I kindly invite all interested user in testing v1.9-beta1 and reporting any issues. v1.9 final (with more detailed release notes) is planned to be released on August 30th.
| geolocation support: show and follow your location when viewing maps | |
| added IE11 native fullscreen support | |
| search function for layerlist on marker edit page | |
| support for using WMTS servers as custom overlays (thx dimizu!) | |
| compatibility check for plugin “WP External Links” which can cause maps to break | |
| optimized RTL (right-to-left) language support on marker and layer map edit pages | |
| updated jQuery select2 addon to v3.5.1 | |
| added backticks (`) around column and table names in all SQL statements to prevent collisions with reserved words | |
| some settings were not selectable when RTL (right-to-left) language support was active | |
| custom overlays and custom basemaps with & and {} chars in URLs were broken | |
| fullscreen mode for multiple maps on one page | |
| cancel fullscreen mode did not work with Firefox 31 | |
| additional output (0) before maps created with shortcodes directly (thx Bernd!) | |
| default marker icon was not used for maps created with shortcodes directly (thx Bernd!) | |
| broken layer maps/plugin installations on mySQL instances using clustering as reserved word (thx Tim!) |
Warning: it is not recommended to install 1.9-beta1 on production sites – use on your own risk!
In order to be able to update to 1.9-beta1, you first have to set beta-testing in settings / misc to enabled:

As next step after saving your settings, navigate to Plugins and click on the link “Manually check for updates” next to Maps Marker Pro:


Finish by clicking on the link “Update now”.
Please use the helpdesk for bugreports, feedback or suggestions or leave a comment – any feedback is welcome!