<span id="mailbox-conversation"><div>Yay! I have been eagerly awaiting this! =D Thank you everyone!</div></span><div class="mailbox_signature">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><p>On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Thomas Caswell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tcaswell@gmail.com" target="_blank">tcaswell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div dir="ltr">Hey all,<div><br></div>
<div>We are pleased to finally announce the release of matplotlib 1.5.0! It has been over a year since the last feature release and we have had over 230 people contribute to this cycle.</div>
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<div>This release of matplotlib has several major new features including </div>
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<div> - Auto-redraw using the object-oriented API in interactive mode.</div>
<div> - Most plotting functions now support labeled data API [Jan Schulz].</div>
<div> - Color cycling has extended to all style properties [Ben Root].</div>
<div> - Four new perceptually uniform color maps, including the soon-to-be default 'viridis'. [Stefan van der Walt and Nathaniel Smith].</div>
<div> - More included style sheets.</div>
<div> - Many small plotting improvements.</div>
<div> - Proposed new framework for managing the GUI toolbar and tools.</div>
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<div> - Pixel-value on mouse over for imshow [Steven Silvester]</div>
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<div>For demos of some of these features in action see this notebook:</div>
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<div> <a href="https://gist.github.com/tacaswell/72b0d579aeb54d4fbf87">https://gist.github.com/tacaswell/72b0d579aeb54d4fbf87</a>
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<div>which is version of the talk I presented at scipy, pydata Seattle and pygotham this summer. There will be more in-depth demos of the new features coming.</div>
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<div>This release has a new required dependency, <a href="http://matplotlib.org/cycler">cycler</a> , for composing complex style cycles.</div>
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<div>In 1.5.0 we have dropped official support for python 2.6 and 3.3. </div>
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<div>The next matplotlib release will be the 2.0 default-style-only release, planned for 1-2 months from now.</div>
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<div>Tom</div>
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