I just released a new version of the widget -Mendix 8 compliant- in the AppStore, version 1.4.0. In this version I use the same D3 library as Mendix uses (4.13.0), hence the widget should work now in all those cases!
This is a duplicate now of a question which was already answered.
In the end the D3 Gauge chart widget of mine needs to move to v4, but there it is lacking this ‘tween’ function.. will sort this out in the near future. I found This solution for it on stackoverflow.