Matplotlib

This is the second release candidate for the meso release 3.9.0.

This is the fourth micro release of the 3.8 series.

Highlights of the 3.8.4 release include:

- Enable building against numpy 2.0; released wheels are built against numpy 2
- macosx: Clean up single-shot timers correctly
- Add a draw during show for macos backend
- Fix color sequence data for Set2 and Set3
- gtk: Ensure pending draws are done before GTK draw
- Update "Created with" url in hand.svg
- Avoid modifying user input to Axes.bar
- fix quiver3d incorrect arrow colors

This is the third micro release of the 3.8 series.

Highlights of the 3.8.3 release include:

- Improvements to the MacOS backend
- Fix hanging on `plt.pause`
- Fix warnings about "Secure coding is not enabled for restorable state"
- Fix crash at exit for PGF backend

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