Hi all,
We are pleased to announce the release of 3.4.0.
Pre-built wheels are available for most major platforms, and can be
installed using `pip install matplotlib==3.4.0`. Starting with this
release, we now provide wheels for aarch64. Other packages may also be
available already; please check with your preferred source.
We would like to thank the 177 authors over 772 pull requests for their
contributions to this release.
Highlights of this release include:
* Figure and Axes creation / management
o New subfigure functionality
o Single-line string notation for |subplot_mosaic|
o Changes to behavior of Axes creation methods (|gca|, |add_axes|,
>add_subplot|)
o |add_subplot|/|add_axes| gained an /axes_class/ parameter
o Subplot and subplot2grid can now work with constrained layout
* Plotting methods
o |axline| supports transform parameter
o New automatic labeling for bar charts
o A list of hatches can be specified to |bar| and |barh|
o Setting |BarContainer| orientation
o Contour plots now default to using |ScalarFormatter|
o |Axes.errorbar| cycles non-color properties correctly
o |errorbar| /errorevery/ parameter matches /markevery/
o |hexbin| supports data reference for /C/ parameter
o Support callable for formatting of Sankey labels
o |Axes.spines| access shortcuts
o New |stairs| method and |StepPatch| artist
o Added /orientation/ parameter for stem plots
o Angles on Bracket arrow styles
o |TickedStroke| patheffect
* Colors and colormaps
o Collection color specification and mapping
o Transparency (alpha) can be set as an array in collections
o pcolormesh has improved transparency handling by enabling snapping
o IPython representations for Colormap objects
o |Colormap.set_extremes| and |Colormap.with_extremes|
o Get under/over/bad colors of Colormap objects
o New |cm.unregister_cmap| function
o New |CenteredNorm| for symmetrical data around a center
o New |FuncNorm| for arbitrary normalizations
o GridSpec-based colorbars can now be positioned above or to the
left of the main axes
* Titles, ticks, and labels
o supxlabel and supylabel
o Shared-axes |subplots| tick label visibility is now correct for
top or left labels
o An iterable object with labels can be passed to |Axes.plot|
* Fonts and Text
o Text transform can rotate text direction
o |matplotlib.mathtext| now supports /overset/ and /underset/
LaTeX symbols
o /math_fontfamily/ parameter to change |Text| font family
o |TextArea|/|AnchoredText| support /horizontalalignment/
o PDF supports URLs on Text artists
* rcParams improvements
o New rcParams for dates: set converter and whether to use
interval_multiples
o Date formatters now respect /usetex/ rcParam
o Setting /image.cmap/ to a Colormap
o Tick and tick label colors can be set independently using rcParams
* 3D Axes improvements
o Errorbar method in 3D Axes
o Stem plots in 3D Axes
o 3D Collection properties are now modifiable
o Panning in 3D Axes
* Interactive tool improvements
o New |RangeSlider| widget
o Sliders can now snap to arbitrary values
o Pausing and Resuming Animations
* Sphinx extensions
o |plot_directive| /caption/ option
* Backend-specific improvements
o Consecutive rasterized draws now merged
o Support raw/rgba frame format in |FFMpegFileWriter|
o nbAgg/WebAgg support middle-click and double-click
o nbAgg support binary communication
o Indexed color for PNG images in PDF files when possible
o Improved font subsettings in PDF/PS
o Kerning added to strings in PDFs
o Fully-fractional HiDPI in QtAgg
o wxAgg supports fullscreen toggle
For further details, please see the What's new in Matplotlib 3.4.0 page:
https://matplotlib.org/3.4.0/users/whats_new.html
and the milestone on GitHub:
For packagers, this release contains some changes to dependencies:
* Qhull is downloaded while building the sdist (if you are not using
the sdist). If compiling against the system Qhull, then the
reentrant version is required.
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