holoviz/hvplot v0.12.0a1

Version 0.12.0

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This minor release brings extensive documentation improvements, exposes new HoloViews options, and brings a few bugfixes. Check out the release blog post for a visual overview of the key updates.

• 📚 Major expansion and improvement of the reference documentation, covering all plotting options and methods
• 🔢 Ability to switch between multiple versions of hvPlot on the website
• 🔍 A new selector option for sample hover info on datashaded plotsunindent.
• 🧰 Toolbar customization with toolbar and autohide_toolbar
• 📊 Flexible legends with the new legend_cols and legend_opts options
• 🖌️ Advanced styling enabled by the backend_opts option
• 📦 A new sampledata module for easy access to sample datasets
• 🐍 Dropped Python 3.9 support

Many thanks to @ahuang11, @hoxbro, @Azaya89, and @maximlt for their contributions!

Enhancements:

• Add the selector option to display sample information on hover for rasterized/datashaded plots (#1585)
• Add the toolbar and autohide_toolbar options (#1634)
• Add the backend_opts option (#1635)
• Add the legend_cols and legend_opts options (#1636)
• Add support for log10 binning for histograms with logx and loglog (#1593)
• Add the sampledata module (#1628)

Bug Fixes:

• Fix handling CRS translation (#1600)
• Remove unused piece of code (#1588)
• Minor fixes to andrews_curves (#1563)

Documentation:

• Document all the plotting options:
  • Document the data options (#1555)
  • Document the size and layout options (#1545)
  • Document the grid and legend options (#1576)
  • Document the styling options (#1574)
  • Document the interactivity options (#1587)
  • Document resampling, geographic, and streaming options (#1601)
  • Document axis options and minor changes (#1618)
• Improve the documentation of all the plotting methods and functions (#1548)
• Add a version switcher to the site (#1533, #1597)
• Various documentation enhancements (#1625)
• Improve the logo sizing in the README (#1632)

Deprecation:

• Deprecate hover_formatters (#1637)
• Deprecate the debug argument (#1560)
• Deprecate handling of DuckDB objects in the plot function (#1561)

Compatibility:

• Drop Python 3.9 support (#1608)

Packaging:

• Build sdist and wheel with hatchling instead of setuptools (#1558)

Infrastructure / Tests:

• Enable branch coverage (#1589)
• Add auto-label action (#1584)
• Bump pre-commit and run on all files (#1559)

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