July 16, 2020 Software Open Access

matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.3.0

Thomas A Caswell; Michael Droettboom; Antony Lee; John Hunter; Eric Firing; Elliott Sales de Andrade; Tim Hoffmann; David Stansby; Jody Klymak; Nelle Varoquaux; Jens Hedegaard Nielsen; Benjamin Root; Ryan May; Phil Elson; Darren Dale; Jae-Joon Lee; Jouni K. Seppänen; Damon McDougall; Andrew Straw; Paul Hobson; Christoph Gohlke; Tony S Yu; Eric Ma; Adrien F. Vincent; Steven Silvester; Charlie Moad; Nikita Kniazev; hannah; Elan Ernest; Paul Ivanov

Highlights of this release include:

• Provisional API for composing semantic axes layouts from text or nested lists
• New Axes.sharex, Axes.sharey methods
• Turbo colormap
• colors.BoundaryNorm supports extend keyword argument
• Text color for legend labels
• Pcolor and Pcolormesh now accept shading='nearest' and 'auto'
• Allow tick formatters to be set with str or function inputs
• New Axes.axline method
• Dates use a modern epoch
• Improved font weight detection
• Axes3D no longer distorts the 3D plot to match the 2D aspect ratio
• More consistent toolbar behavior across backends
• Toolbar icons are now styled for dark themes
• Cursor text now uses a number of significant digits matching pointing precision
• Functions to compute a Path's size
• savefig() gained a backend keyword argument
• Saving SVG now supports adding metadata
• Saving PDF metadata via PGF now consistent with PDF backend
• NbAgg and WebAgg no longer use jQuery & jQuery UI

For the full details please see the What's New and API changes in the documentation.