We are happy to announce the release of X3DOM 1.8.2! This release contains a handful of new features, improvements along with a number of bug fixes since the last release.
We would like to thank all users and, of course, all the contributors, that make X3DOM such a great project.
For a detailed list of changes see the changelog on Github.

New Features

• New Exploration Modes.
• Experimental support for X3D prototypes.
• Added X3D 4.0 support for visible field, enhanced viewpoint options and Point Properties and cylinder/code options.
• Automatic origChannelCount detection.
• New NPM based build system.

Fixes and Enhancements

• Improved support for shadow & transparency on text.
• Animation improvements for shapes and viewpoints and play controls.
• Improved event and TouchSensor support.
• Improved support for addition / removal of nodes from the tree.
• Replaced deprecated MutationEvents with a MutationObserver.
• Make it possible to run x3dom in strict mode.
• Text node improvements.
• More robust collisions in walk mode.

Changes

• Remove support for compressed BinGeo files & Zlib.
• Remove support for ImageGeometry.
• Remove support for MultiPart.
• Remove support for ExternalShape/ExternalGeo and glTF 1.0.
• Remove support for loading single components.

Get It!

Grab the frozen 1.8.2 version here. The cutting-edge development version (nightly build of git head) can be found here.