The OpenLayers dev team is proud to announce the 5th release candidate of OpenLayers 2.12! This RC fixes the following bugs:

• The fix for the SVG issue in Chrome 18 that made it into RC4 causes regressions in GeoExt and possibly other places.
• OpenLayers.Layer.Google.v3 isn't compatible with Google Maps API 3.7 and higher – a “Map Data” popup gets displayed by Google Maps when displaying or moving a Google layer. People who use Google layers and OpenLayers 2.12 should change to Google Maps API version 3.8 ( http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?v=3.2&sensor=false).

See   https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/issues?milestone=6&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-rc5/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!