The OpenLayers Development Team is proud to announce the fourth release candidate of OpenLayers 2.5. Fixes in this version include:

• KML needs to automatically determine the namespace of the document it is handling. (#1044)
• Fix for zoomToExtent + changebaselayer. (Closes #1043)
• Clone on WMS/MS Untiled (Closes #1013)
• serviceVersion on TMS (Closes #1023)
• W3CGeo in Format.GeoRSS (Closes #1024)
• GeoJSON Draft4 Update (Closes #1028)
• pagePosition Regression (Closes #1034)
• example changes (Closes #1040)
• WFS missing registerTileListener (Closes #1045)
• Tell Yahoo API to stop dragging (Closes #1052)

We invite you to help us test the 2.5 release candidate! To test 2.5 in your applications, include the following tag in your OpenLayers-powered page:

  <script src="http://openlayers.org/api/2.5-rc4/OpenLayers.js"></script>

As always, the source is available at http://openlayers.org/download/. Bug reports can be filed in Trac, under the 2.5 version and milestone.

We look forward to your feedback!

Regards,

The OpenLayers Team