After months of hard work by a veritable army of contributors, I’m
pleased to announce the release of matplotlib 1.2.0.
This is the first time we've released without the assistance of John
Hunter, who is sorely missed. I hope this is at least a small way
to say thanks for all of his great work.
Release tarballs and binaries are available on github. (They are no
longer being made available on SourceForge).
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/downloads
This is the first release to support Python 3.x (and as a result
drops support for Pythons earlier than 2.6). There is new support
for outputting PGF/TikZ files. New plot types include 3D trisurface
plots, and streamplots. Tripcolor, boxplot, colorbars and contour
plots have all grown new features. And under the hood, numerous
improvements in stability, flexibility and robustness. For a
complete list, see the “what’s new” page:
http://matplotlib.org/users/whats_new.html
For an even more detailed list of 698 issues (!) resolved since the
last release, see the github statistics page:
http://matplotlib.org/users/github_stats.html
Enjoy! As always, there are number of good ways to get help with
matplotlib listed on the homepage at and I
thank everyone for their continued support of this project.
Mike