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v0.12.1

This is an incremental release that is a recommended upgrade for all users. It addresses a handful of bugs / regressions in v0.12.0 and adds several features and enhancements to the new objects interface.

• Added the objects.Text mark (#3051).
• Added the objects.Dash mark (#3074).
• Added the objects.Perc stat (#3063).
• Added the objects.Count stat (#3086).
• The objects.Band and objects.Range marks will now cover the full extent of the data if min / max variables are not explicitly assigned or added in a transform (#3056).
• The objects.Jitter move now applies a small amount of jitter by default (#3066).
• Axes with a objects.Nominal scale now appear like categorical axes in classic seaborn, with fixed margins, no grid, and an inverted y axis (#3069).
• The objects.Continuous.label method now accepts base=None to override the default formatter with a log transform (#3087).
• Marks that sort along the orient axis (e.g. objects.Line) now use a stable algorithm (#3064).
• Added a label parameter to pointplot, which addresses a regression in 0.12.0 when pointplot is passed to FacetGrid (#3016).
• Fixed a bug that caused an exception when more than two layers with the same mappings were added to objects.Plot (#3055).
• Made objects.PolyFit robust to missing data (#3010).
• Fixed a bug in objects.Plot that occurred when data assigned to the orient coordinate had zero variance (#3084).
• Fixed a regression in kdeplot where passing cmap for an unfilled bivariate plot would raise an exception (#3065).
• Addressed a performance regression in lineplot with a large number of unique x values (#3081).
• Seaborn no longer contains doctest-style examples, simplifying the testing infrastructure (#3034).

v0.12.0

Introduction of the objects interface

This release debuts the seaborn.objects interface, an entirely new approach to making plots with seaborn. It is the product of several years of design and 16 months of implementation work. The interface aims to provide a more declarative, composable, and extensible API for making statistical graphics. It is inspired by Wilkinson's grammar of graphics, offering a Pythonic API that is informed by the design of libraries such as ggplot2 and vega-lite along with lessons from the past 10 years of seaborn's development.

For more information and numerous examples, see the tutorial chapter and API reference.

This initial release should be considered "experimental". While it is stable enough for serious use, there are definitely some rough edges, and some key features remain to be implemented. It is possible that breaking changes may occur over the next few minor releases. Please be patient with any limitations that you encounter and help the development by reporting issues when you find behavior surprising.

Keyword-only arguments

Seaborn's plotting functions now require explicit keywords for most arguments, following the deprecation of positional arguments in v0.11.0. With this enforcement, most functions have also had their parameter lists rearranged so that data is the first and only positional argument. This adds consistency across the various functions in the library. It also means that calling func(data) will do something for nearly all functions (those that support wide-form data) and that pandas.DataFrame can be piped directly into a plot. It is possible that the signatures will be loosened a bit in future releases so that x and y can be positional, but minimal support for positional arguments after this change will reduce the chance of inadvertent mis-specification (2804).

Modernization of categorical scatterplots

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