Roadmap

Revised March 21, 2023.

The following represents Highcharts’ product development cycle and future direction. It is only intended for information purposes and should not be seen as a commitment on our part.

Highcharts JS v11 – Early Q2 2023

Visual design overhaul.
Remove support for IE 8.
Build for evergreen browsers by default, and provide a legacy path for older browsers. See details.
New sonification module with more features.
Rewrite the default CSS for styled mode. Use CSS variables instead of SASS. See details.

Highcharts JS, rolling implementations

Continued TypeScript migration and further modular architecture allowing better treeshaking. Expected release in Q2.
Interpolated colors for heatmap.
Customizable column/bar border radius.
New series type, pictorial, an infographic-style visualization of quantities using simplified shapes. See the preliminary study.
New series type, tree graph, for displaying hierarchical data in a tree view. See the pull request.
More data label options for dependency wheel, similar to pie series.
More templating control for tooltip, including logic and loops.

Highcharts Maps – Q1 2023

Support for tiled web map services.
Support for flow maps.
Support for geo heat maps.

Highcharts Dashboards – Q2 2023

New dashboard package which will administer the data layer and communication between multiple charts and other components.

Highcharts Python – Q2 2023

Official integration with the Python programming language.
Support for Highcharts Core, Stock, Maps, and Gantt.
Simple and powerful Pythonic API.
Native integration with data tools like Pandas and Jupyter Notebooks.
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Highcharts Export Server – Q1 2023

Transition away from using PhantomJS to using Chrome Headless. Chrome Headless is in an online test phase now.

Highcharts Editor – 2023

Improvements to the Highcharts Editor are planned to start in 2023.