[Users] Announcement: GeoExt 2.0.0-rc.1 released

[Marc Jansen]

The GeoExt community is proud to announce the first release candidate of
GeoExt 2.0.0.

Download it at https://github.com/geoext/geoext2/releases/tag/2.0.0-rc.1

GeoExt 2.0.0-rc.1 is the first official GeoExt version that is built atop of
OpenLayers 2.13.1 and ExtJS 4.2.1. It has been in the making for quite a 
while,
but most of the code comes from a code sprint in Bonn, Germany, that 
happened
last year [1].

The newest major version of GeoExt wants to provide mostly the same API you
know and love from the 1.x-series. It comes with support for the
autoloading-mechanism of ExtJS, support for the single-file build tool 
of sencha
and with exhaustive documentation that is built using the same tools as
ExtJS [2] and [3].

This release wouldn't have been possible without the sponsors [4] of the 
above
mentioned sprint. Also we want to thank the companies behind the 
contributors
of GeoExt for supporting GeoExt development in numerous ways.

We invite you to test the release candidate! To do so, download
GeoExt 2.0.0-rc.1 from [5] and use it in your OpenLayers 2.13.1 and
Ext JS 4.2.1 powered webpage by telling the autoloading-mechanism of
Ext about GeoExt:

Ext.Loader.setConfig({
enabled: true,
paths: {
GeoExt: "path/to/geoext2/src",
Ext: "path/to/extjs/src"
}
});

Have a look at the examples and additional information listed at the 
GeoExt 2
website over at github: http://geoext.github.io/geoext2/

We are looking forward to your feedback on this release.

[1] https://github.com/geoext/geoext2/wiki/GeoExt-2-Code-Sprint
[2] http://geoext.github.io/geoext2/docs/ (only GeoExt classes)
[3] http://geoext.github.io/geoext2/docs-w-ext/ (GeoExt and ExtJS classes)
[4] https://github.com/geoext/geoext2/wiki/GeoExt-2-Code-Sprint#sponsors
[5] https://github.com/geoext/geoext2/releases/tag/2.0.0-rc.1

Best regards,
Marc

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