Highcharts Grid Pro Releases

• Grid Pro: Added support for row grouping.
• Grid Pro: Optimized event options update.
• Grid Pro: Added treeView data aggregation.
• Grid: Added support for column virtualization.
• Grid: Added built-in context menu groups.
• Grid: Grid filtering conditions allowlist.
• Grid: Added possibility to render Grid caption as HTML.
• Grid: Added support for runtime warnings when deprecated Grid options are used.
• Grid: Added support for minWidth and maxWidth in column options.
• Grid: Added data.dataTableKey option to select a table from Grid data connectors.
• Grid: Refactored CSS by separating theme styles from functional styles.

Important Note: Grid Pro v3 introduces a new Grid Key which should be added to your configuration. Your Grid Key can be obtained by clicking the bottom link in your current License Statement, sent as a PDF via e-mail on purchase/renewal.
Setup instructions are available here: https://www.highcharts.com/docs/grid/grid-key

• Grid Pro: Added support for hierarchical data using data.treeView.
• Grid Pro: Added support for row pinning using rendering.rows.pinning.
• Grid Pro: Added pageSize field to Remote Data Provider callback, so it can automatically realign chunk indexing when the backend clamps or adjusts the requested page size.
• Grid: Cleaned up deprecated methods and options (details in the upgrade note).
• Grid: Added support for row headers (th) in tbody.
• Grid: Added support for touch devices on column resizing.
• Grid: Added data.autogenerateColumns (default true) with support for unbound columns via columns[].dataId = null and cells.valueGetter, so column generation can be fully controlled from columns[] and do not have to have a direct column source in the data source.
• Upgrade Notes:
  • Grid Pro: Introduced a required Grid Key. When Grid Pro loads or updates, it validates the gridKey API property. If the key is missing, invalid, or expired, Grid Pro writes a browser console warning.
  • Grid: Replaced uses of grid.dataTable and grid.presentationTable with grid.dataProvider.getDataTable().
  • Grid: Replaced uses of grid.columnOptionsMap with grid.columnPolicy methods.
  • Grid: Replaced sorting.sortable with sorting.enabled.

• Grid Pro: Prevented grid-lite.css module removal from Grid Pro dist package.
• Grid: Added label to header context menu button.

• Fixed responsive rules not reacting when the Grid container has display: inline.
• Fixed destroyed grid container when footer in custom element.
• Fixed showpages value when no results.
• Fixed pagination with filtering when all rows have been filtered out.
• Fixed row order in the grid did not reflect the dataTable order after adding rows with virtualization disabled.
• Fixed double initial render when using responsive.rules.

• Configurable Grid sorting toggle sequence via sorting.orderSequence.
• Changed Grid data API so serialized input is provided through data.columns, while data.dataTable is used for DataTable instances.
• Added idColumn option to use a column's values as stable row IDs instead of numeric indices.
• Added support for overriding and extending Grid SVG icons through rendering.icons.
• Modularized and cleaned up CSS to allow for fully functional Grid with no theming variables.
• Optimized refreshing rows, the number of which differs before and after the update.
• Added LocalDataProvider support for Data Connectors (single table).
• Introduced DataProvider as a new data layer between the Grid and its data source, enabling custom providers beyond the default in-memory LocalDataProvider (using DataTable).
• Introduced RemoteDataProvider as an alternative data layer allowing server-side sorting, filtering, and pagination operations, as well as downloading data in batches while scrolling (Grid Pro only).
• Added htmlTag option to the Grid caption. Grid: Added align API property to pagination.
• Added responsive.rules option so it's possible to define different options for different container sizes.
• Added 'auto' column width support.
• Added columns[].style, columns[].cells.style, and columns[].header.style to apply dynamic or static inline styles.

• Fixed missing header click event on sorting icon.
• Fixed string typing in formatter.
• Fixed column resizing with virtual rows leaving some grid rows at old column widths.
• Support scrolling in Grid when larger than max element height.
• Fixed row height change on edit (applies to Grid Pro only).
• Fixed an issue where updating grid column width to auto or undefined had no effect.
• Fixed missed id in table html element.
• Fixed issue with crashing header formatter.

• Added multi‑column sorting for Grid, including Shift‑click additive sorting.
• Added arrayNumber, json and sparlinke validators.
• Added Grid screen reader region before and after elements.
• Enhanced CSS to allow theming of individual columns, cells etc. and added new hover opacity variables.
• Improved Grid virtualization performance by reusing row elements, batching scroll updates to animation.
• Supported array of indices for the dataTable deleteRows method.
• Deprecated sorting.sortable and replaced with sorting.enabled in Grid column options for consistency with other Grid options.
• Optimized Grid by using fewer event listeners on cells.

• Fixed header rendering issue when shown after being initialized hidden.
• Fixed missing width update in columnDefaults.
• Fixed the wrong Grid height on specific parent container styles (flexbox, max-height).
• Reduced the type dependency tree from Core so it's not needed anymore to use "skipLibCheck": false when using the library in typescript environment.
• The afterRender events were not triggered when grid re-rendered.
• Use lang options (decimalPoint and thousandsSep) for formatting the number in cells.
• Unified format and formatter header references to column.
• The sorting.sortable option has been deprecated. Use sorting.enabled instead to enable or disable sorting on columns.