Product Updates

Highcharts Version 11.4

by

Nancy Dillon

2 minutes read

Highcharts Core

We are excited to announce the release of Highcharts version 11.4.

New features include:

A new mobile zoom experience
Improved layout control for sankey diagrams and org charts
Stock improvements
Bug fixes

Let’s dive into what’s new.

A New Mobile Zoom Experience

We’ve enhanced the pinch zoom behavior on mobile charts.

Previously, zoom interactions created a preview of the scaled chart elements while zooming, and once the zoom was finished, the chart would completely redraw.

But with our enhanced pinch zoom functionality, axes and series now redraw continuously while zooming, creating a smoother experience. We also performed a deeper refactoring of our whole zoom, pan and mousewheel logic.

Improved Layout Control for Sankey Diagrams and Org Charts

Sankey nodes now support an auto width setting. Just set the sankey.nodeWidth option to auto and your Sankey nodes will fill the entire plot area in the longitudinal direction, regardless of the number of levels. Then use the new sankey.nodeDistance option to space your nodes evenly across the plot area.

The same node-width/node-distance pairing also works with the organization chart and treegraph series.

Stock Improvements

Enhanced X-axis Overscroll

We’ve enhanced the xAxis.overscroll feature to accept pixel and percentage values.

If you set the x-axis overscroll to a percentage string, the string is interpreted as a percentage of the axis length. For example, an overscroll setting of ‘50%’ will make a 100px axis 50px longer.

If you set the x-axis overscroll to a pixel string, e.g. ‘50px’, the string is interpreted as a fixed-pixel value. This value is limited to 90% of the axis length.