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Leaflet v1.8.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2022-04-18 // almost 2 years ago

⚠️ Breaking Changes
- 👌 Improve reliability of contextmenu event simulation on mobile Safari by introducing a new TapHold handler, replacing legacy Tap (#7026 by @johnd0e)
- Reorganize DivOverlay/Popup/Tooltip APIs (#7540 by @johnd0e)
  - Move Popup related options from DivOverlay to Popup (#7778 by @Falke-Design)
  - Change Tooltip class from leaflet-clickable to leaflet-interactive (#7719 by @Falke-Design)
  - Map.closeTooltip now requires a layer as argument (#7533 by @johnd0e)
- 👌 Improve error / argument handling for event listeners (#7518 by @johnd0e)
- 👌 Improve reliability of touch events simulation on non-touch devices (DomEvent.Pointer) (#7059, #7084, #7415 by @johnd0e)
- 👌 Improve reliability of dblclick event simulation on touch devices (DomEvent.DoubleTap) (#7027 by @johnd0e)
- 👌 Improve reliability of disableClickPropagation (#7439 by @johnd0e)
- 👌 Improve Map hasLayer() and LayerGroup hasLayer() to require a layer as argument (#6999 by @johnd0e)
- 🛠 Fix Class.include to not overwrite options (#7756 by @johnd0e)
- 🛠 Fix Class.extend to not modify source props object (#6766 by @johnd0e)
- 👌 Improve Browser.touch touch devices detection (#7029 by @johnd0e)
- Get rid of legacy Android hacks (#7022 by @johnd0e)
- Allow fonts to respect users' browser settings by making the font-size relative to the map container. (You can change the font size on leaflet-container to adjust it if needed.) (#7800 by @Chandu-4444)
❇️ API changes
- 👉 Make DivOverlay / Tooltip interactive (#7531, #7532 by @johnd0e)
- ➕ Add openOn, close, toggle functions to DivOverlay (#6639 by @johnd0e)
- 🚚 Introduce DomEvent.off(el) to remove all listeners (#7125 by @johnd0e)
- 👍 Allow preventing round-off errors by passing false to Util.formatNum / toGeoJSON (#7100 by @johnd0e)
- ➕ Add autoPanOnFocus to Marker (#8042 by @IvanSanchez)
- ➕ Add referrerPolicy to TileLayer (#7945 by @natevw)
- ➕ Add playsInline to VideoOverlay (#7928 by @Falke-Design)
- ➕ Add getCenter to ImageOverlay (#7848 by @Falke-Design)
- Fire a tileabort event when a TileLayer load is cancelled (#6786 by @dstndstn)
- ➕ Add crossOrigin to Icon (#7298 by @syedmuhammadabid)
✨ Improvements
- 👌 Improve memory footprint by removing will-change CSS property on tile images (#7872 by @janjaap)
- 👌 Improve reliability of icons path detection heuristics (#7092 by @johnd0e)
- 👌 Improve performance of adding tiled sources by avoiding excessive updates in GridLayer.onAdd (#7570 by @johnd0e)
- 👌 Improve handling of edge cases in panInside (#7469 by @daverayment)
- Minify marker icon SVG (#7600 by @rala72)
- 👍 Allow template keys with spaces in TileLayer URL (#7216 by @lubojr)
- 👌 Improve behavior of Tooltip bound to ImageOverlay (#7306 by @IvanSanchez)
- ✂ Remove the gap between Popup tip and content dialog (#7920 by @Malvoz)
- 🚚 Fire mousemove through Canvas to map if it has no layers (#7809 by @johnd0e)
- ➕ Add print styles to prevent printers from removing background-images in controls (#7851 by @Malvoz)
- 🚚 Move attribution code from Layer to Control.Attribution (#7764 by @johnd0e)
- 🔨 Refactor vmlCreate() so that it does not expose closure to TypeError (#7279 by @darcyparker)
- 👌 Improve reliability of Control.Layers by not relying on Browser android and touch properties (#7057 by @johnd0e)
- 👌 Improve reliability of Tooltip by not relying on Browser touch checks (#7535 by @johnd0e)
- ✅ Make Browser mutable for easier automated testing (#7335 by @bozdoz)
- Replace div with span in Control.Layers container to fix an HTML validation error (#7914 by @tmiaa)
- ➕ Add a Ukrainian flag to default attribution 🇺🇦 (by @mourner in https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/pull/8109)
🙌 Accessibility
- 0️⃣ Increase default font sizes and decrease attribution transparency for improved legibility (#8057, by @mourner)
- 👌 Improve accessibility of popup close button (#7908, by @Malvoz)
- 0️⃣ Auto pan to markers on focus by default for improved keyboard operability (#8042 by @IvanSanchez)
- ➕ Add accessibility section to plugins guide (#7277 by @Malvoz)
- ⚡️ Update Marker to default to role="button" & alt="marker" for an improved screen reader experience (#7895 by @tmiaa)
- Set role="button" for appropriate semantics on the <a> layers control (#7850 by @Malvoz)
- Generally enable outlines for keyboard users by not stripping outline on focus for keyboard events (#7259 by @jafin)
- Enable outlines on leaflet-container for keyboard users (#7996 by @Malvoz)
- Multiple enhancements to popup's close button (#7794 by @Falke-Design)
- 👉 Use relative font-size units for resizable text (#7800 by @Chandu-4444)
- 💅 Apply :hover styles to :focus as well (#7274 by @Malvoz)
- Hide the decorative attribution separator from screen readers (#7969 by @Malvoz)
- 👉 Make the disabled state of zoom controls available to screen readers (#7280 by @akshataj96)
- Hide the +/- characters in zoom controls from screen readers to prevent erroneous announcements (#7795 by @Falke-Design)
🛠 🐞 Bug fixes
- 🛠 Fix vector drift when dragging and immediately zooming (by @manubb @johnd0e @mourner in https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/pull/8103)
- ⬇️ Reduce the occurrence of glitches on rapid zoom (by @mourner in https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/pull/8102)
- 🛠 Fix Marker jumping position while zooming in certain cases (#7967 by @Falke-Design)
- 🛠 Fix opening / closing Tooltip while dragging the map (#7862 by @Falke-Design)
- Break the reference to the options of the Class prototype (#7459 by @Falke-Design)
- 👌 Improve Tooltip options permanent & sticky to work together (#7563 by @Falke-Design)
- Check if map container is still connected with Leaflet in locate event listener (#7813 by @Falke-Design)
- 🛠 Fix Tooltip bindTooltip to unbind existent tooltip (#7633 by @Falke-Design)
- Correct if condition, to add zoom limits for Layer (#7609 by @vcoppe)
- GridLayer redraw tiles after changing maxNativeZoom (#6443 by @cherniavskii)
- 🛠 Fix Popup keepInView if the map needs to panned over a long distance (#7792 by @Falke-Design)
- 🚚 Tolerate wrong event names in add/removePointerListener (#7808 by @johnd0e)
- Reset width & padding to prevent cascading CSS from breaking tile rendering (#6843 by @Spudley)
- Fix mousedown event calling after dragging Canvas map (#7781 by @johnd0e)
- ⬇ Decrease console.warn pollution (#7748 by @johnd0e)
- 🛠 Fix contextmenu event default-preventing when there are >1 target candidates (#7544 by @johnd0e)
- Prevent click on Popup-tip from firing on map. (#7541 by @johnd0e)
- 🛠 Fix error by calling Path.setStyle before adding the layer to the map (#6941 by @NielsHolt)
- Reset BoxZoom after cancel with ESC (#7597 by @Falke-Design)
- 🛠 Fix noConflict (#7855 by @Falke-Design)
- 🛠 Fix popup appearance when content is empty (#8136, by @ansh-ag)
- 🛠 Fix latLngToCoords and latLngsToCoords not accepting array form of lat/lngs (#7436, by @Relkfaw)
📄 📝 Docs
- ➕ Add a new Leaflet accessibility tutorial (#8081, by @Malvoz)
- ⬆️ Upgrade Code of Conduct to Contributor Covenant v2 and improve its visibility (#7984 by @mourner)
- 👕 Lint examples (#7827 by @mourner)
- ⚡️ Update usability in Docs (#7982, #7703, #7950, #7906, #7907, #7696, #7816, #7345, #7815, #7948, #7901 by @Falke-Design, @avioli, @Malvoz, @fulldecent, @saerdnaer, @MxDui)
- ✏️ Typos / Fixes in Docs, Samples, ... (#7263, #7284, #7339, #7349, #7381, #7371, #7485, #7380, #7578, #7758, #7602, #7857, #7860, #7336, #7819 by @timgates42, @IvanSanchez, @ipovos, @elfalem, @BakuCity, @simon04, @user073, @Dev-Steven, @vanillajonathan, @aquelle-cp, @matkoniecz, @Falke-Design)
- Clarify zoomend event (#7460 by @xeruf)
- ➕ Add false to prefix of Control.Attribution (#7814 by @Falke-Design)
- LayerGroup inherit from Interactive Layer (#7763 by @johnd0e)
- 👌 Improve Map.panInside documentation (#7397 by @daverayment)
- 📚 Update Renderer documentation to clarify tolerance option is for Canvas only (#7515 by @Hippl-Eric)
- ➕ Add documentation for Event-Listener propagate argument (#7103 by @riffaud)
- 🛠 Fix an issue with top padding on non-API pages (#8083, by @wyankush)
🔧 Workflow
- 🚧 Split plugins.md into many files for easier maintenance (#7805 by @Falke-Design)
- ➕ Add Bundlemon to watch bundle size (#7934, #7983, #7905 by @jonkoops)
- ➕ Add npm run serve to serve docs on localhost (#7973 by @Falke-Design)
- 📇 Rename master branch to main (#7921 by @jonkoops)
- Upload files to AWS even if the file-size is the same (#7853 by @jonkoops)
- ✂ Remove leaflet-include.js from debug samples (#7776 by @Falke-Design)
- 👕 Lint adjustments (#7676, #7743, #7757 by @jonkoops, @mourner)
- 🚀 Simplify release process (#7711, #7854, #7727, #8039 by @mourner)
- 🚀 Simplify docs update process on release (#7730 by @mourner)
- ⚡️ Update dependencies and add Dependabot config (#7455, #7653, #7677, #7725 by @jonkoops)
- 👷 Split main workflow into multiple parallel jobs (#7710 by @jonkoops)
- 👷 Run CI on Github actions (#7691, #7654, #7702 by @jonkoops)
- ✅ Continue running tests even if one fails (#7723 by @jonkoops)
- ➕ Add https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/labels/blocker check to release process (#8019 by @Malvoz)
- ✂ Remove all references of Bower (#7831 by @jonkoops)
- ➕ Add GitHub Actions dependency tracking with Dependabot (by @nathannaveen in https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/pull/8104)
✅ 🧪 Tests
- 👌 Improve unit tests organization (#7852, by @Falke-Design)
- ✅ Run tests on Internet Explorer 11 (#7741 by @jonkoops)
- ✅ Run tests on FirefoxNoTouch (#7736, #7742 by @johnd0e)
- ⬇️ Drop PhantomJS from test suite (#7660, #7724 by @jonkoops)
- Simplify .near and .nearLatLng usage (#7820 by @johnd0e)
- Enforce forbid-only rule in the continuous integration (#7448 by @johnd0e)
- 💻 Increase captureTimeout and browserSocketTimeout (#7856 by @Falke-Design)
- ➕ Added / update tests (#7790, #7147, #7721, #7461, #7126, #7451, #7450, #7447, #7438 by @Falke-Design, @johnd0e, @phloose)
- ➕ Added missing Test-Spec-Files to index.html (#7845 by @Falke-Design)
- ✅ Cover DomEvent with unit tests (by @stephenspol in https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/pull/8088)
- ✅ Cover DomUtil with unit tests (#7547, by @LGNorris)

Previous changes from v1.7.1

🐛 Bug fixes
- 🛠 Fix build toolchain to reflect uglifyjs upgrade from v2 to v3 (by @ivansanchez)

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Leaflet v1.8.0 Release Notes

⚠️ Breaking Changes

❇️ API changes

✨ Improvements

🙌 Accessibility

🛠 🐞 Bug fixes

📄 📝 Docs

🔧 Workflow

✅ 🧪 Tests

Previous changes from v1.7.1

🐛 Bug fixes