plotly v5.8.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2022-05-09 // almost 2 years ago
  • 🛠 Fixed

    • Improve support for type checking and IDE auto-completion by bypassing lazy-loading when type checking. #3425 with thanks to @JP-Ellis
    • line dash-style validators are now correctly used everywhere so that values like 10px 2px are accepted #3722
    • Resolved various deprecation warning messages and compatibility issues with upstream dependencies and Python 3.11, plus removed dependency on six, with thanks to @maresb, @hugovk, @tirkarthi, @martinRenou, and @BjoernLudwigPTB
    • Better support for MathJax 3 #3706

    ➕ Added

    • Type annotations for Plotly Express functions and chainable go.Figure methods, for better IDE auto-completion #3708

    ⚡️ Updated

    • Updated Plotly.js to from version 2.11.1 to version 2.12.1. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information. Notable changes include:
      • Add minor ticks to cartesian axes
      • Add griddash option to most axes