mapbox-gl

Features

• Introduce text-writing-mode symbol layer property to allow placing point labels vertically. #8399

• Extend variable text placement to work when text/icon-allow-overlap is set to true. #8620

• Allow text-color to be used in formatted expressions to be able to draw different parts of a label in different colors. #8068

Improvements

• Improve tile loading logic to cancel requests more aggressively, improving performance when zooming or panning quickly. #8633

• Display outline on control buttons when focused (e.g. with a tab key) for better accessibility. #8520

• Improve the shape of line round joins. #8275

• Improve performance of processing line layers. #8303

• Improve legibility of info displayed with map.showTileBoundaries = true. #8380 (h/t @andrewharvey)

• Add MercatorCoordinate.meterInMercatorCoordinateUnits method to make it easier to convert from meter units to coordinate values used in custom layers. #8524 (h/t @andrewharvey)

• Improve conversion of legacy filters with duplicate values. #8542

• Move out documentation & examples website source to a separate mapbox-gl-js-docs repo. #8582

Bug Fixes

• Fix a bug where local CJK fonts would switch to server-generated ones in overzoomed tiles. #8657

• Fix precision issues in deck.gl-powered custom layers. #8502

• Fix a bug where fill and line layers wouldn't render correctly over fill extrusions when coming from the same source. #8661

• Fix map loading for documents loaded from Blob URLs. #8612

• Fix classification of relative file:// URLs when in documents loaded from a file URL. #8612

• Remove esm from package dependencies (so that it's not installed on npm install mapbox-gl). #8586 (h/t @DatGreekChick)