We closed 605 issues and merged 483 pull requests.

The following 173 authors contributed 2121 commits.

* 4over7

* Adrien Chardon

* Andreas Hilboll

* bcongdon

* Ben Congdon

* danhickstein

* dlmccaffrey

* Hastings Greer

* Heiko Oberdiek

* Jan Schlüter

* LindyBalboa

* maluethi

* matthias

* Maximilian Maahn

* Min RK

* mlub

* Nathan Musoke

* Nelle Varoquaux

* Nicolas P. Rougier

* Pete Peterson

* Peter Mortensen

* Pierre de Buyl

* Qingpeng "Q.P." Zhang

* Randy Olson

* Sterling Smith

* Thomas Robitaille

* Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek

Pull Requests (483):

* :ghpull:`7037`: DOC change axhspan to numpydoc format

* :ghpull:`7047`: DOC - SpanSelector widget documentation

* :ghpull:`7049`: [MRG] Documentated dependencies to the doc and remove unecessary dependencies.

* :ghpull:`7063`: Tweek tol for test_hist_steplog to fix tests on appveyor

* :ghpull:`7055`: FIX: testings.nose was not installed

* :ghpull:`7058`: Minor animation fixes

* :ghpull:`7057`: FIX: Removed financial demos that stalled because of yahoo requests

* :ghpull:`7052`: Uncaught exns are fatal for PyQt5, so catch them.

* :ghpull:`7048`: FIX: remove unused variable

* :ghpull:`7042`: FIX: ticks filtered by Axis, not in Tick.draw

* :ghpull:`7026`: Merge 2.x to master

* :ghpull:`6988`: Text box widget, take over of PR5375

* :ghpull:`6957`: DOC: clearing out some instances of using pylab in the docs

* :ghpull:`7012`: Don't blacklist test_usetex using pytest

* :ghpull:`7011`: TST: Fixed ``skip_if_command_unavailable`` decorator problem

* :ghpull:`6918`: enable previously leftout test_usetex

* :ghpull:`7006`: FIX: sphinx 1.4.0 details

* :ghpull:`6900`: Enh: break website screenshot banner into 4 pieces and introduce a responsive layout

* :ghpull:`6997`: FIX: slow plots of pandas objects (Second try)

* :ghpull:`6792`: PGF Backend: Support interpolation='none'

* :ghpull:`6983`: Catch invalid interactive switch to log scale.

* :ghpull:`6491`: Don't warn in Collections.contains if picker is not numlike.

* :ghpull:`6978`: Add link to O'Reilly video course covering matplotlib

* :ghpull:`6930`: BUG: PcolorImage handles non-contiguous arrays, provides data readout

* :ghpull:`6889`: support for updating axis ticks for categorical data

* :ghpull:`6974`: Fixed wrong expression

* :ghpull:`6730`: Add Py.test testing framework support

* :ghpull:`6904`: Use edgecolor rather than linewidth to control edge display.

* :ghpull:`6919`: Rework MaxNLocator, eliminating infinite loop; closes #6849

* :ghpull:`6955`: Add parameter checks to DayLocator initiator

* :ghpull:`5161`: [WIP] Proposed change to default log scale tick formatting

* :ghpull:`6875`: Add keymap (default: G) to toggle minor grid.

* :ghpull:`6920`: Prepare for cross-framework test suite

* :ghpull:`6944`: Restore cbook.report_memory, which was deleted in d063dee.

* :ghpull:`6961`: remove extra "a"

* :ghpull:`6947`: Changed error message. Issue #6933

* :ghpull:`6923`: Make sure nose is only imported when needed

* :ghpull:`6851`: Do not restrict coverage to ``matplotlib`` module only

* :ghpull:`6938`: Image interpolation selector in Qt figure options.

* :ghpull:`6787`: Python3.5 dictview support

* :ghpull:`6407`: adding default toggled state for toggle tools

* :ghpull:`6898`: Fix read mode when loading cached AFM fonts

* :ghpull:`6892`: Don't force anncoords to fig coords upon dragging.

* :ghpull:`6895`: Prevent forced alpha in figureoptions.

* :ghpull:`6877`: Fix Path deepcopy signature

* :ghpull:`6822`: Use travis native cache

* :ghpull:`6821`: Break reference cycle Line2D <-> Line2D._lineFunc.

* :ghpull:`6879`: Delete font cache in one of the configurations

* :ghpull:`6832`: Fix for ylabel title in example tex_unicode_demo.py

* :ghpull:`6848`: ``test_tinypages``: pytest compatible module level setup

* :ghpull:`6881`: add doi to bibtex entry for Hunter (2007)

* :ghpull:`6842`: Clarify Axes.hexbin *extent* docstring

* :ghpull:`6861`: Update ggplot URLs

* :ghpull:`6878`: DOC: use venv instead of virtualenv on python 3

* :ghpull:`6837`: Fix Normalize(<signed integer array>).

* :ghpull:`6874`: Update bachelors_degree_by_gender example.

* :ghpull:`6867`: Mark ``make_all_2d_testfuncs`` as not a test

* :ghpull:`6854`: Fix for PyQt5.7 support.

* :ghpull:`6862`: Change default doc image format to png and pdf

* :ghpull:`6819`: Add mpl_toolkits to coveragerc.

* :ghpull:`6840`: Fixed broken ``test_pickle.test_complete`` test

* :ghpull:`6841`: DOC: Switch to OO code style & ensure fixed y-range in ``psd_demo3``

* :ghpull:`6843`: DOC: Fix ``psd_demo_complex`` similarly to ``psd_demo3``

* :ghpull:`6829`: Tick label rotation via ``set_tick_params``

* :ghpull:`6799`: Allow creating annotation arrows w/ default props.

* :ghpull:`6262`: Properly handle UTC conversion in date2num.

* :ghpull:`6777`: Raise lock timeout as actual exception

* :ghpull:`6817`: DOC: Fix a few typos and formulations

* :ghpull:`6826`: Clarify doc for "norm" kwarg to ``imshow``.

* :ghpull:`6807`: Deprecate ``{get,set}_cursorprops``.

* :ghpull:`6811`: Add xkcd font as one of the options

* :ghpull:`6815`: Rename tests in ``test_mlab.py``

* :ghpull:`6808`: Don't forget to disconnect callbacks for dragging.

* :ghpull:`6803`: better freetype version checking

* :ghpull:`6778`: Added contribute information to readme

* :ghpull:`6786`: 2.0 Examples fixes. See #6762

* :ghpull:`6774`: Appveyor: use newer conda packages and only run all tests on one platform

* :ghpull:`6779`: Fix tutorial pyplot scales (issue #6775)

* :ghpull:`6768`: Takeover #6535

* :ghpull:`6763`: Invalidate test cache on gs/inkscape version

* :ghpull:`6765`: Get more rcParams for 3d

* :ghpull:`6764`: Support returning polylines from to_polygons

* :ghpull:`6760`: DOC: clean up of demo_annotation_box.py

* :ghpull:`6735`: Added missing side tick rcParams

* :ghpull:`6761`: Fixed warnings catching and counting with ``warnings.catch_warnings``

* :ghpull:`5349`: Add a Gitter chat badge to README.rst

* :ghpull:`6755`: PEP: fix minor formatting issues

* :ghpull:`6699`: Warn if MPLBACKEND is invalid.

* :ghpull:`6754`: Fixed error handling in ``ImageComparisonTest.setup_class``

* :ghpull:`6734`: register IPython's eventloop integration in plt.install_repl_displayhook

* :ghpull:`6745`: DOC: typo in broken_axis pylab example

* :ghpull:`6747`: Also output the actual error on svg backend tests using subprocess

* :ghpull:`6744`: Add workaround for failures due to newer miktex

* :ghpull:`6741`: Missing ``cleanup`` decorator in ``test_subplots.test_exceptions``

* :ghpull:`6736`: doc: fix unescaped backslash

* :ghpull:`6733`: Mergev2.x to master

* :ghpull:`6703`: DOC: explain behavior of notches beyond quartiles

Issues (605):

* :ghissue:`7009`: No good way to disable SpanSelector

* :ghissue:`7040`: It is getting increasingly difficult to build the matplotlib documentation

* :ghissue:`6965`: ArtistAnimation cannot animate Figure-only artists

* :ghissue:`6964`: Docstring for ArtistAnimation is incorrect

* :ghissue:`7062`: remove the contour on a Basemap object

* :ghissue:`7061`: remove the contour on Basemap

* :ghissue:`7054`: Whether the new version 2.0 will support high-definition screen?

* :ghissue:`7053`: When will release 2.0 official version?

* :ghissue:`6797`: Undefined Symbol Error On Ubuntu

* :ghissue:`6523`: matplotlib-2.0.0b1 test errors on Windows

* :ghissue:`4753`: rubber band in qt5agg slow

* :ghissue:`6959`: extra box on histogram plot with a single value

* :ghissue:`6816`: Segmentation fault on Qt5Agg when using the wrong linestyle

* :ghissue:`4212`: Hist showing wrong first bin

* :ghissue:`4602`: bar / hist : gap between first bar and other bars with lw=0.0

* :ghissue:`6641`: Edge ticks sometimes disappear

* :ghissue:`7041`: Python 3.5.2 crashes when launching matplotlib 1.5.1

* :ghissue:`7028`: Latex Greek fonts not working in legend

* :ghissue:`6998`: dash pattern scaling with linewidth should get it's own rcParam

* :ghissue:`7021`: How to prevent matplotlib from importing qt4 libraries when only

* :ghissue:`7020`: Using tick_right() removes any styling applied to tick labels.

* :ghissue:`7018`: Website Down

* :ghissue:`6785`: Callbacks of draggable artists should check that they have not been removed

* :ghissue:`6783`: Draggable annotations specified in offset coordinates switch to figure coordinates after dragging

* :ghissue:`7015`: pcolor() not using "data" keyword argument

* :ghissue:`7014`: matplotlib works well in ipython note book but can't display in a terminal running

* :ghissue:`6999`: cycler 0.10 is required due to change_key() usage

* :ghissue:`6794`: Incorrect text clipping in presence of multiple subplots

* :ghissue:`7004`: Zooming with a large range in y-values while using the linestyle "--" is very slow

* :ghissue:`6828`: Spikes in small wedges of a pie chart

* :ghissue:`6940`: large memory leak in new contour routine

* :ghissue:`6894`: bar(..., linewidth=None) doesn't display bar edges with mpl2.0b3

* :ghissue:`6989`: bar3d no longer allows default colors

* :ghissue:`6980`: problem accessing canvas on MacOS 10.11.6 with matplotlib 2.0.0b3

* :ghissue:`6804`: Histogram of xarray.DataArray can be extremely slow

* :ghissue:`6859`: Update URL for links to ggplot

* :ghissue:`6852`: Switching to log scale when there is no positive data crashes the Qt5 backend, causes inconsistent internal state in others

* :ghissue:`6740`: PGF Backend: Support interpolation='none'?

* :ghissue:`6665`: regression: builtin latex rendering doesn't find the right mathematical fonts

* :ghissue:`6984`: plt.annotate(): segmentation fault when coordinates are too high

* :ghissue:`6979`: plot won't show with plt.show(block=False)

* :ghissue:`6981`: link to ggplot is broken...

* :ghissue:`6975`: [Feature request] Simple ticks generator for given range

* :ghissue:`6905`: pcolorfast results in invalid cursor data

* :ghissue:`6970`: quiver problems when angles is an array of values rather than 'uv' or 'xy'

* :ghissue:`6966`: No Windows wheel available on PyPI for new version of matplotlib (1.5.2)

* :ghissue:`6721`: Font cache building of matplotlib blocks requests made to HTTPd

* :ghissue:`6844`: scatter edgecolor is broken in Matplotlib 2.0.0b3

* :ghissue:`6849`: BUG: endless loop with MaxNLocator integer kwarg and short axis

* :ghissue:`6935`: matplotlib.dates.DayLocator cannot handle invalid input

* :ghissue:`6951`: Ring over A in \AA is too high in Matplotlib 1.5.1

* :ghissue:`6960`: axvline is sometimes not shown

* :ghissue:`6473`: Matplotlib manylinux wheel - ready to ship?

* :ghissue:`5013`: Add Hershey Fonts a la IDL

* :ghissue:`6953`: ax.vlines adds unwanted padding, changes ticks

* :ghissue:`6946`: No Coveralls reports on GitHub

* :ghissue:`6933`: Misleading error message for matplotlib.pyplot.errorbar()

* :ghissue:`6945`: Matplotlib 2.0.0b3 wheel can't load libpng in OS X 10.6

* :ghissue:`3865`: Improvement suggestions for matplotlib.Animation.save('video.mp4')

* :ghissue:`6932`: Investigate issue with pyparsing 2.1.6

* :ghissue:`6941`: Interfering with yahoo_finance

* :ghissue:`6913`: Cant get currency from yahoo finance with matplotlib

* :ghissue:`6901`: Add API function for removing legend label from graph

* :ghissue:`6510`: 2.0 beta: Boxplot patches zorder differs from lines

* :ghissue:`6911`: freetype build won't become local

* :ghissue:`6866`: examples/misc/longshort.py is outdated

* :ghissue:`6912`: Matplotlib fail to compile matplotlib._png

* :ghissue:`1711`: Autoscale to automatically include a tiny margin with ``Axes.errorbar()``

* :ghissue:`6903`: RuntimeError('Invalid DISPLAY variable') - With docker and django

* :ghissue:`6888`: Can not maintain zoom level when left key is pressed

* :ghissue:`6855`: imsave-generated PNG files missing edges for certain resolutions

* :ghissue:`6479`: Hexbin with log scale takes extent range as logarithm of the data along the log axis

* :ghissue:`6795`: suggestion: set_xticklabels and set_yticklabels default to current labels

* :ghissue:`6825`: I broke imshow(<signed integer array>) :-(

* :ghissue:`6858`: PyQt5 pyplot error

* :ghissue:`6853`: PyQt5 (v5.7) backend - TypeError upon calling figure()

* :ghissue:`6835`: Which image formats to build in docs.

* :ghissue:`6856`: Incorrect plotting for versions > 1.3.1 and GTK.

* :ghissue:`6838`: Figures not showing in interactive mode with macosx backend

* :ghissue:`6846`: GTK Warning

* :ghissue:`6839`: Test ``test_pickle.test_complete`` is broken

* :ghissue:`6691`: rcParam missing tick side parameters

* :ghissue:`6833`: plot contour with levels from discrete data

* :ghissue:`6636`: DOC: gallery supplies 2 pngs, neither of which is default

* :ghissue:`3896`: dates.date2num bug with daylight switching hour

* :ghissue:`6685`: 2.0 dev legend breaks on scatterplot

* :ghissue:`3655`: ensure removal of font cache on version upgrade

* :ghissue:`6818`: Failure to build docs: unknown property

* :ghissue:`6798`: clean and regenerate travis cache

* :ghissue:`6782`: 2.x: Contour level count is not respected

* :ghissue:`6796`: plot/lines not working for datetime objects that span old dates

* :ghissue:`6660`: cell focus/cursor issue when plotting to nbagg

* :ghissue:`6775`: Last figure in http://matplotlib.org/users/pyplot_tutorial.html is not displayed correctly

* :ghissue:`5981`: Increased tick width in 3D plots looks odd

* :ghissue:`6771`: ImportError: No module named artist

* :ghissue:`6289`: Grids are not rendered in backend implementation

* :ghissue:`6621`: Change in the result of test_markevery_linear_scales_zoomed

* :ghissue:`6515`: Dotted grid lines in v2.0.0b1

* :ghissue:`6511`: Dependencies in installation of 2.0.0b1

* :ghissue:`6668`: “Bachelor's degrees…” picture in the gallery is cropped

* :ghissue:`6751`: Tableau style

* :ghissue:`6742`: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt throws an erro

* :ghissue:`6097`: anaconda package missing nose dependency

* :ghissue:`6299`: savefig() to eps/pdf does not work

* :ghissue:`6393`: Pair of floats breaks plotting renderer (weirdest bug I've ever seen)

* :ghissue:`6387`: import matplotlib causes UnicodeDecodeError

* :ghissue:`6471`: Colorbar label position different when executing a block of code

* :ghissue:`6732`: Adding ``pairplot`` functionality?

* :ghissue:`6749`: Step diagram does not support xlim() and ylim()

* :ghissue:`6748`: Step diagram does not suppot

* :ghissue:`6615`: Bad event index for step plots

* :ghissue:`6588`: Different line styles between PNG and PDF exports.

* :ghissue:`6693`: linestyle="None" argument for fill_between() doesn't work

* :ghissue:`6592`: Linestyle pattern depends on current style, not style set at creation

* :ghissue:`5430`: Linestyle: dash tuple with offset

* :ghissue:`6451`: Inequality error on web page http://matplotlib.org/faq/howto_faq.html

* :ghissue:`6368`: Bug: matplotlib.pyplot.spy: does not work correctly for sparse matrices with many entries (>= 2**32)

* :ghissue:`4280`: imsave reduces 1row from the image