The OpenLayers dev team is proud to announce the 2nd release candidate of OpenLayers 2.12! RC2 comes about one month after RC1, and fixes a number of things:

The strategy-cluster, strategy-bbox and strategy-paging examples are back to order. They now rely on the Flickr API. Issue 345. The Layer.Grid tests pass again. Issue 352. The Zoom buttons are now universally visible. They're blue with a transparent white background. Issues 353 and 355. The CSS rule enabling tile animation is back in the mobile examples stylesheet. Issue 356. The API docs for the projection option in Map and Layer have been improved. Issue 358. The proj4js examples have been improved. Issue 363. Some mess with the license, readme, and authors files has been cleaned up. Issues 364 and 376. Tile animations are now disabled by default for single tile layers. Issues 365 and 384. The unused framedCloud.css file has been removed. Issue 377. The CacheWrite control now works correctly for tiles with a cross origin keyword. Issue 388. The detection of the OpenLayers script location is now more robust. Issue 390. Grid layers are no longer misplaced when changing their visibility. Issue 393. The mapbox example now looks better. Issue 395. The Bing attribution is no longer incorrect because of axis order. Issues 398 and 400. Adding an overview map to an OSM map now works as expected. Issue 399. The Util tests now pass in Chrome. Issue 403. The TMS zoomOffset tests no longer produce NaN values for maxResolution. Issue 406. The Bing attribution is now correct when setting maxResolution. Issue 419. The map pan() function no longer triggers moveend twice. Issue 426. setOpacity on layers based on iframe tiles now works in FireFox. Issue 432. See   https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/issues?milestone=3&state=closed for details.

We invite you to help us test the 2.12 release candidate! To test 2.12 in your applications, include the following tag in your OpenLayers-powered page:

<script src="http://openlayers.org/api/2.12-rc2/OpenLayers.js"></script>

As always, the source is available at http://openlayers.org/download/. Bug reports can be filed in GitHub at   https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/issues.

Thanks!