Released: Jun 11, 2026

Updates in v13.0.0

Features

• 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.

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.