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⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Improve reliability of contextmenu event simulation on mobile Safari by introducing a new TapHold handler, replacing legacy Tap (#​7026 by @​johnd0e)
• Reorganize DivOverlay/Popup/Tooltip APIs (#​7540 by @​johnd0e)
  • Move Popup related options from DivOverlay to Popup (#​7778 by @​Falke-Design)
  • Change Tooltip class from leaflet-clickable to leaflet-interactive (#​7719 by @​Falke-Design)
  • Map.closeTooltip now requires a layer as argument (#​7533 by @​johnd0e)
• Improve error / argument handling for event listeners (#​7518 by @​johnd0e)
• Improve reliability of touch events simulation on non-touch devices (DomEvent.Pointer) (#​7059, #​7084, #​7415 by @​johnd0e)
• Improve reliability of dblclick event simulation on touch devices (DomEvent.DoubleTap) (#​7027 by @​johnd0e)
• Improve reliability of disableClickPropagation (#​7439 by @​johnd0e)
• Improve Map hasLayer() and LayerGroup hasLayer() to require a layer as argument (#​6999 by @​johnd0e)
• Fix Class.include to not overwrite options (#​7756 by @​johnd0e)
• Fix Class.extend to not modify source props object (#​6766 by @​johnd0e)
• Improve Browser.touch touch devices detection (#​7029 by @​johnd0e)
• Get rid of legacy Android hacks (#​7022 by @​johnd0e)
• Allow fonts to respect users' browser settings by making the font-size relative to the map container. (You can change the font size on leaflet-container to adjust it if needed.) (#​7800 by @​Chandu-4444)

❇️ API changes

• Make DivOverlay / Tooltip interactive (#​7531, #​7532 by @​johnd0e)
• Add openOn, close, toggle functions to DivOverlay (#​6639 by @​johnd0e)
• Introduce DomEvent.off(el) to remove all listeners (#​7125 by @​johnd0e)
• Allow preventing round-off errors by passing false to Util.formatNum / toGeoJSON (#​7100 by @​johnd0e)
• Add autoPanOnFocus to Marker (#​8042 by @​IvanSanchez)
• Add referrerPolicy to TileLayer (#​7945 by @​natevw)
• Add playsInline to VideoOverlay (#​7928 by @​Falke-Design)
• Add getCenter to ImageOverlay (#​7848 by @​Falke-Design)
• Fire a tileabort event when a TileLayer load is cancelled (#​6786 by @​dstndstn)
• Add crossOrigin to Icon (#​7298 by @​syedmuhammadabid)

✨ Improvements

• Improve memory footprint by removing will-change CSS property on tile images (#​7872 by @​janjaap)
• Improve reliability of icons path detection heuristics (#​7092 by @​johnd0e)
• Improve performance of adding tiled sources by avoiding excessive updates in GridLayer.onAdd (#​7570 by @​johnd0e)
• Improve handling of edge cases in panInside (#​7469 by @​daverayment)
• Minify marker icon SVG (#​7600 by @​rala72)
• Allow template keys with spaces in TileLayer URL (#​7216 by @​lubojr)
• Improve behavior of Tooltip bound to ImageOverlay (#​7306 by @​IvanSanchez)
• Remove the gap between Popup tip and content dialog (#​7920 by @​Malvoz)
• Fire mousemove through Canvas to map if it has no layers (#​7809 by @​johnd0e)
• Add print styles to prevent printers from removing background-images in controls (#​7851 by @​Malvoz)
• Move attribution code from Layer to Control.Attribution (#​7764 by @​johnd0e)
• Refactor vmlCreate() so that it does not expose closure to TypeError (#​7279 by @​darcyparker)
• Improve reliability of Control.Layers by not relying on Browser android and touch properties (#​7057 by @​johnd0e)
• Improve reliability of Tooltip by not relying on Browser touch checks (#​7535 by @​johnd0e)
• Make Browser mutable for easier automated testing (#​7335 by @​bozdoz)
• Replace div with span in Control.Layers container to fix an HTML validation error (#​7914 by @​tmiaa)
• Add a Ukrainian flag to default attribution 🇺🇦 (by @​mourner in https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/pull/8109)

🙌 Accessibility

• Increase default font sizes and decrease attribution transparency for improved legibility (#​8057, by @​mourner)
• Improve accessibility of popup close button (#​7908, by @​Malvoz)
• Auto pan to markers on focus by default for improved keyboard operability (#​8042 by @​IvanSanchez)
• Add accessibility section to plugins guide (#​7277 by @​Malvoz)
• Update Marker to default to role="button" & alt="marker" for an improved screen reader experience (#​7895 by @​tmiaa)
• Set role="button" for appropriate semantics on the <a> layers control (#​7850 by @​Malvoz)
• Generally enable outlines for keyboard users by not stripping outline on focus for keyboard events (#​7259 by @​jafin)
• Enable outlines on leaflet-container for keyboard users (#​7996 by @​Malvoz)
• Multiple enhancements to popup's close button (#​7794 by @​Falke-Design)
• Use relative font-size units for resizable text (#​7800 by @​Chandu-4444)
• Apply :hover styles to :focus as well (#​7274 by @​Malvoz)
• Hide the decorative attribution separator from screen readers (#​7969 by @​Malvoz)
• Make the disabled state of zoom controls available to screen readers (#​7280 by @​akshataj96)
• Hide the +/- characters in zoom controls from screen readers to prevent erroneous announcements (#​7795 by @​Falke-Design)

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fix vector drift when dragging and immediately zooming (by @​manubb @​johnd0e @​mourner in https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/pull/8103)
• Reduce the occurrence of glitches on rapid zoom (by @​mourner in https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/pull/8102)
• Fix Marker jumping position while zooming in certain cases (#​7967 by @​Falke-Design)
• Fix opening / closing Tooltip while dragging the map (#​7862 by @​Falke-Design)
• Break the reference to the options of the Class prototype (#​7459 by @​Falke-Design)
• Improve Tooltip options permanent & sticky to work together (#​7563 by @​Falke-Design)
• Check if map container is still connected with Leaflet in locate event listener (#​7813 by @​Falke-Design)
• Fix Tooltip bindTooltip to unbind existent tooltip (#​7633 by @​Falke-Design)
• Correct if condition, to add zoom limits for Layer (#​7609 by @​vcoppe)
• GridLayer redraw tiles after changing maxNativeZoom (#​6443 by @​cherniavskii)
• Fix Popup keepInView if the map needs to panned over a long distance (#​7792 by @​Falke-Design)
• Tolerate wrong event names in add/removePointerListener (#​7808 by @​johnd0e)
• Reset width & padding to prevent cascading CSS from breaking tile rendering (#​6843 by @​Spudley)
• Fix mousedown event calling after dragging Canvas map (#​7781 by @​johnd0e)
• Decrease console.warn pollution (#​7748 by @​johnd0e)
• Fix contextmenu event default-preventing when there are >1 target candidates (#​7544 by @​johnd0e)
• Prevent click on Popup-tip from firing on map. (#​7541 by @​johnd0e)
• Fix error by calling Path.setStyle before adding the layer to the map (#​6941 by @​NielsHolt)
• Reset BoxZoom after cancel with ESC (#​7597 by @​Falke-Design)
• Fix noConflict (#​7855 by @​Falke-Design)
• Fix popup appearance when content is empty (#​8136, by @​ansh-ag)
• Fix latLngToCoords and latLngsToCoords not accepting array form of lat/lngs (#​7436, by @​Relkfaw)

📝 Docs

• Add a new Leaflet accessibility tutorial (#​8081, by @​Malvoz)
• Upgrade Code of Conduct to Contributor Covenant v2 and improve its visibility (#​7984 by @​mourner)
• Lint examples (#​7827 by @​mourner)
• Update usability in Docs (#​7982, #​7703, #​7950, #​7906, #​7907, #​7696, #​7816, #​7345, #​7815, #​7948, #​7901 by @​Falke-Design, @​avioli, @​Malvoz, @​fulldecent, @​saerdnaer, @​MxDui)
• Typos / Fixes in Docs, Samples, ... (#​7263, #​7284, #​7339, #​7349, #​7381, #​7371, #​7485, #​7380, #​7578, #​7758, #​7602, #​7857, #​7860, #​7336, #​7819 by @​timgates42, @​IvanSanchez, @​ipovos, @​elfalem, @​BakuCity, @​simon04, @​user073, @​Dev-Steven, @​vanillajonathan, @​aquelle-cp, @​matkoniecz, @​Falke-Design)
• Clarify zoomend event (#​7460 by @​xeruf)
• Add false to prefix of Control.Attribution (#​7814 by @​Falke-Design)
• LayerGroup inherit from Interactive Layer (#​7763 by @​johnd0e)
• Improve Map.panInside documentation (#​7397 by @​daverayment)
• Update Renderer documentation to clarify tolerance option is for Canvas only (#​7515 by @​Hippl-Eric)
• Add documentation for Event-Listener propagate argument (#​7103 by @​riffaud)
• Fix an issue with top padding on non-API pages (#​8083, by @​wyankush)

🔧 Workflow

• Split plugins.md into many files for easier maintenance (#​7805 by @​Falke-Design)
• Add Bundlemon to watch bundle size (#​7934, #​7983, #​7905 by @​jonkoops)
• Add npm run serve to serve docs on localhost (#​7973 by @​Falke-Design)
• Rename master branch to main (#​7921 by @​jonkoops)
• Upload files to AWS even if the file-size is the same (#​7853 by @​jonkoops)
• Remove leaflet-include.js from debug samples (#​7776 by @​Falke-Design)
• Lint adjustments (#​7676, #​7743, #​7757 by @​jonkoops, @​mourner)
• Simplify release process (#​7711, #​7854, #​7727, #​8039 by @​mourner)
• Simplify docs update process on release (#​7730 by @​mourner)
• Update dependencies and add Dependabot config (#​7455, #​7653, #​7677, #​7725 by @​jonkoops)
• Split main workflow into multiple parallel jobs (#​7710 by @​jonkoops)
• Run CI on Github actions (#​7691, #​7654, #​7702 by @​jonkoops)
• Continue running tests even if one fails (#​7723 by @​jonkoops)
• Add https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/labels/blocker check to release process (#​8019 by @​Malvoz)
• Remove all references of Bower (#​7831 by @​jonkoops)
• Add GitHub Actions dependency tracking with Dependabot (by @​nathannaveen in https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/pull/8104)

🧪 Tests

• Improve unit tests organization (#​7852, by @​Falke-Design)
• Run tests on Internet Explorer 11 (#​7741 by @​jonkoops)
• Run tests on FirefoxNoTouch (#​7736, #​7742 by @​johnd0e)
• Drop PhantomJS from test suite (#​7660, #​7724 by @​jonkoops)
• Simplify .near and .nearLatLng usage (#​7820 by @​johnd0e)
• Enforce forbid-only rule in the continuous integration (#​7448 by @​johnd0e)
• Increase captureTimeout and browserSocketTimeout (#​7856 by @​Falke-Design)
• Added / update tests (#​7790, #​7147, #​7721, #​7461, #​7126, #​7451, #​7450, #​7447, #​7438 by @​Falke-Design, @​johnd0e, @​phloose)
• Added missing Test-Spec-Files to index.html (#​7845 by @​Falke-Design)
• Cover DomEvent with unit tests (by @​stephenspol in https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/pull/8088)
• Cover DomUtil with unit tests (#​7547, by @​LGNorris)