Altair v1.2 Release Notes

Release Date: 2016-11-07 // over 7 years ago
  • Major additions

    • ⚡️ Update to Vega-Lite 1.2 and make all its enhancements available to Altair

    • ➕ Add Chart.serve method (#197)

    • ➕ Add altair.expr machinery to specify transformations and filterings (#215)

    • ➕ Add Chart.savechart method, which can output JSON, HTML, and (if Node is installed) PNG and SVG. See https://altair-viz.github.io/documentation/displaying.html (#213)

    🐛 Bug fixes

    • 🛠 Countless minor bug fixes

    🚧 maintenance:

    • ⚡️ Update to Vega-Lite 1.2.1 and add its supported features

    • Create website: http://altair-viz.github.io/

    • 📚 Set up Travis to run conda & pip; and to build documentation