Tracker: deck.gl v9.3

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deck.gl v9.3

• Theme: A very small release before the October 2025 summit, with some nice updates.
• Target Release Date: end of September 2025
• Follows v9.2, v9.1 and v9.0

v9.3 Features under consideration

General Features

• glTF - Support for joint/mesh animations etc.
• Views - Improvements to view system? Tracker
• Widgets - Better timeline widget, custom widgets, custom widget docs - Tracker
• WebGPU - More layers running on WebGPU - Tracker
• luma.gl 9.3 - Minor WebGPU and glTF improvements - Tracker

GLTF

• joint mesh animations in luma.gl

WebGPU

Features

• [ ] Transparency / premultiplied colors?
• [ ] Picking?

Geospatial layers

• [ ] SolidPolygonLayer?
• [ ] PathLayer?
• [ ] GeoJSONLayer?
• [ ] ScenegraphLayer? (see GLTF above)
• [x] PointCloudLayer (v9.2)
• [x] ScatterplotLayer (v9.2)

Widgets

• [ ] https://github.com/visgl/deck.gl/issues/9679