Released: Jun 11, 2026
Updates in v13.0.0
Features
- New in Highcharts Core v13.0.0
- Added new options set, palette, making it easy to apply general design colors for light and dark mode. This replaces the former Adaptive theme.
- Added support for providing data as DataTable through the new options
dataTable, series.dataTable and series.dataMapping.
- Updated gauge and solid-gauge series, including panes and radial y-axis, with more sensible defaults and major design facelift, making it easier for implementers and AI agents to create great looking gauges from minimal configuration.
- Refactored the data sorting functionality into a separate module, in order to simplify and reduce weight on the core script file.
- Improved entrance and exit animation of points and data labels when they are dynamically created, destroyed or zoomed in or out of view.
- Added the experimental autoload feature, loading required modules based on the chart configuration.
- Added customizable
boundary ticks for datetime axes.
- Added new setting,
contrast, for dataLabels.backgroundColor. Allows enhancing readability with a plain, semi-transparent background color. Extended the dataLabels.distance option to apply to more series types than previously.
- Added new option,
chart.plotBorderRadius.
- Added new options set,
tooltip.header, for better control over the header design i split tooltips.
- New in Highcharts Gantt v13.0.0
- Added text align support for grid axis titles (column header).
Highcharts Core Upgrade Notes:
- Default pane layout and design for gauges and polar charts has gone through a major facelift.
- Solid gauge
radius and innerRadius, when given as numeric values, defined on series or point level, no longer resolve as percents, but as pixels. To set it to a percent, use a percentage string like radius: '50%'.
- The
dataSorting feature now requires the modules/data-sorting.js file.
- Default data label positions have changed slightly. Previously, the distance to the point or column was determined by
padding and adjusted by x and y. Introduced new option, dataLabels.distance, in order to allow backgrounds with padding without touching the point.
Fixes
- Fixes in Highcharts Core v13.0.0:
- Fixed, boosted points were missing keyed values after zoom.
- Fixed, in the exporting menu, the 'View in fullscreen' label was broken after being used.
- Fixed, fixed and split tooltip with useHTML shifted after first render.
- Fixed, templating multiply helper exposed floating-point precision in axis labels.
- Fixed, grid lines rendered above the plot border after responsive axis update.
- Fixed, exported charts did not have correct data after updating it with null values.
- Fixed, styled mode x-range missed colorIndex after setData.
- Fixed, year resolution date labels didn't respect localized format.
- Fixed, consistent chart menu aria-label and i18n translations.
- Fixed, regression with zones set below max value and axis max set, line on max was clipped.
- Fixes in Highcharts Maps v13.0.0:
- Fixed, ensured tiled web map tiles reload after mapView updates.