The 6.8 release builds on the momentum of 6.7 with some great new enhancements. Data tiles now handle 32-bit data in addition to 8-bit. Views properties can now be provided that sources that fetch view-related data. Vector tile rendering got some performance enhancements. Find detail on these features and a number of fixes in the list of changes below.
List of all changes
- #12785 - Promise.allSettled polyfill and other browser compatibilty (@mike-000)
- #12807 - Updated styles (@tschaub)
- #12806 - Update to the WebGL sea level example (@tschaub)
- #12808 - Update expectations for vector tile icon label rendering (@tschaub)
- #12804 - Make vector tiles rendering simpler and a bit faster (@ahocevar)
- #12802 - Enqueue tiles at the next step in the animation (@tschaub)
- #12801 - Update ol-mapbox-style to latest version without ol peer dependency (@ahocevar)
- #12792 - Do not do any canvas work when there are no features to render (@ahocevar)
- #12797 - Update geotiff (@ahocevar)
- #12799 - All layers now call dispose on the renderer (@tschaub)
- #12798 - More cleanup in the WebGL tile layer's dispose method (@tschaub)
- #12795 - New tile source for the WMTS example (@mike-000)
- #12793 - Add a method to set the map layers (@tschaub)
- #12789 - Handle TileJSON urls in Mapbox Style document (@ahocevar)
- #12790 - Allow maps to be configured with a promise for view props (@tschaub)
- #12777 - Fix offscreen-canvas example (@ahocevar)
- #12778 - Do not render vector tiles unless they are being used (@ahocevar)
- #12773 - Enable WebGL extensions when required (@tschaub)
- #12774 - Fix text decluttering when segment length is zero (@MoonE)
- #12770 - Use Uint8Array instead of Uint8ClampedArray for increased browser compatibility (@tschaub)
- #12759 - #12758: Allow undefined to be passed to control setMap(). Also fix type of getMap() (@jumpinjackie)
- #12760 - Fix opacity handling for tile and vector layers (@ahocevar)
- #12764 - Fix ImageInformationResponse typedef (@webwitcher)
- #12769 - Remove extra closing anchor tag (@tschaub)
- #12761 - Add Float Textures for GL Rendering / DataTiles (@theduckylittle)
- #12740 - Various fixes for browser compatibility issues (mike-000)
- #12741 - Minimal documentation for GMLBase (@mike-000)
- #12743 - Remove docs reference to unmanaged layer and Select (@mike-000)
- #12734 - Continue supporting IE11 in examples and legacy build (@ahocevar)
- #12739 - Change canvas style from initial to unset (@mike-000)
- #12731 - Handle resolution and tile loadingstrategy with user projection (@ahocevar)
- #12736 - OnSignatures return more specific type (@simonseyock)
- #12732 - Add to Quick Start (@mike-000)
- #12728 - Release v6.7.0 (@openlayers)
Dependency Updates
- #12784 - Bump webpack-dev-server from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 (@openlayers)
- #12783 - Bump marked from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4 (@openlayers)
- #12782 - Bump webpack-sources from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1 (@openlayers)
- #12781 - Bump webpack from 5.52.1 to 5.53.0 (@openlayers)
- #12780 - Bump @babel/eslint-parser from 7.15.4 to 7.15.7 (@openlayers)
- #12750 - Bump webpack-dev-server from 4.1.0 to 4.2.0 (@openlayers)
- #12749 - Bump marked from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 (@openlayers)
- #12748 - Bump ol-mapbox-style from 6.4.1 to 6.4.2 (@openlayers)
- #12747 - Bump terser-webpack-plugin from 5.2.3 to 5.2.4 (@openlayers)
- #12746 - Bump @babel/preset-env from 7.15.4 to 7.15.6 (@openlayers)
- #12745 - Bump webpack from 5.52.0 to 5.52.1 (@openlayers)
- #12744 - Bump webpack-dev-middleware from 5.0.0 to 5.1.0 (@openlayers)