Mapbox GL JS v3 enables the Mapbox Standard Style, a new realistic 3D lighting system, building shadows and many other visual enhancements, and an ergonomic API for using a new kind of rich, evolving, configurable map styles and seamless integration with custom data. You can get more information about the new features in the Mapbox GL JS v3 migration guide. Changes since v3.0.0-beta.5:
Features and improvements ✨
- Enable zoom-based expressions for model rotation, scale and translation.
- Optimize shader compilation to reduce stuttering on complex 3D styles.
- Reduce stuttering when loading 3D tiles with models.
- Improve memory footprint when rendering ground lighting effects.
- Reduce flickering of symbols along lines due to rounding errors.
- Improve panning over bumpy terrain so that it feels smooth.
- Optimize switching between styles that have imports.
- Add support for
slotin custom layers.
Bug fixes 🐞
- Fix rendering of line layers with data-driven
line-border. - Fix an issue with lighting inconsistency between rendering with and without terrain.
- Fix an issue with symbols sometimes not rendering correctly over terrain on top-down view.
- Fix an issue with
raster-colorsometimes causing memory issues. - Fix an issue with non-1 alpha in
fill-extrusion-colorcausing rendering issues in 3D lighting mode. - Disallow duplicate style import IDs.
- Disallow duplicate directional and ambient lights.
- Fix wireframe debug mode for model rendering.
- Fix root style top-level properties not taking precedence over children import top-level properties.