With 40 pull requests over a period of almost 5 months, this long awaited release brings important bug fixes as well as exiting new features. The highlights are

• Several WebGL renderer bug fixes, along with improved memory management
• Updates for the Polyline feature format
• API improvements and bug fixes on the Select, Extent and Snap interactions
• Reprojection support for VectorTile layers
• Full web worker support for Map, with an (Offscreen)Canvas as map target
• Fixed cache and rendering for reprojected raster/image tile layers
• Several updated and new examples, including a globe-like map with Equal Earth projection

Upgrade notes

Deprecation of ol/array's stableSort

Sorting is guaranteed to be stable since ECMAScript 2019.

// Before
stableSort(arr, compareFnc);

// After
arr.sort(compareFnc);

Deprecation of functions in ol/format/Polyline

The following functions have been deprecated without replacement:

• decodeDeltas
• encodeDeltas
• decodeFloats
• encodeFloats

What's Changed

• Updates for the 10.6.1 release by @ahocevar in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16920
• Properly handle boolean attributes in WebGL expressions by @jahow in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16937
• Improve memory usage by using a single buffer for WebGL layers by @jahow in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16942
• Use bounding box from layer in WMTS capabilities by @remiHau in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16936
• Support url template with {z}/{x}/{y} by @francbartoli in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16956
• ol.format.Polyline fixes by @M393 in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16955
• Adding setSrc method to Icon style by @pakb in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16957
• Select methods for adding/removing features by @laundmo in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16923
• Update ol-stac example by @m-mohr in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16962
• Use WebGL instanced rendering to improve performance and memory usage by @jahow in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16959
• Deprecate polyline encodeDeltas and decodeDeltas by @M393 in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16968
• Fix ol/style/Text clone() to properly handle non-Fill instances… by @ramzahn in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16969
• Fix offscreen canvas example by @M393 in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16971
• Do not toggle tracing on pointerup after dragging by @ahocevar in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16975
• chore(deps-dev): bump codemirror from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16927
• chore(deps-dev): bump webpack-sources from 3.3.2 to 3.3.3 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16933
• chore(deps-dev): bump @rollup/plugin-commonjs from 28.0.5 to 28.0.6 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16934
• chore(deps-dev): bump mocha from 11.6.0 to 11.7.1 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16943
• chore(deps-dev): bump marked from 15.0.12 to 16.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16944
• chore(deps-dev): bump @typescript-eslint/parser from 8.34.0 to 8.36.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16983
• chore(deps-dev): bump proj4 from 2.17.0 to 2.19.6 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16982
• chore(deps-dev): bump rollup from 4.43.0 to 4.45.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16979

New Contributors

• @remiHau made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16936
• @francbartoli made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16956
• @laundmo made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16923
• @ramzahn made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/16969
• @rcaplier made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/17009
• @Swiod made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/17008
• @daboudii made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/17022
• @strues-maps made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/17097
• @outslept made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/17086
• @gmerciel made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/17141
• @pka made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/17165
• @mradamcox made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/17176

Full Changelog: https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/compare/v10.6.1...v10.7.0