Upcoming major v4 release

[scottsfarley93]

There are several outstanding issues and feature improvements that would improve the usability, look/feel, and result relevance of the plugin. I suspect that some of these changes may be large and/or breaking, so I think targeting this as a v4 major release seems reasonable.

Here's the list of tickets that we've prioritized but totally open to suggestions about other features/bugs that should also make the list.

#51 - camera animation properties
#99 - result event emitted twice
#115 - expose the clear method as public
#162 - accessibility issues
#153 - include matching text
#176 - expose setOptions method
#150 - localize placeholder text
#89 - mobile styling
#167 - minor style tweak
#157 - async local geocoder
#195 - new default options
#196 - feedback widget

\cc @mapbox/search @katydecorah @yuletide @kbauhaus @andrewharvey

[scottsfarley93]

Noting several other features/fixes that will be included:

• Map marker on selected result #219 - show a mapbox-gl marker on the map
• Bump insecure dev dependencies #216 - update dev dependencies to avoid security vulnerabilities
• No hardcoded ids #217 - remove checks for unstable feature ids

[andrewharvey]

To help track this, should we close issues when they are merged into the version4 branch?

[scottsfarley93]

@andrewharvey we can certainly do that. It might be confusing, however, since the changes will not be deployed in the plugin until version 4 lands in master -- they'll just be waiting in the version 4 working branch. Happy to do whatever makes the most sense.

[andrewharvey]

GL JS closes tickets once the PR is merged, not when the release is made. I think that's a good model, it makes it clearer which issues still need to be implemented and which are already done.

My vote would be we close them once merged into v4 branch.

[scottsfarley93]

👍 we can start doing this.

[scottsfarley93]

The version 4 working branch is looking pretty close to being in shape for an initial beta release. I think we can ship a v4.0.0-beta.0 at some point tomorrow after which time we can ensure all the examples work as expected. We can address any problems we uncover in the beta over the next week or two and then plan to cut a new full release around April 8.

[scottsfarley93]

🎉 v4.0.0 released!

See https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-geocoder/releases/tag/v4.0.0 and https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mapbox/mapbox-gl-geocoder/v/4.0.0.