From 9204a5df981d1c070c722fbd25ce9ef5c20fe921 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaus <80692936+manameaaus@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2025 11:10:09 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix: prevent early return in clearStacks when iterating
 dataset references

---
 src/core/core.datasetController.js | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/core/core.datasetController.js b/src/core/core.datasetController.js
index 9b7126a93fd..6255a625442 100644
--- a/src/core/core.datasetController.js
+++ b/src/core/core.datasetController.js
@@ -217,12 +217,16 @@ function clearStacks(meta, items) {
   for (const parsed of items) {
     const stacks = parsed._stacks;
     if (!stacks || stacks[axis] === undefined || stacks[axis][datasetIndex] === undefined) {
-      return;
+      continue;
     }
     delete stacks[axis][datasetIndex];
     if (stacks[axis]._visualValues !== undefined && stacks[axis]._visualValues[datasetIndex] !== undefined) {
       delete stacks[axis]._visualValues[datasetIndex];
     }
+    // Clean up empty stack objects to prevent memory leaks
+    if (Object.keys(stacks[axis]).length === 1) {
+      delete stacks[axis];
+    }
   }
 }