Folks, We are happy to announce 2.1.0rc1! Wheels and and source on pypi and as a conda package via conda-forge. Please try it out and report any issues! See http://matplotlib.org/devdocs/users/whats_new.html for a draft of the release notes. This represents ~2 years of work and includes many new features and bug fixes. Please checkout our updated documentation ( http://matplotlib.org/devdocs/index.html), particularly the examples ( http://matplotlib.org/devdocs/gallery/index.html ) and tutorials ( http://matplotlib.org/devdocs/tutorials/index.html) . Re-organizing, updating, and migrating the examples to sphinx-gallery was a huge effort led by Nelle Varoquaux and Chris Holdgraf. A big thanks to the many (~280) people who contributed to this release. Installation instructions (via pip into existing venv): pip install --upgrade --pre matplotlib or (via conda into a new venv) conda create -n mpl_rc matplotlib ipython -c conda-forge/label/rc -c conda-forge or(via conda into an existing venv) conda install -c conda-forge/label/rc matplotlib -c conda-forge Tom