Folks, We are happy to announce the release of Matplotlib 3.1! Matplotlib 3.1 supports Python 3.6+. Highlights of this release include: - A helper method for scatter legends - Secondary axis support (ex, degrees and radians) - A concise date formatter - No longer requires a framework build of Python to use OSX backend - Major and minor ticks will no longer collide by default - A progress callback for animations - mplot3D is always registered - deprecated mlab functions have been removed - Many function calls have become stricter about invalid or ignored input For the full details see - whats new: https://matplotlib.org/users/whats_new.html - API changes: https://matplotlib.org/api/api_changes.html A big thank you to everyone who worked on this release including the 151 people contributed code [1] and the many more who reported issues. We are planning to have Matplotlib 3.2 released in September/October and Matplotlib 2.2.5 (the final release of the 2.2.x LTS series) in December. Tom [1] https://matplotlib.org/users/github_stats.html -- Thomas Caswell tcaswell@gmail.com