HERE platform release announcement - May 2023 update

Dear customer,
we are pleased to inform you about our recent releases of the HERE platform.

Highlights

HERE Style Editor version 1.2 released

HERE Style Editor version 1.2 introduces 2 additional base map styles as a foundation for a map style customization: Hybrid day and night.
The hybrid map styles combine a satellite image with vector information e.g. about the street network, labels, POIs etc.

Additionally, the new version offers a possibility to adjust the brightness and gamma values of the underlaying satellite images.

A What’s new window informs about such enhancements directly in the application.

MPORTANT INFORMATION

Writes to stream layers are no longer possible via the Publish API

Per the deprecation announcement in March 2022, it is no longer possible to write data to stream layers using the Publish API. Writes to stream layers are now only supported via the Ingest API.

TLS 1.0 and 1.1 Deprecation

Accordance with industry-wide best practice (RFC8996) we are planning to discontinue support for outdated Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 and 1.1 for Map Tile API and Map Image API on 30 September 2023. From October 2023 on only TLSv1.2 and higher versions will be supported by these services.

Scope

This change affects requests to all Map Tile API and Map Image API endpoints in all environments (PRD, SIT, CIT) and corresponding regional endpoints, e.g.

Map Tile API:

• *.maps.ls.hereapi.com
• *.maps.api.here.com
• *.maps.cc.api.here.com
• *.maps.sit.ls.hereapi.com
• *.maps.cit.ls.hereapi.com
• *.maps.cit.cc.api.here.com

Map Image API:

• image.maps.ls.hereapi.com
• image.maps.cc.api.here.com
• image.maps.sit.ls.hereapi.com
• image.maps.cit.api.here.com

Impact on you

Requests to Map Tile API and Map Image API endpoints from client software which does not support TLS v1.2 or higher will fail.

Actions you need to take

Please ensure that your software stack accessing Map Tile API and Map Image API endpoints support TLSv1.2 or higher.

Note: the HERE Raster Tile API (the successor of Map Tile API) supports only TLS v1.2 and higher.

Further Information

RFC8996 explains the rationale behind the industry-wide move to disable TLSv1 and TLSv1.1.

Changes, additions, deprecations, and known issues

This email focuses on highlights. However, a lot more has happened since our last announcement. Our APIs, SDKs, and tools publish their detailed API level changes in form of changelogs or release notes. For the recent changes, refer to the corresponding changelog or release notes directly:

• HERE Map Rendering
  
  • HERE Raster Tile API
  • HERE Vector Tile API
  • HERE Maps API for JavaScript
  • HERE Map Tile API
  • HERE Map Image API
• HERE Geocoding & Search
  
  • HERE Geocoding & Search API
  • HERE Batch Geocoder API
  • HERE Geofencing API
• HERE Routing
  
  • HERE Routing API
  • HERE Isoline Routing API
  • HERE Matrix Routing API
  • HERE Waypoints Sequence API
  • HERE Route Matching API
• HERE Real-time Traffic
  
  • HERE Traffic API
• HERE Transit
  
  • HERE Public Transit API
  • HERE Intermodal Routing API
• HERE Positioning
  
  • HERE Network Positioning API
  • HERE HD GNSS Positioning & HERE A GNSS Positioning API
• HERE SDK for Android
  
  • Explore Edition
  • Navigate Edition
  • Premium Edition
  • Lite Edition
• HERE SDK for IOS
  
  • Explore Edition
  • Navigate Edition
  • Premium Edition
  • Lite Edition
• HERE SDK for Flutter
  
  • Explore Edition
  • Navigate Edition
• HERE Map Attributes API
• Tools
  
  • CLI
  • Data Inspector Library
• Data SDKs
  
  • Data SDKs for Java & Scala
  • Data SDKs for Python,
  • Data SDKs for TypeScript
  • Data SDKs for C++

Important: Deprecation notices

Please, review and continue to monitor the deprecation notices for our services and SDKs. You find them through the links in the list just above.