LightningChart .NET v.12.2.1 is out now!
.NET target framework 8.0, improved HERE maps, MeshModel performance, and more.
New .NET Target Framework
LightningChart .NET has been updated from version 6.0 to 8.0. This change ensures native support for the LightningChart control within .NET projects and aligns with Microsoft’s support policy for the .NET framework.
LightningChart v12.2.1, compiled for .NET 8.0, is compatible with .NET projects 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0. Additionally, a separate library build is available for projects utilizing .NET Framework 4.8 and later versions.
HERE map rendering services upgrade
The HERE map rendering services have been updated to utilize HERE Raster Tile API v3. This update introduces additional LayerType options for Street and Satellite, specifically StreetNight, TerrainDay, and TerrainNight. Read more in the documentation.
.NET Interactive Examples App
The Interactive Examples App has been updated with several enhancements to improve usability. These include a redesigned user interface for increased intuitiveness, improved tagging, and enhanced filtering capabilities for examples, you can further read about it in the documentation. Some of the changes include:
New & Improved Examples
Additionally, seven examples have been newly added or significantly revised. Users can now also export example code as .NET 8.0 projects.
.NET Trader improvements
The LightningChart library provides Trader libraries that offer controls, tools, and methods designed to simplify the development of trading and finance applications.
This release includes several enhancements to the Trader libraries, focusing on improved user interface elements, the addition of percentage and logarithmic axes, support for multiple ticker symbols, and the introduction or refinement of drawing tools.
The images below illustrate the Secondary Symbols feature, showcasing three datasets within a single chart, and the new drawing tools, specifically Sine Wave and Cycle Lines.
There are many other improvements and errors fixed, including improving the MeshModel performance, enhancing X-axis tick interval calculations, and the VolumeModel XAML serialization support.
Get started with LightningChart .NET v.12.2.1
See more news
Best Apache ECharts Alternative in 2026: When Canvas Hits Its Ceiling
Apache ECharts is an excellent charting library that's the honest starting point, and it's worth saying clearly. Free under the Apache 2.0 license, actively maintained by one of the most active open-source communities in data visualization, with 60,000+ GitHub stars...
Best D3.js Alternatives in 2026: Less Code, More Performance, Same Power
D3.js is the most starred data visualization library in existence 109,000+ GitHub stars and for justifiable reasons. It provides the building blocks to construct any visualization imaginable: data binding, SVG path generation, scale functions, geographic projections,...
Best ApexCharts Alternatives in 2026: Scale Beyond SVG, Add Real 3D
ApexCharts earned its position through a set of genuine strengths executed consistently well: MIT license, the best default visual aesthetics among free JavaScript chart libraries, official and actively maintained React, Vue, and Angular component wrappers, clean...
Best amCharts Alternatives in 2026: No Watermark, Faster, Real 3D
amCharts 5 wins on visual aesthetics. The default chart transitions are among the smoothest in the JavaScript charting space, the animation quality is a genuine differentiator, and the chart type range Gantt charts, flowcharts, geographic maps, financial OHLC, Sankey...
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us!
©LightningChart Ltd 2026. All rights reserved.