pypi matplotlib 3.6.0
REL: v3.6.0

latest releases: 3.10.0rc1, 3.9.2, 3.9.1.post1...
2 years ago

Highlights of this release include:

  • Figure and Axes creation / management
    • subplots, subplot_mosaic accept height_ratios and width_ratios arguments
    • Constrained layout is no longer considered experimental
    • New layout_engine module
    • Compressed layout added for fixed-aspect ratio Axes
    • Layout engines may now be removed
    • Axes.inset_axes flexibility
    • WebP is now a supported output format
    • Garbage collection is no longer run on figure close
  • Plotting methods
    • Striped lines (experimental)
    • Custom cap widths in box and whisker plots in bxp and boxplot
    • Easier labelling of bars in bar plot
    • New style format string for colorbar ticks
    • Linestyles for negative contours may be set individually
    • Improved quad contour calculations via ContourPy
    • errorbar supports markerfacecoloralt
    • streamplot can disable streamline breaks
    • New axis scale asinh (experimental)
    • stairs(..., fill=True) hides patch edge by setting linewidth
    • Fix the dash offset of the Patch class
    • Rectangle patch rotation point
  • Colors and colormaps
    • Color sequence registry
    • Colormap method for creating a different lookup table size
    • Setting norms with strings
  • Titles, ticks, and labels
    • plt.xticks and plt.yticks support minor keyword argument
  • Legends
    • Legend can control alignment of title and handles
    • ncol keyword argument to legend renamed to ncols
  • Markers
    • marker can now be set to the string "none"
    • Customization of MarkerStyle join and cap style
  • Fonts and Text
    • Font fallback
    • List of available font names
    • math_to_image now has a color keyword argument
    • Active URL area rotates with link text
  • rcParams improvements
    • Allow setting figure label size and weight globally and separately from title
    • Mathtext parsing can be disabled globally
    • Double-quoted strings in matplotlibrc
  • 3D Axes improvements
    • Standardized views for primary plane viewing angles
    • Custom focal length for 3D camera
    • 3D plots gained a 3rd "roll" viewing angle
    • Equal aspect ratio for 3D plots
  • Interactive tool improvements
    • Rotation, aspect ratio correction and add/remove state
    • MultiCursor now supports Axes split over multiple figures
    • PolygonSelector bounding boxes
    • Setting PolygonSelector vertices
    • SpanSelector widget can now be snapped to specified values
    • More toolbar icons are styled for dark themes
  • Platform-specific changes
    • Wx backend uses standard toolbar
    • Improvements to macosx backend
      • Modifier keys handled more consistently
      • savefig.directory rcParam support
      • figure.raise_window rcParam support
      • Full-screen toggle support
      • Improved animation and blitting support
    • macOS application icon applied on Qt backend
    • New minimum macOS version
    • Windows on ARM support

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