CesiumJS 1.47

1.47 2018-07-02

Highlights include:

• Added support for polylines on terrain #6689 #6615
• Added heightReference and extrudedHeightReference properties to CorridorGraphics, EllipseGraphics, PolygonGraphics and RectangleGraphics. #6717
• PostProcessStage has a selected property which is an array of primitives used for selectively applying a post-process stage. #6476

See the change log for the complete list of changes.

CesiumJS 1.46

1.46 2018-06-01

Highlights include:

• Added support for materials on terrain entities (entities with unspecified height) and GroundPrimitives. #6393
• Added a post-processing framework. #5615
• Added zIndex for ground geometry, including corridor, ellipse, polygon and rectangle entities. #6362

See the change log for the complete list of changes.

CesiumJS 1.45

1.45 2018-05-01

Highlights Include:

• We've launched Cesium ion! Read all about it in our blog post.
• Cesium now uses ion services by default for base imagery, terrain, and geocoding. A demo key is provided, but to use them in your own apps you must sign up for a free ion Commmunity account.
• Cesium now uses a logarithmic depth buffer, which reduces CPU overhead, decreases the number of draw calls, and removes multi-frustum artifacts. #5851
• Numerous glTF improvements in visual quality and loading performance.
• Fix flicker when adding, removing, or modifying entities. #3945

See the change log for the complete list of changes.

CesiumJS 1.44

1.44 - 2018-04-02

Highlights Include:

• Added a new Sandcastle label, New in X.X which will include all new Sandcastle demos added for the current release. #6384
• Added support for glTF models with Draco geometry compression. #5120
• Added support for ordering in DataSourceCollection. #6316

See the change log for the complete list of changes.

CesiumJS 1.43

1.43 - 2018-03-01

Highlights Include:

• Say hello to Cesium ion
• Cesium, the JavaScript library, is now officially renamed to CesiumJS (no code changes required)
• The STK World Terrain tileset is deprecated and will be available until September 1, 2018. Check out the new high-resolution Cesium World Terrain
• Added new Ion, IonResource, and IonImageryProvider objects for loading data hosted on Cesium ion.
• Added createWorldTerrain helper function for easily constructing the new Cesium World Terrain.
• Fixed bug where KmlDataSource did not use Ellipsoid to convert coordinates. Use options.ellipsoid to pass the ellipsoid to KmlDataSource constructors / loaders. #6176
• Fixed bug where 3D Tiles Point Clouds would fail in Internet Explorer. #6220
• Fixed issue where CESIUM_BASE_URL wouldn't work without a trailing /. #6225

Cesium 1.42

Highlights include:

• Added optional mode to reduce CPU usage. See Improving Performance with Explicit Rendering. (#6115)
• Major refactor of URL handling. All classes that take a url parameter, can now take a Resource or a String. This includes all imagery providers, all terrain providers, Cesium3DTileset, KMLDataSource, CZMLDataSource, GeoJsonDataSource, Model, and Billboard.

See the change log for the complete list of changes.

Cesium 1.41

Highlights include:

• Added clipping planes to the globe, 3D tilesets, and glTF models.

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Cesium 1.40

Highlights include:

• Support for Globe materials for shading such as height- or slope-based color ramps.
• CZML improvements.
• Numerous KML big fixes.

See the change log for a full list of changes.

Cesium 1.39

1.39 - 2017-11-01

Highlights include:

• Cesium now officially supports webpack. See our Integrating Cesium and webpack blog post for more details.
• Added support for right-to-left language detection in labels, currently Hebrew and Arabic are supported. To enable it, set Cesium.Label.enableRightToLeftDetection = true at the start of your application. #5771
• Numerous KML bugfixes and improvements

See the change log for a full list of changes

Cesium 1.38

1.38 - 2017-10-02

Highlights include:

• Added support in CZML for expressing orientation as the velocity vector of an entity, using velocityReference syntax. #5807
• Fixed issue in Internet Explorer and Edge with loading unicode strings in typed arrays that impacted 3D Tiles Batch Table values.
• Zoom now maintains camera heading, pitch, and roll. #4639
• Fixed a tileset traversal bug when the skipLevelOfDetail optimization is off. #5869

See the change log for a full list of changes