Hi all,
We are pleased to announce the release of Matplotlib 3.7.0.
Pre-built wheels are available for most major platforms, and can be installed using `pip install matplotlib==3.7.0`. Other packages may also be available already; please check with your preferred source.
We thank the 112 authors for the 427 pull requests that comprise the 3.7.0 release.
Highlights of this release include:
- Plotting and Annotation improvements
- `hatch` parameter for pie
- Polar plot errors drawn in polar coordinates
- Additional format string options in `bar_label`
- `ellipse` boxstyle option for annotations
- The *extent* of `imshow` can now be expressed with units
- Reversed order of legend entries
- `pcolormesh` accepts RGB(A) colors
- View current appearance settings for ticks, tick labels, and gridlines
- Style files can be imported from third-party packages
- Improvements to 3D Plotting
- 3D plot pan and zoom buttons
- *adjustable* keyword argument for setting equal aspect ratios in 3D
- `Poly3DCollection` supports shading
- rcParam for 3D pane color
- Figure and Axes Layout
- `colorbar` now has a *location* keyword argument
- Figure legends can be placed outside figures using constrained_layout
- Per-subplot keyword arguments in `subplot_mosaic`
- `subplot_mosaic` no longer provisional
- Widget Improvements
- Custom styling of button widgets
- Blitting in Button widgets
- Other Improvements
- Source links can be shown or hidden for each Sphinx plot directive
- Figure hooks
- New & Improved Narrative Documentation
- Brand new Animations tutorial.
- New grouped and stacked bar chart examples.
- New section for new contributors and reorganized git instructions in the contributing guide.
- Restructured Annotations tutorial.
For further details, please see the What's new in Matplotlib 3.7.0 page:
https://matplotlib.org/stable/users/prev_whats_new/whats_new_3.7.0.html
and the milestone on GitHub:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/milestone/70?closed=1
For packagers, this release contains some changes to dependencies:
* NumPy >=1.20 is now required.
* pyparsing >=2.3.1 is now required.
* Qt >=5.10 is now required for the Qt backends.
* importlib >=3.2.0 is now required for Python < 3.10. (This is a new requirement)
This release is signed by my GPG key. The fingerprint is:
EB83 2218 7FD4 5119 2E43 0A72 79B3 FEC4 56F1 2599
and it is also used to sign this message.
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Kyle Sunden
Matplotlib RSE
