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!