REL: v2.0.0

Major release of Matplotlib

This release completely overhauls the default style of the plots.

Highlights include:

 - 'viridis' is default color map instead of jet.
 - Modernized the default color cycle.
 - Many more functions respect the color cycle.
 - Line dash patterns scale with linewidth.
 - Change default font to DejaVu, now supports most western.
   alphabets (including Greek, Cyrillic and latin with diacritcs),
   math symbols and emoji out of the box.
 - Faster text rendering.
 - Improved auto-limits.
 - Ticks out and only on the right and bottom spines by default.
 - Improved auto-ticking, particularly for log scales and dates.
 - Improved image support (`imshow` respects scales and eliminated a
   class of artifacts).

REL: v2.0.0rc2

This is the second and final planned release candidate for mpl v2.0

This release includes:

 - Bug fixes and documentation changes
 - Expanded API on plot_surface and plot_wireframe
 - Pin font size at text creation time
 - Suppress fc-cache warning unless it takes more than 5s

REL: v2.0.0rc1

This is the first release candidate for mpl v2.0

This release includes:

 - A re-implementation of the way margins are handled during auto
   scaling to allow artists to 'stick' to an edge of the Axes
 - Improvements to the ticking with log and symlog scales
 - Deprecation of the finance module.  This will be spun off into a stand-alone package
 - Deprecation of the 'hold' machinery
 - Bumped the minimum numpy version to 1.7
 - Standardization of hatch width and appearance across backends
 - Made threshold for triggering 'offset' in `ScalarFormatter` configurable
   and default to 4 (plotting against years should just work now)
 - Default encoding for mp4 is now h264
 - `fill_between` and `fill_betweenx` now use the color cycle
 - Default alignment of bars changed from 'edge' to 'center'
 - Bug and documentation fixes

REL: v2.0.0b4

Forth beta release for v2.0.0

REL: v1.5.3

This release contains a few critical bug fixes:

 - eliminate fatal exceptions with Qt5.7
 - memory leak in the contour code
 - keyboard interaction bug with nbagg
 - automatic integration with the ipython event loop (if running) which
   fixes 'naive' integration for IPython 5+

REL: v2.0.0b3

Third beta for v2.0.0 release

This tag includes several critical bug fixes and updates the dash
patterns.

REL: v2.0.0b2

Second beta for v2.0.0

- fixed bugs in scaling dash pattern by linewidth
- fixed over/under propagating in images
- back ported improved png API from master
- deprecate gtk, gdk, wx (not gtkagg, wxagg) backends
- tweaks to default font sizes
- ensure default ticker always has at least 2 ticks
- remove vendored version of `six`
- updated GUI icons
- many small bug fixes

REL: v1.5.2

Final planned bug-fix release for the 1.5.x.

Highlights:

 - support for manylinux wheels
 - fix major performance regression in Path.contains_points
 - improved pandas support

REL: v2.0.0b1

First beta release for the v2.0.0

REL: v1.5.2rc2

Second release candidate for v1.5.2

This includes an overhaul of the Tk linking to enable
manylinux wheels.