5.20.1

[5.20.1] - 2026-08-03

Added

• WordCloud: new svgPath setting arranges words into a shape; maskByShape clips words to the outline, and shapeTolerance sets how far they may spill past it (negative pulls them inside for padding).
• WordCloud: new randomizeAngles setting — set to false to cycle angles in order for a reproducible layout.
• WordCloud: new allowNesting setting — set to false to pack words as non-overlapping bounding boxes instead of nesting into each other's gaps (useful with opaque label backgrounds).

Changed

• WordCloud now computes its layout synchronously in a single pass instead of one word per animation frame — much faster for large clouds. The per-data-item ghostLabel is removed and labels are held in an internal container, so code reading dataItem.get("ghostLabel") or walking series.children for labels needs updating.
• WordCloud word reveal can be staggered via sequencedInterpolation/sequencedDelay.

Fixed

• Removing a Container's mask (setting it to undefined) no longer leaves its children clipped by the removed mask. Also fixes bullet clipping getting stuck after toggling maskBullets off on radar/curve charts.
• Timeline curve charts (SerpentineChart/SpiralChart/CurveChart): setting an axis renderer's rotateLabels back to false did not un-rotate the labels.
• A line series bullet with no paint of its own (relying on inheriting the series color) was invisible in the legend marker.
• ArcDiagram: bullets on links whose target comes before their source were placed on the wrong side of the nodes, mirroring the arc instead of following it.
• ArcDiagram: hiding a node made all the remaining node circles shrink disproportionately.
• Flow charts: setting a link's fillStyle/strokeStyle back to "solid" after using "source", "target" or "none" kept the old color instead of restoring the solid one.
• A bullet with no fill of its own now takes the color of its own slice or node on pie, funnel, flow and hierarchy charts, instead of the series color.
• Acceleration Bands legend now shows the same scaled factor as the settings modal (1 instead of 0.001).