
On behalf of a veritable army of super coders, I'm pleased to announce the release of matplotlib 1.3.0. Downloads Downloads are available here: <http://matplotlib.org/downloads.html>http://matplotlib.org/downloads.html as well as through |pip|. Check with your distro for when matplotlib 1.3.0 will become packaged for your environment. (Note: Mac .dmg installers are still forthcoming due to some issues with the new installation approach.) Important known issues matplotlib no longer ships with its Python dependencies, including dateutil, pytz, pyparsing and six. When installing from source or |pip|, |pip| will install these for you automatically. When installing from packages (on Linux distributions, MacPorts, homebrew etc.) these dependencies should also be handled automatically. The Windows binary installers do not include or install these dependencies. You may need to remove any old matplotlib installations before installing 1.3.0 to ensure matplotlib has access to the latest versions of these dependencies. The following backends have been removed: QtAgg (Qt version 3.x only), FlktAgg and Emf. For a complete list of removed features, see <http://matplotlib.org/api/api_changes.html#changes-in-1-3>http://matplotlib.org/api/api_changes.html#changes-in-1-3 What's new * xkcd-style sketch plotting * webagg backend for displaying and interacting with plots in a web browser * event plots * triangular grid interpolation * control of baselines in stackplot * many improvements to text and color handling For a complete list of what's new, see <http://matplotlib.org/users/whats_new.html#new-in-matplotlib-1-3>http://matplotlib.org/users/whats_new.html#new-in-matplotlib-1-3 Have fun, and enjoy matplotlib! Michael Droettboom

In article <51FAA3AB.6020506@stsci.edu>, Michael Droettboom <mdroe@stsci.edu> wrote:
On behalf of a veritable army of super coders, I'm pleased to announce the release of matplotlib 1.3.0.
Downloads
Downloads are available here:
<http://matplotlib.org/downloads.html>http://matplotlib.org/downloads.html
as well as through |pip|. Check with your distro for when matplotlib 1.3.0 will become packaged for your environment.
(Note: Mac .dmg installers are still forthcoming due to some issues with the new installation approach.)
Important known issues
matplotlib no longer ships with its Python dependencies, including dateutil, pytz, pyparsing and six. When installing from source or |pip|, |pip| will install these for you automatically. When installing from packages (on Linux distributions, MacPorts, homebrew etc.) these dependencies should also be handled automatically. The Windows binary installers do not include or install these dependencies.
An unofficial Mac binary is available from here: <http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/rowen/python/> Known issues: - This may break existing installations of pytz and python-dateutil (especially if those were installed by the matplotlib 1.2.1 Mac binary installer). For safety, reinstall those after installing matplotlib. - Like the Windows binaries, it does not include pytz, python-dateutil, six or pyparsing. You will have to install those manually (e.g. with pip or easy_install). - Much of the test code is missing, for unknown reasons. Thus I was not able to run most of its unit tests. So...use at your own risk. At this point I have no idea if or when there will be an official Mac binary installer. I'm afraid I don't have time to track down the issues right now. -- Russell
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