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MapLibre GL JS v0.50.0 Release Notes

  • October 10, 2018

    ✨ Features and improvements

    • 🎉 Add Custom Layers that can be rendered into with user-provided WebGL code (#7039)
    • ➕ Add WebGL face culling for increased performance (#7178)
    • 👌 Improve speed of expression evaluation (#7334)
    • 🛠 Automatically coerce to string for concat expression and text-field property (#6190, fixed by #7280)
    • ➕ Add fill-extrusion-vertical-gradient property for controlling shading of fill extrusions (#5768, fixed by #6841)
    • ➕ Add update functionality for images provided via ImageSource (#4050, fixed by #7342) (h/t @dcervelli)

    🛠 🐛 Bug fixes

    • Expressions
      • Fix expressions that use log2 and log10 in IE11 (#7318, fixed by #7320)
      • Fix let expression stripping expected type during parsing (#7300, fixed by #7301)
      • Fix superfluous wrapping of literals in literal expression (#7336, fixed by #7337)
      • Allow calling to-color on values that are already of type Color (#7260)
      • Fix to-array for empty arrays ((#7261))
      • Fix identity functions for text-field when using formatted text (#7351)
      • Fix coercion of null to 0 in to-number expression (#7083, fixed by #7274)
    • Canvas source
      • Fix missing repeats of CanvasSource when it crosses the antimeridian (#7273)
      • Fix CanvasSource not respecting alpha values set on canvas element (#7302, fixed by #7309)
    • Rendering
      • Fix rendering of fill extrusions with really high heights (#7292)
      • Fix an error where the map state wouldn't return to loaded after certain runtime styling changes when there were errored tiles in the viewport (#7355)
      • Fix errors when rendering symbol layers without symbols (#7241, fixed by #7253)
      • Don't fade in symbols with *-allow-overlap: true when panning into the viewport (#7172, fixed by#7244)
    • Library
      • Fix disambiguation for mouseover event (#7295, fixed by #7299)
      • Fix silent failure of getImage if an SVG is requested (#7312, fixed by #7313)
      • Fix empty control group box shadow (#7303, fixed by #7304) (h/t Duder-onomy)
      • Fixed an issue where a wrong timestamp was sent for Mapbox turnstile events (#7381)
      • Fixed a bug that lead to attribution not showing up correctly in Internet Explorer (#3945, fixed by #7391)