REL: 3.9.0

Highlights of this release include:

• Plotting and Annotation improvements
  • Axes.inset_axes is no longer experimental
  • Legend support for Boxplot
  • Percent sign in pie labels auto-escaped with usetex=True
  • hatch parameter for stackplot
  • Add option to plot only one half of violin plot
  • axhline and axhspan on polar axes
  • Subplot titles can now be automatically aligned
  • axisartist can now be used together with standard Formatters
  • Toggle minorticks on Axis
  • StrMethodFormatter now respects axes.unicode_minus
• Figure, Axes, and Legend Layout
  • Subfigures now have controllable zorders
  • Getters for xmargin, ymargin and zmargin
• Mathtext improvements
  • mathtext documentation improvements
  • mathtext spacing corrections
• Widget Improvements
  • Check and Radio Button widgets support clearing
• 3D plotting improvements
  • Setting 3D axis limits now set the limits exactly
• Other improvements
  • New BackendRegistry for plotting backends
  • Add widths, heights and angles setter to EllipseCollection
  • image.interpolation_stage rcParam
  • Arrow patch position is now modifiable
  • NonUniformImage now has mouseover support

REL: v3.9.0rc2

This is the second release candidate for the meso release 3.9.0.

REL: v3.8.4

This is the fourth micro release of the 3.8 series.

Highlights of the 3.8.4 release include:

• Enable building against numpy 2.0; released wheels are built against numpy 2
• macosx: Clean up single-shot timers correctly
• Add a draw during show for macos backend
• Fix color sequence data for Set2 and Set3
• gtk: Ensure pending draws are done before GTK draw
• Update "Created with" url in hand.svg
• Avoid modifying user input to Axes.bar
• fix quiver3d incorrect arrow colors

REL: v3.7.5

This is the fifth bugfix release of the 3.7.x series.

This release contains two bug-fixes:

• Fix hanging on plt.pause on the MacOS backend
• Fix crash on exit when using the PGF backend on Windows

REL: v3.8.3

This is the third micro release of the 3.8 series.

Highlights of the 3.8.3 release include:

• Improvements to the MacOS backend
  • Fix hanging on plt.pause
  • Fix warnings about "Secure coding is not enabled for restorable state"
• Fix crash at exit for PGF backend

REL: v3.7.4

This is the fourth bugfix release of the 3.7.x series.

This release contains one bug-fix:

• Fix a segmentation fault when resizing on Python 3.12 and macOS 14

REL: v3.8.2

REL: v3.8.2

This is the second bugfix release of the 3.8 series.

Highlights of this release include:

• Fix a segfault in the MacOS backend when running on Python 3.12
• Fix Contour labeling manual positions selecting incorrect contours.
• Various documentation improvements

REL: v3.8.1

This is the first bugfix release of the 3.8.x series.

This release contains several bug fixes and adjustments:

• Bump setuptools required version because of setuptools_scm v8
• Update find_nearest_contour and revert contour deprecations
• allsegs and allkinds return individual segments
• Restore default behavior of hexbin mincnt with C provided
• Try/except import of Axes3D
• Ensure valid path mangling for ContourLabeler
• BLD: Remove development dependencies from sdists
• FIX 2-tuple of colors in to_rgba_array
• Fix issue with non-string labels and legend
• Fix issue with locale comma when not using math text
• Various type hinting improvements
• Various documentation improvements
• Improvements to the MacOS backend

REL: v3.8.0

REL: v3.8.0

Highlights of this release include:

• Type hints for most public APIs
• Many improvements to Mathtext
  • Addition of \boldsymbol command
  • Additional sizable delimiters
  • Documentation improvements
  • \substack command
  • \middle delimitier
  • \mathbfit for bold italic text
• 3D plotting improvements
  • Specify tick/axis label positions
  • Improved text for coordinates in interactive sessions
  • Ability to share view angles
• New plotting method ecdf (empirical cumulative distribution function)

REL: v3.7.3

This is the third bugfix release of the 3.7.x series.

This release contains several bug-fixes and adjustments:

• Add Python 3.12 wheels
• Update the license for the bundled colorbrewer colormap data
• Fix Cairo backend when using cairocffi
• Fix axes_grid1 inset axes with bbox_inches=tight
• Fix bugs in Path3DCollection / Poly3DCollection constructors
• Fix setting array labelcolor on Tick
• Improve compatibility with latest NumPy
• Stop warning when calling tight_layout multiple times