Roadmap
Revised December 4th, 2024.
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.WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK
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What’s Coming Up
Released
- Internationalization: Locale-aware date and number formatting
- Improved data handling and performance
- Improved bundling and tree shaking support
- New Stock series types: Renko & Point and Figure
- Better handling of titles
- Improved default fonts
- Easily visualize financial data with Highcharts, with a connection to Morningstar Direct Web Services.
- Support for all chart types, including Highcharts Core, Stock, Maps, Gantt, and Dashboards.
- Support for commonly used Morningstar DWS endpoints, including TimeSeries, SecurityDetails, Screener, and X-Ray.
- DataGrid: Improved accessibility with more granular control via config options, including ARIA live announcements on e.g. cell editing and column sorting.
- EditMode: Added confirm/cancel events on button click in the sidebar.
- Edit Mode UX improvements and bugfixes.
- Brand new version of DataGrid! Rewritten and improved API and functionality.
- An official plugin for designers working in Figma to be able to leverage Highcharts in their designs.
- Instantly generate and tweak various chart types including line, bar, gauge, pie, and area charts.
- Once you've designed your charts, easily send them to developers who can integrate them with our Highcharts library.
- Create chart configurations with text prompts, powered by ChatGPT.
- Quickly generate boilerplate code, get visualization advice, or 24/7 automated support.
- Refine and correct output via follow-up prompts.
- Immediately see examples of the charts once the code is generated.
- Highcharts Map Collection v2.2.0 was released, containing multiple fixes.
- The update includes fixes to USA, France, Japan, and UK maps, among others.
In progress1-3 months
- Support for sparklines in DataGrid.
- Theming in DataGrid.
- We are working on many improvements to Highcharts Dashboards and DataGrid, and would like to hear from you to help us drive priorities.
- We are working on improvements to our React integration, allowing developers to more easily leverage Highcharts capabilities in their familiar ecosystem.
- The improved integration is currently in Alpha, and we expect to release an early beta version soon.
- Highlights include a more React-like API, improved developer experience, and better integration with custom React components.
- We are working on an official integration with Flutter, allowing developers to more easily leverage Highcharts capabilities in their familiar ecosystem.
- We expect to release an early beta version of this integration soon.
- The new Highcharts Editor is aiming for feature parity with the existing one.
- We are looking for people to try this out and give us more feedback.
Next up 3+ months
- Improved input validation in DataGrid.
- Improved and extended data handling
- Further UX improvements to Edit Mode
- Improved documentation and demos.
- We are researching improvements to the Highcharts accessibility features, to make it easier to create more advanced charts that are accessible and usable for everyone.
- If you have feedback for us on the accessibility features of Highcharts, we would like to hear from you.
- We are considering work to make it easier to build interfaces using Gantt visualizations.
- If you are a current or potential user of Highcharts Gantt, we would appreciate learning more about your use case.
- We are considering work to make it easier to enhance Stock charts with predictive analysis tools.
- If you are a current or potential user of Highcharts Stock, we would appreciate learning more about your use case.
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