charts 5.0.0

This release aligns with Drupal’s new vision for empowering ambitious site builders. New features, such as providing libraries delivered by content delivery network (CDN) by default* and new ways of generating charts (such as chart fields), mean that any site builder can create charts as soon as the module (and at least one submodule) is enabled, without needing to write any code or be familiar with a charting provider API.

This full release is a long time coming. If you are upgrading from the 8.x-3.x version of charts, please start your upgrade process by installing the 5.0.0-alpha3 version of the module `composer require drupal/charts:5.0.0-alpha3`, running database updates, and then requiring this version: `composer require drupal/charts:^5.0.0 ` and again running database updates.

No matter if you are upgrading or starting fresh, the following two steps are recommended before doing anything else:

1. Make sure you have enabled the Charts module and at least one charting provider submodule.
2. Configure default settings, such as which library should be the default library, via Configuration > Content authoring > Charts configuration (/admin/config/content/charts).

Happy charting!

*If local library files are present, the site will default to using them instead of the CDN.