🎉 This release contains work from new contributors! 🎉

Thanks for all your work!

❤️ Lukas Hermann (@lsh)

❤️ Jon Mease (@jonmmease)

❤️ Cameron Yick (@hydrosquall)

❤️ James Scott-Brown (@jamesscottbrown)

❤️ Paweł Redzyński (@pared)

❤️ Jason Killian (@jkillian)

❤️ Alicia Schep (@AliciaSchep)

❤️ Paul Rosenzweig (@paulrosenzweig)

❤️ Sid Kapur (@sid-kap)

❤️ Robin Linacre (@RobinL)

❤️ Hao Chen (@ObservedObserver)

🚀 Enhancement

• feat: Allow for percentages to appear in stack: "normalize" theta tooltips #8308 (@lsh vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com @kanitw)

• feat: add config.numberFormatType for using custom formatter with config.numberFormat #8228 (@kanitw vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com)

• feat: optimize ID-driven selections #7933 (@arvind vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com)

• feat: support isolatedModules #7870 (@sid-kap)

• feat: add normalizedNumberFormat for stack: "normalize" tooltips #8307 (@lsh vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com @kanitw)

🐛 Bug Fix

• fix: Make params types more precise for UnitSpecs #8304 (@arvind vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com)

• fix: check only run config.numberFormat on quantitative types #8305 (@lsh)

• fix: don't fire direct manipulation point selections on legend entries #8268 (@arvind vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com)

• fix: log correct property name #8140 (@domoritz)

• fix: automatically add steps if density transform is grouped #8088 (@domoritz vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com)

• fix: do not stack non linear scales #7997 (@domoritz)

• fix: support utc formatting for ordinal data #7815 (@domoritz vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com)

• docs: describe how to update layout when data changes #7971 (@domoritz)

• fix: set binSuffix for defined channel #7973 (@paulrosenzweig vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com @domoritz)

• fix: preserve node order in swapWithParent #7639 (@RobinL vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com @domoritz)

New Examples

• docs(examples): Multi Series Line Chart with an Interactive Point Highlight #8227 (@kanitw vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com)

• docs(examples): Bar Chart with Full-Height Hover Targets for Tooltip #8225 (@kanitw vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com)

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• docs: add example of rendering images in tooltips #8048 (@joelostblom vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com)

• examples: interactive earthquakes #8138 (@pared vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com @domoritz)
  

New Tools in the Ecosystem

• docs: add Graphpad to Vega-Lite ecosystem #8050 (@hydrosquall)

• docs: add additional R interface vegabrite to ecosystems page #8003 (@AliciaSchep vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com @domoritz)

• docs: add ecosystem section for tools that scale Vega-Lite #7946 (@jonmmease)

• docs: add Rath to ecosystem #7832 (@ObservedObserver)

Authors: 17

• @dependabot[bot]
• Alicia Schep (@AliciaSchep)
• Arvind Satyanarayan (@arvind)
• Cameron Yick (@hydrosquall)
• Dominik Moritz (@domoritz)
• GitHub Actions Bot (vega-actions-bot@users.noreply.github.com)
• Hao Chen (@ObservedObserver)
• James Scott-Brown (@jamesscottbrown)
• Jason Killian (@jkillian)
• Joel Ostblom (@joelostblom)
• Jon Mease (@jonmmease)
• Kanit Wongsuphasawat (@kanitw)
• Lukas Hermann (@lsh)
• Paul Rosenzweig (@paulrosenzweig)
• Paweł Redzyński (@pared)
• Robin Linacre (@RobinL)
• Sid Kapur (@sid-kap)