A new release of matplotlib is posted to the sourceforge download site
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706
You can read the release notes with links at
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/whats_new.html
enhanced mathtext - Complete revamp of matplotlib's internal math
layout and rendering engine. Michael Droetboom has improved the TeX
parser to significantly expand it's coverege, and implemeted Knuth's
box layout algorithms. Additionally, the much anticipated STIX fonts
for math expressions have come online and ship with matplotlib. See a
sample of the new mathtext at
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html#mathtext_examples
better configuration - Darren Dale has provided support for a site.cfg
configuration file to enable users and package maintainers to have
better control over the matplotlib build process. He has also provided
a (currently optional) enthought.traits enabled property configuration
to replace matplotlib's rc configuration using a maplotlib.conf file
writing to file-like objects - You can now pass file like objects (eg
StringIO) to all backends for hardcopy. This has been a much requested
feature for usage in web application servers.
record array support - New functions for loading, displaying and
saving numpy record arrays in matplotlib.mlab. See for example,
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/loadrec.py
pyplot - Added a module matplotlib.pyplot which has all of pylab's
plotting functions (eg figure, plot, show, close) but does not import
the numpy namepace. This is useful for those who want to use the pylab
functionality w/o the namespace clutter.
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.pyplot.html
maskedarray - Added optional support for the scipy sandbox masked
array packaged. Configurable with an rc setting.
plotfile - Added new pylab/pyplot command plotfile for gnuplot style
file plotting
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.pyplot.html#-plotfile
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/plotfile_demo.py
Here is the complete CHANGELOG
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2007-11-27 Released 0.91.1 at revision 4517
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2007-11-27 Released 0.91.0 at revision 4478
2007-11-13 All backends now support writing to a file-like object, not
just a regular file. savefig() can be passed a file-like
object in place of a file path. - MGD
2007-11-13 Improved the default backend selection at build time:
SVG -> Agg -> TkAgg -> WXAgg -> GTK -> GTKAgg. The last usable
backend in this progression will be chosen in the default
config file. If a backend is defined in setup.cfg, that will
be the default backend - DSD
2007-11-13 Improved creation of default config files at build time for
traited config package - DSD
2007-11-12 Exposed all the build options in setup.cfg. These options are
read into a dict called "options" by setupext.py. Also, added
"-mpl" tags to the version strings for packages provided by
matplotlib. Versions provided by mpl will be identified and
updated on subsequent installs - DSD
2007-11-12 Added support for STIX fonts. A new rcParam,
mathtext.fontset, can be used to choose between:
'cm':
The TeX/LaTeX Computer Modern fonts
'stix':
The STIX fonts (see stixfonts.org)
'stixsans':
The STIX fonts, using sans-serif glyphs by default
'custom':
A generic Unicode font, in which case the mathtext font
must be specified using mathtext.bf, mathtext.it,
mathtext.sf etc.
Added a new example, stix_fonts_demo.py to show how to access
different fonts and unusual symbols.
- MGD
2007-11-12 Options to disable building backend extension modules moved
from setup.py to setup.cfg - DSD
2007-11-09 Applied Martin Teichmann's patch 1828813: a QPainter is used in
paintEvent, which has to be destroyed using the method end(). If
matplotlib raises an exception before the call to end - and it
does if you feed it with bad data - this method end() is never
called and Qt4 will start spitting error messages
2007-11-09 Moved pyparsing back into matplotlib namespace. Don't use
system pyparsing, API is too variable from one release
to the next - DSD
2007-11-08 Made pylab use straight numpy instead of oldnumeric
by default - EF
2007-11-08 Added additional record array utilites to mlab (rec2excel,
rec2gtk, rec_join, rec_append_field, rec_drop_field) - JDH
2007-11-08 Updated pytz to version 2007g - DSD
2007-11-08 Updated pyparsing to version 1.4.8 - DSD
2007-11-08 Moved csv2rec to recutils and added other record array
utilities - JDH
2007-11-08 If available, use existing pyparsing installation - DSD
2007-11-07 Removed old enthought.traits from lib/matplotlib, added
Gael Varoquaux's enthought.traits-2.6b1, which is stripped
of setuptools. The package is installed to site-packages
if not already available - DSD
2007-11-05 Added easy access to minor tick properties; slight mod
of patch by Pierre G-M - EF
2007-11-02 Commited Phil Thompson's patch 1599876, fixes to Qt4Agg
backend and qt4 blitting demo - DSD
2007-11-02 Commited Phil Thompson's patch 1599876, fixes to Qt4Agg
backend and qt4 blitting demo - DSD
2007-10-31 Made log color scale easier to use with contourf;
automatic level generation now works. - EF
2007-10-24 Added ax kwarg to Figure.colorbar and pyplot.colorbar - EF
2007-10-19 Removed a gsave/grestore pair surrounding _draw_ps, which
was causing a loss graphics state info (see "EPS output
problem - scatter & edgecolors" on mpl-dev, 2007-10-29)
- DSD
2007-10-15 Fixed a bug in patches.Ellipse that was broken for
aspect='auto'. Scale free ellipses now work properly for
equal and auto on Agg and PS, and they fall back on a
polygonal approximation for nonlinear transformations until
we convince oursleves that the spline approximation holds
for nonlinear transformations. Added
unit/ellipse_compare.py to compare spline with vertex
approx for both aspects. JDH
2007-10-05 remove generator expressions from texmanager and mpltraits.
generator expressions are not supported by python-2.3 - DSD
2007-10-01 Made matplotlib.use() raise an exception if called after
backends has been imported. - EF
2007-09-30 Modified update* methods of Bbox and Interval so they
work with reversed axes. Prior to this, trying to
set the ticks on a reversed axis failed with an
uninformative error message. - EF
2007-09-30 Applied patches to axes3d to fix index error problem - EF
2007-09-24 Applied Eike Welk's patch reported on mpl-dev on 2007-09-22
Fixes a bug with multiple plot windows in the qt backend,
ported the changes to backend_qt4 as well - DSD
2007-09-21 Changed cbook.reversed to yield the same result as the
python reversed builtin - DSD
2007-09-13 The usetex support in the pdf backend is more usable now,
so I am enabling it. - JKS
2007-09-12 Fixed a Axes.bar unit bug - JDH
2007-09-10 Made skiprows=1 the default on csv2rec - JDH
2007-09-09 Split out the plotting part of pylab and put it in
pyplot.py; removed numerix from the remaining pylab.py,
which imports everything from pyplot.py. The intention
is that apart from cleanups, the result of importing
from pylab is nearly unchanged, but there is the
new alternative of importing from pyplot to get
the state-engine graphics without all the numeric
functions.
Numpified examples; deleted two that were obsolete;
modified some to use pyplot. - EF
2007-09-08 Eliminated gd and paint backends - EF
2007-09-06 .bmp file format is now longer an alias for .raw
2007-09-07 Added clip path support to pdf backend. - JKS
2007-09-06 Fixed a bug in the embedding of Type 1 fonts in PDF.
Now it doesn't crash Preview.app. - JKS
2007-09-06 Refactored image saving code so that all GUI backends can
save most image types. See FILETYPES for a matrix of
backends and their supported file types.
Backend canvases should no longer write their own print_figure()
method -- instead they should write a print_xxx method for
each filetype they can output and add an entry to their
class-scoped filetypes dictionary. - MGD
2007-09-05 Fixed Qt version reporting in setupext.py - DSD
2007-09-04 Embedding Type 1 fonts in PDF, and thus usetex support
via dviread, sort of works. To test, enable it by
renaming _draw_tex to draw_tex. - JKS
2007-09-03 Added ability of errorbar show limits via caret or
arrowhead ends on the bars; patch by Manual Metz. - EF
2007-09-03 Created type1font.py, added features to AFM and FT2Font
(see API_CHANGES), started work on embedding Type 1 fonts
in pdf files. - JKS
2007-09-02 Continued work on dviread.py. - JKS
2007-08-16 Added a set_extent method to AxesImage, allow data extent
to be modified after initial call to imshow - DSD
2007-08-14 Fixed a bug in pyqt4 subplots-adjust. Thanks to
Xavier Gnata for the report and suggested fix - DSD
2007-08-13 Use pickle to cache entire fontManager; change to using
font_manager module-level function findfont wrapper for
the fontManager.findfont method - EF
2007-08-11 Numpification and cleanup of mlab.py and some examples - EF
2007-08-06 Removed mathtext2
2007-07-31 Refactoring of distutils scripts.
- Will not fail on the entire build if an optional Python
package (e.g. Tkinter) is installed but its development
headers are not (e.g. tk-devel). Instead, it will
continue to build all other extensions.
- Provide an overview at the top of the output to display
what dependencies and their versions were found, and (by
extension) what will be built.
- Use pkg-config, when available, to find freetype2, since
this was broken on Mac OS-X when using MacPorts in a non-
standard location.
2007-07-30 Reorganized configuration code to work with traited config
objects. The new config system is located in the
matplotlib.config package, but it is disabled by default.
To enable it, set NEWCONFIG=True in matplotlib.__init__.py.
The new configuration system will still use the old
matplotlibrc files by default. To switch to the experimental,
traited configuration, set USE_TRAITED_CONFIG=True in
config.__init__.py.
2007-07-29 Changed default pcolor shading to flat; added aliases
to make collection kwargs agree with setter names, so
updating works; related minor cleanups.
Removed quiver_classic, scatter_classic, pcolor_classic. - EF
2007-07-26 Major rewrite of mathtext.py, using the TeX box layout model.
There is one (known) backward incompatible change. The
font commands (\cal, \rm, \it, \tt) now behave as TeX does:
they are in effect until the next font change command or
the end of the grouping. Therefore uses of $\cal{R}$
should be changed to ${\cal R}$. Alternatively, you may
use the new LaTeX-style font commands (\mathcal, \mathrm,
\mathit, \mathtt) which do affect the following group,
eg. $\mathcal{R}$.
Other new features include:
- Math may be interspersed with non-math text. Any text
with an even number of $'s (non-escaped) will be sent to
the mathtext parser for layout.
- Sub/superscripts are less likely to accidentally overlap.
- Support for sub/superscripts in either order, eg. $x^i_j$
and $x_j^i$ are equivalent.
- Double sub/superscripts (eg. $x_i_j$) are considered
ambiguous and raise an exception. Use braces to disambiguate.
- $\frac{x}{y}$ can be used for displaying fractions.
- $\sqrt[3]{x}$ can be used to display the radical symbol
with a root number and body.
- $\left(\frac{x}{y}\right)$ may be used to create
parentheses and other delimiters that automatically
resize to the height of their contents.
- Spacing around operators etc. is now generally more like
TeX.
- Added support (and fonts) for boldface (\bf) and
sans-serif (\sf) symbols.
- Log-like function name shortcuts are supported. For
example, $\sin(x)$ may be used instead of ${\rm sin}(x)$
- Limited use of kerning for the easy case (same font)
Behind the scenes, the pyparsing.py module used for doing
the math parsing was updated to the latest stable version
(1.4.6). A lot of duplicate code was refactored out of the
Font classes.
- MGD
2007-07-19 completed numpification of most trivial cases - NN
2007-07-19 converted non-numpy relicts throughout the code - NN
2007-07-19 replaced the Python code in numerix/ by a minimal wrapper around
numpy that explicitly mentions all symbols that need to be
addressed for further numpification - NN
2007-07-18 make usetex respect changes to rcParams. texmanager used to
only configure itself when it was created, now it
reconfigures when rcParams are changed. Thank you Alexander
Schmolck for contributing a patch - DSD
2007-07-17 added validation to setting and changing rcParams - DSD
2007-07-17 bugfix segfault in transforms module. Thanks Ben North for
the patch. - ADS
2007-07-16 clean up some code in ticker.ScalarFormatter, use unicode to
render multiplication sign in offset ticklabel - DSD
2007-07-16 fixed a formatting bug in ticker.ScalarFormatter's scientific
notation (10^0 was being rendered as 10 in some cases) - DSD
2007-07-13 Add MPL_isfinite64() and MPL_isinf64() for testing
doubles in (the now misnamed) MPL_isnan.h. - ADS
2007-07-13 The matplotlib._isnan module removed (use numpy.isnan) - ADS
2007-07-13 Some minor cleanups in _transforms.cpp - ADS
2007-07-13 Removed the rest of the numerix extension code detritus,
numpified axes.py, and cleaned up the imports in axes.py
- JDH
2007-07-13 Added legend.loc as configurable option that could in
future default to 'best'. - NN
2007-07-12 Bugfixes in mlab.py to coerce inputs into numpy arrays. -ADS
2007-07-11 Added linespacing kwarg to text.Text - EF
2007-07-11 Added code to store font paths in SVG files. - MGD
2007-07-10 Store subset of TTF font as a Type 3 font in PDF files. - MGD
2007-07-09 Store subset of TTF font as a Type 3 font in PS files. - MGD
2007-07-09 Applied Paul's pick restructure pick and add pickers,
sourceforge patch 1749829 - JDH
2007-07-09 Applied Allan's draw_lines agg optimization. JDH
2007-07-08 Applied Carl Worth's patch to fix cairo draw_arc - SC
2007-07-07 fixed bug 1712099: xpdf distiller on windows - DSD
2007-06-30 Applied patches to tkagg, gtk, and wx backends to reduce
memory leakage. Patches supplied by Mike Droettboom;
see tracker numbers 1745400, 1745406, 1745408.
Also made unit/memleak_gui.py more flexible with
command-line options. - EF
2007-06-30 Split defaultParams into separate file rcdefaults (together with
validation code). Some heavy refactoring was necessary to do so,
but the overall behavior should be the same as before. - NN
2007-06-27 Added MPLCONFIGDIR for the default location for mpl data
and configuration. useful for some apache installs where
HOME is not writable. Tried to clean up the logic in
_get_config_dir to support non-writable HOME where are
writable HOME/.matplotlib already exists - JDH
2007-06-27 Fixed locale bug reported at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1744154&group_id=80706&atid=560720
by adding a cbook.unicode_safe function - JDH
2007-06-27 Applied Micheal's tk savefig bugfix described at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1716732&group_id=80706&atid=560720
Thanks Michael!
2007-06-27 Patch for get_py2exe_datafiles() to work with new directory
layout. (Thanks Tocer and also Werner Bruhin.) -ADS
2007-06-27 Added a scroll event to the mpl event handling system and
implemented it for backends GTK* -- other backend
users/developers/maintainers, please add support for your
backend. - JDH
2007-06-25 Changed default to clip=False in colors.Normalize;
modified ColorbarBase for easier colormap display - EF
2007-06-13 Added maskedarray option to rc, numerix - EF
2007-06-11 Python 2.5 compatibility fix for mlab.py - EF
2007-06-10 In matplotlibrc file, use 'dashed' | 'solid' instead
of a pair of floats for contour.negative_linestyle - EF
2007-06-08 Allow plot and fill fmt string to be any mpl string
colorspec - EF
2007-06-08 Added gnuplot file plotfile function to pylab -- see
examples/plotfile_demo.py - JDH
2007-06-07 Disable build of numarray and Numeric extensions for
internal MPL use and the numerix layer. - ADS
2007-06-07 Added csv2rec to matplotlib.mlab to support automatically
converting csv files to record arrays using type
introspection, and turned on native datetime support using
the new units support in matplotlib.dates. See
examples/loadrec.py ! JDH
2007-06-07 Simplified internal code of _auto_legend_data - NN
2007-06-04 Added labeldistance arg to Axes.pie to control the raidal
distance of the wedge labels - JDH
2007-06-03 Turned mathtext in SVG into single <text> with multiple <tspan>
objects (easier to edit in inkscape). - NN