Cesium Version 1.45 Released

We are happy to announce the release of Cesium 1.45. With this release, CesiumJS now connects to Cesium ion by default for base imagery, terrain, and geocoding.

With a Cesium ion account you can upload your own imagery and terrain for cloud-based 3D tiling. You can also combine your terrain with Cesium World Terrain and stream curated assets, such as Bing Maps and Sentinel-2.

Cesium includes a temporary ion access token to make it easy to get started. Set up a free Community account to ensure your apps continue to work after the temporary token expires.

Community accounts are licensed for personal, exploratory, and unfunded educational use. For commercial, government, and funded research, commercial accounts are available starting at $149 per month; see the pricing page.

Other highlights include:

• Numerous glTF improvements in visual quality and loading performance.
• Cesium now uses a logarithmic depth buffer, which reduces CPU overhead, decreases the number of draw calls, and removes multi-frustum artifacts. #5851
• Fix flicker when adding, removing, or modifying entities. #3945

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