Looks like the biggest (at at least biggest list of features / fixes) to date is out now.  You can download it from the NASA WWJava Page.  Pat Murris has a blog posting with several of the major changes he has noticed.

In brief:

  • - Configuration made consistent and independent
  • - Configuration defaults moved to usage sites
  • - Logging mechanism and semantics cleaned up
  • - Shutdown entry point
  • - Package refactoring
  • - Memory cache refactoring and optimization
  • - Reimplementation of Polylines. Polylines on surface.
  • - Shapes (but the Surface versions will be superseded in next release)
  • - Shape and icon dragging
  • - Math classes re-engineering
  • - View and input handling changes
  • - Examples -- see src/gov/nasa/worldwind/examples
    • - Template for WWJ apps
    • - Template for WWJ panels
    • - WMS Manager
    • - Layer manager
  • - More general icon image specification
  • - WMS capabilities doc parsing
  • - WMS layer specification improved
  • - WMS Layer Manager
  • - Thread-safe icon collections in IconLayer
  • - RPF parsing and display
  • - Applet example and javascript interface
  • - New layers
    • - Country boundaries
    • - USGS Topo
    • - Stars
    • - Fog
    • - Scalebar
    • - World Map
    • - Terrain Profiler
  • - Layer panel utility
  • - Performance statistics utility
  • - Bug fixes
  • - Instrumentation and Run-time statistics
  • - Texture cache
  • - Proxy support
  • - Anaglyph stereo