Mapbox

Recent releases across GL JS, Maps iOS, Maps Android, and Navigation iOS focus on making existing primitives more expressive.

Raster layers gain draping control and log-scale color ramps. GL JS 3.29.0 and Maps iOS 11.29.0 add raster-allow-draping: false, letting raster layers opt out of globe and terrain draping to preserve custom shading. GL JS also introduces raster-color-scale: "log" for improved color ramp precision when visualizing datasets with long-tailed distributions — useful for population density, signal strength, and similar data.

Expression and config inputs become more flexible. The distance expression now accepts any expression as its second argument instead of only a literal — so you can pass ["config", "route-line-geometry"] directly. Import config properties can now take an object literal as a value. Both changes land across GL JS 3.29.0, Maps iOS 11.29.0, and Maps Android 11.29.0.

Android's Compose API adds per-gesture listeners and coordinate conversion. Maps Android 11.29.0 introduces GesturesState with dedicated suspend functions for move, scale, rotate, shove, and fling gestures, each available as a standalone rememberGesturesState(). The same release adds coordinate conversion helpers — coordinateForPixel, pixelsForCoordinates, and related methods — to MapState.

A MapView memory leak on Android is resolved. Maps Android 11.28.4 fixes a case where a MapView and its render thread could remain permanently retained if the underlying Surface never became ready before the view was destroyed. MapboxMap.whenSizeReady now returns a Cancelable so the callback can be properly removed.

CarPlay display and speed limit issues are fixed. Navigation iOS 3.29.0 corrects route and POI previews appearing beneath CarPlay controls after safe-area changes, restores speed limit view visibility during free drive, and adds CarPlayManager.hidesSpeedLimitViewWithMapControls for explicit control over speed limit view visibility.