This is the fourth bugfix release of the 3.7.x series.

This release contains one bug-fix:

• Fix a segmentation fault when resizing on Python 3.12 and macOS 14

REL: v3.8.2

This is the second bugfix release of the 3.8 series.

Highlights of this release include:

• Fix a segfault in the MacOS backend when running on Python 3.12
• Fix Contour labeling manual positions selecting incorrect contours.
• Various documentation improvements

This is the first bugfix release of the 3.8.x series.

This release contains several bug fixes and adjustments:

• Bump setuptools required version because of setuptools_scm v8
• Update find_nearest_contour and revert contour deprecations
• allsegs and allkinds return individual segments
• Restore default behavior of hexbin mincnt with C provided
• Try/except import of Axes3D
• Ensure valid path mangling for ContourLabeler
• BLD: Remove development dependencies from sdists
• FIX 2-tuple of colors in to_rgba_array
• Fix issue with non-string labels and legend
• Fix issue with locale comma when not using math text
• Various type hinting improvements
• Various documentation improvements
• Improvements to the MacOS backend

REL: v3.8.0

Highlights of this release include:

• Type hints for most public APIs
• Many improvements to Mathtext
  • Addition of \boldsymbol command
  • Additional sizable delimiters
  • Documentation improvements
  • \substack command
  • \middle delimitier
  • \mathbfit for bold italic text
• 3D plotting improvements
  • Specify tick/axis label positions
  • Improved text for coordinates in interactive sessions
  • Ability to share view angles
• New plotting method ecdf (empirical cumulative distribution function)

This is the third bugfix release of the 3.7.x series.

This release contains several bug-fixes and adjustments:

• Add Python 3.12 wheels
• Update the license for the bundled colorbrewer colormap data
• Fix Cairo backend when using cairocffi
• Fix axes_grid1 inset axes with bbox_inches=tight
• Fix bugs in Path3DCollection / Poly3DCollection constructors
• Fix setting array labelcolor on Tick
• Improve compatibility with latest NumPy
• Stop warning when calling tight_layout multiple times

First release candidate for Matplotlib v3.8.0

This is the second bugfix release of the 3.7.x series.

This release contains several bug-fixes and adjustments:

• Avoid modifying input masks in pcolor/pcolormesh
• Fix 3D set_aspect error cases
• Fix IPython's %pylab mode detection
• Fix Figure.get_constrained_layout_pads()
• Fix Legend.set_draggable() with update="bbox"
• Fix TransformedBbox.{,full_}contains
• Fix clipping of bar_label text
• Fix colorbar size when saving with explicit bbox_inches
• Fix errors when an input is entirely NaN
• Fix leaks of exception tracebacks and LayoutGrid objects
• Fix non-interpolated imshow in PDF export
• Fix palettized image optimization in PDF export
• Fix pgf tests with TeXLive 2022
• Fix removal of Axes that contain widgets that are grabbing the mouse
• Fix removal of draggable artists
• Fix subslice optimization for long, fully nan lines
• Fix tight layout if Figure has an existing layout manager
• Fix window extent of AnnotationBbox before first draw
• Fix wspace and hspace in subfigures
• Improve Qt compatibility
• Improve compatibility with Python 3.12
• Prevent under the hood downcasting of values in xcorr
• Remove some NumPy function overrides from pylab
• Remove warning with symlog scales on mouseover

This is the first bugfix release of the 3.7.x series.

This release contains several bug-fixes and adjustments:

• Ensure Qhull license is included in binary wheels
• Fix application of rcParams on Axes labels
• Fix compatibility with Pandas datetime unit converter
• Fix compatibility with latest GTK4
• Fix import of styles with relative path
• Fix Lasso unresponsiveness when clicking and immediately releasing
• Fix pickling of draggable legends
• Fix RangeSlider.set_val when new value is outside existing value
• Fix size of Tk spacers when changing display DPI
• Fix wrapped text in constrained layout
• Improve compatibility with third-party backends
• Improve error if animation save path does not exist

Highlights of this release include:

• Plotting and Annotation improvements
  • hatch parameter for pie
  • Polar plot errors drawn in polar coordinates
  • Additional format string options in ~matplotlib.axes.Axes.bar_label
  • ellipse boxstyle option for annotations
  • The extent of imshow can now be expressed with units
  • Reversed order of legend entries
  • pcolormesh accepts RGB(A) colors
  • View current appearance settings for ticks, tick labels, and gridlines
  • Style files can be imported from third-party packages
• Improvements to 3D Plotting
  • 3D plot pan and zoom buttons
  • adjustable keyword argument for setting equal aspect ratios in 3D
  • Poly3DCollection supports shading
  • rcParam for 3D pane color
• Figure and Axes Layout
  • colorbar now has a location keyword argument
  • Figure legends can be placed outside figures using constrained_layout
  • Per-subplot keyword arguments in subplot_mosaic
  • subplot_mosaic no longer provisional
• Widget Improvements
  • Custom styling of button widgets
  • Blitting in Button widgets
• Other Improvements
  • Source links can be shown or hidden for each Sphinx plot directive
  • Figure hooks
• New & Improved Narrative Documentation
  • Brand new :doc:Animations </tutorials/introductory/animation_tutorial> tutorial.
  • New grouped and stacked bar chart <../../gallery/index.html#lines_bars_and_markers>_ examples.
  • New section for new contributors and reorganized git instructions in the :ref:contributing guide<contributing>.
  • Restructured :doc:/tutorials/text/annotations tutorial.

First release candidate for 3.7.0