Add griddash axis property to cartesian, polar, smith, ternary and geo subplots and add griddash and minorgriddash to carpet trace [6144], with thanks to @njwhite for the contribution!
Implement various options to position and style minor ticks and grid lines on cartesian axis types including minor.tickmode, minor.tickvals, minor.tickcolor, minor.ticklen, minor.tickwidth, minor.dtick, minor.tick0, minor.nticks, minor.ticks, minor.showgrid, minor.gridcolor, minor.griddash and minor.gridwidth [6166]
Changed
Use the "willReadFrequently" 2d context creation attribute to optimize readback performance [#6084],
with thanks to @junov for the contribution!
Fixed
avoid drawing blank tick labels on cartesian axes [#6163]
Add support to use version 3 of MathJax and add typesetMath attribute to config [#6073],
with thanks to Equinor for sponsoring the related development!
Add fillpattern options to scatter trace [#6101],
with thanks to @s417-lama for the contribution!
