11.23.0-rc.1 April 20, 2026

Features ✨ and improvements 🏁

• Support symbol paint properties in appearances — symbol layers can now use feature-dependent appearances for paint properties (not only layout), enabling richer per-feature styling of text and icons.
• Improve rendering performance of feature cutouts — optimized depth sampling in the cutout shader yields noticeably smoother rendering when feature cutouts are enabled (e.g. elevated route with cutouts).
• TileStore can now store 3D landmark/navigation tile content types, unblocking their use in offline regions.
• Add support for USB import radius in TileStore — new import parameter for seeding offline tile packs from USB media within a configurable radius.
• Evict tiles based on LRU and optimize eviction — the default eviction policy now uses least-recently-used instead of expiration-based scoring, keeping frequently-viewed tiles around longer and making cleanup passes faster.
• Settings can be set on startup — the SDK now loads persistent_settings.json and non_persistent_settings.json from the app's internal storage directory at startup, allowing configuration changes without an app rebuild.

Bug fixes 🐞

• Fix attribution links accepting non-HTTP URI schemes.
• Fix a potential file descriptor leak that could cause resource exhaustion.
• Fix icons appearing at incorrect size when icon-size is data-driven and a non-default scale factor is applied.
• Fix fog incorrectly obscuring the globe when using a custom field of view.
• Fix tile data corruption causing integrity check failures for small tiles stored in the offline cache.
• Fix a crash that could occur when the tile store is destroyed while downloads are still being processed.

Dependencies

• Update gl-native to v11.23.0-rc.1, common to v24.23.0-rc.1.