OpenLayers 2.12 Released

The OpenLayers Development Team is proud to announce the final release of OpenLayers 2.12!

OpenLayers 2.12 can be downloaded from http://openlayers.org/download/

OpenLayers 2.12 offers great new features and improvements in various areas:

• A new CSS-customizable zoom control.
• Sensible projection defaults to ease the creation and configuration of maps.
• Tile caching for offline use.
• CSS-based tile animation.
• UTFGrid support.
• Improved image request management (tile queue).
• Fractional zooming for tiled layers (a.k.a. client zoom).

OpenLayers 2.12 deprecates a number of properties, methods and constructors, and the deprecated objects have been moved to a separate deprecated.js file.

Please look at the release notes for more information: https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/blob/master/notes/2.12.md