The 6.14 release includes a few new features and fixes. The new loadstart and loadend events make it easy to add loading indicators to your maps. Enhancements to the snap interaction add support for snapping to points coincident with lines and improve performance. A change to WebGL rendering works around an issue in Safari 15.4. Find detail on these improvements and more in the full list of changes below.

List of all changes

See below for a complete list of features and fixes.

• Store rendered source on the layer instead of the layer state (by @tschaub in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13509)
• Change imageSmoothing to interpolate in tests (by @mike-000 in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13506)
• Fallback if OES_texture_float_linear is not supported (by @mike-000 in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13505)
• Workaround for Safari WebGL issue (by @tschaub in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13492)
• Separate geometry and extent parsing (by @ahocevar in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13490)
• Add loadstart and loadend map events (by @ahocevar in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13491)
• Add documentation for precompose and postcopose to ol/layer/WebGLTile (by @ahocevar in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13482)
• Fix legacy build (by @ahocevar in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13469)
• Fix Text#setText jsDoc (by @rycgar in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13466)
• Do not warn about coordinates when view projection is configured (by @ahocevar in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13464)
• Reset image when empty (by @ahocevar in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13463)
• Revert image transition regression (by @ahocevar in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13460)
• Improve Snap interaction performance (by @MoonE in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13455)
• Snap Interaction can snap to Point on line segment (by @T-MAPY in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13446)
• Initialize variable before use in FullScreen control (by @MoonE in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13447)
• Ensure FullScreen button has classname set on render. (by @themoffster in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13444)
• Guard PluggableMap against null renderer (by @EvertEt in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13437)
• Fix rendercomplete with invisible WebGLPoints layer (by @M393 in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13434)
• Handle layers without renderer properly (by @ahocevar in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13424)

New Contributors

• @themoffster made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13444
• @langpavel made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13446
• @rycgar made their first contribution in https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/pull/13466

Full Changelog: https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/compare/v6.13.0...v6.14.0