holoviz/holoviews v1.2.0

Version 1.2.0

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The second minor version release of HoloViews.

Highlights/Features:

• Added new ErrorBars Element (f2b276b)
• Added Empty pseudo-Element to define empty placeholders in
  Layouts (35bac9f)
• Added support for changing font sizes easily (0f54bea)
• Support for holoviews.rc file (79076c8)
• Many major speed optimizations for working with and plotting
  HoloViews data structures (fe87b4c, 7578c51, 5876fe6, 8863333)
• Support for GridSpace with inner axes (93295c8)
• New aspect_weight and tight Layout plot options for more
  customizability of Layout arrangements (4b1f03d, e6a76b7)
• Added bgcolor plot option to easily set axis background color
  (92eb95c)
• Improved widget layout (f51af02)
• New OutputMagic css option to style html output (9d42dc2)
• Experimental support for PDF output (1e8a59b)
• Added support for 3D interactivity with nbagg (781bc25)
• Added ability to support deprecated plot options in %%opts magic.
• Added DrawPlot simplifying the implementation of custom plots
  (38e9d44)

API changes:

• Path and Histogram support new constructors (7138ef4, 03b5d38)
• New depth argument on the relabel method (f89b89f)
• Interface to Pandas improved (1a7cd3d)
• Removed xlim, ylim and zlim to eliminate redundancy.
• Renaming of various plot and style options including:
  • figure_* to fig_*
  • vertical_spacing and horizontal_spacing to vspace and hspace respectively
  • Deprecation of confusing origin style option on RasterPlot
• Overlay.__getitem__ no longer supports integer indexing (use get method instead)

Important bug fixes:

• Important fixes to inheritance in the options system (d34a931, 71c1f3a)
• Fixes to the select method (df839be)
• Fixes to normalization system (c3ef40b)
• Fixes to Raster and Image extents, __getitem__ and sampling.
• Fixed bug with disappearing adjoined plots (2360972)
• Fixed plot ordering of overlaid elements across a HoloMap (c4f1685)