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 use version 3.7 or 2.8 of Google Maps API (< http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?v=3.8&sensor=false>).
• The removeExcessTiles function of Layer.Grid removes and destroys more tiles that it should. This can cause js errors when the map is resized.

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!