[Users] GeoExt 0.6 Released

[Tim Schaub]

The GeoExt community is proud to announce the release of GeoExt 0.6, the 
second official GeoExt release.

This release release closes 51 outstanding tickets, including 34 new 
features or enhancements and 17 bug fixes.

We invite you to try out GeoExt 0.6 in your applications. Please 
download the archive [1], unzip it to the root of your GeoExt powered 
application, and include the following script tag in your html:

     <script src="GeoExt/script/GeoExt.js"></script>

As always, the source is available via subversion [2]. Please report any 
issues you find with the release on our issue tracker [3].

The 0.6 release comes with a number of great new features, the full list 
of which can be found in the Release Notes [4]. Some of the highlights 
include:

  * Solid layer node and container enhancements and a new layer node type.

  * A feature selection model for synchronizing selected rows in a grid 
and features in a layer.

  * New data components: WFS capabilities reader & store; feature 
attributes reader & store; WMS DescribeLayer reader and store; and a Web 
Map Context reader.

  * Popups can now hang outside your map viewport!

You should be able to upgrade from GeoExt 0.5 without any issues. To 
take advantage of all the new features in this release, you'll need a 
nightly build of OpenLayers. See the release notes [4] for specific 
features that require more than OpenLayers 2.8.

We look forward to your feedback on this release.

[1] http://geoext.org/downloads.html
[2] http://svn.geoext.org/core/trunk/geoext
[3] http://www.geoext.org/trac/geoext/newticket
[4] http://www.geoext.org/trac/geoext/wiki/Release/0.6/Notes


-- 
Tim Schaub
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
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