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What's New

Unreleased​

  • Seasonal Farm shows seven labelled plots with varied trees, seasonal crops, and hover details.
  • TreeLayer fixes tree orientation and reuses pine geometry when attributes change.

v9.4​

Release Date: Sep 7, 2026

Highlights:

  • Updated the community modules for deck.gl and luma.gl 9.4.
  • Expanded WebGPU support across the layer catalog. See the WebGPU support matrix for current support and known limitations.
  • Added reusable wind visualization layers and new panel and widget APIs.

@deck.gl-community/arrow-layers​

@deck.gl-community/editable-layers​

@deck.gl-community/geo-layers​

  • WindLayer (new) renders interpolated, speed-colored wind arrows.
  • ParticleLayer (new) animates up to one million particles on the GPU with WebGL2 or WebGPU, including GPU-resident particle heads and trails on both backends.
  • ElevationLayer (new) renders smooth, image-based terrain on WebGL2 and WebGPU.
  • DelaunayCoverLayer (new) renders the triangulated weather-station surface.
  • DelaunayInterpolation (new) samples and rasterizes weather fields independently of the rendering backend.
  • GlobalGridLayer now supports WebGPU.
  • TileGridLayer now renders tile borders on WebGPU.
  • The Wind Map includes original forecast data, three-dimensional mountains, tilt-and-rotate camera controls, and a 1,000-to-1,000,000-particle density slider.

@deck.gl-community/graph-layers​

@deck.gl-community/layers​

  • DependencyArrowLayer (new) renders dependency links with path, line, or arc routing on WebGL2 and WebGPU.
  • PathOutlineLayer now uses deck.gl v9-native sublayers and supports WebGPU.
  • PathMarkerLayer now supports dashed strokes and pixel-sized directional markers on WebGL2 and WebGPU.

@deck.gl-community/infovis-layers​

  • AnimationLayer (new) animates a child layer from a frame schedule.
  • BlockLayer (new) renders dense interval blocks on WebGL2 and WebGPU, with width cutoffs, stroke alignment, opacity, and color overrides.
  • TimeDeltaLayer (new) renders interval guides and labels on WebGL2 and WebGPU.

@deck.gl-community/timeline-layers​

@deck.gl-community/widgets​

  • Device-managed examples now preserve transparent canvas backgrounds across WebGPU and WebGL2, and keep only the active backend canvas mounted in the visible example host.
  • ColorLegendWidget (new) renders categorical, continuous, and compact color legends.
  • PanelWidget (new) hosts any panel component as a deck.gl widget.
  • OmniBoxWidget adds debounced asynchronous search, refresh reruns, result-state callbacks, and custom result summaries.
  • TimeMeasureWidget lets users adjust either boundary of a completed time range.

@deck.gl-community/panels​

  • PanelComponent (new) is the common lifecycle for directly mountable panel UI.
  • Panel now extends PanelComponent, providing a consistent base for leaf and composite panels.
  • ModalPanelContainer adds non-blocking floating dialogs, drag handles, custom placement, and custom styling.
  • BinaryDataPanel (new) previews binary data as hexadecimal and ASCII rows.
  • ArrowTablePanel (new) previews Apache Arrow tables.
  • ArrowSchemaPanel (new) inspects Apache Arrow schemas and metadata.
  • ArrowBatchesPanel (new) summarizes Apache Arrow record batches.

@deck.gl-community/react​

  • Panel (new) renders reusable @deck.gl-community/panels definitions in React and MDX trees.

@deck.gl-community/three​

  • TreeLayer improves the palm silhouette with a detailed frond crown and ring-scarred trunk, and now supports WebGPU.

v9.3​

Released: April 15, 2026

@deck.gl-community/geo-layers​

  • SharedTile2DLayer (new) shares one tiled data source across multiple layer instances and views.
  • SharedTileset2D (new) coordinates tile caching and loading across layers and views.
  • TileGridLayer (new) visualizes tile loading, bounds, and zoom depth.
  • New SharedTile2DLayer example showing one shared auto-tiled GeoJSON TableTileSource and one shared SharedTileset2D feeding multiple styled comparisons plus a minimap.
No React example UI initiative

Highlights:

  • deck.gl v9.3 compatibility
  • Examples transitioned from React to "pure JavaScript" examples using deck.gl widget panels.
  • Website and remaining React examples now build against React 19; @deck.gl-community/react accepts both React 18 and React 19.

@deck.gl-community/layers​

  • SkyboxLayer (new) renders a camera-centered cubemap in 3D-capable views from a URL or in-memory manifest.

Examples:

@deck.gl-community/basemap-layers (NEW module)​

A new experimental basemap module for rendering style-defined basemaps directly with deck.gl.

  • BasemapLayer (new) renders MapLibre or Mapbox style documents with deck.gl sublayers.
  • BasemapLayer MapView - Interactive flat-map control example with style switching and globe/flat runtime validation.

@deck.gl-community/basemap-layers/map-style - Utilities for loading and working with map styles available as a separate deck.gl independent sub-export:

  • MapStyleLoader (new) resolves and validates style documents through loaders.gl.
  • Map style utilities provide schemas, property evaluation, feature filtering, and URL resolution.

@deck.gl-community/three (NEW module)​

New module for THREE.js integration experiments.

v9.2​

Released: February 20, 2026

Highlights:

  • deck.gl v9.2 compatibility
  • Website: documentation improvements, search, and new gallery examples.
  • Tests migrated from jest to vitest.
  • editable-layers now uses turf.js 7 and official GeoJSON types.
  • New @deck.gl-community/widgets module with experimental deck.gl UI widgets.
  • New @deck.gl-community/timeline-layers module for time-series visualization.

@deck.gl-community/widgets (NEW module)​

A new module containing experimental widgets for deck.gl:

  • ZoomRangeWidget - NEW deck.gl Widget providing a zoom slider.
  • PanWidget - NEW deck.gl Widget providing pan buttons for moving the viewport.

@deck.gl-community/timeline-layers (NEW module)​

A new module providing time-series and timeline visualization layers (layers previously available in @deck.gl-community/infovis-layers):

@deck.gl-community/editable-layers​

  • DrawPolygonMode: Added allowHoles configuration to enable drawing polygon holes within existing polygons.
  • DrawPolygonMode: Enhanced hole creation with validation to prevent overlapping or nested holes.
  • DrawPolygonMode: Added comprehensive edit types for hole operations (addHole, invalidHole).
  • DeleteMode is now exported from the top-level edit-modes entry point.
  • Fixed: rectangle corners can no longer be accidentally removed when lockRectangles is set.
  • Fixed: three-click polygon mode no longer misprocesses guide vertices.

Breaking Changes:

  • DrawPolygonMode: preventOverlappingLines configuration renamed to allowSelfIntersection (with inverted logic).
    • Migration: {preventOverlappingLines: false} → {allowSelfIntersection: true}
    • Migration: {preventOverlappingLines: true} → {allowSelfIntersection: false} (or omit — this is now the default)

@deck.gl-community/leaflet​

  • DeckLayer has been renamed to DeckOverlay for consistency with the deck.gl ecosystem.
    • Migration: replace all DeckLayer imports and usages with DeckOverlay.

@deck.gl-community/graph-layers​

  • GraphLayer
    • GraphLayerProps.data — GraphLayer now accepts GraphEngine, Graph, or raw JSON via the new data prop (including async URLs).

Graph Loaders:

  • A common GraphData schema is defined and returned by all graph loaders.
  • JSONGraphLoader normalizes edge arrays or {nodes, edges} objects.
  • DOTGraphLoader — load graphs from Graphviz DOT format, including remote URLs.
  • ArrowGraph — load graphs from Arrow columnar format.

Graph Styling:

  • GraphLayerProps.stylesheet — unified stylesheet prop covering node, edge, and decorator styles.
  • GraphStylesheet — NEW 'arrow' edge decorator renders arrows on directional edges.
  • GraphStylesheet — style constants can now be defined with simple string literals (e.g. 'circle' instead of NODE_TYPE.CIRCLE).

Graph Layouts:

  • D3DagLayout — NEW GraphLayout for DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graphs) with layering and collapse/expand support.

  • RadialLayout — NEW GraphLayout for radial graph layouts.

  • HivePlotLayout — NEW GraphLayout for hive plot graph layouts.

  • D3MultiGraphLayout — NEW GraphLayout for multi-edge graph layouts.

  • Graph events are now handled via callback props rather than EventTarget.

  • GraphViewer example expanded to cover all new layouts with live UI controls for layout options.

  • Significant updates and new content throughout.

v9.1​

Released: July 8, 2025

Highlights

  • deck.gl 9.1 compatility.
  • Website fixes and example improvements.

@deck.gl-community/leaflet

  • This module is published to npm.
  • A working example is now up on the website.

@deck.gl-community/geo-layers (New module)

  • GlobalGridLayer - A new "generic" global grid layer that works against a pluggable GlobalGrid decoder.
  • GlobalGrid - A small abstraction API for global grid decoders, making it easier to write visualizations / applications that can work with multiple global grids.
  • A5Grid, H3Grid, S2Grid, GeohashGrid, QuadkeyGrid - Pre-defined global grid system "decoders" for some of the most popular global grids that can be used with the GlobalGridLayer

@deck.gl-community/timeline-layers (New module)

@deck.gl-community/infovis-layers (New module)

  • Utilities for advanced deck.gl view management.

@deck.gl-community/graph-layers

  • Code base has been partially modernized in an effort to simplify maintenance and contributions.

v9.0​

Released: November 20, 2024.

Highlights

  • Add deck.gl v9.0 support to selected modules

@deck.gl-community/editable-layers)

  • This new layer pack is a fork of Uber's nebula.gl framework (which unfortunately no longer provides write access to maintainers).
  • When drawing circles or ellipses properties of the created geometry are now stored in the vector's properties.

Pre v9.0 Updates​

Released: December 22, 2023

@deck.gl-community/layers v0 - A new module intended to containing a collection of useful community layers. Initial layers are TileSourceLayer, DataDrivenTile3DLayer.

Released: April 14, 2023:

@deck-graph-layers - A new layer pack for rendering graphs (nodes and edges). Forked from Uber's archived graph.gl repo.