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 cleanups.

As of 2.4-RC2, an additional 29 tickets over the 106 tickets closed by the 2.4-RC1 release. This release fixes vector rendering in SVG to fix a number of serious issues.

We invite you to help us test the 2.4 release candidate! To test 2.4 in your applications, include the following tag in your OpenLayers-powered page:

  <script src="http://openlayers.org/api/2.4-rc2/OpenLayers.js"></script>

As always, the source is available at http://openlayers.org/download/. Bug reports can be filed in Trac, under the 2.4 version and milestone.

We look forward to your feedback!

Regards,

The OpenLayers Team

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#554

click event and PanZoom control conflict

#555

click event interfers with close-button of popup in IE

#580

new keys for panning

#628

you can't render a geometry

#632

Image Layer broken

#633

Marker.Box class needs a destroy method, has no tests

#634

Layer.Boxes should have proper constructor arguments (and JSDOC)

#635

Patch for changing map cursors so the application can override them with CSS

#636

Layer destroy() needs to be wary of double-destroys

#637

add cursor property in Feature.Vector

#641

LayerSwitcher and EditingToolbar overlap

#643

Totally double-protect Layer class

#644

Documentation error in WFS.Tile class

#645

vector layer.removeFeatures needs to back through features array

#646

wfs tile -- no need to pass special args

#647

OpenLayers.Tile -- Do not take a 'url' parameter

#649

remove collection.getComponents()

#652

Dragging on feature in IE7 selects map

#654

Layer should not redraw on setVisibility(false)

#655

layer needs eraseFeatures method

#657

Vector Layer breaks in merged/compressed version

#660

Feature.Vector attributes are shared

#661

don't repeat background images

#662

don't give prototypes objects that might be extended

#664

wfs layer doesn't properly shift when viewport size changes

#665

vector layer needs to empty selectedFeatures before destroying features

#669

Firefox SVG does not support full range of values

#671

Accidental Global Variable usage in Util.js

#675

ka-map doesn't subclass grid's clone