Roadmap
Revised August 28, 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.What’s Coming Up
Released
- Tiled web maps - visualize maps with image tiles
- Smooth heatmap interpolation
- Mouse wheel zooming
- Logic in format strings
- Chart.getOptions
- Design upgrade
- Faster codebase
- Flow maps
- Pictorial charts
- Treegraphs
- Geographical heatmaps
- Audio charts
- ... and more
- 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.
- Full-featured, official integration with Python.
- Simple and powerful Pythonic API.
- Native integration with Jupyter, Pandas, PySpark, and more.
- Highcharts Dashboards makes it easy for developers to build dashboards that visualize and process data.
- A flexible data layer allows for easy data integration and synchronization across components.
- Use both built-in components or your own custom components with ease.
- Includes a configurable edit mode so that end-users of the dashboards can make changes to the components, data, and layout.
- Persistent state through complete save and reload functionality for the dashboard.
- Can be used with any front-end Javascript framework.
- Now with support for JSON data, crossfiltering Navigator component, and more.
In progress1-3 months
- More advanced cross-component configuration options.
- Improved accessibility.
- More comprehensive documentation and demos.
- Closer integration with React and other front-end frameworks.
- We are considering several other improvements to Highcharts Dashboards, and would like to hear from you to help us drive priorities.
- We will support smooth interpolation of geoheatmaps used with Highcharts Maps.
- We are transitioning away from using a PhantomJS solution to using Chrome Headless.
- The new server is currently in an online test phase.
Next up 3+ months
- We are planning improvements to our React integration, allowing developers to more easily leverage Highcharts capabilities in their familiar ecosystem.
- We are planning an official integration with Flutter, allowing developers to easily leverage Highcharts capabilities in their familiar ecosystem.
- We are considering working on improvements to the Stock Tools UI in Highcharts Stock, and would like to hear your feedback on the current features.
- We are planning improvements to the Highcharts Editor, to make it easy to build visual interfaces for creating charts.
- We are planning improvements to the Highcharts accessibility features, to make it easier to create more advanced charts that are accessible and usable for everyone.
- If you are a user or potential user of Audio Charts and Sonification, 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 like to hear from you!
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