v4.0.0-rc.1

[m-mohr]

THIS IS A BREAKING RELEASE - MAKE SURE TO UPDATE ALL YOUR CONFIG FILES

Changelog

• Migrated from Leaflet (and stac-layer) to OpenLayers (and ol-stac)
  • New layer switcher
  • Support for multiple projections
  • Support for more advanced basemaps (e.g. Vector Tiles) - make sure to update your basemap.config.js, see new documentation for details
  • Support for more web-map-link types (WMS, WMTS, XYZ, PMTiles)
  • Read additional metadata for better default COG rendering
  • New or updated config options: displayPreview, displayOverview, buildTileUrlTemplate, getMapSourceOptions, crs
  • Removed config options: geoTiffResolution, maxPreviewsOnMap
  • and much more...
• Integration of stac-js into the codecase
  • Allows for more flexibility in Link and Asset actions
• New header design with custom logo option (please provide feedback, we plan an even better version for v5.0)
• Improved sorting behavious in search requests with some small UI tweaks
• Configuration (in config.js) - see the documentation for details:
  • Removed deprecated options and related functionality for redirectLegacyUrls and stacProxyUrl
  • Renamed maxItemsPerPage to maxEntriesPerPage
  • Split config option itemsPerPage into searchResultsPerPage, itemsPerPage, collectionsPerPage
  • allowedDomains accepts more patterns
  • Config option preprocessSTAC now receives a stac-js object as parameter
  • New config option catalogImage to provide an logo for the header
• Bug fixes, for example:
  • Search results display order did not match API response order Search results display order does not match API response order #621
  • Fix number formatting in international English Decimal formatting not respecting user's locale #639
  • Fix compatibility for OGC APIs Fix URL resolving for OGC APIs #486 #646
  • Make popovers work on MacOS (Safari) Add tab index to make buttons clickable #655
  • Show links to prev/next/latest versions if deprecated is not set

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