more than any OpenLayers release to date. Included in this release is the addition of 3 major […]

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The OpenLayers Development Team is proud to announce the fourth release candidate of OpenLayers 2.4.

Fix Safari 1.3.2 support
Fix GeoRSS Serializer
Overview map event handling
Improved documentation
Add close box option to AnchoredBubble?
Minor SVG bugs when moving layer or destroying layer
Change WKT format to deal in features instead of geometries […]

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A user his morning pointed out that the GeoRSS serializer was broken. I forget sometimes that I should be very careful about getting my hopes up about releases until they’re actually totally done: I’ve been looking forward to the 2.4 release for quite a while now, and I always feel frustrated when some other bug […]

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The OpenLayers Development Team is proud to announce the second release candidate of OpenLayers 2.4.

Click events for popups and controls cleaned up in IE.
Improvements to Keyboards
Improvements to Geometry/Renderer/Feature class to move Renderers to be behind the Layer API
Fix broken Image layer after committing gutter changes
Layer.Boxes cleanups.
Protection against double Layer destroys
Other minor Vector API […]

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