The 8.1 release includes fixes for a few bugs in the 8.0 release and a couple new enhancements. Nothing special is required when upgrading from 8.0. See the upgrade notes for details on upgrading from a 7.x release.

List of all changes

See below for a complete list of features and fixes.

• Change the style code in canvas-gradient-pattern.js to the previous … (by @ragolodc in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/15086)
• Fix invalid layer name (by @stadiamaps in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/15088)
• Avoid Chrome/Edge deprecated feature warning (by @mike-000 in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/15075)
• Accept a number or an array of numbers for icon scale (by @tschaub in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/15074)
• Webgl / add styling options for lines: joins, caps, offset, dash (by @jahow in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/15058)
• Add missing links to old version (by @MoonE in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/15072)
• Recreate WebGL helper when context is lost and restored (by @puckipedia in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/15066)
• Updates for the 8.0.0 release (by @openlayers in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/15068)

New Contributors

• @ragolodc made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/15086

Full Changelog: https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/compare/v8.0.0...v8.1.0