Hi all,
We are pleased to announce the publication of the 3.9.0 meso¹ release.
Pre-built wheels are available for most major platforms, and can be
installed using `pip install matplotlib==3.9.0`. Other packages may also
be available already; please check with your preferred source.
This release is the work of 175 authors over 450 Pull Requests, fixing
97 Issues. Highlights of this release include:
Plotting and Annotation improvements
- Axes.inset_axes is no longer experimental
- Legend support for Boxplot
- Percent sign in pie labels auto-escaped with usetex=True
- hatch parameter for stackplot
- Add option to plot only one half of violin plot
- axhline and axhspan on polar axes
- Subplot titles can now be automatically aligned
- axisartist can now be used together with standard Formatters
- Toggle minorticks on Axis
- StrMethodFormatter now respects axes.unicode_minus
Figure, Axes, and Legend Layout
- Subfigures now have controllable zorders
- Getters for xmargin, ymargin and zmargin
Mathtext improvements
- mathtext documentation improvements
- mathtext spacing corrections
Widget Improvements
- Check and Radio Button widgets support clearing
3D plotting improvements
- Setting 3D axis limits now set the limits exactly
Other improvements
- New BackendRegistry for plotting backends
- Add widths, heights and angles setter to EllipseCollection
- image.interpolation_stage rcParam
- Arrow patch position is now modifiable
- NonUniformImage now has mouseover support
For further details, please see the release notes at
https://matplotlib.org/3.9.0/users/release_notes.html#version-3-9
and the milestone on GitHub:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/milestone/78?closed=1
¹ Starting with this release, we have moved to the Effective Versioning
scheme: https://jacobtomlinson.dev/effver/
--
Elliott
