Released: Apr 25, 2023

Updates in v11.0.0

Features

• Added geo heatmap series type for showing the concentration of values on a geo map.
• Added flow map series type for showing flows or movements between points on a map.
• Improved the design with a clearer, more vivid palette, added contrast for text labels and many minor visual changes.
• Added new treegraph and pictorial series types.
• Removed support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and older.
• Changed the default builds to ECMAScript version ES2016.
• Replaced SASS files for styledMode with updated CSS files. Highcharts theming is now easier by supporting CSS variables as well as prefers-color-scheme.
• Sonification module v2 with many new features for audio charts is now part of the official API.
• Changed default rotationMode to circular for sunburst data labels.
• Added minorTicksPerMajor option for axes.
• Added the point.percentage property for gauge charts.
• Added ResizeObserver to the chart so it could adjust reflow on container size change.

Fixes

• When there was a single data point in the TileMap series, circle and diamond shape tiles didn't render properly.
• Map data labels were misplaced for some shapes.
• The Draggable Points module didn't work for mappoint series.
• Panning in zoomed-in Orthographic projection didn't work.
• Custom symbols were incorrectly positioned in some cases.
• Y zoom while panning on top of the plot when chart inverted was not working.
• After updating the series data to one point with category xAxis there were unwanted labels.
• The tooltip with enabled outside and split properties was badly positioned for some series.
• tooltip.stickOnContact threw errors on hover between one series with followPointer set to true and the second series followPointer set to false.
• Incorrect guide box behavior while dragging stacked bars.
• Bubble legend didn't work correctly if the legendItemClick event for one series was prevented.
• Bad tooltip position in an inverted chart inside a scrollable container when tooltip.outside was true.
• Timeline styled mode default colors.
• Stack labels in inverted charts were mispositioned in the y axis.
• Waterfall lines missing when there was a null point.
• The Sunburst series didn’t work properly when the chart was inverted.
• Item chart points color wasn't updating.
• Bubbles with z: 0 caused points to disappear.
• Legend symbol height didn't accept 0 as a value.
• Vertical alignment of stack labels didn't work with logarithmic axes.
• pointPadding for heatmap series wasn't working with reversed axes.
• A polar chart with type "bar" and data labels caused JavaScript error.
• Column range points were not aligned with column points.
• The className property in guideBox didn't work for drag & drop.
• Wrong series name and legend item by using data.seriesMapping property.
• Stacked polar column chart with zero value rendered a wedge across the whole y axis.
• Adding annotation from a custom button was not possible if the button had a custom SVG symbol.
• Updating series marker size was not working if the initial size was not set.