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We are pleased to announce that Cesium version 1.4 is now available for download. Some highlights of this release include:

Added support for touch events on Internet Explorer 11 using the Pointer Events API.
Added geometry outline width support to the DataSource layer.
Improved GeoJSON loading performance.
Improved point visualization performance for all DataSources.

Other recent news and postings:

Patrick Cozzi presented an overview of Cesium with recent demos at Harvard. See the slides.
Patrick Cozzi gave a talk at MIT about WebGL, trends in open data and data acquisition, and streaming and rendering massive geospatial datasets. See the slides
Matthew Amato presented at GeoPhilly. See the slides.
Globetrotting: The Fall of Google Earth, the Rise of Cesium, and What it All Means for the Virtual Globe

For a full list of changes, see the change log.