The following changes were made at version 2.8
Features
ArcGIS Portal API version 1 (also applicable to user hosted portals)
Support for ArcGIS Server 10.1 editor tracking
Enhancements and Bug Fixes
Bug fixes for 2.8 include:
- NIM074859: Maximizing the JavaScript API Overview Widget an then minimizing it again will cause the overview to display a different extent than the map
- NIM078375: Extent with xmin=ymin=0 is invalid at JS API 2.7
- NIM079202: Relative URL for proxyUrl breaks esri.request when using a webmap with CSV by ref
- NIM079203: Only populate default tileServers for services hosted on .com domains
- NIM079204: Add user-friendly constructor signatures for esri.SpatialReference class
- NIM079205: Enhance feature layer to support editor tracking
- NIM079206: ZoomTo link does not work when using Superpan on Macs
- NIM079207: Map navigation is broken when panDuration is 0
- NIM079208: Fire an event when a feature layer is unable to draw all expected features due to maxRecordCount restriction imposed on the server
- NIM079209: Do not serialize non-editable fields from a feature layer in applyEdits
- NIM079210: Allow corsEnabledServers to be specified servers without the protocol(implies both http and https)
- NIM079211: Add methods to allow users to serialize the state of identity manager and re-hydrate later
New Samples
Additions and changes to samples:
Dojo 1.6.1
Version 2.8 of the ArcGIS API for JavaScript continues to use Dojo 1.6.1. The ArcGIS API for JavaScript will likely move to dojo 1.7.x in the next release and will support AMD.