v3.0.0-beta.5

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.4:

✨ Features and improvements

• Improve shadow and fog rendering performance.
• Slightly improve performance of 3D layers on highly pitched views by rendering front to back.
• Make zooming over dynamic terrain (that pops in as you zoom) smoother.
• Add renderstart event, which combined with render event can be used to measure rendering frame duration.

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fix shadows sometimes flickering when zooming in on the Standard style.
• Fix flickering when using GeoJSON setData to animate 3D models.
• Fix symbols elevated over 3D layers jumping to ground level and back during zoom.
• Fix an error when loading a 3D tile where multiple materials reference the same texture.
• Fix several edge cases when smoothing terrain under 3D landmarks.
• Fix hillshade-illumination-direction to align with light direction if hillshade-illumination-anchor is not set to viewport.
• Fix precision issues when rendering ground flood light.
• Fix styles with fragment: false not to be loaded as basemap imports.
• Fix an error on map hasImage and updateImage after the map was removed.