Happy New Year, MapLibre Community! We are thrilled to share big updates for MapLibre Native (including Vulkan support), the official launch of MapLibre GL JS Version 5.0, new features in Martin Tile Server, and more. In January we will hold a MapLibre Eastern Call again to better connect with contributors…
Jan 5, 2025
We are excited to announce the official release of MapLibre Android with Vulkan support! Vulkan is a modern graphics API which brings advantages such as improved performance, improved observability and better stability. Vulkan is poised to replace OpenGL ES eventually on Android. Starting 2026, new devices will only support OpenGL…
Dec 12, 2024
November month has seen a lot of updates from across different projects in Maplibre ecosystem. From mulitple pre-releases for MapLibre GL JS and to groundbreaking udpates in Maplibre Native, there's a lot to explore. In addition, a recent survey shed light on user feedback for flutter Maplibre GL. Don't forget…
Dec 1, 2024
We’re delighted to begin the October newsletter with a gracious and hearty Thank You to Meta for their unwavering support as a sponsor of MapLibre in 2024! We look forward to what is to come. We have released versions 5.0.0-pre.2, 5.0.0-pre.3 and 5.0.0-pre.4 this month. One interesting feature that was recently…
Nov 5, 2024
, MapLibre announced that Oliver would become the first person to work on the MapLibre team in the capacity of coordinator. Oliver has been involved with the project before that, being the reviewer of the now legendary for MapLibre GL JS, one of the first major milestones after the…
Oct 11, 2024
We’re delighted to begin the September newsletter with a heartfelt THANK YOU to Microsoft for their unwavering support as a sponsor of MapLibre in 2024! In this month three versions were released: 4.7.0, 4.7.1 and 5.0.0-pre.1. The pre-release of version 5 is meant to get some feedback on the newly…
Sep 30, 2024
We are glad to open the August newsletter with a cordial THANK YOU to for continuing to sponsor MapLibre in 2024! At the end of August, the MapLibre Governing Board election 2024 took place. The following people have been elected: Congratulations to the new and old Members of the…
Sep 2, 2024
continues to support MapLibre in 2024 - Thank You!The election will take place on Thursday, August 29th, 2024. The Governing Board consists of 5 members which get elected by the MapLibre Voting Members. The primary role of the Board is to set the long-term strategy of MapLibre, overview…
Jul 31, 2024
We would like to open the June newsletter by thanking for their continued support as a member of the MapLibre Sponsorship Program! In June 2024, we were also happy to welcome as a new Silver tier sponsor, see . Two minor versions were released: and . Some…
Jun 30, 2024
, our first-ever sponsor, has made a donation again to support MapLibre in 2024 for the third year in a row. Thank you so much Mierune! In a monthly MapLibre meeting several months ago, presented his research on a new vector tile format and how it might outperform conventional…
May 31, 2024
At the end of March, we were happy to announce that Mappedin, a global leader in indoor mapping and spatial data management, joined the MapLibre Sponsorship Program. Let us give a warm welcome to our latest sponsor Mappedin! In addition to the usual monthly meetings for MapLibre GL JS and…
Apr 30, 2024
In March 2024, we onboarded into the MapLibre GitHub organization. MapLibre GL Inspect is a small plugin for MapLibre GL JS that allows you to inspect the contents of vector tiles including the attributes of vector tile features. Special thanks to who maintained this plugin over the last…
Mar 25, 2024
In February 2024, we were happy to that Microsoft has joined the MapLibre Sponsorship Program. With Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft we now have three companies that have a seat in the MapLibre Advisory Council which meets with members of the MapLibre Governing Board on a quarterly basis. MapLibre's fiscal…
Feb 29, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of MapLibre Native for iOS v6.0.0 with Metal support! is a map rendering toolkit written in C++ that can be used on many different . For GPU accelerated real-time rendering, MapLibre Native traditionally relied only on the industry standard graphics API called…
Jan 19, 2024
Versions 3.5.2, 3.6.0, 3.6.1 were released, and we started going into the pre-release mode for MapLibre GL JS v4. The most significant breaking change in version 4 will be the replacement of outdated JavaScript callbacks with Promises in several public APIs. You can now start testing the version 4 pre-releases…
Nov 30, 2023
Just in time for this newsletter, MapLibre GL JS has gained over . Great that we got so far and thanks to everyone who contributed in the past and made this possible! In the last month, 5 releases of MapLibre GL JS were made. Below you find some highlights, for…
Oct 30, 2023
It is already one year now that MapLibre has an elected Governing Board, and as the Board members serve a one-year-term, it was time for new Governing Board Elections. We held the Elections and all existing Board members have been re-elected. Read more . MapLibre was represented at two events…
Sep 18, 2023