Mapbox
GL JS v3.25.0-rc.1 opened the next minor cycle with a round of rendering and bundling improvements ahead of the stable release.
The ESM entry point switched to named exports. mapbox-gl/esm now uses named exports (import * as mapboxgl from 'mapbox-gl/esm'), enabling modern bundlers to eliminate unused code paths.1 The release also improved lazy loading at runtime, and Map getLayerProperty/setLayerProperty were extended to cover layer-level properties including minzoom, maxzoom, filter, slot, and appearances. TileProvider gained ImageBitmap support for raster providers.
Symbol and model rendering got faster.2 The rc.1 cycle improved symbol rendering performance, accelerated model loading, and cut the cost of decoding and encoding vector tiles and other protobuf assets. Color parsing also got faster, trimming load time for styles with many color values. An indoor featureset was extracted as part of this work.
Indoor navigation controls landed on both mobile platforms. The v11.25.0-rc.1 Maps iOS and Android releases added the Mapbox Standard style's IndoorLabels featureset along with configuration options — showIndoor, showIndoorLabels, colorIndoorLabelHighlight, and colorIndoorLabelSelect — so apps can display, highlight, and select indoor venue labels via the standard interactions API.3 Android also gained a useNativeFlingDeceleration option in GesturesPlugin, using OverScroller for physics-based fling instead of the legacy easeTo animation.4
Camera and expression flexibility expanded. CameraOptions now accepts a verticalFov property on both iOS and Android, letting callers set a custom vertical field of view in setCamera, easeTo, and flyTo.5 Color string literals like "red" or "#ff0000" can now be used as inputs to interpolate expressions, including when set on style config at runtime.
On the Navigation iOS side, CarPlay received a corrected camera state after navigation ends and safe-area-aware compass positioning for the speed-limit view.6 Patch v11.21.7 delivered internal fixes across the Android and iOS Maps SDKs.