mapbox/mapbox-gl-js v2.4.0

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2.4.0

✨ Features and improvements

• Add showUserHeading option to GeolocateControl that draws a triangle in front of the dot to denote both the user's location, and the direction they're facing.(#10817) (h/t to @tsuz)
• Add support for text-writing-mode property when using symbol-placement: line text labels. (#10647)
  • Note: This change will bring the following changes for CJK text blocks:
    • 1. For vertical CJK text, all the characters including Latin and Numbers will be vertically placed now. Previously, Latin and Numbers were horizontally placed.
    • 1. For horizontal CJK text, there may be a slight horizontal shift due to the anchor shift.
• Improve character alignment in labels with mixed CJK and Latin characters by adding support for descender and ascender font metrics. (#8781)
• Improve terrain performance by reducing number of framebuffer switches during draping. (#10701)
• Improve terrain performance by prioritizing allocation of large render cache batches. (#10701)
• Improve behavior of vertically aligned line labels with horizontal text by adding stickiness to their flip state, preventing them from flickering. (#10622)

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fix a potential rendering artifact when using custom fill-extrusion dataset with terrain. (#10812)
• Fix anchor calculation for line-center line labels when the anchor is very near to line segment endpoints. (#10776)
• Fix ImageSource breaking in Firefox/Safari if it's not immediately visible.(#10698)
• Fix gradient skybox rendering issue on some ARM Mali GPU's.(#10703)