matplotlib v3.3.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2020-07-16 // almost 4 years ago-
🚀 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.