Just in time for Intergeo 2009 the developers of Mapbender released a new version of the software and portal site for geodata management of OGC OWS architectures yesterday. Version 2.6 of Mapbender (direct link to download) shows many improvements and new features, especially in the areas digitisation, GUI management und general administrative tasks. Congratulations to the Mapbender-Team! We are happy to be able to test the new functionality now.