February 2026 Platform Release Notes

Release Notes

HERE SDK 4.25.2.0

This release contains bug fixes and UX improvements. Updates include:

• Navigation

  • Added the following classes and methods to TrackingCameraBehavior : 

    • TrackingCameraBehavior.maneuverDetectionEnabled - property to enable/disable maneuver detection. 

    • TrackingCameraBehavior.maneuverModeConfiguration - property holding the maneuver mode configuration. 

    • ManeuverModeConfiguration - contains an array of ManeuverRule objects as well as a bearing threshold. 

    • ManeuverRule - contains an array of FunctionalRoadClass objects, an array of ManeuverAction objects, and an optional ManeuverRuleOptions. 

    • ManeuverRuleOptions - contains earlyPreManeuverActivationThresholdInMeters , preManeuverActivationThresholdInMeters, postManeuverActivationThresholdInMeters, and ManeuverZoomRange. 

    • ManeuverZoomRange - contains minZoom and maxZoom. Note that this is a beta release of this feature. Bugs and unexpected behaviors may occur. Related APIs may change in new releases without a deprecation process.

  • Added arrivalNotificationOption to ManeuverNotificationOption for configuring arrival voice notifications with a new enum type ArrivalNotificationOption, with available values of none, both, destinationOnly, and stopoverOnly. 

  • Added new constructors to VisualNavigator that allows passing an instance of NavigatorProtocol. 

• Indoor Map

  • Added VenueModel.geometries for fetching all the geometries of Venue. 

• Routing

  • Added the fromDefaultParameterConfiguration() static function to RoutingOptions , which constructs a RoutingOptions object with the transport specifications taken from SDKNativeEngine.parameterConfig.transportSpecification. Note that this is a beta release of this feature. Bugs and unexpected behaviors may occur. Related APIs may change for new releases without a deprecation process. 

  • Added information about multi-travel pass characteristics to TollFare interface for online-routing.

HERE Real Time Traffic

• Improved handling of RCO cancellations.

• Optimized End Time Logic for European Providers and Specific Incident Types.

• Enabled bi-directional processing for Norway incident feed.

• General quality improvements for JARTIC feed.

• Re-enabled incident feed for Connecticut.

• Improved handling of Carriageway Closures in Bayern feeds.

• Optimized single incident offset logic for single-link closures.

• Improved Road Alert feed by removing few congestion event codes.

• Improve Road Alert coverage for Cyprus.

HERE Tour Planning API

• Activity arrival times now provide detailed timing information for each task. The arrival field indicates when a vehicle reaches the location before starting the activity, and complements the existing start and end times.

• Optimized walking routes within clustered stops through intraStopDistance (ALPHA) tracks the total distance (in meters) between activities within a single clustered stop, plus the return distance to the vehicle. When nearby jobs are clustered using the clusterNearby feature, the API automatically optimizes the walking sequence to minimize backtracking, and reports this walking distance in both individual stop details and overall solution statistics.

• maxIntraStopDistance (ALPHA) limits the maximum cumulative walking distance across all clustered stops in a vehicle's shift. Users can control scenarios where drivers walk between nearby delivery points by setting this constraint in vehicle limits (1 to 3,000,000 meters per shift).

• Violation mapping enables fine-grained control over how routing constraint violations are handled during optimization by sorting specific violations (such as height or weight restrictions, traffic blockages, or avoided areas) into categories (category1 or category2) instead of treating them as hard failures, providing more flexibility while tracking violations for analysis.

HERE Maps API for JavaScript

Version 3.2.3.0 released

The new feature version of HERE Maps API for JavaScript introduces the following new capabilities:

• Support of dual-language label rendering, and aligned behavior of primary (lg) and secondary language (lg2) with native HERE SDK.
  

  var defaultLayers = platform.createDefaultLayers({lg: 'de', lg2: 'zh'});  // German and Chinese

  

  Dual-language label rendering

• Added optional region property to H.service.Platform.Options (default ROW ; supports ROW and JP ) to control service configuration, endpoint selection, and map styling.

• Changed the default value of the tileSize property in H.map.provider.ImageTileProvider.Options from 256 to 512.

• Updated tile loading to load tiles nearest the viewport center first.

HERE Style Editor

Version 1.15.0 released

The new feature version of HERE Style Editor introduces new application and styling features. Improvements include:

• New & improved presets in modifiers

• Copy & Paste map items across modifiers

• Traffic Light customization for RoW in Overlays section.

More detailed descriptions are available at: New Release: HERE Style Editor v1.15 is Live! .

HERE Maps API for JavaScript, HERE Raster Tile API, Map Image API and HERE SDK

Style updates and improved dark mode

The new dark mode has improved visibility and readability without losing its sleek design. Dark mode improvements are available in Maps API for JavaScript, HERE SDK, Raster Tile API and Map Image API. Improvements include:

• A brighter & sharper interface, with increased brightness and optimized contrast for roads, landmarks, icons, and labels.

• A more consistent experience, with eight updated night styles (Lite, Logistics, Topographic, Explore and more) with uniform brightness across all variants.

• Better usability: Important details stand out, making navigation smoother and more intuitive

What’s In The Works

HERE Raster Tile API

Deprecation Notice for PNG and PNG8 for Satellite‑Based Styles

We are deprecating PNG and PNG8 image formats for all satellite‑based styles in the HERE Raster Tile API. This change is limited to styles that include satellite imagery, including:

• satellite.day

• explore.satellite.day

• lite.satellite.day

• logistics.satellite.day

when the resource parameter is base or background.

Clients must request JPEGs for these cases. Requests that still specify PNG/PNG8 will not fail, but the service will return JPEG-compressed tiles.

This change is being made because satellite imagery does not benefit from lossless PNG or PNG8 formats. JPEG produces significantly smaller tile sizes with no perceptible loss in visual quality. However, PNG or PNG8 with satellite imagery results in unnecessarily large tiles, which increases data transfer times and overall data consumption without providing any meaningful advantage.

Details about image formats are available in our developer guide:

HERE Technologies Documentation | HERE Docs

A new HERE documentation site is coming

HERE is working on a brand-new documentation website (HERE Technologies Documentation | HERE Docs ). The new site will make it easier for you to learn how to use HERE APIs, SDKs, and data. Some of the improvements include:

• AI chat that provides a conversational experience and can provide more complete information, including code examples

• A “try it out” feature for APIs so you can run requests and see the response right from the API reference

• Improved navigation and search

• Updated look and feel with dark mode.

This update will result in different URLs, which may require updates any pages you have bookmarked. Old URLs will redirect to the new site but may not go directly to the exact page you bookmarked. Redirects will be in place to help you get you as close as possible to the original bookmarked page.

HERE Map Content v2

Delay for Name Model changes

The previously announced removal of NameType attribute values is delayed. The new removal date will be communicated later in 2026.

Delay for deprecated layer removal

The end of publication for certain deprecated layers has been delayed. The affected layers are:

• Road Attributes

• Navigation Attributes

• Advanced Navigation Attributes

• Recreational Vehicle Attributes

The end of publication for these layers is now planned for the end of Q1 2026. Consumers of these layers should migrate their applications to the new Topology Attributes layer.

Deprecated attributes

The CurvatureHeadingAttribute is now deprecated and will no longer be populated as of Q1 2026. It will be removed from the schema by the end of Q3 2026.

The attribute is replaced by the following two new attributes:

• CurvatureAttribute

• HeadingAttribute

The Hazardous​Material​Permit​Type is deprecated as of Q1 2026.

Removal of catalog history

Beginning Q3 2026, HERE will remove catalog versions older than 18 months.

For questions, reach out to your HERE Account Executive or Technical Services point-of-contact.

Restricted Driving Maneuver changes

In Q4 2026, a redesign of the Restricted Driving Maneuvers schema and implementation (Restricted Driving Manoeuvre) will be introduced.

This will impact the following layers:

• Topology Attributes (layer ID topology-attributes)

• Truck Attributes (layer ID truck-attributes)

Additional details will be announced later in Q1 2026.

Planned removal of layers

As of Q2 2026, the following layers will no longer receive updates, with removal planned for Q3 2026:

• Warning Locations

• Pedestrian Attributes

• Bicycle Attributes

As of Q2 2026, the following layers will be removed:

• Road Attributes

• Navigation Attributes

• Advanced Navigation Attributes

• Recreational Vehicle Attributes

Consumers of these layers should migrate their applications to the new Topology Attributes layer.

As of Q4 2026, the following layers will no longer receive updates, with removal planned for Q1 2027:

• Vehicle Regulations

• Commercial Vehicle Regulations

Traffic Analytics

The HERE Map version referenced by Traffic Analytics is updated approximately once per year to provide a refreshed road network reference. The next planned map version update will take place on March 16th, 2026, and will begin using the Q425 map version (251G0 / S251R3).
In addition to the map change, the Traffic Analytics Speed Data will also update its 5-year historical window. The oldest available data after March 16th will be from January 1st, 2021.

HERE Real Time Traffic

• Improve incident processing logic for Tennessee Feed.

• Improve Incident Processing Logic for single links.

• Improve handling of Incident Cancellation logic.

• Japan data quality improvements for JARTIC provider.