Cesium Version 1.9 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Cesium 1.9. This is mostly a bug fix release on the way to what is shaping up to be a significant 1.10 release.

Highlights include:

• Entity material properties and Material uniform values can now take a canvas element in addition to an image or url. #2667
• Fixed a bug which caused Entity.viewFrom to be ignored when flying to, zooming to, or tracking an Entity. #2628
• Fixed a bug that caused Corridor and PolylineVolume geometry to be incorrect for sharp corners #2626
• Fixed crash when loading KML GroundOverlays that spanned 360 degrees. #2639
• Fixed a crash that would occur when the Viewer or CesiumWidget was resized to 0 while the camera was in motion. #2662

For the full list of changes, see the change log.

Other Cesium news from April

• We announced plans for streaming 3D building support in Cesium.
• We are participating in Google Summer of Code.
• One of the Summer of Code projects will be refactoring Cesium Sandcastle, join the conversation to suggest improvements.
• New AGI job openings for Cesium: Software Developer and UX Designer
• Our online model converter, which was offline earlier in the month, has been updated with many bugfixes and improved reliability.
• I gave a talk on at Philly Game Works that covered WebGL game development as well as Cesium: slides;
• Cube Cities wrote up several Cesium related blog posts, including A How-To Guide For Exploring 3D Buildings in Cesium, The Future Central Park South Skyline, and 260 & 261 Madison Avenue + 1 Vanderbilt massing.