Migration from v6 to v7

This guide describes the changes needed to migrate Charts from v6 to v7.

Introduction

This is a reference guide for upgrading @mui/x-charts from v6 to v7. The change between v6 and v7 is mostly here to match the version with other MUI X packages. Not big breaking changes are expected.

Start using the new release

In package.json, change the version of the charts package to next.

-"@mui/x-charts": "6.x.x",
+"@mui/x-charts": "next",

Update @mui/material package

To have the option of using the latest API from @mui/material, the package peer dependency version has been updated to ^5.15.0. It is a change in minor version only, so it should not cause any breaking changes. Please update your @mui/material package to this or a newer version.

Breaking changes

Since v7 is a major release, it contains changes that affect the public API. These changes were done for consistency, improved stability and to make room for new features.

Renaming

Some types got renamed for coherence: