Features and improvements ✨

• Introduce experimental Appearances API for managing layer styling based on feature state.
• Add Map setLayerProperty that combines setLayoutProperty & setPaintProperty into one method for convenience.
• Add support for node/material overrides & other improvements to model source and layer.
• Various improvements & fixes for upcoming 3D features (indoor, procedural buildings & elevated roads).

Bug fixes 🐞

• Improve accuracy of queryRenderedFeatures for model layers.
• Fix a bug with heatmap sometimes disappearing after switching projection.
• Fix rendering of model layer with vector source on globe projection.

Features and improvements ✨

• Add response headers to the sourcedata event data.
• Improve TypeScript types for style specification.

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fix flickering of fill-extrusion buildings when using clip layers.
• Fix inaccuracies in 3D model query intersection.
• Fix the passing of GeolocationPosition to geolocate event listeners.
• Fix the placement of line-aligned text with a non-default scaleFactor.

3.15.0

Features and improvements ✨

• Add queryRasterValue method for querying values in raster-array layers.
• Add icon-image-use-theme property.
• Add support for Mapbox vector tiles with precalculated line metrics (for line gradients).
• Improve HD Roads loading performance.
• Optimize applying LUT when updating images at runtime.
• Improve TypeScript types in Style Spec validation methods.
• Slightly improve hsla expression performance.
• Optimize applying LUT for patterns.
• Round queryRasterValue results to 12 decimal digits to fix precision issues.
• Improvements on typing and testing.

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fix an issue with refreshing expired raster array tiles.
• Fix an error on GeoJSON with "Infinity" and similar ids.
• Fix GL_INVALID_VALUE console warning on Mapbox Satellite Standard and a few other styles.
• Fix model layer positioning during globe to mercator transition.
• Fix an issue with incorrect transparency for some icons with LUT applied.
• Fix an issue where updating *-occlusion-opacity properties didn't have any effect.
• Fix an issue with MRT layers throwing an error when reloading.
• Fix occlusion layer ordering.
• Fix an issue where using too many data-driven properties on the symbol layer could break the map.
• Fix gradients and interpolations with fully-transparent colors.
• Fix model layer density reduction.
• Fix performance regression on styles that use feature-state expressions.

3.15.0-beta.2

Features and improvements ✨

• Slightly improve hsla expression performance.
• Optimize applying LUT for patterns.
• Round queryRasterValue results to 12 decimal digits to fix precision issues.

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fix an error on GeoJSON with `"Infinity"`` and similar ids.
• Fix GL_INVALID_VALUE console warning on Mapbox Satellite Standard and a few other styles.
• Fix model layer positioning during globe to mercator transition.
• Fix an issue with incorrect transparency for some icons with LUT applied.
• Fix an issue where updating *-occlusion-opacity properties didn't have any effect.

Features and improvements ✨

• Add queryRasterValue method for querying values in raster-array layers.
• Add icon-image-use-theme property.
• Add support for Mapbox vector tiles with precalculated line metrics (for line gradients).
• Improve HD Roads loading performance.
• Optimize applying LUT when updating images at runtime.
• Improve TypeScript types in Style Spec validation methods.

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fix an issue with refreshing expired raster array tiles.

Breaking changes ⚠️

• Imported styles will use the glyphs URL template from the root style instead of their own.

Features and improvements ✨

• Add a split expression to divide a string into an array of substrings based on a specified delimiter.
• Improve memory usage for GeoJSON sources.

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fix an issue with querying rendered features during the globe-to-Mercator transition.
• Fix resources cleanup when removing a map with a terrain or/and vector icons.
• Fix an issue where a single primary image was not rendered correctly with icon-image-cross-fade.
• Fix an edge case involving the mixing of vertical and horizontal writing modes.
• Fix rendering of multiple raster layers from a single raster-array source.
• Fix restoration of maps with background patterns, heatmap, image, video, or raster sources after WebGL context loss.
• Fix memory spike when calling setData on large datasets.

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fix rendering of multiple raster layers from a single raster-array source.
• Fix restoration of maps with background patterns, heatmap, image, video, or raster sources after WebGL context loss.

Breaking changes ⚠️

• Imported styles will use the glyphs URL template from the root style instead of their own.

Features and improvements ✨

• Add a split expression to divide a string into an array of substrings based on a specified delimiter.
• Improve memory usage for GeoJSON sources.

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fix an issue with querying rendered features during the globe-to-Mercator transition.
• Fix resources cleanup when removing a map with a terrain or/and vector icons.
• Fix an issue where a single primary image was not rendered correctly with icon-image-cross-fade.
• Fix an edge case involving the mixing of vertical and horizontal writing modes.

Breaking changes ⚠️

• interpolate expression will interpolate between non-alpha-premultiplied colors. The change might affect raster-particle-color, line-gradient, and heatmap-color.
• rgb expression will return non-premultiplied-alpha color.

Features and improvements ✨

• Add the ["worldview"] expression, which returns the current worldview of the map.
• Add model-translation support for batched model layers.
• Improve indoor level interaction.
• Add support of gradient transforms in the fill style of vector icons.

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fix querying and styling issues with multiple model layers referencing the same source.
• Fix mapbox-gl-rtl-text v0.3.0 plugin not loading in certain configurations.
• Fix icons with text-variable-anchor disappearing.
• Fix minor distortions on vector icons in some cases.
• Fix zooming over terrain with negative altitude values.
• Fix interactions to not throw on mouseleave without mouseenter.
• Fix shadow rendering issues on underground structures.
• Fix striping artifacts when rendering shadows on some GPU configurations.
• Fix errors when viewing a style with filtered model layers.
• Fix parsing of color-use-theme property of 3D lights.
• Fix feature-dependent config expressions (h/t @brncsk) #13453.
• Fix reset of the indoor floorplan selection after moving the camera.
• Fix excessive rerendering of the map after setStyle with the same URL of an import.
• Fix source reloading during mercator-globe transition with terrain.
• Fix color of semi-transparent vector icons.

Workflow 🛠️

• Switched from CircleCI to GitHub Actions for continuous integration tests.

Breaking changes ⚠️

• interpolate expression will interpolate between non-alpha-premultiplied colors. The change might affect raster-particle-color, line-gradient, and heatmap-color.
• rgb expression will return non-premultiplied-alpha color.

Features and improvements ✨

• Add the ["worldview"] expression, which returns the current worldview of the map.
• Add model-translation support for batched model layers.
• Improve indoor level interaction.
• Add support of gradient transforms in the fill style of vector icons.

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fix icons with text-variable-anchor disappearing.
• Fix zooming over terrain with negative altitude values.
• Fix interactions to not throw on mouseleave without mouseenter.
• Fix errors when viewing a style with filtered model layers.
• Fix parsing of color-use-theme property of 3D lights.
• Fix feature-dependent config expressions (h/t @brncsk) #13453.
• Fix reset of the indoor floorplan selection after moving the camera.
• Fix excessive rerendering of the map after setStyle with the same URL of an import.
• Fix source reloading during mercator-globe transition with terrain.
• Fix color of semi-transparent vector icons.