D3.js 5.8.0, a JavaScript library for interactive data visualizations in browsers, is now out!

Yesterday, the team behind D3.js rolled out D3.js 5.8.0. Data-Driven Documents or D3 is a JavaScript library using which you can create dynamic, interactive data visualizations in web browsers.

Updates are introduced in the following modules:

d3-force

• The iterations argument is added to simulation.tick.
• A bug is fixed when initializing nodes with fixed positions.

d3-scale

The following new features are added:

• The domain and range convenience constructors for all scale types
• Default constructors for sequential and diverging scales
• The d3.tickFormatReturns function, a number format function for displaying a tick value
• The d3.scaleSymlog function, which constructs a new continuous scale with the specified domain and range
• Transformed sequential scales, for example, d3.scaleSquentialLog
• Transformed diverging scales, for example, d3.scaleDivergingLog
• d3.scaleSequentialQuantile for p-quantiles
• scale.unknown for all scale types
• Unlimited band.paddingOuter and point.padding

d3-selection

• The selection.join method is added, a convenient alternative to the more explicit selection.enter, selection.exit, selection.append, and selection.remove.
• selection.order is updated to enforce relative position, rather than exact siblings.
• Vendor fallback for element.matches in selection.filter and d3.matcher is removed.

d3-transition

• The transition.end is added, which returns a promise that resolves when every selected element finishes transitioning.
• A cancel event is added to transition.on.
• Performance of transition.style and transition.attr is improved

To read the full list of updates on the GitHub repository of D3.js.

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