Matplotlib

Highlights of this release include:

- Plotting and Annotation improvements
- Axes.inset_axes is no longer experimental
- Legend support for Boxplot
- Percent sign in pie labels auto-escaped with usetex=True
- hatch parameter for stackplot
- Add option to plot only one half of violin plot
- axhline and axhspan on polar axes
- Subplot titles can now be automatically aligned
- axisartist can now be used together with standard Formatters
- Toggle minorticks on Axis
- StrMethodFormatter now respects axes.unicode_minus
- Figure, Axes, and Legend Layout
- Subfigures now have controllable zorders
- Getters for xmargin, ymargin and zmargin
- Mathtext improvements
- mathtext documentation improvements
- mathtext spacing corrections
- Widget Improvements
- Check and Radio Button widgets support clearing
- 3D plotting improvements
- Setting 3D axis limits now set the limits exactly
- Other improvements
- New BackendRegistry for plotting backends
- Add widths, heights and angles setter to EllipseCollection
- image.interpolation_stage rcParam
- Arrow patch position is now modifiable
- NonUniformImage now has mouseover support

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