v0.28.0

0.28.0 (November 17 2016)

New features and improvements

• Performance improvements for Map#addLayer and Map#removeLayer #3584
• Add method for changing layer order at runtime - Map#moveLayer #3584
• Update vertical punctuation logic to Unicode 9.0 standard #3608

Bug fixes

• Fix data-driven fill-opacity rendering when using a fill-pattern #3598
• Fix line rendering artifacts #3627
• Fix incorrect rendering of opaque fills on top of transparent fills #2628
• Prevent AssertionErrors from pitching raster layers by only calling Worker#redoPlacement on vector and GeoJSON sources #3624
• Restore IE11 compatability #3635
• Fix symbol placement for cached tiles #3637

v0.27.0

⚠️ Breaking changes ⚠️

• Replace fill-extrude-height and fill-extrude-base properties of fill render type with a separate fill-extrusion type (with corresponding fill-extrusion-height and fill-extrusion-base properties), solving problems with render parity and runtime switching between flat and extruded fills. mapbox/mapbox-gl-style-spec#554
• Change the units for extrusion height properties (fill-extrusion-height, fill-extrusion-base) from "magic numbers" to meters. #3509
• Remove mapboxgl.Control class and change the way custom controls should be implemented. #3497
• Remove mapboxgl.util functions: inherit, extendAll, debounce, coalesce, startsWith, supportsGeolocation. #3441 #3571
• mapboxgl.util is deprecated and will be removed in the next release. #1408

New features and improvements

• Tons of performance improvements that combined make rendering up to 3 times faster, especially for complex styles. #3485 #3489 #3490 #3491 #3498 #3499 #3501 #3510 #3514 #3515 #3486 #3527 #3574 ⚡️⚡️⚡️
• 🈯 Added vertical text writing mode for languages that support it. #3438
• 🈯 Improved line breaking of Chinese and Japanese text in point-placed labels. #3420
• Reduce the default number of worker threads (mapboxgl.workerCount) for better performance. #3565
• Automatically use categorical style function type when input values are strings. #3384
• Improve control buttons accessibility. #3492
• Remove geolocation button if geolocation is disabled (e.g. the page is not served through https). #3571
• Added Map#getMaxZoom and Map#getMinZoom methods #3592

Bugfixes

• Fix several line dash rendering bugs. #3451
• Fix intermittent map flicker when using image sources. #3522
• Fix incorrect rendering of semitransparent background layers. #3521
• Fix broken raster-fade-duration property. #3532
• Fix handling of extrusion heights with negative values (by clamping to 0). #3463
• Fix GeoJSON sources not placing labels/icons correctly after map rotation. #3366
• Fix icon/label placement not respecting order for layers with numeric names. #3404
• Fix queryRenderedFeatures working incorrectly on colliding labels. #3459
• Fix a bug where changing extrusion properties at runtime sometimes threw an error. #3487 #3468
• Fix a bug where map.loaded() always returned true when using raster tile sources. #3302
• Fix a bug where moving the map out of bounds sometimes threw failed to invert matrix error. #3518
• Fixed queryRenderedFeatures throwing an error if no parameters provided. #3542
• Fixed a bug where using multiple \n in a text field resulted in an error. #3570

Misc

• 🐞 Fix npm install mapbox-gl pulling in all devDependencies, leading to an extremely slow install. #3377
• Switch the codebase to ES6. #3388 #3408 #3415 #3421
• A lot of internal refactoring to make the codebase simpler and more maintainable.
• Various documentation fixes. #3440

v0.26.0

New Features & Improvements

• Add fill-extrude-height and fill-extrude-base style properties (3d buildings) 🏙️ #3223
• Add customizable colorSpace interpolation to functions #3245
• Add identity function type #3274
• Add depth testing for symbols with 'pitch-alignment': 'map' #3243
• Add dataloading events for styles and sources #3306
• Add Control suffix to all controls ⚠️ BREAKING CHANGE ⚠️ #3355
• Calculate style layer refs automatically and get rid of user-specified refs ⚠️ BREAKING CHANGE ⚠️ #3486

Performance Improvements

• Ensure removing style or source releases all tile resources #3359

Bugfixes

• Fix bug causing an error when Marker#setLngLat is called #3294
• Fix bug causing incorrect coordinates in touchend on Android Chrome #3319
• Fix bug causing incorrect popup positioning at top of screen #3333
• Restore tile property to data events fired when a tile is removed #3328
• Fix bug causing "Improve this map" link to not preload map location #3356

v0.25.1

Bugfixes

• Fix bug causing attribution to not be shown #3278
• Fix bug causing exceptions when symbol text has a trailing newline #3281

v0.25.0

New Features & Improvements

• Consolidate undocumented data lifecycle events into data and dataloading events (#3255)
• Add auto value for style spec properties (#3203)

Bugfixes

• Fix bug causing "Map#queryRenderedFeatures" to return no features after map rotation or filter change (#3233)
• Change webpack build process (#3235) ⚠️ BREAKING CHANGE ⚠️
• Improved error messages for LngLat#convert (#3232)
• Fix bug where the tiles field is omitted from the RasterTileSource#serialize method (#3259)
• Comply with HTML spec by replacing the div within the Navigation control button with a span element (#3268)
• Fix bug causing Marker instances to be translated to non-whole pixel coordinates that caused blurriness (#3270)

Performance Improvements

• Avoid unnecessary style validation (#3224)
• Share a single blob URL between all workers (#3239)

v0.24.0

New Features & Improvements

• Allow querystrings in mapbox:// URLs #3113
• Allow "drag rotate" interaction to control pitch #3105
• Improve performance by decreasing Worker script Blob size #3158
• Improve vector tile performance #3067
• Decrease size of distributed library by removing package.json #3174
• Add support for new lines in text-field #3179
• Make keyboard navigation smoother #3190
• Make mouse wheel zooming smoother #3189
• Add better error message when calling Map#queryRenderedFeatures on nonexistent layer #3196
• Add support for imperial units on Scale control #3160
• Add map's pitch to URL hash #3218

Bugfixes

• Fix exception thrown when using box zoom handler #3078
• Ensure style filters cannot be mutated by reference #3093
• Fix exceptions thrown when opening marker-bound popup by click #3104
• Fix bug causing fills with transparent colors and patterns to not render #3107
• Fix order of latitudes in Map#getBounds #3081
• Fix incorrect evaluation of zoom-and-property functions #2827 #3155
• Fix incorrect evaluation of property functions #2828 #3155
• Fix bug causing garbled text rendering when multiple maps are rendered on the page #3086
• Fix rendering defects caused by Map#setFilter and map rotation on iOS 10 #3207
• Fix bug causing image and video sources to disappear when zooming in #3010

v0.23.0

New Features & Improvements

• Add support for line-color property functions #2938
• Add Scale control #2940 #3042
• Improve polygon label placement by rendering labels at the pole of inaccessability #3038
• Add offset option to Popup #1962
• Add Marker#bindPopup method #3056

Performance Improvements

• Improve performance of pages with multiple maps using a shared WebWorker pool #2952

Bugfixes

• Make LngLatBounds obey its documented argument order (southwest, northeast), allowing bounds across the dateline #2414 ⚠️ BREAKING CHANGE ⚠️
• Fix bug causing fill-opacity property functions to not render as expected #3061

v0.22.1

New Features & Improvements

• Reduce library size by using minified version of style specification #2998
• Add a warning when rendering artifacts occur due to too many symbols or glyphs being rendered in a tile #2966

Bugfixes

• Fix bug causing exception to be thrown by Map#querySourceFeatures #3022
• Fix bug causing Map#loaded to return true while there are outstanding tile updates #2847
• Fix bug causing GeoJSON number properties to loose precision when queried.

v0.22.0

Breaking Changes

• The GeoJSONSource, VideoSource, ImageSource constructors are now private. Please use map.addSource({...}) to create sources and map.getSource(...).setData(...) to update GeoJSON sources. #2667
• Map#onError has been removed. You may catch errors by listening for the error event. If no listeners are bound to error, error messages will be printed to the console. #2852

New Features & Improvements

• Increase max glyph atlas size to accomodate alphabets with large numbers of characters #2930
• Add support for filtering features on GeoJSON / vector tile $id #2888
• Update geolocate icon #2973
• Add a close event to Popups #2953
• Add a offset option to Marker #2885
• Print error events without any listeners to the console #2852
• Refactored Source interface to prepare for custom source types #2667

Bugfixes

• Fix opacity property-functions for fill layers #2971
• Fix DataCloneError in Firefox and IE11 #2559
• Fix bug preventing camera animations from being triggered in moveend listeners #2944
• Fix bug preventing fill-outline-color from being unset #2964
• Fix webpack support #2887
• Prevent buttons in controls from acting like form submit buttons #2935
• Fix bug preventing map interactions near two controls in the same corner #2932
• Fix crash resulting for large style batch queue #2926

v0.21.0

New Features & Improvements

• Add text-pitch-alignment style property #2668
• Allow query parameters on mapbox:// URLs #2702
• Add icon-text-fit and icon-text-fit-padding style properties #2720
• Enable property functions for icon-rotate #2738
• Enable property functions for fill-opacity #2733
• Fire Map#mouseout events #2777
• Allow query parameters on all sprite URLs #2772
• Increase sprite atlas size from 512px to 1024px square, allowing more and larger sprites #2802
• Add Marker class #2725 #2810
• Add {quadkey} URL parameter #2805
• Add circle-pitch-scale style property #2821

Bugfixes

• Fix rendering of layers with large numbers of features #2794
• Fix exceptions thrown during drag-rotate interactions #2840
• Fix error when adding and removing a layer within the same update cycle #2845
• Fix false "Geometry exceeds allowed extent" warnings #2568
• Fix Map#loaded returning true while there are outstanding tile updates #2847
• Fix style validation error thrown while removing a filter #2847
• Fix event data object not being passed for double click events #2814
• Fix multipolygons disappearing from map at certain zoom levels #2704
• Fix exceptions caused by queryRenderedFeatures in Safari and Firefox #2822
• Fix mapboxgl#supported() returning true in old versions of IE11 mapbox/mapbox-gl-supported#1