GeoExt 2 Released

terrestris makes extensive use of GeoExt, and since Marc Jansen is a core developer, we would like to provide you with information on the new release of GeoExt 2 in German, which is essentially taken from the blog post at http://geoext.blogspot.de/. If you have any questions about GeoExt, please do not hesitate to contact us directly and benefit from our comprehensive know-how.

Announcement: GeoExt 2.0.0-rc.1 released
The GeoExt Community is proud to announce the release of GeoExt 2.0.0.

The software can be downloaded from https://github.com/geoext/geoext2/releases/tag/2.0.0-rc.1.

GeoExt 2.0.0-rc.1 is the first official GeoExt version based on OpenLayers 2.13.1 and ExtJS 4.2.1.. The work on it took some time, but most of the code was created during a code sprint in Bonn, which took place last year, incidentally in the premises of terrestris (search for “international code sprints”).

The latest version of GeoExt aims to provide more or less the same API that you know and love/appreciate from the 1.x series. It supports the autoloading mechanism of ExtJS, the single-file build tool from Sencha and includes comprehensive documentation created with the same tools as ExtJS. There are 2 versions of the API docs: One contains only the GeoExt classes, while the other also contains the original Ext classes from which properties and methods are inherited.

This release would not have been possible without the sponsors of the aforementioned code sprint. We would also like to thank the companies of the contributors who have supported the development of GeoExt in many ways.

We invite you to test the release candidate! To do this, download GeoExt 2.0.0-rc.1 from the URL above and use it in your website, which integrates OpenLayers and Ext, by announcing the new GeoExt version to Ext’s autoloading mechanism:

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

In addition, you can also view the GeoExt 2 website on github: http://geoext.github.io/geoext2/

We welcome feedback on this release.