REL: v3.8.0

Highlights of this release include:

- Type hints for most public APIs
- Many improvements to Mathtext
   - Addition of ``\boldsymbol`` command
   - Additional sizable delimiters
   - Documentation improvements
   - ``\substack`` command
   - ``\middle`` delimitier
   - ``\mathbfit`` for bold italic text
- 3D plotting improvements
   - Specify tick/axis label positions
   - Improved text for coordinates in interactive sessions
   - Ability to share view angles
- New plotting method ``ecdf`` (empirical cumulative distribution function)

REL: v3.7.3

This is the third bugfix release of the 3.7.x series.

This release contains several bug-fixes and adjustments:

* Add Python 3.12 wheels
* Update the license for the bundled colorbrewer colormap data
* Fix Cairo backend when using cairocffi
* Fix axes_grid1 inset axes with `bbox_inches=tight`
* Fix bugs in `Path3DCollection` / `Poly3DCollection` constructors
* Fix setting array labelcolor on Tick
* Improve compatibility with latest NumPy
* Stop warning when calling `tight_layout` multiple times

REL: v3.8.0rc1

First release candidate of Matplotlib 3.8.0

REL: v3.7.2

This is the second bugfix release of the 3.7.x series.

This release contains several bug-fixes and adjustments:

* Avoid modifying input masks in `pcolor`/`pcolormesh`
* Fix 3D set_aspect error cases
* Fix IPython's `%pylab` mode detection
* Fix `Figure.get_constrained_layout_pads()`
* Fix `Legend.set_draggable()` with `update="bbox"`
* Fix `TransformedBbox.{,full_}contains`
* Fix clipping of `bar_label` text
* Fix colorbar size when saving with explicit `bbox_inches`
* Fix errors when an input is entirely NaN
* Fix leaks of exception tracebacks and `LayoutGrid` objects
* Fix non-interpolated imshow in PDF export
* Fix palettized image optimization in PDF export
* Fix pgf tests with TeXLive 2022
* Fix removal of `Axes` that contain widgets that are grabbing the mouse
* Fix removal of draggable artists
* Fix subslice optimization for long, fully nan lines
* Fix tight layout if Figure has an existing layout manager
* Fix window extent of AnnotationBbox before first draw
* Fix wspace and hspace in subfigures
* Improve Qt compatibility
* Improve compatibility with Python 3.12
* Prevent under the hood downcasting of values in `xcorr`
* Remove some NumPy function overrides from `pylab`
* Remove warning with symlog scales on mouseover

REL: 3.7.1

This is the first bugfix release of the 3.7.x series.

This release contains several bug-fixes and adjustments:

* Ensure Qhull license is included in binary wheels
* Fix application of rcParams on Axes labels
* Fix compatibility with Pandas datetime unit converter
* Fix compatibility with latest GTK4
* Fix import of styles with relative path
* Fix Lasso unresponsiveness when clicking and immediately releasing
* Fix pickling of draggable legends
* Fix RangeSlider.set_val when new value is outside existing value
* Fix size of Tk spacers when changing display DPI
* Fix wrapped text in constrained layout
* Improve compatibility with third-party backends
* Improve error if animation save path does not exist

REL: v3.7.0

Highlights of this release include:

- Plotting and Annotation improvements
  - ``hatch`` parameter for pie
  - Polar plot errors drawn in polar coordinates
  - Additional format string options in `~matplotlib.axes.Axes.bar_label`
  - ``ellipse`` boxstyle option for annotations
  - The *extent* of ``imshow`` can now be expressed with units
  - Reversed order of legend entries
  - ``pcolormesh`` accepts RGB(A) colors
  - View current appearance settings for ticks, tick labels, and gridlines
  - Style files can be imported from third-party packages
- Improvements to 3D Plotting
  - 3D plot pan and zoom buttons
  - *adjustable* keyword argument for setting equal aspect ratios in 3D
  - ``Poly3DCollection`` supports shading
  - rcParam for 3D pane color
- Figure and Axes Layout
  - ``colorbar`` now has a *location* keyword argument
  - Figure legends can be placed outside figures using constrained_layout
  - Per-subplot keyword arguments  in ``subplot_mosaic``
  - ``subplot_mosaic`` no longer provisional
- Widget Improvements
  - Custom styling of button widgets
  - Blitting in Button widgets
- Other Improvements
  - Source links can be shown or hidden for each Sphinx plot directive
  - Figure hooks
- New & Improved Narrative Documentation
  - Brand new :doc:`Animations </tutorials/introductory/animation_tutorial>` tutorial.
  - New grouped and stacked `bar chart <../../gallery/index.html#lines_bars_and_markers>`_ examples.
  - New section for new contributors and reorganized git instructions in the :ref:`contributing guide<contributing>`.
  - Restructured :doc:`/tutorials/text/annotations` tutorial.

REL: v3.7.0rc1

First release candidate for 3.7.0.

REL: v3.6.3

This is the third bugfix release of the 3.6.x series.

This release contains several bug-fixes and adjustments:

* Fix Artist removal from `axes_grid1` Axes classes
* Fix `inset_locator` in subfigures
* Fix `scatter` on masked arrays with units
* Fix colorbar ticks with log norm contours
* Fix deprecation warnings in GTK4 backend
* Fix using relative paths in `HTMLWriter`
* Improve failure message from rcParams string validation for tuple
  inputs
* Improve performance of QtAgg backends
* No longer modify `pil_kwargs` argument to `imsave` and `savefig`

REL: v3.6.2

This is the second bugfix release of the 3.6.x series.

This release contains several bug-fixes and adjustments:

* Avoid mutating dictionaries passed to `subplots`
* Fix `bbox_inches='tight'` on a figure with constrained layout enabled
* Fix auto-scaling of `ax.hist` density with `histtype='step'`
* Fix compatibility with PySide6 6.4
* Fix evaluating colormaps on non-NumPy arrays
* Fix key reporting in pick events
* Fix thread check on PyPy 3.8
* Handle input to `ax.bar` that is all NaN
* Make rubber band more visible on Tk and Wx backends
* Restore (and warn on) seaborn styles in `style.library`
* Restore `get_renderer` function in deprecated `tight_layout`
* nb/webagg: Fix resize handle on WebKit browsers (e.g., Safari)

REL: v3.6.1

This is the first bugfix release of the 3.6.x series.

This release contains several bug-fixes and adjustments:

* A warning is no longer raised when constrained layout explicitly
  disabled and tight layout is applied
* Add missing `get_cmap` method to `ColormapRegistry`
* Adding a colorbar on a `ScalarMappable` that is not attached to an
  `Axes` is now deprecated instead of raising a hard error
* Fix `barplot` being empty when first element is NaN
* Fix `FigureManager.resize` on GTK4
* Fix `fill_between` compatibility with NumPy 1.24 development version
* Fix `hexbin` with empty arrays and log scaling
* Fix `resize_event` deprecation warnings when creating figure on macOS
* Fix build in mingw
* Fix compatibility with PyCharm's interagg backend
* Fix crash on empty `Text` in PostScript backend
* Fix generic font families in SVG exports
* Fix horizontal colorbars with hatches
* Fix misplaced mathtext using `eqnarray`
* `stackplot` no longer changes the Axes cycler