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+API Changes for 3.8.1
+=====================
+
+Behaviour
+---------
+
+Default behaviour of ``hexbin`` with *C* provided requires at least 1 point
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The behaviour changed in 3.8.0 to be inclusive of *mincnt*. However, that resulted in
+errors or warnings with some reduction functions, so now the default is to require at
+least 1 point to call the reduction function. This effectively restores the default
+behaviour to match that of Matplotlib 3.7 and before.
+
+
+Deprecations
+------------
+
+Deprecations removed in ``contour``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+``contour.allsegs``, ``contour.allkinds``, and ``contour.find_nearest_contour`` are no
+longer marked for deprecation.
+
+
+Development
+-----------
+
+Minimum version of setuptools bumped to 64
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+To comply with requirements of ``setuptools_scm``, the minimum version of ``setuptools``
+has been increased from 42 to 64.
diff --git a/doc/devel/development_setup.rst b/doc/devel/development_setup.rst
index 57c063605c47..9be22161a89a 100644
--- a/doc/devel/development_setup.rst
+++ b/doc/devel/development_setup.rst
@@ -194,7 +194,6 @@ config during installation ::
 For more information on installation and other configuration options, see the
 Meson Python :external+meson-python:ref:`editable installs guide <how-to-guides-editable-installs>`.
 
-
 Verify the Installation
 =======================
 
diff --git a/doc/users/github_stats.rst b/doc/users/github_stats.rst
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--- a/doc/users/github_stats.rst
+++ b/doc/users/github_stats.rst
@@ -1,1005 +1,171 @@
 .. _github-stats:
 
-GitHub statistics for 3.8.0 (Sep 14, 2023)
+GitHub statistics for 3.8.1 (Oct 31, 2023)
 ==========================================
 
-GitHub statistics for 2023/02/13 (tag: v3.7.0) - 2023/09/14
+GitHub statistics for 2023/09/15 (tag: v3.8.0) - 2023/10/31
 
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-We closed 185 issues and merged 649 pull requests.
-The full list can be seen `on GitHub <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/milestone/77?closed=1>`__
+We closed 24 issues and merged 95 pull requests.
+The full list can be seen `on GitHub <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/milestone/85?closed=1>`__
 
-The following 146 authors contributed 2914 commits.
+The following 27 authors contributed 165 commits.
 
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-* Devilsaint
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-* Eric Prestat
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-* Felix Goudreault
-* Gabriel Madeira
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-* Marisa Wong
-* Mateusz Sokół
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+* Lucia Korpas
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-* Matthias Bussonnier
-* MeeseeksMachine
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+Pull Requests (95):
 
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-* :ghpull:`26775`: Backport PR #26767 on branch v3.8.x (Trim Gouraud triangles that contain NaN)
-* :ghpull:`26776`: Backport PR #26687 on branch v3.8.x (Remove usage of recarray)
-* :ghpull:`26702`: converted coc to rst and put links in code_of_conduct.md
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-* :ghpull:`26767`: Trim Gouraud triangles that contain NaN
-* :ghpull:`26770`: Backport PR #26762 on branch v3.8.x (MNT: Numpy 2.0 removals from ndarray class)
-* :ghpull:`26762`: MNT: Numpy 2.0 removals from ndarray class
-* :ghpull:`26769`: DOC: Pin mpl-sphinx-theme to 3.8.x
-* :ghpull:`26768`: Backport PR #26700 on branch v3.8.x (Check type for set_clip_box)
-* :ghpull:`26700`: Check type for set_clip_box
-* :ghpull:`26766`: Backport PR #26763 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: Add redirects for old gitwash files)
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-* :ghpull:`26756`: Pin numpy to <2 for 3.8.0
-* :ghpull:`26761`: Merge branch v3.7.x into v3.8.x
-* :ghpull:`26757`: Backport PR #26628 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: move install related FAQ to install docs)
-* :ghpull:`26628`: DOC: move install related FAQ to install docs
-* :ghpull:`26753`: Backport PR #26705 on branch v3.8.x ([Doc] Small fixes found by velin)
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-* :ghpull:`26746`: Backport PR #26671 on branch v3.8.x ([DOC] Enhance API reference index)
-* :ghpull:`26671`: [DOC] Enhance API reference index
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-* :ghpull:`26662`: Backport PR #26542 on branch v3.8.x (TST: Ensure test_webagg subprocess is terminated)
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-* :ghpull:`26481`: Clarify behavior of norm clipping
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-* :ghpull:`26473`: Fix codespaces setup.sh script
-* :ghpull:`24376`: Support removing inner ticks in label_outer()
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-* :ghpull:`26472`: Do not close figures on backend switch.
-* :ghpull:`26402`: Restructure interface section of API Reference index page
-* :ghpull:`26467`: MNT: Adjust for upcoming numpy repr changes
-* :ghpull:`26451`: TYP: Add several missing return type annotations
-* :ghpull:`26466`: Make annotate/OffsetFrom unaffected by later mutation of coordinates.
-* :ghpull:`26445`: [DOC]: annotation tutorial: blended artist, headers, and user demo deletes
-* :ghpull:`26454`: Rename an internal parameter of _label_outer_x/yaxis()
-* :ghpull:`26130`: Enable branch coverage for C/C++ code
-* :ghpull:`26448`: [DOC] Update dependency documentation
-* :ghpull:`26450`: Fix return value of Text.update
-* :ghpull:`26447`: DOC: Fix accidental cases of blockquotes
-* :ghpull:`26401`: WARN: more direct warning ticklabels
-* :ghpull:`26444`: Fix some bugs found by typing
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-* :ghpull:`26407`: Improve some smaller typing issues
-* :ghpull:`26328`: [DOC]: improve consistency of plot types gallery
-* :ghpull:`26434`: TYP: Adjust type hint of Norm.__call__ to return masked array
-* :ghpull:`26376`: Text antialiasing for mathtext (reopen)
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-* :ghpull:`26403`: Update type hints for font manager and extension
-* :ghpull:`26433`: Call out which pane is hovered over for 3d hover coordinates
-* :ghpull:`26418`: Add next_whats_new entries for mathtext features
-* :ghpull:`26429`: DOC: update ContourSet attributes deprecation advice
-* :ghpull:`26051`: Type hinting developer docs
-* :ghpull:`26427`: Improve button widget examples a bit
-* :ghpull:`26423`: Fix pyparsing version check
-* :ghpull:`26425`: Delete second MRI demo example
-* :ghpull:`26424`: macos: Don't leak None in Timer cleanup
-* :ghpull:`26332`: moved doc root to landing page, make user landing a guide page
-* :ghpull:`26408`: DOC: add note about manually downloading qhull + freetype
-* :ghpull:`26404`: Remove old What's new entries
-* :ghpull:`26011`: Emit xlim_changed on shared axes.
-* :ghpull:`25810`: Fix default return of Collection.get_{cap,join}style
-* :ghpull:`26168`: Add _val_or_rc-function
-* :ghpull:`26335`: Optimize imshow
-* :ghpull:`26367`: Add typing for internal helpers
-* :ghpull:`26397`: TYP: Add type hints to testing module
-* :ghpull:`26399`: Reinstate & deprecate ContourSet.antialiased
-* :ghpull:`26385`: Improve typing in pyplot
-* :ghpull:`26151`: Add substack cmd for mathtext
-* :ghpull:`26396`: Move pylab documentation to its own module page
-* :ghpull:`26393`: TST: Remove extra dummy Axis classes
-* :ghpull:`26384`: Fix triage tool due to Qt bump to 5.12
-* :ghpull:`26382`: Tweak hist2d docstring.
-* :ghpull:`26359`: Simplify MRI with EEG example
-* :ghpull:`26071`: ENH: macosx allow figures to be opened in tabs or windows
-* :ghpull:`16473`: Make ``.axis(zmin=...)`` work on 3D axes
-* :ghpull:`26333`: Add middle for delims
-* :ghpull:`26365`: Fix removal of Figure-level artists
-* :ghpull:`26341`: Fix pickling of axes property cycle.
-* :ghpull:`26279`: DOC: remove users_explain/axis
-* :ghpull:`26347`: Add tests for LogFormatter.format_data and format_data_short
-* :ghpull:`26329`: Clarify that ImageGrid requires limits-sharing.
-* :ghpull:`26349`: Tweak Sankey docs.
-* :ghpull:`26352`: Fix bad histogramming bins in mri/eeg example.
-* :ghpull:`26353`: Remove unused private method
-* :ghpull:`26342`: ENH: Collection.set_paths
-* :ghpull:`26344`: Some more micro optimizations
-* :ghpull:`26346`: Increase coverage
-* :ghpull:`26330`: Deprecate wrappers combining axes_grid1 and axisartist.
-* :ghpull:`26338`: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.14.0 to 2.14.1
-* :ghpull:`26331`: Support standard Axes in RGBAxes.
-* :ghpull:`26219`: DOC: Restore banner indicating docs are unreleased
-* :ghpull:`25558`: Simplify outdated Image.contains check.
-* :ghpull:`26324`: More micro optimizations of plot
-* :ghpull:`26325`: Remove unused variables
-* :ghpull:`26022`: MNT/FIX: macosx change Timer to NSTimer instance
-* :ghpull:`26303`: Micro optimization of plotting
-* :ghpull:`26249`: FIX: axes3d.scatter color parameter doesn't decrease in size for non-finite coordinate inputs.
-* :ghpull:`26078`: Fix parasite_axes does not properly handle units
-* :ghpull:`25839`: [ENH]: int / float-tuple like kwarg legend(loc) for rcParams['legend.loc']
-* :ghpull:`26056`: Privatize TexManager.texcache
-* :ghpull:`25363`: Bump minimum QT5 version to 5.12
-* :ghpull:`26176`: Add more sizeable delimiters
-* :ghpull:`26302`: FIX: move the font lock higher up the call and class tree
-* :ghpull:`26309`: qt: Mark canvas for re-draw after savefig
-* :ghpull:`26311`: FIX: labels at start of contours
-* :ghpull:`26278`: ENH: clip_path keyword for contour and contourf
-* :ghpull:`26295`: Deprecate inset_locator.InsetPosition.
-* :ghpull:`26122`: Only change axes aspect in imshow if image transform is/contains transData
-* :ghpull:`26297`: Use transformed paths for contour labelling decisions
-* :ghpull:`26160`: add setters and getters for _AxLine's xy1, xy2 and slope parameters
-* :ghpull:`26294`: Deprecate cbook.Stack.
-* :ghpull:`26284`: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.13.1 to 2.14.0
-* :ghpull:`25661`: boldsymbol support for mathtext
-* :ghpull:`26285`: Improve exception message for set_ticks() kwargs without labels
-* :ghpull:`14593`: Simplify SecondaryAxis.set_color.
-* :ghpull:`26273`: TST: simplify mask in pcolor writing to mask test
-* :ghpull:`26263`: Doc fix toc users
-* :ghpull:`26242`: Deprecate FigureCanvasBase.switch_backends.
-* :ghpull:`26164`: Only clear Axis once when creating an Axes
-* :ghpull:`26035`: issue #26031 -  [MNT]: decrease timeout on interactive tests locally
-* :ghpull:`23485`: Fix displayed 3d coordinates showing gibberish
-* :ghpull:`25027`: Make pcolor more mesh-like
-* :ghpull:`26235`: MNT:Decreased timeout for local interactive tests
-* :ghpull:`26270`: Merge v3.7.x into main
-* :ghpull:`26269`: DOC: Fix image_rotator
-* :ghpull:`26265`: DOC: ensure that the bounding box is scaled with dpi in example
-* :ghpull:`26255`: DOC: Modernize Colorbar Tick Labelling example
-* :ghpull:`26258`: DOC: fix rst formatting
-* :ghpull:`26257`: DOC: Clarify terminology
-* :ghpull:`26256`: Better document the ContourSet API change.
-* :ghpull:`26254`: DOC: Improve readability of date formatters/locators example
-* :ghpull:`26233`: DOC: replaced step with stairs in basic plot types
-* :ghpull:`26213`: Add ``CITATION.cff`` file
-* :ghpull:`26226`: Use CLOSEPOLY kind code to close tricontourf polygons
-* :ghpull:`26208`: FIX: also copy the axis units when creating twins
-* :ghpull:`26185`: Set transform for offset text in 3d
-* :ghpull:`26068`: Rewrite Tick formatters example
-* :ghpull:`26218`: moved minimum dependencies to maintenance section
-* :ghpull:`26217`: Doc/rm maintainer wf
-* :ghpull:`26212`: Avoid deprecated typing hints
-* :ghpull:`26198`: Limit Forward references in Mathtext parser
-* :ghpull:`26210`: Re-export textpath types in text
-* :ghpull:`25247`: Turn ContourSet into a standard Collection artist.
-* :ghpull:`26204`: ci: Add tzdata to nightly builds
-* :ghpull:`26200`: [Doc] Add note about (str, alpha) version added
-* :ghpull:`26171`: precommit warns on main + instructions for fix
-* :ghpull:`26189`: Factor out legend/figlegend nargs validation.
-* :ghpull:`26199`: ci: Fix typo for nightly builds
-* :ghpull:`26197`: CI: Add pre-release installs to upcoming tests
-* :ghpull:`26086`: reorganize contributing landing page
-* :ghpull:`17497`: Dedupe some C++ templates
-* :ghpull:`26190`: Deprecate removal of explicit legend handles whose label starts with _.
-* :ghpull:`26188`: Add note to remove texts in baselines when they are regenerated.
-* :ghpull:`25714`: Fix ffmpeg framerates
-* :ghpull:`26142`: [Doc] alphabetize mathtext symbols by unicode
-* :ghpull:`25933`: Relational Operators for mathtext
-* :ghpull:`26159`: DOC: Remove unused static images
-* :ghpull:`25913`: DOC: contributing and documenting clean ups + community for incubator invites
-* :ghpull:`26141`: Doc cards user explain
-* :ghpull:`26110`: DOC: fix levels in user/explain/figure
-* :ghpull:`26102`: Start basing mathtext tutorial on mathtext parser
-* :ghpull:`26138`: MNT: add VNClte porte by default
-* :ghpull:`26089`: Add public method to update ``Legend`` object's loc property .
-* :ghpull:`26137`: Add codespaces configuration
-* :ghpull:`25548`: FIX: macosx keep track of mouse up/down for cursor hand changes
-* :ghpull:`26132`: MNT: remove test images from mathtext tests that have been removed
-* :ghpull:`26125`: Stop building universal2 and win32 wheels
-* :ghpull:`26105`: Doc user guide cards
-* :ghpull:`26128`: Add missing spacer in tk toolmanager toolbar.
-* :ghpull:`26129`: Remove outdated comment in ``Artist.__getstate__``
-* :ghpull:`25631`: API: forbid unsafe savefig kwargs to AbstractMovieWriter.grab_frame
-* :ghpull:`25926`: DOC: restore navigation documentation
-* :ghpull:`24666`: Setting color of legend shadow
-* :ghpull:`26010`: Correct Unicode for [lg]napprox
-* :ghpull:`26120`: Fix new warnings in compiled extensions
-* :ghpull:`26060`: Mnt: GUI tests
-* :ghpull:`25623`: Use classic style in old what's new entries
-* :ghpull:`26113`: Fixes #12926 - inconsistency upon passing C in hexbin
-* :ghpull:`25555`: Let widgets/clabel better handle overlapping axes.
-* :ghpull:`26114`: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.13.0 to 2.13.1
-* :ghpull:`26112`: Skip tests for users-explain gallery
-* :ghpull:`26111`: [MNT] Update nightly wheels install location
-* :ghpull:`25779`: Adding ellipse_arrow.py example and closes #25477
-* :ghpull:`26101`: Correct bounding box calculation for text markers
-* :ghpull:`26096`: FIX: Handle masked arrays for RGBA input with ScalarMappables
-* :ghpull:`26024`: Add missing operators code
-* :ghpull:`26072`: Pcolormesh with Gouraud shading: masked arrays
-* :ghpull:`25381`: ENH: switch mpl_toolkits to implicit namespace package (PEP 420)
-* :ghpull:`26070`: Factor out common checks for set_data in various Image subclasses.
-* :ghpull:`26091`: Shorten axes_grid1 inset_locator code.
-* :ghpull:`26090`: ci: Move Python 3.11 job to Ubuntu 22.04
-* :ghpull:`21054`: Deprecate many single-use rc validators.
-* :ghpull:`26065`: Install extra requirements when testing with 3.11 on GH
-* :ghpull:`26080`: Deprecate unused "frac" key in annotate() arrowprops.
-* :ghpull:`25248`: added Ishikawa plot in response to issue #25222 add organizational ch…
-* :ghpull:`26064`: add ishikawa diagram to examples
-* :ghpull:`26079`: Tweak Annotation docstring.
-* :ghpull:`26069`: Tweak AnnotationBbox coords specification.
-* :ghpull:`26073`: Cleanup date tick locators and formatters
-* :ghpull:`26057`: Further cleanup rainbow_text example.
-* :ghpull:`26058`: Don't show type hints in rendered docs
-* :ghpull:`26042`: Further simplify AxesGrid._init_locators.
-* :ghpull:`25993`: Modify rainbow_text() function to use annotate() function
-* :ghpull:`25850`: Handle exceptions in numpy::array_view<...>::set().
-* :ghpull:`25542`: ENH: offset parameter for MultipleLocator
-* :ghpull:`25515`: DOC/BLD: plot directive srcset
-* :ghpull:`26045`: 'Inactive' workflow: reduce run frequency
-* :ghpull:`26047`: PR welcome: getting attention
-* :ghpull:`26023`: CI: Use scientific-python/upload-nightly-action
-* :ghpull:`25775`: Support customizing antialiasing for text and annotation
-* :ghpull:`26036`: Cleanup AxesGrid
-* :ghpull:`26025`: MNT: Use commit SHA of cibuildwheel action release
-* :ghpull:`25938`: “Inactive” workflow: bump operations to 175
-* :ghpull:`26020`: Let AxesGrid support Axes subclasses that don't override axis().
-* :ghpull:`26017`: MNT: reduce number of implicit imports from toplevel __init__.py
-* :ghpull:`26033`: removed wrapping from first-issue-bot
-* :ghpull:`26003`: added alias to gray and grey match same colormaps
-* :ghpull:`26027`: Correct spelling in 'Good first issue'
-* :ghpull:`26026`: Simplify delaxes.
-* :ghpull:`26028`: Better document the semantics of get_text_width_height_descent.
-* :ghpull:`26018`: good first issue bot rewording
-* :ghpull:`13482`: Allow sharing Locators and Formatters across Axises.
-* :ghpull:`25950`: Upload nightlies to new location
-* :ghpull:`25473`: ci: Merge sdist and wheel building workflows
-* :ghpull:`25825`: Fix MarkerStyle types
-* :ghpull:`26002`: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.12.3 to 2.13.0
-* :ghpull:`25999`: "Inactive" workflow: add close label for inactive issues
-* :ghpull:`24493`: DOC: dropdowns in userguide
-* :ghpull:`25970`: FIX: resolve an issue where no ticks would be drawn for a colorbar with SymLogNorm and ranging exactly from 0 to linthresh
-* :ghpull:`25989`: test annotate(textcoords=offset fontsize)
-* :ghpull:`25044`: Modify ``hexbin`` to respect :rc:``patch.linewidth``
-* :ghpull:`25667`: Fix bar datetime
-* :ghpull:`25794`: Raise on plural scatter
-* :ghpull:`25986`: Remove unused/unnecessary parts of _macosx.m View.
-* :ghpull:`25689`: Update watermark example
-* :ghpull:`25735`: Add comment on issues marked 'good first issue'
-* :ghpull:`25968`: Cleanup scalarformatter.py example.
-* :ghpull:`18715`: Allow setting default AutoMinorLocator
-* :ghpull:`25961`: Fix nightly CI
-* :ghpull:`25844`: [TYP] Reduce stubtest ignores
-* :ghpull:`25952`: Switch from provision-with-micromamba to setup-micromamba
-* :ghpull:`25940`: Cleanups to Annotation.
-* :ghpull:`25948`: DOC: don't advocate deleting main branch
-* :ghpull:`25939`: Cleanup time_series_histogram example.
-* :ghpull:`25883`: Check gridspecness of colorbars on the right figure.
-* :ghpull:`25904`: Support spine.set() in SpinesProxy.
-* :ghpull:`25909`: #25900 update figure.py
-* :ghpull:`25746`: Tick label font family via tick_params
-* :ghpull:`25787`: [TYP/MNT] Remove unused imports from stub files
-* :ghpull:`25891`: Adds tests for nargs_err in legend, stem, pcolorfast and cycler.
-* :ghpull:`25886`: Simplify isort config.
-* :ghpull:`25889`: Deprecate CbarAxesBase.toggle_label.
-* :ghpull:`25884`: Correctly pass location when constructing ImageGrid colorbar.
-* :ghpull:`25888`: Fix incorrect doc references.
-* :ghpull:`25885`: Cleanup demo_axes_grid{,2}.
-* :ghpull:`25872`: MNT: update Shadow init signature
-* :ghpull:`25389`: Add configuration of Shadow and pie shadow
-* :ghpull:`25859`: Deprecate passing extra arguments to Figure.add_axes
-* :ghpull:`25863`: Fix incorrect usage of nargs_error.
-* :ghpull:`25845`: more explicit about what remote means in context
-* :ghpull:`23888`: Fix PolygonSelector.clear()
-* :ghpull:`25848`: Simplify lasso_demo example.
-* :ghpull:`25841`: Deprecate Tick.set_label{1,2}.
-* :ghpull:`25728`: Remove and deprecate unused methods in src
-* :ghpull:`25843`: Fix invalid range validators.
-* :ghpull:`25821`: 3D plots shared view angles
-* :ghpull:`25726`: Replace usage of WenQuanYi Zen Hei by Noto Sans CJK
-* :ghpull:`25828`: DOC: add remote upstream
-* :ghpull:`25814`: [TYP] Correct type hint for Transform.transform return
-* :ghpull:`25812`: Fix typo in ruff config
-* :ghpull:`25807`: Users guide->User guide
-* :ghpull:`25799`: Discourage fontdict
-* :ghpull:`25798`: [DOC/TYP]: Allow any array like for set_[xy]ticks, not just list of float
-* :ghpull:`25632`: Include data kwarg in pyi stubs
-* :ghpull:`25790`: Document default value of corner_mask in the corresponding example.
-* :ghpull:`25788`: ci: Increase retry count on PR conflict check
-* :ghpull:`25482`: Draw 3D gridlines below axis lines, labels, text, and ticks
-* :ghpull:`25607`: Missing return type hints for Figure
-* :ghpull:`25783`: Cleanup demo_text_path.
-* :ghpull:`25780`: Shorten anchored_artists example.
-* :ghpull:`25781`: Deprecate AnchoredEllipse.
-* :ghpull:`25786`: DOC: Fix minor typo in API change notes
-* :ghpull:`25773`: condensed pull request template
-* :ghpull:`25712`: Prevents axes limits from being resized by axes.fill_between
-* :ghpull:`25782`: Fix release note reference to pyplot.axis
-* :ghpull:`25777`: Cleanup demo_axes_divider.
-* :ghpull:`25774`: Small axislines.Axes cleanups.
-* :ghpull:`25772`: Only print actually tested QT APIs when erroring
-* :ghpull:`25769`: Set PostScript language level to 3
-* :ghpull:`25753`: Update, correct, and add badges/links
-* :ghpull:`25747`: Tweak axis_direction demo.
-* :ghpull:`23059`: FIX: Decrease figure refcount on close of a macosx figure
-* :ghpull:`25606`: [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate
-* :ghpull:`25752`: Enable lazy-loading of images in HTML docs
-* :ghpull:`25648`: Remove nonfunctional Axes3D.set_frame_on and get_frame_on methods.
-* :ghpull:`25479`: FIX: Allow different colormap name from registered name
-* :ghpull:`25763`: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.12.1 to 2.12.3
-* :ghpull:`24661`: Plots first and last minor ticks #22331
-* :ghpull:`25759`: Fix typo in api_interfaces.rst
-* :ghpull:`20214`: Move AxisArtistHelpers to toplevel.
-* :ghpull:`25737`: Update PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md to include issue cross-reference.
-* :ghpull:`25729`: Cleanup GridHelperCurveLinear/GridFinder.
-* :ghpull:`25730`: Add test for Path.contains_path
-* :ghpull:`25359`: Add bfit bolditalic tex cmd
-* :ghpull:`25739`: grammar/wording tweak for backports
-* :ghpull:`25597`: Add (color, alpha) tuple as a valid ColorType in typing.py
-* :ghpull:`25324`: Fix axes vlines and hlines using wrong coordinates
-* :ghpull:`25713`: Remove print_figure overrides in backend subclasses
-* :ghpull:`25719`: TYP: Clean up CapStyle/FillStyle type hints
-* :ghpull:`25720`: ci: Set apt to retry operations on failure
-* :ghpull:`25722`: DOC: Fix duplicated words
-* :ghpull:`25584`: Expire remaining 3.6 deprecations
-* :ghpull:`25721`: TST: Handle missing black more resiliently
-* :ghpull:`25718`: Improve color documentation and typing
-* :ghpull:`25652`: DOC: clarify the milestoning and backport policy wording
-* :ghpull:`25711`: TYP: allow for xlim/ylim passed as single tuple
-* :ghpull:`25594`: changed to RST
-* :ghpull:`25708`: Deprecate unused NavigationToolbar2QT signal.
-* :ghpull:`25618`: DOC: fix Sphinx Gallery discussion to explain mixed subddirs
-* :ghpull:`25710`: TYP: Fix type hint (and docstring) for Bbox.intersection
-* :ghpull:`25707`: CI: skip Azure Pipelines for doc-only change
-* :ghpull:`25686`: Add Figure methods get_suptitle(), get_subxlabel(), get_supylabel()
-* :ghpull:`25697`: Annotation cleanups.
-* :ghpull:`25586`: Post stubtest results to GitHub checks
-* :ghpull:`25696`: Use true positional args in check_foo APIs instead of simulating them.
-* :ghpull:`25698`: Fix codecov.yml so it is valid.
-* :ghpull:`25687`: More informative exception messages
-* :ghpull:`25692`: Fixed bug: mathtext rendered width not being calculated correctly
-* :ghpull:`25690`: TST: Import MatplotlibDeprecationWarning consistently
-* :ghpull:`22286`: Fixed ``eventplot`` issues
-* :ghpull:`25656`: DOC: update/fix autoscaling documentation
-* :ghpull:`25668`: Fix what's new note for text
-* :ghpull:`25651`: MNT: deprecate unused numdecs LogLocator param
-* :ghpull:`25655`: Clean up FileIO type hints
-* :ghpull:`25664`: Fix 'can not' -> 'cannot' typo
-* :ghpull:`25657`: Bump cygwin/cygwin-install-action from 3 to 4
-* :ghpull:`25640`: pgf: Add clipping to text outputs
-* :ghpull:`25639`: Fixing typos
-* :ghpull:`25647`: Pin mypy to v1.1.1 for CI
-* :ghpull:`25588`: Rename parameters for consistency
-* :ghpull:`25628`: Bump invalid hatch removal
-* :ghpull:`25610`: DOC: Update user_explain\text\README.txt to reference example page
-* :ghpull:`25587`: Ensure tinypages ignored by mypy/stubtest
-* :ghpull:`25609`: Use _api.nargs_error in more places
-* :ghpull:`25414`: DOC: add a note about linewidth to scatter docs
-* :ghpull:`23199`: Do not set clip path if it exists
-* :ghpull:`22173`: Support ``\text`` in ``mathtext``
-* :ghpull:`24312`: Deprecate axes_divider.AxesLocator.
-* :ghpull:`24969`: Optimize C code
-* :ghpull:`25501`: FIX: Tk photoimage resize
-* :ghpull:`25565`: making sure colors has the attribute size
-* :ghpull:`25583`: MNT: use less eval
-* :ghpull:`25569`: Use raw instead of png for font manager memory leak test
-* :ghpull:`25253`: Use pybind11 in ttconv module
-* :ghpull:`24976`: Initial implementation of type stubs (mypy/PEP484)
-* :ghpull:`25576`: Skip pgf pdflatex text if cm-super is not installed
-* :ghpull:`24991`: Fix issue with shared log axis
-* :ghpull:`25221`: Add links and expand mathmpl docstring
-* :ghpull:`25498`: FIX: Use mappable data when autoscaling colorbar norm
-* :ghpull:`25570`: Use symbolic operator names (moveto, lineto) in contour_manual example.
-* :ghpull:`25559`: Make guiEvent available only within the event handlers.
-* :ghpull:`25405`: Fix incorrect stride calculations in LogLocator.tick_values()
-* :ghpull:`25226`: Fix unintended space after comma as a decimal separator
-* :ghpull:`25563`: Add pytest==7.0.0 on requirements/testing/minver.txt
-* :ghpull:`25553`: FIX: macosx, always put timers on main thread
-* :ghpull:`25557`: Rename parameter of Annotation.contains and Legend.contains.
-* :ghpull:`25564`: Bump actions/stale from 7 to 8
-* :ghpull:`25562`: Add pytest==3.6.0 on requirements/testing/minver.txt
-* :ghpull:`25551`: Restore autolimits status when pressing "home" key.
-* :ghpull:`25554`: Remove unused private SpanSelector._pressv and ._prev.
-* :ghpull:`25546`: In Artist.contains, check that moussevents occurred on the right canvas.
-* :ghpull:`24728`: Add Axes.ecdf() method.
-* :ghpull:`25291`: Limit full-invalidation of CompositeGenericTransforms.
-* :ghpull:`25550`: "Inactive" workflow: bump operations to 150
-* :ghpull:`25539`: Remove explicit symbol visibility pragmas
-* :ghpull:`25502`: DOC: Suggest replacement for tostring_rgb
-* :ghpull:`25532`: Annotations tutorial
-* :ghpull:`25456`: Expire more mpl3.6 deprecations.
-* :ghpull:`25505`: DOC: combine marker examples
-* :ghpull:`25510`: Remove unnecessary calls to Formatter.set_locs.
-* :ghpull:`25487`: DOC/BLD: stop using sg head [ci doc]
-* :ghpull:`25507`: gitignore doc/users/explain
-* :ghpull:`25504`: "Inactive" workflow: bump operations to 125
-* :ghpull:`24691`: ENH: Add option to define a color as color=(some_color, some_alpha)
-* :ghpull:`25475`: Stop building 32-bit Linux wheels
-* :ghpull:`25484`: Deprecate tostring_rgb.
-* :ghpull:`25395`: DOC: user/explain reorg (and moving a lot of tutorials).
-* :ghpull:`25425`: Added get_shape as an alias for get_size + tests
-* :ghpull:`25281`: Bugfix for loc legend validation
-* :ghpull:`25469`: Autoload numpy arrays in get_sample_data.
-* :ghpull:`25472`: Use get_sample_data(..., asfileobj=False) less.
-* :ghpull:`25444`: Adjust parent axes limits when clearing floating axes.
-* :ghpull:`25235`: Update release guide instructions post v3.7.0
-* :ghpull:`24531`: Use user-selected format in Tk savefig, rather than inferring it from the filename
-* :ghpull:`25467`: DOC: update suptitle example to remove percent_bachelors_degrees csv
-* :ghpull:`25454`: Remove unnecessary norm typecheck in tripcolor().
-* :ghpull:`25455`: “Inactive” workflow: bump operations to 100
-* :ghpull:`25464`: Skip Appveyor for doc only change (second attempt)
-* :ghpull:`25430`: Edit error messages for when metadata is passed to ``savefig``
-* :ghpull:`23200`: Deprecate empty offsets in get_path_collection_extents
-* :ghpull:`25427`: Store FloatingAxes "extremes" info in fewer places.
-* :ghpull:`25434`: ci: Install pytz for Pandas nightly wheel
-* :ghpull:`25404`: Move _SelectorWidget._props into SpanSelector
-* :ghpull:`25421`: wx backend should flush the clipboard before closing it
-* :ghpull:`25429`: DOC: remove default logo [ci doc]
-* :ghpull:`25423`: DOC/BLD: make logo compatible with pydata-sphinx-theme
-* :ghpull:`25424`: “Inactive” workflow: increase operations to 75
-* :ghpull:`25138`: Deprecate QuadContourSet.allsegs, .allkinds, .tcolors, .tlinewidths.
-* :ghpull:`25415`: Add links for path types and general improvements
-* :ghpull:`25420`: Print incorrect tz argument in error message
-* :ghpull:`25413`: Make tk backend use native crosshair cursor
-* :ghpull:`24984`: Expire deprecations from 3.6
-* :ghpull:`25380`: Merge 3.7.1 into main
-* :ghpull:`24861`: Documentation fixes
-* :ghpull:`24649`: Fix loc legend validation
-* :ghpull:`25383`: CI: skip appveyor for doc only change
-* :ghpull:`25081`: added a note to avoid f-strings in logging
-* :ghpull:`25373`: Expire mpl_toolkits deprecations.
-* :ghpull:`25387`: Remove LGTM references and minor doc fixes
-* :ghpull:`25382`: Correct patheffects doc
-* :ghpull:`25378`: "Inactive" workflow: bump operations-per-run
-* :ghpull:`25358`: Remove unused menu field from macos NavigationToolbar2.
-* :ghpull:`25352`: MNT: Use WeakKeyDictionary and WeakSet in Grouper
-* :ghpull:`20649`: Add colour vision deficiency simulation
-* :ghpull:`25287`: Fix unmatched offsetText label color
-* :ghpull:`25332`: Support pickling of figures with aligned x/y labels.
-* :ghpull:`25334`: Fix for all NANs in contour
-* :ghpull:`25335`: "Inactive" workflow: fix typo
-* :ghpull:`25163`: GitHub: auto set inactive label
-* :ghpull:`22816`: FIX: savefig)...,transparent=True) now makes inset_axes transparent a…
-* :ghpull:`25316`: Use setattr_cm more.
-* :ghpull:`25258`: Document PowerNorm parameters
-* :ghpull:`25209`: MNT: re-organize galleries under one subdir
-* :ghpull:`25304`: Add import sorting to ``/plot_types``
-* :ghpull:`25296`: Remove straggler 3.7 release notes
-* :ghpull:`25147`: Add ruff config to pyproject.toml for devs who are interested
-* :ghpull:`25282`: Simplify transforms invalidation system.
-* :ghpull:`25270`: merge up 3.7.0
-* :ghpull:`25255`: Make default facecolor for subfigures be transparent ("none"). Fix for issue #24910
-* :ghpull:`25252`: Support make_compound_path concatenating only empty paths.
-* :ghpull:`25211`: Em dashes instead of consecutive hyphens.
-* :ghpull:`25243`: Cleanup wx docstrings.
-* :ghpull:`25261`: [CI] Skip tests on doc-only changes
-* :ghpull:`25192`: Expire wx canvas param deprecation
-* :ghpull:`25249`: DOC: remove constrained_layout kwarg from tutorials and user guide
-* :ghpull:`25232`: Remove a redundant comma in ``AsinhScale``
-* :ghpull:`25195`: DOC: explain how to make a fixed-size axes
-* :ghpull:`25207`: Add mpl_round_to_int
-* :ghpull:`24983`: Refactor parts of Axis for readability
-* :ghpull:`25203`: Replace checking Number with Real
-* :ghpull:`25202`: DOC: reorder CI control guidance
-* :ghpull:`25200`: Don't handle unknown_symbols in ``\operatorname``.
-* :ghpull:`24849`: Stripey ``LineCollection``
-* :ghpull:`25177`: Add locator API links to tick-locators example
-* :ghpull:`25166`: Clean + comment MaxNLocator
-* :ghpull:`25157`: Small tweak in chapter sorting of the example gallery
-* :ghpull:`25099`: Add isort (import sorting) to pre-commit hooks
-* :ghpull:`25175`: BLD: Unbreak github tests workflow
-* :ghpull:`25125`: Use "array" instead of "numpy array" except when emphasis is needed.
-* :ghpull:`25144`: FIX: improve CL description and remove constrained_layout text
-* :ghpull:`25101`: Deprecate LocationEvent.lastevent.
-* :ghpull:`25152`: Group shape/dtype validation logic in image_resample.
-* :ghpull:`25145`: BLD: only doc CI build
-* :ghpull:`25153`: Delete redundant examples from user gallery that are also present in the annotations tutorial
-* :ghpull:`25156`: On macOS, limit symbols exported by extension modules linking FreeType.
-* :ghpull:`25150`: DOC: use 'none' in set_layout_engine
-* :ghpull:`25131`: FIX: Correctly report command keypress on mac for Tk + Gtk
-* :ghpull:`25112`: Connect stream lines if no varying width or color
-* :ghpull:`25142`: Minor style tweaks to freetype build.
-* :ghpull:`25143`: Don't special-case getSaveFileName in qt_compat anymore.
-* :ghpull:`24436`: Make LogLocator only return one tick out of range
-* :ghpull:`25135`: Whisker length, more precise description
-* :ghpull:`25100`: add section on annotating an artist using axes.annotate
-* :ghpull:`24486`: Minor cleanup and add test for offsetbox
-* :ghpull:`24964`: Minor cleanup and optimization of Sketch
-* :ghpull:`25121`: Inline ContourSet._make_paths.
-* :ghpull:`25120`: Consistently document shapes as (M, N), not MxN.
-* :ghpull:`24445`: Makefile html-noplot,clean: constrained layout tutorial image handling
-* :ghpull:`25115`: Remove tests.py runner from repo root
-* :ghpull:`24866`: write addfont example
-* :ghpull:`24638`: MNT: Remove auto-flattening of input data to pcolormesh
-* :ghpull:`24985`: Deprecate unused/undocumented functions in proj3d
-* :ghpull:`25104`: tk blitting to destroyed canvases should be a noop, not a segfault.
-* :ghpull:`25108`: Update flake8 per-file ignores
-* :ghpull:`25091`: Caching figures generated by plot directive
-* :ghpull:`25096`: Remove unused import of re introduced in #23442
-* :ghpull:`24749`: Support only positional args in contour. Error if no positional argument.
-* :ghpull:`23442`: Remove need to detect math mode in pgf strings
-* :ghpull:`25023`: Update Release guide to current practices
-* :ghpull:`24816`: [FIX]: Make inset axes transparent on savefig(..., transparent=True)
-* :ghpull:`24967`: Rewrite bullseye example to use bar() instead of pcolormesh().
-* :ghpull:`24994`: Use ``_axis_map`` instead of ``getattr`` in ``Axes`` and ``Figure``
-* :ghpull:`25087`: feat: add new SI prefixes to ticker
-* :ghpull:`25073`: MAINT: don't format logs in log call.
-* :ghpull:`25061`: Ensure TwoSlopeNorm always has two slopes
-* :ghpull:`25064`: Bump mamba-org/provision-with-micromamba from 14 to 15
-* :ghpull:`25046`: ci: Re-add the login shell to nightlies jobs
-* :ghpull:`24980`: Python 3.9 upgrade
-* :ghpull:`25035`: ci: Only attempt to upload nightlies from successful builds
-* :ghpull:`24995`: Improve 3D quiver test
-* :ghpull:`24992`: Bump NumPy to 1.21
-* :ghpull:`25007`: Minor refactoring of Axes3D
-* :ghpull:`25021`: Doc: sg section separator
-* :ghpull:`25028`: separate out folders in gallery ordering
-* :ghpull:`24981`: ENH: pad_inches='layout' for savefig
-* :ghpull:`25022`: DOC: tweak array indexing in constrained layout tutorial
-* :ghpull:`24990`: Make arguments other than ``renderer`` keyword-only for ``get_tightbbox``
-* :ghpull:`25013`: Clarify/shorten gca management in colorbar().
-* :ghpull:`25003`: Bump cygwin/cygwin-install-action from 2 to 3
-* :ghpull:`24978`: Simplify handling of out-of-bound values ``Colormap.__call__``.
-* :ghpull:`24998`: Unbreak Azure CI
-* :ghpull:`24907`: DOC/BUILD add ability for conf to skip whole sections
-* :ghpull:`22999`: CI: Add a Cygwin run to GHA CI.
-* :ghpull:`24919`: Remove support for python 3.8
-* :ghpull:`24942`: Expire module deprecations
-* :ghpull:`24943`: Remove special casing for PyPy not required anymore
-* :ghpull:`24929`: Small unrelated cleanups/style fixes.
-* :ghpull:`24923`: Cleanup cbook deprecations and layout
-* :ghpull:`24920`: Add --only-binary to nightly pip install
-* :ghpull:`24913`: Deprecate Bbox.anchored() with no container.
-* :ghpull:`24905`: Remove some long-obsolete commented code in grid_helper_curvelinear.
+* :ghpull:`27239`: Backport PR #27237 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: Add command to install appropriate ``requirements.txt`` during dev venv setup)
+* :ghpull:`27238`: Backport PR #27165 on branch v3.8.x (Fixing Matplotlib Notebook Text)
+* :ghpull:`27165`: Fixing Matplotlib Notebook Text
+* :ghpull:`27229`: Backport PR #27226 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: link out to troubleshooting guide in install)
+* :ghpull:`27226`: DOC: link out to troubleshooting guide in install
+* :ghpull:`27227`: Backport PR #27221 on branch v3.8.x (FIX: Enable interrupts on macosx event loops)
+* :ghpull:`27221`: FIX: Enable interrupts on macosx event loops
+* :ghpull:`27220`: Backport PR #27217 on branch v3.8.x: Fix type hints for undeprecated contour APIs
+* :ghpull:`27217`: Fix type hints for undeprecated contour APIs
+* :ghpull:`27212`: Backport PR #27088 on branch v3.8.x (Update ``find_nearest_contour`` and revert contour deprecations)
+* :ghpull:`27207`: Backport PR #26970 on branch v3.8.x (FIX: Add PyOS_InputHook back to macos backend)
+* :ghpull:`27088`: Update ``find_nearest_contour`` and revert contour deprecations
+* :ghpull:`27206`: Backport PR #27205 on branch v3.8.x (Improve legend picking example)
+* :ghpull:`26970`: FIX: Add PyOS_InputHook back to macos backend
+* :ghpull:`27205`: Improve legend picking example
+* :ghpull:`27202`: Backport PR #27178 on branch v3.8.x (Try/except import of Axes3D)
+* :ghpull:`27178`: Try/except import of Axes3D
+* :ghpull:`27201`: Backport PR #27179 on branch v3.8.x (Restore default behavior of hexbin mincnt with C provided)
+* :ghpull:`27197`: Backport PR #27045 on branch v3.8.x (Ensure valid path mangling for ContourLabeler)
+* :ghpull:`27179`: Restore default behavior of hexbin mincnt with C provided
+* :ghpull:`27045`: Ensure valid path mangling for ContourLabeler
+* :ghpull:`27191`: Backport PR #27189 on branch v3.8.x (Fix typo in docstring of ``matplotlib.colors.from_levels_and_colors``)
+* :ghpull:`27189`: Fix typo in docstring of ``matplotlib.colors.from_levels_and_colors``
+* :ghpull:`27154`: Backport PR #27153 on branch v3.8.x (Link xkcd color survey in named colors example)
+* :ghpull:`27133`: Backport PR #27132 on branch v3.8.x (changed automated tests from subsection to section in workflow)
+* :ghpull:`27131`: Backport PR #27118 on branch v3.8.x (Update developer release guide to follow conventions)
+* :ghpull:`27118`: Update developer release guide to follow conventions
+* :ghpull:`27122`: Backport PR #26930 on branch v3.8.x (Added documentation on getting full list of registered colormaps re: issue #26244)
+* :ghpull:`26930`: Added documentation on getting full list of registered colormaps re: issue #26244
+* :ghpull:`27113`: Backport PR #27039 on branch v3.8.x (Formatted docs)
+* :ghpull:`27039`: Formatted release note docs
+* :ghpull:`27101`: Backport PR #27096 on branch v3.8.x (make fonts.py, mathtext.py, text_intro.py confirm to docs guidelines)
+* :ghpull:`27097`: Backport PR #27093 on branch v3.8.x ([Doc]: Move Automated Tests section to workflow docs #26998)
+* :ghpull:`27065`: Backport PR #26943 on branch v3.8.x (ci: Run mypy against typed cycler)
+* :ghpull:`26943`: ci: Run mypy against typed cycler
+* :ghpull:`27060`: Backport PR #27059: ci: Clean up Python 3.12 builds
+* :ghpull:`27057`: Backport PR #27040 on branch v3.8.x (Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.16.1 to 2.16.2)
+* :ghpull:`27059`: ci: Clean up Python 3.12 builds
+* :ghpull:`27055`: Backport PR #27054 on branch v3.8.x (updated interactive.rst)
+* :ghpull:`27052`: Backport PR #27036 on branch v3.8.x (updated artist_intro.rst)
+* :ghpull:`27051`: Backport PR #26995 on branch v3.8.x (user/project/citing updated)
+* :ghpull:`27046`: Backport PR #27043 on branch v3.8.x (updated api_interfaces.rst)
+* :ghpull:`27040`: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.16.1 to 2.16.2
+* :ghpull:`27041`: Backport PR #26908 on branch v3.8.x (``allsegs`` and ``allkinds`` return individual segments)
+* :ghpull:`26908`: ``allsegs`` and ``allkinds`` return individual segments
+* :ghpull:`27034`: Backport PR #27017 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: clarify usetex versus mathtext)
+* :ghpull:`27017`: DOC: clarify usetex versus mathtext
+* :ghpull:`27031`: Backport PR #27015 on branch v3.8.x (ValueError exception added to handle mix of {} and % string in colorbar format)
+* :ghpull:`27015`: ValueError exception added to handle mix of {} and % string in colorbar format
+* :ghpull:`27022`: BLD: Remove development dependencies from sdists
+* :ghpull:`27023`: Backport PR #26883 on branch v3.8.x ([TYP] Type changes from running against Pandas)
+* :ghpull:`26883`: [TYP] Type changes from running against Pandas
+* :ghpull:`27018`: Backport PR #26961 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: made "open PR on MPL" a section in contribute guide)
+* :ghpull:`27009`: Backport PR #27006 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: Fix resizing of animation examples)
+* :ghpull:`26999`: Backport PR #26940 on branch v3.8.x (Add typing to pyplot.show() to avoid errors with mypy --strict.)
+* :ghpull:`27000`: Backport PR #26605 on branch v3.8.x (ci: Install GTK4 from brew on macOS)
+* :ghpull:`26982`: Backport PR #26976 on branch v3.8.x (Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.16.0 to 2.16.1)
+* :ghpull:`26940`: Add typing to pyplot.show() to avoid errors with mypy --strict.
+* :ghpull:`26997`: Backport PR #26850 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: Fix missing-reference generation on Windows)
+* :ghpull:`26860`: Backport PR #26849 on branch v3.8.x (Bump setuptools required version because of setuptools_scm v8)
+* :ghpull:`26850`: DOC: Fix missing-reference generation on Windows
+* :ghpull:`26987`: Backport PR #26985 on branch v3.8.x (Reformatted documentation under toolkits and tutorials directory )
+* :ghpull:`26979`: Backport PR #26959 on branch v3.8.x (Move papersize="auto" deprecation to backend_bases.)
+* :ghpull:`26976`: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.16.0 to 2.16.1
+* :ghpull:`26959`: Move papersize="auto" deprecation to backend_bases.
+* :ghpull:`26939`: Backport PR #26937 on branch v3.8.x (Add ArrayLike to scatter c arg type hint)
+* :ghpull:`26964`: Backport PR #26952 on branch v3.8.x (FIX 2-tuple of colors in to_rgba_array)
+* :ghpull:`26956`: Backport PR #26955 on branch v3.8.x (Fix incorrect skip check in test_backend_ps.)
+* :ghpull:`26952`: FIX 2-tuple of colors in to_rgba_array
+* :ghpull:`26955`: Fix incorrect skip check in test_backend_ps.
+* :ghpull:`26945`: Backport PR #26927 on branch v3.8.x ([TYP] Remove some stubtest allowlist entries)
+* :ghpull:`26927`: [TYP] Remove some stubtest allowlist entries
+* :ghpull:`26937`: Add ArrayLike to scatter c arg type hint
+* :ghpull:`26933`: Backport PR #26914 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: add a couple more placement examples, crosslink axes_grid [ci doc])
+* :ghpull:`26849`: Bump setuptools required version because of setuptools_scm v8
+* :ghpull:`26844`: Backport PR #26843 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: Use ax.xaxis rather ax.get_xaxis())
+* :ghpull:`26836`: Backport PR #26834 on branch v3.8.x (Fix Issue 26821: [Bug]: ValueError: The truth value... when an ndarray is passed to the color kwarg of axes3d.scatter)
+* :ghpull:`26834`: Fix Issue 26821: [Bug]: ValueError: The truth value... when an ndarray is passed to the color kwarg of axes3d.scatter
+* :ghpull:`26835`: Backport PR #26814 on branch v3.8.x (Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.15.0 to 2.16.0)
+* :ghpull:`26828`: Backport PR #26825 on branch v3.8.x (Fix issue with non-string labels and legend)
+* :ghpull:`26825`: Fix issue with non-string labels and legend
+* :ghpull:`26814`: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.15.0 to 2.16.0
+* :ghpull:`26816`: Backport PR #26799 on branch v3.8.x (Update kiwisolver and pillow versions to be consistent with requirements)
+* :ghpull:`26820`: Backport PR #26811 on branch v3.8.x (Add overload for slice to Spines.__getitem__)
+* :ghpull:`26811`: Add overload for slice to Spines.__getitem__
+* :ghpull:`26799`: Update kiwisolver and pillow versions to be consistent with requirements
+* :ghpull:`26809`: Backport PR #26804 on branch v3.8.x (Fix issue with locale comma when not using math text)
+* :ghpull:`26789`: Backport changes to contribute from PR #26737
+* :ghpull:`26810`: Backport PR #26807 on branch v3.8.x (Catch ValueError to support pytorch (and others) plotting)
+* :ghpull:`26807`: Catch ValueError to support pytorch (and others) plotting
+* :ghpull:`26804`: Fix issue with locale comma when not using math text
+* :ghpull:`26781`: Backport PR #26780 on branch v3.8.x (fix Axes.errorbar docstring)
+* :ghpull:`26780`: fix Axes.errorbar docstring
+* :ghpull:`26699`: Improve naming of cibuildwheel jobs
+* :ghpull:`26605`: ci: Install GTK4 from brew on macOS
 
-Issues (185):
+Issues (24):
 
-* :ghissue:`26765`: [Bug]: Crash in Windows 10 if polar axis lim is lower than lowest data point.
-* :ghissue:`26674`: [Doc]: Line3DCollection segments
-* :ghissue:`26531`: [Bug]: ValueError thrown when ``levels`` is set to a lower value than ``vmin`` when using ``contours`` method of Axes
-* :ghissue:`26029`: [MNT]: Unify tex2uni
-* :ghissue:`26637`: [Doc]: Reduce references to set_tight_layout
-* :ghissue:`26639`: [Bug]: Incorrect type annotation for legend handes?
-* :ghissue:`26600`: [Doc]: contourf demo use of origin keyword
-* :ghissue:`26508`: [Doc]: Pyplot Axes – tuple or list?
-* :ghissue:`21524`: [Bug]: Removing an inset_axes that shares an axes does not remove it from the sharing group
-* :ghissue:`26604`: [Doc]: Inappropriate example in gallery
-* :ghissue:`26379`: [doc]: add 'validate' section to install docs
-* :ghissue:`19409`: Boxplot: Median line too long after changing linewidth
-* :ghissue:`26510`: [Bug]: mathtext silently ignores content after mismatched opening brace
-* :ghissue:`26501`: [Bug]: type-checking errors with mypy + matplotlib 3.8.0rc1
-* :ghissue:`16657`: Postscript backend gives wrong page sizes
-* :ghissue:`11771`: Change PdfPages to default to keep_empty=False and eventually deprecate keep_empty
-* :ghissue:`26438`: [ENH]: ``musllinux`` wheels for Alpine
-* :ghissue:`26446`: Disallow ``clip`` when ``vmin`` and ``vmax`` are not set in ``matplotlib.colors.Normalize``
-* :ghissue:`10002`: can't stop macosx mainloop
-* :ghissue:`7551`: automatic papersize selection by ps backend is almost certainly broken
-* :ghissue:`15913`: Switching to inline backend closes GUI windows
-* :ghissue:`26460`: [TST] Upcoming dependency test failures
-* :ghissue:`17566`: Updating an array passed as the xy parameter to annotate updates the anottation
-* :ghissue:`24723`: [Doc]: Delete examples made redundant by annotation tutorial rewrite (annotate_simple01, ...)
-* :ghissue:`26398`: [Bug]: fig.subplots_adjust and ax.set_yticklabels together can produce unexpected results
-* :ghissue:`10767`: ENH: Possibility to decide tick and label position in mplot3d
-* :ghissue:`9158`: Angled text not placed correctly with usetex in EPS
-* :ghissue:`26400`: [Doc]: advice to use QuadContourSet.collections
-* :ghissue:`26409`: [TST] Upcoming dependency test failures
-* :ghissue:`26351`: [Doc]: Bad rendering of the title of the MRI example
-* :ghissue:`26156`: [Doc]: navigating to the User Guide
-* :ghissue:`15785`: xlim_changed not emitted on shared axis
-* :ghissue:`26343`: [Bug]: ContourSet.antialiased attribute not present
-* :ghissue:`14247`: latex \substack doesn't work
-* :ghissue:`17190`: ipython autocomplete does not work for plt.figure()
-* :ghissue:`13164`: Figures in windows not tabs
-* :ghissue:`23212`: Support ``\middle``
-* :ghissue:`26082`: [MNT]: Make cyclers indexable and rely on indexing them rather than itertools.cycle
-* :ghissue:`16938`: keyword share_all in ImageGrid class
-* :ghissue:`26340`: [ENH]: ContourSet.set_paths
-* :ghissue:`26236`: [Bug]: ax.scatter (projection='3d') - incorrect handling of NaN
-* :ghissue:`22714`: [Bug]: parasite_axes does not properly handle units
-* :ghissue:`22338`: [Bug]: rcParams['legend.loc'] can't use float-tuple like kwarg legend(loc...)
-* :ghissue:`25942`: Make ``TexManager.texcache`` private
-* :ghissue:`26289`: [Bug]: mathtext caching issue in multi-threaded environment with tight_layout=True
-* :ghissue:`26272`: [Bug]: qt window blank after using save button
-* :ghissue:`26308`: [Bug]: labels can't be placed at start of contours
-* :ghissue:`2369`: Cleaning up kwargs in ContourSet
-* :ghissue:`14118`: imshow() should not modify axes aspect if transform != ax.transData.
-* :ghissue:`26081`: [ENH]: Add setters for _AxLine._xy1, ._xy2, ._slope
-* :ghissue:`25643`: [ENH]: Support for ``\boldsymbol``
-* :ghissue:`1366`: Support \boldsymbol. (Feature request.)
-* :ghissue:`26283`: [Bug]: set_ticks provides mysterious error message
-* :ghissue:`25162`: [Bug]: pcolormesh properties and getter shapes changed w/o notice
-* :ghissue:`26261`: [Doc]: Double entries in navigation menu of Using Matplotlib
-* :ghissue:`4334`: Axes3D: factor out 3D coordinate guessing from format_coord()
-* :ghissue:`22775`: [Bug]: 3d mouse coords values reported in toolbar are meaningless
-* :ghissue:`25770`: [ENH]: support RGB(A) in pcolor
-* :ghissue:`26031`: [MNT]: decrease timeout on interactive tests locally
-* :ghissue:`26264`: [Doc]: Incorrectly drawn bounding box
-* :ghissue:`26206`: [Doc]: follow on to #25247
-* :ghissue:`26225`: [Bug]: MultiCursor in inset axes
-* :ghissue:`22277`: [Doc]: Exchange step() for stairs() in the Plot types - Basic section
-* :ghissue:`25493`: [Doc]: users/explain bare index looks bad
-* :ghissue:`25114`: [Bug]: matplotlib.path.Path.to_polygons fails with TriContourSet paths
-* :ghissue:`26194`: [Bug]: dataLims get replaced by inf for charts with twinx if ax1 is a stackplot
-* :ghissue:`6139`: 'QuadContourSet' object has no attribute 'set_visible' or 'set_animated'
-* :ghissue:`25128`: [MNT]: Turn ContourSet into a (nearly) plain Collection
-* :ghissue:`26100`: [Bug]: Axis multiplier when using plot_surface appears outside of the figure window
-* :ghissue:`15518`: Collections could check x- and y- transforms separately to decide whether to autoscale each direction
-* :ghissue:`26182`: [TST] Upcoming dependency test failures
-* :ghissue:`25857`: [Doc]: gitwash deleting main branch
-* :ghissue:`15054`: Improve tests by removing text or using figure comparisons
-* :ghissue:`8794`: animation.save problems with ffmpeg
-* :ghissue:`26140`: [Doc]: Sort greek/hebrew letters in math docs alphabetically
-* :ghissue:`25042`: [Bug]: ``\geqslant``, ``\leqslant`` and ``\eqslantgtr`` are not spaced like their non-slanted versions
-* :ghissue:`25014`: [ENH]: Add public method to update ``Legend`` object's loc property .
-* :ghissue:`26124`: [Bug]: NavigationToolbar2 mouse over event causes toolbar height increase and axes reposition
-* :ghissue:`24663`: [ENH]: Set color of legend shadow
-* :ghissue:`7199`: Old whatsnews should be rendered using classic style
-* :ghissue:`12926`: Inconsistent behavior of hexbins mincnt parameter, depending on C parameter
-* :ghissue:`25030`: [BUG]: Button widgets don't work in inset axes
-* :ghissue:`10009`: document event handling with twined axes
-* :ghissue:`25477`: Plot ellipse with arrow showing rotation
-* :ghissue:`26083`: [Bug]: Star marker (using mathtext) is not center-aligned
-* :ghissue:`26015`: [ENH]: Missing mathematical operations
-* :ghissue:`8802`: Masked pcolormesh is not tested correctly
-* :ghissue:`25244`: [Bug]: DeprecationWarning for pkg_resources.declare_namespace usage in mpl_toolkit
-* :ghissue:`25344`: pydata-sphinx-theme 0.13 causes doc builds to fail
-* :ghissue:`25590`: [Doc]: type annotations rendering
-* :ghissue:`25941`: [Doc]: Rewrite rainbow_text example to use annotate()
-* :ghissue:`25497`: [ENH]: hi-res plot directive...
-* :ghissue:`25675`: [ENH]: Add get/set_antialiased to Text objects
-* :ghissue:`17069`: Error creating AxisGrid with non-default axis class
-* :ghissue:`8965`: Add alias for colormaps for grey vs gray English issues
-* :ghissue:`25945`: [Bug]: (edge case) no ticks are drawn in colorbars with SymLogNorm
-* :ghissue:`25907`: [ENH]: Add test for annotate(textcoods="offset fontsize")
-* :ghissue:`25654`: [Bug]: bar/barh don't trigger datetime units
-* :ghissue:`19120`: Raise when both singular and plural scatter attributes are specified
-* :ghissue:`14233`: Feature Request: Allow setting default AutoMinorLocator
-* :ghissue:`25900`: [Doc]: I think you missed a ``fig`` here.
-* :ghissue:`18425`: Add fontfamily/labelfont to tick_params
-* :ghissue:`25864`: [MNT]: add tests for nargs_error
-* :ghissue:`23595`: [Bug]: ``CbarAxesBase.toggle_label`` doesn't seem to work properly
-* :ghissue:`25835`: [MNT]: Do not accept arbitrary positional parameters in Figure.add_axes()
-* :ghissue:`25833`: [MNT]: Privatize Tick.set_label1() / Tick.set_label2()
-* :ghissue:`11181`: [feature request] multiple 3d plots with tied viewing angles
-* :ghissue:`25724`: [MNT]: Switch docs/examples to use Noto Sans CJK instead of WenQuanYi Zen Hei as CJK font
-* :ghissue:`24779`: [Doc]: windows install instructions do not work
-* :ghissue:`24701`: VS Code: Autocomplete and Syntax Highlighting do not work for matplotlib
-* :ghissue:`25682`: [Bug]: fill_between{x} does not respect Axes transform
-* :ghissue:`23061`: [Bug]: macosx timers don't fire if plt.show() hasn't been called
-* :ghissue:`19769`: Memory leak when plotting multiple figures with the macOS backend
-* :ghissue:`24331`: [Doc]: Lazy loading for images
-* :ghissue:`24689`: [Bug]: Axes3D.set_frame_on not working as documented
-* :ghissue:`5087`: Confusing (broken?) colormap name handling
-* :ghissue:`22331`: [Bug]: First and or last minor ticks sometimes not plotted
-* :ghissue:`19393`: \bf\it in mathtext
-* :ghissue:`23171`: [Bug]: axes vlines() / hlines() incorrectly use data coordinate as min when blended transform is applied
-* :ghissue:`5234`: Unicode with usetex=True and pgf backend
-* :ghissue:`25677`: [Doc]: Axes.hlines and Axes.vlines (and probably others) can accept a single color as well as a list of colors.
-* :ghissue:`25649`: [Doc]: backport strategy: inconsistency in guide
-* :ghissue:`25582`: [Doc]: Commented Out Code in Downloadable Examples for Toolkits Tutorials
-* :ghissue:`25695`: [Bug]: codecov.yml is invalid
-* :ghissue:`23810`: [Bug]: Text objects don't take Mathtext into account while wrapping.
-* :ghissue:`7560`: Edge cases in eventplot are likely broken
-* :ghissue:`25613`: [Doc]: better document default margins
-* :ghissue:`25638`: [MNT]: numdecs parameter in ``LogLocator``
-* :ghissue:`11375`: PGF output: Contour labels extend beyond figure boundary
-* :ghissue:`25608`: [Bug]: ``bbox_inches="tight"`` does not work for writer.grab_frame()
-* :ghissue:`25599`: [MNT]: The new default x and ymargin setting is too wasteful
-* :ghissue:`25410`: [Bug]: Small Scatter Plot Marker Size Results in Circles
-* :ghissue:`25053`: [Doc]: How to show an ASCII hyphen in math text without using TeX?
-* :ghissue:`18520`: Matplotlib cannot parse TeX with \text command
-* :ghissue:`25560`: [Bug]: legend for Poly3dCollection fails
-* :ghissue:`20504`: Support type checking with mypy
-* :ghissue:`7160`: pgf_pdflatex test fails on Windows
-* :ghissue:`14527`: Log scale messed up in histograms when sharing axes
-* :ghissue:`25521`: [Doc]: ``TABLEAU_COLORS`` ``XKCD_COLORS`` etc undocumented
-* :ghissue:`5424`: Update colorbar after changing mappable.norm
-* :ghissue:`22211`: [Bug]: scroll_event is broken after motion_notify_event in WXAgg
-* :ghissue:`24092`: [Bug]: LogLocator with subs argument fragile.
-* :ghissue:`23626`: [Bug]: unintended space between comma and digit when using useMathText = True together with comma as decimal separator
-* :ghissue:`23154`: [MNT]: requirements/testing/minver.txt could also test oldest-supported pytest version
-* :ghissue:`5675`: plt.pause() with threading is extremely slow for MacOSX backend
-* :ghissue:`6630`: handling of zeros in log-scale changes irreversibly after user zoom
-* :ghissue:`6324`: artist.contains should check that the event occurred in the same figure
-* :ghissue:`16561`: Feature request: proper ECDF
-* :ghissue:`25426`: [ENH]: Update grid_helper on FloatingSubplot
-* :ghissue:`22663`: [Doc]: Consoldiate scatter symbol examples
-* :ghissue:`24681`: [ENH]: set facecolor and edgecolor alpha separately
-* :ghissue:`5336`: RendererAgg.tostring_rgb merely truncates alpha
-* :ghissue:`22494`: [ENH]: Add ``get_shape`` as alias for ``get_size`` in AxesImage, or make that include depth too
-* :ghissue:`5327`: Make ``mpl_toolkits`` a non-namespace package
-* :ghissue:`9823`: Missing __init__.py file in mpl_toolkits
-* :ghissue:`24605`: [Bug]: Validation not performed for ``loc`` argument to ``legend``
-* :ghissue:`25445`: [Doc]: Not possible to see upcoming what's new etc?
-* :ghissue:`24450`: [MNT]: Fix or drop support for Tk 8.4
-* :ghissue:`25453`: [ENH]: Let norm argument accept string values in tripcolour
-* :ghissue:`25401`: [Bug]: savefig + jpg + metadata fails with inscrutable error message
-* :ghissue:`1735`: ``_path.get_path_collection_extents`` potentially wrong return value
-* :ghissue:`25431`: [TST] Upcoming dependency test failures
-* :ghissue:`25199`: [Bug]: AttributeError: 'LassoSelector' object has no attribute '_props'
-* :ghissue:`25080`: Add note in contrib guide admonishing against use of f strings in logs
-* :ghissue:`25165`: [Bug]: offsetText is colored based on tick.color instead of tick.labelcolor
-* :ghissue:`25329`: [Bug]: Unable to pickle figure with aligned labels
-* :ghissue:`14124`: plt.contour with all NaNs fails assertion in _contour.cpp
-* :ghissue:`22674`: [Bug]: savefig(..., transparent=True) does not make inset_axes transparent
-* :ghissue:`25303`: CI: isort should check plot_types?
-* :ghissue:`25137`: [Bug]: stop responding in demo program "matplotlib/examples/event_handling/lasso_demo.py"
-* :ghissue:`24910`: [Bug]: Suptitle not visible with subfigures
-* :ghissue:`25222`: [ENH]: add organizational charts to supported plots
-* :ghissue:`24796`: [Bug]: gapcolor not supported for LineCollections
-* :ghissue:`25172`: [Doc]: cross link locator example with locator API
-* :ghissue:`24419`: [Doc]: add from file to font family example
-* :ghissue:`23809`: [Bug]: blitting after closing second tkinter embed causes silent crash
-* :ghissue:`16580`: Segmentation fault when blitting onto closed figure (TkAgg)
-* :ghissue:`24743`: [Bug]: contour raises IndexError if Z is specified as keyword argument
-* :ghissue:`24283`: [Bug]: colorbar interacts poorly with TwoSlopeNorm when one slope is infinite
-* :ghissue:`24906`: [DOC/BUILD] add ability to selectively build docs
-* :ghissue:`24901`: [TST] Upcoming dependency test failures
-* :ghissue:`17991`: type stubs for matplotlib
-* :ghissue:`17583`: Linter complains about unexpected data-type, however, docs say this is possible
-* :ghissue:`15926`: Support for Python Type Hints (PEP 484)
-* :ghissue:`13798`: Add PEP484 type hints to the code (For IDE autocompletion / hints)
+* :ghissue:`27120`: [Bug]: macosx backend pause() cannot be ctrl-c'd
+* :ghissue:`27070`: [Bug]: find_nearest_contour deprecated with no replacement?
+* :ghissue:`26913`: Should ``ContourSet.allsegs`` and ``.allkinds`` be deprecated?
+* :ghissue:`26869`: [Bug]: Plot window not shown in Mac OS with backend set to default MacOSX
+* :ghissue:`16865`: Hexbin mincnt parameter docstring should say "more than or equal to" not "more than"
+* :ghissue:`27103`: [Bug]: hexbin cannot always accept np.max like functions as reduce_C_function
+* :ghissue:`27062`: [Bug]: ContourLabeler.clabel with manual != False breaks unconnected contours
+* :ghissue:`26971`: [Bug]: plt.clabel raises exception at very low DPI: ``ValueError: 'codes' must be a 1D list or array with the same length of 'vertices'. Your vertices have shape (2, 2) but your codes have shape (1,)``
+* :ghissue:`27188`: Small error in docstring of matplotlib.colors.from_levels_and_colors
+* :ghissue:`27126`: [Bug]: LinearSegmentedColormap.from_list cannot process list with two colors
+* :ghissue:`26244`: [Doc]: document how to get list of registered colormaps
+* :ghissue:`26863`: [Doc]: ``ContourSet`` ``allsegs`` and ``allkinds`` after #25247
+* :ghissue:`26932`: [Bug]: Poetry installs setuptools-scm and setuptools
+* :ghissue:`27007`: [Bug]: Colorbar format string kind guess could be made more robust
+* :ghissue:`26919`: [Bug]: Missing file pyplot.pyi for mypy typing
+* :ghissue:`26949`: [Bug]: colors.LinearSegmentedColormap.from_list does not take two tuples in 3.8.0
+* :ghissue:`26936`: [Bug/TYPE]: Scatter ``c`` Typehint does not support list of numbers when using ``cmap``
+* :ghissue:`26846`: [MNT]: setuptools-scm v8.0.1 compatibility
+* :ghissue:`26821`: [Bug]: ``ValueError: The truth value...`` when an ndarray is passed to the ``color`` kwarg of ``axes3d.scatter``
+* :ghissue:`26822`: [Bug]: QuadMesh.get_array change breaks seaborn heatmap annotation
+* :ghissue:`26824`: [Bug]: Legend fails for bar plot with numeric label
+* :ghissue:`26808`: [Bug]: No overload variant of "__getitem__" of "Spines" matches argument type "slice"  [call-overload]
+* :ghissue:`26806`: [Bug]: ValueError when plotting 2D pytorch tensor using matplotlib==3.8.0
+* :ghissue:`26803`: [Bug]: use_locale leads to curly brackets around decimal separator
 
 
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+GitHub statistics for 3.8.0 (Sep 14, 2023)
+==========================================
+
+GitHub statistics for 2023/02/13 (tag: v3.7.0) - 2023/09/14
+
+These lists are automatically generated, and may be incomplete or contain duplicates.
+
+We closed 185 issues and merged 649 pull requests.
+The full list can be seen `on GitHub <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/milestone/77?closed=1>`__
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+The following 146 authors contributed 2914 commits.
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+GitHub issues and pull requests:
+
+Pull Requests (649):
+
+* :ghpull:`26777`: Backport PR #26702 on branch v3.8.x (converted coc to rst and put links in code_of_conduct.md)
+* :ghpull:`26775`: Backport PR #26767 on branch v3.8.x (Trim Gouraud triangles that contain NaN)
+* :ghpull:`26776`: Backport PR #26687 on branch v3.8.x (Remove usage of recarray)
+* :ghpull:`26702`: converted coc to rst and put links in code_of_conduct.md
+* :ghpull:`26687`: Remove usage of recarray
+* :ghpull:`26767`: Trim Gouraud triangles that contain NaN
+* :ghpull:`26770`: Backport PR #26762 on branch v3.8.x (MNT: Numpy 2.0 removals from ndarray class)
+* :ghpull:`26762`: MNT: Numpy 2.0 removals from ndarray class
+* :ghpull:`26769`: DOC: Pin mpl-sphinx-theme to 3.8.x
+* :ghpull:`26768`: Backport PR #26700 on branch v3.8.x (Check type for set_clip_box)
+* :ghpull:`26700`: Check type for set_clip_box
+* :ghpull:`26766`: Backport PR #26763 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: Add redirects for old gitwash files)
+* :ghpull:`26763`: DOC: Add redirects for old gitwash files
+* :ghpull:`26756`: Pin numpy to <2 for 3.8.0
+* :ghpull:`26761`: Merge branch v3.7.x into v3.8.x
+* :ghpull:`26757`: Backport PR #26628 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: move install related FAQ to install docs)
+* :ghpull:`26628`: DOC: move install related FAQ to install docs
+* :ghpull:`26753`: Backport PR #26705 on branch v3.8.x ([Doc] Small fixes found by velin)
+* :ghpull:`26705`: [Doc] Small fixes found by velin
+* :ghpull:`26746`: Backport PR #26671 on branch v3.8.x ([DOC] Enhance API reference index)
+* :ghpull:`26671`: [DOC] Enhance API reference index
+* :ghpull:`26740`: Backport PR #26676 on branch v3.8.x ([DOC] Slightly improve the LineCollection docstring)
+* :ghpull:`26676`: [DOC] Slightly improve the LineCollection docstring
+* :ghpull:`26712`: Backport PR #26491 on branch v3.8.x (TYP: Add common-type overloads of subplot_mosaic)
+* :ghpull:`26726`: Backport PR #26719 on branch v3.8.x (Fix issue with missing attribute in Path3DCollection)
+* :ghpull:`26724`: Backport PR #26721 on branch v3.8.x (Add a Python 3.12 classifier)
+* :ghpull:`26711`: Backport PR #26709 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: consistency in docstrings of formatting of array-like)
+* :ghpull:`26491`: TYP: Add common-type overloads of subplot_mosaic
+* :ghpull:`26709`: DOC: consistency in docstrings of formatting of array-like
+* :ghpull:`26708`: Backport PR #26601 on branch v3.8.x (Avoid checking limits when updating both min and max for contours)
+* :ghpull:`26601`: Avoid checking limits when updating both min and max for contours
+* :ghpull:`26701`: Backport PR #26695 on branch v3.8.x (Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4)
+* :ghpull:`26695`: Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4
+* :ghpull:`26694`: Backport PR #26689 on branch v3.8.x (Fix error generation for missing pgf.texsystem.)
+* :ghpull:`26522`: TST: Add failing test
+* :ghpull:`26689`: Fix error generation for missing pgf.texsystem.
+* :ghpull:`26688`: Backport PR #26680 on branch v3.8.x (Fix flaky CI tests)
+* :ghpull:`26680`: Fix flaky CI tests
+* :ghpull:`26675`: Backport PR #26665 on branch v3.8.x (Clarify loading of backend FigureCanvas and show().)
+* :ghpull:`26673`: Backport PR #26193 on branch v3.8.x (Sort tex2uni data in mathtext)
+* :ghpull:`26665`: Clarify loading of backend FigureCanvas and show().
+* :ghpull:`26193`: Sort tex2uni data in mathtext
+* :ghpull:`26663`: Backport PR #26245 on branch v3.8.x ([pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate)
+* :ghpull:`26668`: Backport PR #26541 on branch v3.8.x (TYP: Add typing on mathtext internals)
+* :ghpull:`26666`: Backport PR #26657 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: Fix some small issues)
+* :ghpull:`26541`: TYP: Add typing on mathtext internals
+* :ghpull:`26662`: Backport PR #26542 on branch v3.8.x (TST: Ensure test_webagg subprocess is terminated)
+* :ghpull:`26661`: Backport PR #26566 on branch v3.8.x (MAINT: Numpy 2.0 deprecations for row_stack and in1d)
+* :ghpull:`26657`: DOC: Fix some small issues
+* :ghpull:`26660`: Backport PR #26656 on branch v3.8.x (TYP: Fix some small bugs)
+* :ghpull:`26659`: Backport PR #26470 on branch v3.8.x ([DOC]: mathtext tutorial-consolidate explain and notes)
+* :ghpull:`26245`: [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate
+* :ghpull:`26658`: Backport PR #26608 on branch v3.8.x (Removed unnecessary origin keywords)
+* :ghpull:`26542`: TST: Ensure test_webagg subprocess is terminated
+* :ghpull:`26566`: MAINT: Numpy 2.0 deprecations for row_stack and in1d
+* :ghpull:`26656`: TYP: Fix some small bugs
+* :ghpull:`26651`: Backport PR #26348 on branch v3.8.x (Test some untested Locator code)
+* :ghpull:`26470`: [DOC]: mathtext tutorial-consolidate explain and notes
+* :ghpull:`26608`: Removed unnecessary origin keywords
+* :ghpull:`26655`: Backport PR #26649 on branch v3.8.x ([DOC] Remove "Discouraged" notices that have been superseded by deprecation)
+* :ghpull:`26654`: Backport PR #26597 on branch v3.8.x (Squeeze post-converted values when validating limits)
+* :ghpull:`26652`: Backport PR #26646 on branch v3.8.x (Use standard method for closing QApp when last window is closed.)
+* :ghpull:`26648`: Backport PR #26521 on branch v3.8.x (Replaced list with tuple in pyplot for axes)
+* :ghpull:`26649`: [DOC] Remove "Discouraged" notices that have been superseded by deprecation
+* :ghpull:`26647`: Backport PR #26582 on branch v3.8.x (MNT: Enable wheels for Python 3.12)
+* :ghpull:`26646`: Use standard method for closing QApp when last window is closed.
+* :ghpull:`26650`: Backport PR #26635 on branch v3.8.x ([MNT] Do not configure axes properties via subplots(..., subplot_kw={...}))
+* :ghpull:`26644`: Backport PR #26641 on branch v3.8.x ([Doc] Add ACCEPTS for some Axes set methods)
+* :ghpull:`26348`: Test some untested Locator code
+* :ghpull:`26635`: [MNT] Do not configure axes properties via subplots(..., subplot_kw={...})
+* :ghpull:`26521`: Replaced list with tuple in pyplot for axes
+* :ghpull:`26643`: Backport PR #26636 on branch v3.8.x ([Doc] Improve set_layout_engine docs)
+* :ghpull:`26641`: [Doc] Add ACCEPTS for some Axes set methods
+* :ghpull:`26640`: Backport PR #24209 on branch v3.8.x (List the webagg_core module in the sphinx docs.)
+* :ghpull:`26638`: Backport PR #26633 on branch v3.8.x ([Doc] Shorten documentation links in widgets)
+* :ghpull:`26636`: [Doc] Improve set_layout_engine docs
+* :ghpull:`24209`: List the webagg_core module in the sphinx docs.
+* :ghpull:`26633`: [Doc] Shorten documentation links in widgets
+* :ghpull:`26632`: Backport PR #26540 on branch v3.8.x (TYP: Add overloads for FT2Font.get_sfnt_table)
+* :ghpull:`26631`: Backport PR #26619 on branch v3.8.x ([DOC] Clarify some tick-related docstrings)
+* :ghpull:`26540`: TYP: Add overloads for FT2Font.get_sfnt_table
+* :ghpull:`26619`: [DOC] Clarify some tick-related docstrings
+* :ghpull:`26625`: Backport PR #26622 on branch v3.8.x ([Doc] Improve DSP-related examples)
+* :ghpull:`26622`: [Doc] Improve DSP-related examples
+* :ghpull:`26618`: Backport PR #24711 on branch v3.8.x (Test with Python 3.12)
+* :ghpull:`26617`: Backport PR #26598 on branch v3.8.x (FIX: array labelcolor for Tick)
+* :ghpull:`26615`: Backport PR #26614 on branch v3.8.x (Properly disconnect machinery when removing child axes.)
+* :ghpull:`26614`: Properly disconnect machinery when removing child axes.
+* :ghpull:`24711`: Test with Python 3.12
+* :ghpull:`26607`: Backport PR #26606 on branch v3.8.x ([Doc] Revise histogram features example (Closes #26604))
+* :ghpull:`26606`: [Doc] Revise histogram features example (Closes #26604)
+* :ghpull:`26599`: Backport PR #26565 on branch v3.8.x ([doc]: added section Verify installation)
+* :ghpull:`26565`: [doc]: added section Verify installation
+* :ghpull:`26595`: Backport PR #26591 on branch v3.8.x (Fix ToolBase.figure property setter.)
+* :ghpull:`26591`: Fix ToolBase.figure property setter.
+* :ghpull:`26584`: Backport PR #26581 on branch v3.8.x (Deduplicate test for toolbar button icon LA mode.)
+* :ghpull:`26585`: Backport PR #26576 on branch v3.8.x (Use sys.platform over os.name)
+* :ghpull:`26583`: Backport PR #26578 on branch v3.8.x (MAINT: add __pycache__/ to .gitignore)
+* :ghpull:`26576`: Use sys.platform over os.name
+* :ghpull:`26581`: Deduplicate test for toolbar button icon LA mode.
+* :ghpull:`26578`: MAINT: add __pycache__/ to .gitignore
+* :ghpull:`26579`: Backport PR #26572 on branch v3.8.x ([DOC]: clarify pre-commits and editing workflow)
+* :ghpull:`26572`: [DOC]: clarify pre-commits and editing workflow
+* :ghpull:`26575`: Backport PR #26573 on branch v3.8.x ([DOC]: codespace link in contribute index)
+* :ghpull:`26573`: [DOC]: codespace link in contribute index
+* :ghpull:`26568`: Backport PR #26462 on branch v3.8.x (Boxplot fix median line extending past box boundaries #19409)
+* :ghpull:`26416`: [doc]: add 'validate' section to install docs #26379
+* :ghpull:`26564`: Backport PR #26543 on branch v3.8.x (Add ninja to Cygwin builder)
+* :ghpull:`26462`: Boxplot fix median line extending past box boundaries #19409
+* :ghpull:`26563`: Backport PR #26519 on branch v3.8.x (Fix mathtext mismatched braces)
+* :ghpull:`26543`: Add ninja to Cygwin builder
+* :ghpull:`26519`: Fix mathtext mismatched braces
+* :ghpull:`26556`: Backport PR #26554 on branch v3.8.x (Remove NumPy abs overrides from pylab)
+* :ghpull:`26550`: Backport PR #26545 on branch v3.8.x (Fix size inferral when using cairocffi)
+* :ghpull:`26547`: Backport PR #26493 on branch v3.8.x (Disable ````add_html_cache_busting```` on Sphinx 7.1+)
+* :ghpull:`26546`: Backport PR #26201 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: Add documentation on codespaces usage)
+* :ghpull:`26548`: Backport PR #26514 on branch v3.8.x (Clarify interaction between params of get_path_collection_extents.)
+* :ghpull:`26514`: Clarify interaction between params of get_path_collection_extents.
+* :ghpull:`26537`: Backport PR #26529 on branch v3.8.x (Fix MathText antialiasing)
+* :ghpull:`26536`: Backport PR #26532 on branch v3.8.x (Fix input check in Poly3DCollection.__init__)
+* :ghpull:`26529`: Fix MathText antialiasing
+* :ghpull:`26534`: Backport PR #26513 on branch v3.8.x (Tweak shape repr in _api.check_shape error message.)
+* :ghpull:`26533`: Backport PR #26526 on branch v3.8.x (Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.14.1 to 2.15.0)
+* :ghpull:`26513`: Tweak shape repr in _api.check_shape error message.
+* :ghpull:`26526`: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.14.1 to 2.15.0
+* :ghpull:`26201`: DOC: Add documentation on codespaces usage
+* :ghpull:`26530`: Backport PR #26509 on branch v3.8.x (Update/tweak SpanSelector docs.)
+* :ghpull:`26509`: Update/tweak SpanSelector docs.
+* :ghpull:`26528`: Backport PR #26504 on branch v3.8.x (TYP: Add overload to specify output of Colormap.__call__ when possible)
+* :ghpull:`26527`: Backport PR #26173 on branch v3.8.x (Synchronize mathtext docs and handling)
+* :ghpull:`26504`: TYP: Add overload to specify output of Colormap.__call__ when possible
+* :ghpull:`26173`: Synchronize mathtext docs and handling
+* :ghpull:`26511`: Backport PR #26490 on branch v3.8.x (Import PIL.Image explicitly over PIL)
+* :ghpull:`26490`: Import PIL.Image explicitly over PIL
+* :ghpull:`26503`: Backport PR #26502 on branch v3.8.x (TST: Increase some tolerances for non-x86 arches)
+* :ghpull:`26502`: TST: Increase some tolerances for non-x86 arches
+* :ghpull:`26499`: Backport PR #26498 on branch v3.8.x (Add plausible analytics to the documentation pages)
+* :ghpull:`26498`: Add plausible analytics to the documentation pages
+* :ghpull:`26493`: Disable ````add_html_cache_busting```` on Sphinx 7.1+
+* :ghpull:`26489`: Backport PR #26487 on branch v3.8.x (DOC: Remove unused image rotator)
+* :ghpull:`26487`: DOC: Remove unused image rotator
+* :ghpull:`26479`: ps: Add option to use figure size as paper size
+* :ghpull:`26469`: Deprecate PdfPages(keep_empty=True).
+* :ghpull:`24379`: DOC: Update dropped splines example
+* :ghpull:`26326`: Only do pchanged and set stale when value changes + doc consistency
+* :ghpull:`26443`: BLD: stop skipping musl wheel builds
+* :ghpull:`26475`: [DOC]: Noto Sans for windows docs builds
+* :ghpull:`26481`: Clarify behavior of norm clipping
+* :ghpull:`26474`: [DOC]: filter non-gui backend warnings when building docs
+* :ghpull:`26480`: [DOC] Documentation fixes
+* :ghpull:`26476`: Remove auto from supported ps.papersizes in matplotlibrc.
+* :ghpull:`25966`: Fix support for Ctrl-C on the macosx backend.
+* :ghpull:`26473`: Fix codespaces setup.sh script
+* :ghpull:`24376`: Support removing inner ticks in label_outer()
+* :ghpull:`25785`: Deprecate papersize=auto in PostScript
+* :ghpull:`26472`: Do not close figures on backend switch.
+* :ghpull:`26402`: Restructure interface section of API Reference index page
+* :ghpull:`26467`: MNT: Adjust for upcoming numpy repr changes
+* :ghpull:`26451`: TYP: Add several missing return type annotations
+* :ghpull:`26466`: Make annotate/OffsetFrom unaffected by later mutation of coordinates.
+* :ghpull:`26445`: [DOC]: annotation tutorial: blended artist, headers, and user demo deletes
+* :ghpull:`26454`: Rename an internal parameter of _label_outer_x/yaxis()
+* :ghpull:`26130`: Enable branch coverage for C/C++ code
+* :ghpull:`26448`: [DOC] Update dependency documentation
+* :ghpull:`26450`: Fix return value of Text.update
+* :ghpull:`26447`: DOC: Fix accidental cases of blockquotes
+* :ghpull:`26401`: WARN: more direct warning ticklabels
+* :ghpull:`26444`: Fix some bugs found by typing
+* :ghpull:`26253`: Filter out inf values in plot_surface
+* :ghpull:`26407`: Improve some smaller typing issues
+* :ghpull:`26328`: [DOC]: improve consistency of plot types gallery
+* :ghpull:`26434`: TYP: Adjust type hint of Norm.__call__ to return masked array
+* :ghpull:`26376`: Text antialiasing for mathtext (reopen)
+* :ghpull:`25830`: Specify ticks and axis label positions for 3D plots
+* :ghpull:`25784`: ps: Fix anchoring of rotated usetex text
+* :ghpull:`26403`: Update type hints for font manager and extension
+* :ghpull:`26433`: Call out which pane is hovered over for 3d hover coordinates
+* :ghpull:`26418`: Add next_whats_new entries for mathtext features
+* :ghpull:`26429`: DOC: update ContourSet attributes deprecation advice
+* :ghpull:`26051`: Type hinting developer docs
+* :ghpull:`26427`: Improve button widget examples a bit
+* :ghpull:`26423`: Fix pyparsing version check
+* :ghpull:`26425`: Delete second MRI demo example
+* :ghpull:`26424`: macos: Don't leak None in Timer cleanup
+* :ghpull:`26332`: moved doc root to landing page, make user landing a guide page
+* :ghpull:`26408`: DOC: add note about manually downloading qhull + freetype
+* :ghpull:`26404`: Remove old What's new entries
+* :ghpull:`26011`: Emit xlim_changed on shared axes.
+* :ghpull:`25810`: Fix default return of Collection.get_{cap,join}style
+* :ghpull:`26168`: Add _val_or_rc-function
+* :ghpull:`26335`: Optimize imshow
+* :ghpull:`26367`: Add typing for internal helpers
+* :ghpull:`26397`: TYP: Add type hints to testing module
+* :ghpull:`26399`: Reinstate & deprecate ContourSet.antialiased
+* :ghpull:`26385`: Improve typing in pyplot
+* :ghpull:`26151`: Add substack cmd for mathtext
+* :ghpull:`26396`: Move pylab documentation to its own module page
+* :ghpull:`26393`: TST: Remove extra dummy Axis classes
+* :ghpull:`26384`: Fix triage tool due to Qt bump to 5.12
+* :ghpull:`26382`: Tweak hist2d docstring.
+* :ghpull:`26359`: Simplify MRI with EEG example
+* :ghpull:`26071`: ENH: macosx allow figures to be opened in tabs or windows
+* :ghpull:`16473`: Make ``.axis(zmin=...)`` work on 3D axes
+* :ghpull:`26333`: Add middle for delims
+* :ghpull:`26365`: Fix removal of Figure-level artists
+* :ghpull:`26341`: Fix pickling of axes property cycle.
+* :ghpull:`26279`: DOC: remove users_explain/axis
+* :ghpull:`26347`: Add tests for LogFormatter.format_data and format_data_short
+* :ghpull:`26329`: Clarify that ImageGrid requires limits-sharing.
+* :ghpull:`26349`: Tweak Sankey docs.
+* :ghpull:`26352`: Fix bad histogramming bins in mri/eeg example.
+* :ghpull:`26353`: Remove unused private method
+* :ghpull:`26342`: ENH: Collection.set_paths
+* :ghpull:`26344`: Some more micro optimizations
+* :ghpull:`26346`: Increase coverage
+* :ghpull:`26330`: Deprecate wrappers combining axes_grid1 and axisartist.
+* :ghpull:`26338`: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.14.0 to 2.14.1
+* :ghpull:`26331`: Support standard Axes in RGBAxes.
+* :ghpull:`26219`: DOC: Restore banner indicating docs are unreleased
+* :ghpull:`25558`: Simplify outdated Image.contains check.
+* :ghpull:`26324`: More micro optimizations of plot
+* :ghpull:`26325`: Remove unused variables
+* :ghpull:`26022`: MNT/FIX: macosx change Timer to NSTimer instance
+* :ghpull:`26303`: Micro optimization of plotting
+* :ghpull:`26249`: FIX: axes3d.scatter color parameter doesn't decrease in size for non-finite coordinate inputs.
+* :ghpull:`26078`: Fix parasite_axes does not properly handle units
+* :ghpull:`25839`: [ENH]: int / float-tuple like kwarg legend(loc) for rcParams['legend.loc']
+* :ghpull:`26056`: Privatize TexManager.texcache
+* :ghpull:`25363`: Bump minimum QT5 version to 5.12
+* :ghpull:`26176`: Add more sizeable delimiters
+* :ghpull:`26302`: FIX: move the font lock higher up the call and class tree
+* :ghpull:`26309`: qt: Mark canvas for re-draw after savefig
+* :ghpull:`26311`: FIX: labels at start of contours
+* :ghpull:`26278`: ENH: clip_path keyword for contour and contourf
+* :ghpull:`26295`: Deprecate inset_locator.InsetPosition.
+* :ghpull:`26122`: Only change axes aspect in imshow if image transform is/contains transData
+* :ghpull:`26297`: Use transformed paths for contour labelling decisions
+* :ghpull:`26160`: add setters and getters for _AxLine's xy1, xy2 and slope parameters
+* :ghpull:`26294`: Deprecate cbook.Stack.
+* :ghpull:`26284`: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.13.1 to 2.14.0
+* :ghpull:`25661`: boldsymbol support for mathtext
+* :ghpull:`26285`: Improve exception message for set_ticks() kwargs without labels
+* :ghpull:`14593`: Simplify SecondaryAxis.set_color.
+* :ghpull:`26273`: TST: simplify mask in pcolor writing to mask test
+* :ghpull:`26263`: Doc fix toc users
+* :ghpull:`26242`: Deprecate FigureCanvasBase.switch_backends.
+* :ghpull:`26164`: Only clear Axis once when creating an Axes
+* :ghpull:`26035`: issue #26031 -  [MNT]: decrease timeout on interactive tests locally
+* :ghpull:`23485`: Fix displayed 3d coordinates showing gibberish
+* :ghpull:`25027`: Make pcolor more mesh-like
+* :ghpull:`26235`: MNT:Decreased timeout for local interactive tests
+* :ghpull:`26270`: Merge v3.7.x into main
+* :ghpull:`26269`: DOC: Fix image_rotator
+* :ghpull:`26265`: DOC: ensure that the bounding box is scaled with dpi in example
+* :ghpull:`26255`: DOC: Modernize Colorbar Tick Labelling example
+* :ghpull:`26258`: DOC: fix rst formatting
+* :ghpull:`26257`: DOC: Clarify terminology
+* :ghpull:`26256`: Better document the ContourSet API change.
+* :ghpull:`26254`: DOC: Improve readability of date formatters/locators example
+* :ghpull:`26233`: DOC: replaced step with stairs in basic plot types
+* :ghpull:`26213`: Add ``CITATION.cff`` file
+* :ghpull:`26226`: Use CLOSEPOLY kind code to close tricontourf polygons
+* :ghpull:`26208`: FIX: also copy the axis units when creating twins
+* :ghpull:`26185`: Set transform for offset text in 3d
+* :ghpull:`26068`: Rewrite Tick formatters example
+* :ghpull:`26218`: moved minimum dependencies to maintenance section
+* :ghpull:`26217`: Doc/rm maintainer wf
+* :ghpull:`26212`: Avoid deprecated typing hints
+* :ghpull:`26198`: Limit Forward references in Mathtext parser
+* :ghpull:`26210`: Re-export textpath types in text
+* :ghpull:`25247`: Turn ContourSet into a standard Collection artist.
+* :ghpull:`26204`: ci: Add tzdata to nightly builds
+* :ghpull:`26200`: [Doc] Add note about (str, alpha) version added
+* :ghpull:`26171`: precommit warns on main + instructions for fix
+* :ghpull:`26189`: Factor out legend/figlegend nargs validation.
+* :ghpull:`26199`: ci: Fix typo for nightly builds
+* :ghpull:`26197`: CI: Add pre-release installs to upcoming tests
+* :ghpull:`26086`: reorganize contributing landing page
+* :ghpull:`17497`: Dedupe some C++ templates
+* :ghpull:`26190`: Deprecate removal of explicit legend handles whose label starts with _.
+* :ghpull:`26188`: Add note to remove texts in baselines when they are regenerated.
+* :ghpull:`25714`: Fix ffmpeg framerates
+* :ghpull:`26142`: [Doc] alphabetize mathtext symbols by unicode
+* :ghpull:`25933`: Relational Operators for mathtext
+* :ghpull:`26159`: DOC: Remove unused static images
+* :ghpull:`25913`: DOC: contributing and documenting clean ups + community for incubator invites
+* :ghpull:`26141`: Doc cards user explain
+* :ghpull:`26110`: DOC: fix levels in user/explain/figure
+* :ghpull:`26102`: Start basing mathtext tutorial on mathtext parser
+* :ghpull:`26138`: MNT: add VNClte porte by default
+* :ghpull:`26089`: Add public method to update ``Legend`` object's loc property .
+* :ghpull:`26137`: Add codespaces configuration
+* :ghpull:`25548`: FIX: macosx keep track of mouse up/down for cursor hand changes
+* :ghpull:`26132`: MNT: remove test images from mathtext tests that have been removed
+* :ghpull:`26125`: Stop building universal2 and win32 wheels
+* :ghpull:`26105`: Doc user guide cards
+* :ghpull:`26128`: Add missing spacer in tk toolmanager toolbar.
+* :ghpull:`26129`: Remove outdated comment in ``Artist.__getstate__``
+* :ghpull:`25631`: API: forbid unsafe savefig kwargs to AbstractMovieWriter.grab_frame
+* :ghpull:`25926`: DOC: restore navigation documentation
+* :ghpull:`24666`: Setting color of legend shadow
+* :ghpull:`26010`: Correct Unicode for [lg]napprox
+* :ghpull:`26120`: Fix new warnings in compiled extensions
+* :ghpull:`26060`: Mnt: GUI tests
+* :ghpull:`25623`: Use classic style in old what's new entries
+* :ghpull:`26113`: Fixes #12926 - inconsistency upon passing C in hexbin
+* :ghpull:`25555`: Let widgets/clabel better handle overlapping axes.
+* :ghpull:`26114`: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.13.0 to 2.13.1
+* :ghpull:`26112`: Skip tests for users-explain gallery
+* :ghpull:`26111`: [MNT] Update nightly wheels install location
+* :ghpull:`25779`: Adding ellipse_arrow.py example and closes #25477
+* :ghpull:`26101`: Correct bounding box calculation for text markers
+* :ghpull:`26096`: FIX: Handle masked arrays for RGBA input with ScalarMappables
+* :ghpull:`26024`: Add missing operators code
+* :ghpull:`26072`: Pcolormesh with Gouraud shading: masked arrays
+* :ghpull:`25381`: ENH: switch mpl_toolkits to implicit namespace package (PEP 420)
+* :ghpull:`26070`: Factor out common checks for set_data in various Image subclasses.
+* :ghpull:`26091`: Shorten axes_grid1 inset_locator code.
+* :ghpull:`26090`: ci: Move Python 3.11 job to Ubuntu 22.04
+* :ghpull:`21054`: Deprecate many single-use rc validators.
+* :ghpull:`26065`: Install extra requirements when testing with 3.11 on GH
+* :ghpull:`26080`: Deprecate unused "frac" key in annotate() arrowprops.
+* :ghpull:`25248`: added Ishikawa plot in response to issue #25222 add organizational ch…
+* :ghpull:`26064`: add ishikawa diagram to examples
+* :ghpull:`26079`: Tweak Annotation docstring.
+* :ghpull:`26069`: Tweak AnnotationBbox coords specification.
+* :ghpull:`26073`: Cleanup date tick locators and formatters
+* :ghpull:`26057`: Further cleanup rainbow_text example.
+* :ghpull:`26058`: Don't show type hints in rendered docs
+* :ghpull:`26042`: Further simplify AxesGrid._init_locators.
+* :ghpull:`25993`: Modify rainbow_text() function to use annotate() function
+* :ghpull:`25850`: Handle exceptions in numpy::array_view<...>::set().
+* :ghpull:`25542`: ENH: offset parameter for MultipleLocator
+* :ghpull:`25515`: DOC/BLD: plot directive srcset
+* :ghpull:`26045`: 'Inactive' workflow: reduce run frequency
+* :ghpull:`26047`: PR welcome: getting attention
+* :ghpull:`26023`: CI: Use scientific-python/upload-nightly-action
+* :ghpull:`25775`: Support customizing antialiasing for text and annotation
+* :ghpull:`26036`: Cleanup AxesGrid
+* :ghpull:`26025`: MNT: Use commit SHA of cibuildwheel action release
+* :ghpull:`25938`: “Inactive” workflow: bump operations to 175
+* :ghpull:`26020`: Let AxesGrid support Axes subclasses that don't override axis().
+* :ghpull:`26017`: MNT: reduce number of implicit imports from toplevel __init__.py
+* :ghpull:`26033`: removed wrapping from first-issue-bot
+* :ghpull:`26003`: added alias to gray and grey match same colormaps
+* :ghpull:`26027`: Correct spelling in 'Good first issue'
+* :ghpull:`26026`: Simplify delaxes.
+* :ghpull:`26028`: Better document the semantics of get_text_width_height_descent.
+* :ghpull:`26018`: good first issue bot rewording
+* :ghpull:`13482`: Allow sharing Locators and Formatters across Axises.
+* :ghpull:`25950`: Upload nightlies to new location
+* :ghpull:`25473`: ci: Merge sdist and wheel building workflows
+* :ghpull:`25825`: Fix MarkerStyle types
+* :ghpull:`26002`: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.12.3 to 2.13.0
+* :ghpull:`25999`: "Inactive" workflow: add close label for inactive issues
+* :ghpull:`24493`: DOC: dropdowns in userguide
+* :ghpull:`25970`: FIX: resolve an issue where no ticks would be drawn for a colorbar with SymLogNorm and ranging exactly from 0 to linthresh
+* :ghpull:`25989`: test annotate(textcoords=offset fontsize)
+* :ghpull:`25044`: Modify ``hexbin`` to respect :rc:``patch.linewidth``
+* :ghpull:`25667`: Fix bar datetime
+* :ghpull:`25794`: Raise on plural scatter
+* :ghpull:`25986`: Remove unused/unnecessary parts of _macosx.m View.
+* :ghpull:`25689`: Update watermark example
+* :ghpull:`25735`: Add comment on issues marked 'good first issue'
+* :ghpull:`25968`: Cleanup scalarformatter.py example.
+* :ghpull:`18715`: Allow setting default AutoMinorLocator
+* :ghpull:`25961`: Fix nightly CI
+* :ghpull:`25844`: [TYP] Reduce stubtest ignores
+* :ghpull:`25952`: Switch from provision-with-micromamba to setup-micromamba
+* :ghpull:`25940`: Cleanups to Annotation.
+* :ghpull:`25948`: DOC: don't advocate deleting main branch
+* :ghpull:`25939`: Cleanup time_series_histogram example.
+* :ghpull:`25883`: Check gridspecness of colorbars on the right figure.
+* :ghpull:`25904`: Support spine.set() in SpinesProxy.
+* :ghpull:`25909`: #25900 update figure.py
+* :ghpull:`25746`: Tick label font family via tick_params
+* :ghpull:`25787`: [TYP/MNT] Remove unused imports from stub files
+* :ghpull:`25891`: Adds tests for nargs_err in legend, stem, pcolorfast and cycler.
+* :ghpull:`25886`: Simplify isort config.
+* :ghpull:`25889`: Deprecate CbarAxesBase.toggle_label.
+* :ghpull:`25884`: Correctly pass location when constructing ImageGrid colorbar.
+* :ghpull:`25888`: Fix incorrect doc references.
+* :ghpull:`25885`: Cleanup demo_axes_grid{,2}.
+* :ghpull:`25872`: MNT: update Shadow init signature
+* :ghpull:`25389`: Add configuration of Shadow and pie shadow
+* :ghpull:`25859`: Deprecate passing extra arguments to Figure.add_axes
+* :ghpull:`25863`: Fix incorrect usage of nargs_error.
+* :ghpull:`25845`: more explicit about what remote means in context
+* :ghpull:`23888`: Fix PolygonSelector.clear()
+* :ghpull:`25848`: Simplify lasso_demo example.
+* :ghpull:`25841`: Deprecate Tick.set_label{1,2}.
+* :ghpull:`25728`: Remove and deprecate unused methods in src
+* :ghpull:`25843`: Fix invalid range validators.
+* :ghpull:`25821`: 3D plots shared view angles
+* :ghpull:`25726`: Replace usage of WenQuanYi Zen Hei by Noto Sans CJK
+* :ghpull:`25828`: DOC: add remote upstream
+* :ghpull:`25814`: [TYP] Correct type hint for Transform.transform return
+* :ghpull:`25812`: Fix typo in ruff config
+* :ghpull:`25807`: Users guide->User guide
+* :ghpull:`25799`: Discourage fontdict
+* :ghpull:`25798`: [DOC/TYP]: Allow any array like for set_[xy]ticks, not just list of float
+* :ghpull:`25632`: Include data kwarg in pyi stubs
+* :ghpull:`25790`: Document default value of corner_mask in the corresponding example.
+* :ghpull:`25788`: ci: Increase retry count on PR conflict check
+* :ghpull:`25482`: Draw 3D gridlines below axis lines, labels, text, and ticks
+* :ghpull:`25607`: Missing return type hints for Figure
+* :ghpull:`25783`: Cleanup demo_text_path.
+* :ghpull:`25780`: Shorten anchored_artists example.
+* :ghpull:`25781`: Deprecate AnchoredEllipse.
+* :ghpull:`25786`: DOC: Fix minor typo in API change notes
+* :ghpull:`25773`: condensed pull request template
+* :ghpull:`25712`: Prevents axes limits from being resized by axes.fill_between
+* :ghpull:`25782`: Fix release note reference to pyplot.axis
+* :ghpull:`25777`: Cleanup demo_axes_divider.
+* :ghpull:`25774`: Small axislines.Axes cleanups.
+* :ghpull:`25772`: Only print actually tested QT APIs when erroring
+* :ghpull:`25769`: Set PostScript language level to 3
+* :ghpull:`25753`: Update, correct, and add badges/links
+* :ghpull:`25747`: Tweak axis_direction demo.
+* :ghpull:`23059`: FIX: Decrease figure refcount on close of a macosx figure
+* :ghpull:`25606`: [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate
+* :ghpull:`25752`: Enable lazy-loading of images in HTML docs
+* :ghpull:`25648`: Remove nonfunctional Axes3D.set_frame_on and get_frame_on methods.
+* :ghpull:`25479`: FIX: Allow different colormap name from registered name
+* :ghpull:`25763`: Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.12.1 to 2.12.3
+* :ghpull:`24661`: Plots first and last minor ticks #22331
+* :ghpull:`25759`: Fix typo in api_interfaces.rst
+* :ghpull:`20214`: Move AxisArtistHelpers to toplevel.
+* :ghpull:`25737`: Update PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md to include issue cross-reference.
+* :ghpull:`25729`: Cleanup GridHelperCurveLinear/GridFinder.
+* :ghpull:`25730`: Add test for Path.contains_path
+* :ghpull:`25359`: Add bfit bolditalic tex cmd
+* :ghpull:`25739`: grammar/wording tweak for backports
+* :ghpull:`25597`: Add (color, alpha) tuple as a valid ColorType in typing.py
+* :ghpull:`25324`: Fix axes vlines and hlines using wrong coordinates
+* :ghpull:`25713`: Remove print_figure overrides in backend subclasses
+* :ghpull:`25719`: TYP: Clean up CapStyle/FillStyle type hints
+* :ghpull:`25720`: ci: Set apt to retry operations on failure
+* :ghpull:`25722`: DOC: Fix duplicated words
+* :ghpull:`25584`: Expire remaining 3.6 deprecations
+* :ghpull:`25721`: TST: Handle missing black more resiliently
+* :ghpull:`25718`: Improve color documentation and typing
+* :ghpull:`25652`: DOC: clarify the milestoning and backport policy wording
+* :ghpull:`25711`: TYP: allow for xlim/ylim passed as single tuple
+* :ghpull:`25594`: changed to RST
+* :ghpull:`25708`: Deprecate unused NavigationToolbar2QT signal.
+* :ghpull:`25618`: DOC: fix Sphinx Gallery discussion to explain mixed subddirs
+* :ghpull:`25710`: TYP: Fix type hint (and docstring) for Bbox.intersection
+* :ghpull:`25707`: CI: skip Azure Pipelines for doc-only change
+* :ghpull:`25686`: Add Figure methods get_suptitle(), get_subxlabel(), get_supylabel()
+* :ghpull:`25697`: Annotation cleanups.
+* :ghpull:`25586`: Post stubtest results to GitHub checks
+* :ghpull:`25696`: Use true positional args in check_foo APIs instead of simulating them.
+* :ghpull:`25698`: Fix codecov.yml so it is valid.
+* :ghpull:`25687`: More informative exception messages
+* :ghpull:`25692`: Fixed bug: mathtext rendered width not being calculated correctly
+* :ghpull:`25690`: TST: Import MatplotlibDeprecationWarning consistently
+* :ghpull:`22286`: Fixed ``eventplot`` issues
+* :ghpull:`25656`: DOC: update/fix autoscaling documentation
+* :ghpull:`25668`: Fix what's new note for text
+* :ghpull:`25651`: MNT: deprecate unused numdecs LogLocator param
+* :ghpull:`25655`: Clean up FileIO type hints
+* :ghpull:`25664`: Fix 'can not' -> 'cannot' typo
+* :ghpull:`25657`: Bump cygwin/cygwin-install-action from 3 to 4
+* :ghpull:`25640`: pgf: Add clipping to text outputs
+* :ghpull:`25639`: Fixing typos
+* :ghpull:`25647`: Pin mypy to v1.1.1 for CI
+* :ghpull:`25588`: Rename parameters for consistency
+* :ghpull:`25628`: Bump invalid hatch removal
+* :ghpull:`25610`: DOC: Update user_explain\text\README.txt to reference example page
+* :ghpull:`25587`: Ensure tinypages ignored by mypy/stubtest
+* :ghpull:`25609`: Use _api.nargs_error in more places
+* :ghpull:`25414`: DOC: add a note about linewidth to scatter docs
+* :ghpull:`23199`: Do not set clip path if it exists
+* :ghpull:`22173`: Support ``\text`` in ``mathtext``
+* :ghpull:`24312`: Deprecate axes_divider.AxesLocator.
+* :ghpull:`24969`: Optimize C code
+* :ghpull:`25501`: FIX: Tk photoimage resize
+* :ghpull:`25565`: making sure colors has the attribute size
+* :ghpull:`25583`: MNT: use less eval
+* :ghpull:`25569`: Use raw instead of png for font manager memory leak test
+* :ghpull:`25253`: Use pybind11 in ttconv module
+* :ghpull:`24976`: Initial implementation of type stubs (mypy/PEP484)
+* :ghpull:`25576`: Skip pgf pdflatex text if cm-super is not installed
+* :ghpull:`24991`: Fix issue with shared log axis
+* :ghpull:`25221`: Add links and expand mathmpl docstring
+* :ghpull:`25498`: FIX: Use mappable data when autoscaling colorbar norm
+* :ghpull:`25570`: Use symbolic operator names (moveto, lineto) in contour_manual example.
+* :ghpull:`25559`: Make guiEvent available only within the event handlers.
+* :ghpull:`25405`: Fix incorrect stride calculations in LogLocator.tick_values()
+* :ghpull:`25226`: Fix unintended space after comma as a decimal separator
+* :ghpull:`25563`: Add pytest==7.0.0 on requirements/testing/minver.txt
+* :ghpull:`25553`: FIX: macosx, always put timers on main thread
+* :ghpull:`25557`: Rename parameter of Annotation.contains and Legend.contains.
+* :ghpull:`25564`: Bump actions/stale from 7 to 8
+* :ghpull:`25562`: Add pytest==3.6.0 on requirements/testing/minver.txt
+* :ghpull:`25551`: Restore autolimits status when pressing "home" key.
+* :ghpull:`25554`: Remove unused private SpanSelector._pressv and ._prev.
+* :ghpull:`25546`: In Artist.contains, check that moussevents occurred on the right canvas.
+* :ghpull:`24728`: Add Axes.ecdf() method.
+* :ghpull:`25291`: Limit full-invalidation of CompositeGenericTransforms.
+* :ghpull:`25550`: "Inactive" workflow: bump operations to 150
+* :ghpull:`25539`: Remove explicit symbol visibility pragmas
+* :ghpull:`25502`: DOC: Suggest replacement for tostring_rgb
+* :ghpull:`25532`: Annotations tutorial
+* :ghpull:`25456`: Expire more mpl3.6 deprecations.
+* :ghpull:`25505`: DOC: combine marker examples
+* :ghpull:`25510`: Remove unnecessary calls to Formatter.set_locs.
+* :ghpull:`25487`: DOC/BLD: stop using sg head [ci doc]
+* :ghpull:`25507`: gitignore doc/users/explain
+* :ghpull:`25504`: "Inactive" workflow: bump operations to 125
+* :ghpull:`24691`: ENH: Add option to define a color as color=(some_color, some_alpha)
+* :ghpull:`25475`: Stop building 32-bit Linux wheels
+* :ghpull:`25484`: Deprecate tostring_rgb.
+* :ghpull:`25395`: DOC: user/explain reorg (and moving a lot of tutorials).
+* :ghpull:`25425`: Added get_shape as an alias for get_size + tests
+* :ghpull:`25281`: Bugfix for loc legend validation
+* :ghpull:`25469`: Autoload numpy arrays in get_sample_data.
+* :ghpull:`25472`: Use get_sample_data(..., asfileobj=False) less.
+* :ghpull:`25444`: Adjust parent axes limits when clearing floating axes.
+* :ghpull:`25235`: Update release guide instructions post v3.7.0
+* :ghpull:`24531`: Use user-selected format in Tk savefig, rather than inferring it from the filename
+* :ghpull:`25467`: DOC: update suptitle example to remove percent_bachelors_degrees csv
+* :ghpull:`25454`: Remove unnecessary norm typecheck in tripcolor().
+* :ghpull:`25455`: “Inactive” workflow: bump operations to 100
+* :ghpull:`25464`: Skip Appveyor for doc only change (second attempt)
+* :ghpull:`25430`: Edit error messages for when metadata is passed to ``savefig``
+* :ghpull:`23200`: Deprecate empty offsets in get_path_collection_extents
+* :ghpull:`25427`: Store FloatingAxes "extremes" info in fewer places.
+* :ghpull:`25434`: ci: Install pytz for Pandas nightly wheel
+* :ghpull:`25404`: Move _SelectorWidget._props into SpanSelector
+* :ghpull:`25421`: wx backend should flush the clipboard before closing it
+* :ghpull:`25429`: DOC: remove default logo [ci doc]
+* :ghpull:`25423`: DOC/BLD: make logo compatible with pydata-sphinx-theme
+* :ghpull:`25424`: “Inactive” workflow: increase operations to 75
+* :ghpull:`25138`: Deprecate QuadContourSet.allsegs, .allkinds, .tcolors, .tlinewidths.
+* :ghpull:`25415`: Add links for path types and general improvements
+* :ghpull:`25420`: Print incorrect tz argument in error message
+* :ghpull:`25413`: Make tk backend use native crosshair cursor
+* :ghpull:`24984`: Expire deprecations from 3.6
+* :ghpull:`25380`: Merge 3.7.1 into main
+* :ghpull:`24861`: Documentation fixes
+* :ghpull:`24649`: Fix loc legend validation
+* :ghpull:`25383`: CI: skip appveyor for doc only change
+* :ghpull:`25081`: added a note to avoid f-strings in logging
+* :ghpull:`25373`: Expire mpl_toolkits deprecations.
+* :ghpull:`25387`: Remove LGTM references and minor doc fixes
+* :ghpull:`25382`: Correct patheffects doc
+* :ghpull:`25378`: "Inactive" workflow: bump operations-per-run
+* :ghpull:`25358`: Remove unused menu field from macos NavigationToolbar2.
+* :ghpull:`25352`: MNT: Use WeakKeyDictionary and WeakSet in Grouper
+* :ghpull:`20649`: Add colour vision deficiency simulation
+* :ghpull:`25287`: Fix unmatched offsetText label color
+* :ghpull:`25332`: Support pickling of figures with aligned x/y labels.
+* :ghpull:`25334`: Fix for all NANs in contour
+* :ghpull:`25335`: "Inactive" workflow: fix typo
+* :ghpull:`25163`: GitHub: auto set inactive label
+* :ghpull:`22816`: FIX: savefig)...,transparent=True) now makes inset_axes transparent a…
+* :ghpull:`25316`: Use setattr_cm more.
+* :ghpull:`25258`: Document PowerNorm parameters
+* :ghpull:`25209`: MNT: re-organize galleries under one subdir
+* :ghpull:`25304`: Add import sorting to ``/plot_types``
+* :ghpull:`25296`: Remove straggler 3.7 release notes
+* :ghpull:`25147`: Add ruff config to pyproject.toml for devs who are interested
+* :ghpull:`25282`: Simplify transforms invalidation system.
+* :ghpull:`25270`: merge up 3.7.0
+* :ghpull:`25255`: Make default facecolor for subfigures be transparent ("none"). Fix for issue #24910
+* :ghpull:`25252`: Support make_compound_path concatenating only empty paths.
+* :ghpull:`25211`: Em dashes instead of consecutive hyphens.
+* :ghpull:`25243`: Cleanup wx docstrings.
+* :ghpull:`25261`: [CI] Skip tests on doc-only changes
+* :ghpull:`25192`: Expire wx canvas param deprecation
+* :ghpull:`25249`: DOC: remove constrained_layout kwarg from tutorials and user guide
+* :ghpull:`25232`: Remove a redundant comma in ``AsinhScale``
+* :ghpull:`25195`: DOC: explain how to make a fixed-size axes
+* :ghpull:`25207`: Add mpl_round_to_int
+* :ghpull:`24983`: Refactor parts of Axis for readability
+* :ghpull:`25203`: Replace checking Number with Real
+* :ghpull:`25202`: DOC: reorder CI control guidance
+* :ghpull:`25200`: Don't handle unknown_symbols in ``\operatorname``.
+* :ghpull:`24849`: Stripey ``LineCollection``
+* :ghpull:`25177`: Add locator API links to tick-locators example
+* :ghpull:`25166`: Clean + comment MaxNLocator
+* :ghpull:`25157`: Small tweak in chapter sorting of the example gallery
+* :ghpull:`25099`: Add isort (import sorting) to pre-commit hooks
+* :ghpull:`25175`: BLD: Unbreak github tests workflow
+* :ghpull:`25125`: Use "array" instead of "numpy array" except when emphasis is needed.
+* :ghpull:`25144`: FIX: improve CL description and remove constrained_layout text
+* :ghpull:`25101`: Deprecate LocationEvent.lastevent.
+* :ghpull:`25152`: Group shape/dtype validation logic in image_resample.
+* :ghpull:`25145`: BLD: only doc CI build
+* :ghpull:`25153`: Delete redundant examples from user gallery that are also present in the annotations tutorial
+* :ghpull:`25156`: On macOS, limit symbols exported by extension modules linking FreeType.
+* :ghpull:`25150`: DOC: use 'none' in set_layout_engine
+* :ghpull:`25131`: FIX: Correctly report command keypress on mac for Tk + Gtk
+* :ghpull:`25112`: Connect stream lines if no varying width or color
+* :ghpull:`25142`: Minor style tweaks to freetype build.
+* :ghpull:`25143`: Don't special-case getSaveFileName in qt_compat anymore.
+* :ghpull:`24436`: Make LogLocator only return one tick out of range
+* :ghpull:`25135`: Whisker length, more precise description
+* :ghpull:`25100`: add section on annotating an artist using axes.annotate
+* :ghpull:`24486`: Minor cleanup and add test for offsetbox
+* :ghpull:`24964`: Minor cleanup and optimization of Sketch
+* :ghpull:`25121`: Inline ContourSet._make_paths.
+* :ghpull:`25120`: Consistently document shapes as (M, N), not MxN.
+* :ghpull:`24445`: Makefile html-noplot,clean: constrained layout tutorial image handling
+* :ghpull:`25115`: Remove tests.py runner from repo root
+* :ghpull:`24866`: write addfont example
+* :ghpull:`24638`: MNT: Remove auto-flattening of input data to pcolormesh
+* :ghpull:`24985`: Deprecate unused/undocumented functions in proj3d
+* :ghpull:`25104`: tk blitting to destroyed canvases should be a noop, not a segfault.
+* :ghpull:`25108`: Update flake8 per-file ignores
+* :ghpull:`25091`: Caching figures generated by plot directive
+* :ghpull:`25096`: Remove unused import of re introduced in #23442
+* :ghpull:`24749`: Support only positional args in contour. Error if no positional argument.
+* :ghpull:`23442`: Remove need to detect math mode in pgf strings
+* :ghpull:`25023`: Update Release guide to current practices
+* :ghpull:`24816`: [FIX]: Make inset axes transparent on savefig(..., transparent=True)
+* :ghpull:`24967`: Rewrite bullseye example to use bar() instead of pcolormesh().
+* :ghpull:`24994`: Use ``_axis_map`` instead of ``getattr`` in ``Axes`` and ``Figure``
+* :ghpull:`25087`: feat: add new SI prefixes to ticker
+* :ghpull:`25073`: MAINT: don't format logs in log call.
+* :ghpull:`25061`: Ensure TwoSlopeNorm always has two slopes
+* :ghpull:`25064`: Bump mamba-org/provision-with-micromamba from 14 to 15
+* :ghpull:`25046`: ci: Re-add the login shell to nightlies jobs
+* :ghpull:`24980`: Python 3.9 upgrade
+* :ghpull:`25035`: ci: Only attempt to upload nightlies from successful builds
+* :ghpull:`24995`: Improve 3D quiver test
+* :ghpull:`24992`: Bump NumPy to 1.21
+* :ghpull:`25007`: Minor refactoring of Axes3D
+* :ghpull:`25021`: Doc: sg section separator
+* :ghpull:`25028`: separate out folders in gallery ordering
+* :ghpull:`24981`: ENH: pad_inches='layout' for savefig
+* :ghpull:`25022`: DOC: tweak array indexing in constrained layout tutorial
+* :ghpull:`24990`: Make arguments other than ``renderer`` keyword-only for ``get_tightbbox``
+* :ghpull:`25013`: Clarify/shorten gca management in colorbar().
+* :ghpull:`25003`: Bump cygwin/cygwin-install-action from 2 to 3
+* :ghpull:`24978`: Simplify handling of out-of-bound values ``Colormap.__call__``.
+* :ghpull:`24998`: Unbreak Azure CI
+* :ghpull:`24907`: DOC/BUILD add ability for conf to skip whole sections
+* :ghpull:`22999`: CI: Add a Cygwin run to GHA CI.
+* :ghpull:`24919`: Remove support for python 3.8
+* :ghpull:`24942`: Expire module deprecations
+* :ghpull:`24943`: Remove special casing for PyPy not required anymore
+* :ghpull:`24929`: Small unrelated cleanups/style fixes.
+* :ghpull:`24923`: Cleanup cbook deprecations and layout
+* :ghpull:`24920`: Add --only-binary to nightly pip install
+* :ghpull:`24913`: Deprecate Bbox.anchored() with no container.
+* :ghpull:`24905`: Remove some long-obsolete commented code in grid_helper_curvelinear.
+
+Issues (185):
+
+* :ghissue:`26765`: [Bug]: Crash in Windows 10 if polar axis lim is lower than lowest data point.
+* :ghissue:`26674`: [Doc]: Line3DCollection segments
+* :ghissue:`26531`: [Bug]: ValueError thrown when ``levels`` is set to a lower value than ``vmin`` when using ``contours`` method of Axes
+* :ghissue:`26029`: [MNT]: Unify tex2uni
+* :ghissue:`26637`: [Doc]: Reduce references to set_tight_layout
+* :ghissue:`26639`: [Bug]: Incorrect type annotation for legend handes?
+* :ghissue:`26600`: [Doc]: contourf demo use of origin keyword
+* :ghissue:`26508`: [Doc]: Pyplot Axes – tuple or list?
+* :ghissue:`21524`: [Bug]: Removing an inset_axes that shares an axes does not remove it from the sharing group
+* :ghissue:`26604`: [Doc]: Inappropriate example in gallery
+* :ghissue:`26379`: [doc]: add 'validate' section to install docs
+* :ghissue:`19409`: Boxplot: Median line too long after changing linewidth
+* :ghissue:`26510`: [Bug]: mathtext silently ignores content after mismatched opening brace
+* :ghissue:`26501`: [Bug]: type-checking errors with mypy + matplotlib 3.8.0rc1
+* :ghissue:`16657`: Postscript backend gives wrong page sizes
+* :ghissue:`11771`: Change PdfPages to default to keep_empty=False and eventually deprecate keep_empty
+* :ghissue:`26438`: [ENH]: ``musllinux`` wheels for Alpine
+* :ghissue:`26446`: Disallow ``clip`` when ``vmin`` and ``vmax`` are not set in ``matplotlib.colors.Normalize``
+* :ghissue:`10002`: can't stop macosx mainloop
+* :ghissue:`7551`: automatic papersize selection by ps backend is almost certainly broken
+* :ghissue:`15913`: Switching to inline backend closes GUI windows
+* :ghissue:`26460`: [TST] Upcoming dependency test failures
+* :ghissue:`17566`: Updating an array passed as the xy parameter to annotate updates the anottation
+* :ghissue:`24723`: [Doc]: Delete examples made redundant by annotation tutorial rewrite (annotate_simple01, ...)
+* :ghissue:`26398`: [Bug]: fig.subplots_adjust and ax.set_yticklabels together can produce unexpected results
+* :ghissue:`10767`: ENH: Possibility to decide tick and label position in mplot3d
+* :ghissue:`9158`: Angled text not placed correctly with usetex in EPS
+* :ghissue:`26400`: [Doc]: advice to use QuadContourSet.collections
+* :ghissue:`26409`: [TST] Upcoming dependency test failures
+* :ghissue:`26351`: [Doc]: Bad rendering of the title of the MRI example
+* :ghissue:`26156`: [Doc]: navigating to the User Guide
+* :ghissue:`15785`: xlim_changed not emitted on shared axis
+* :ghissue:`26343`: [Bug]: ContourSet.antialiased attribute not present
+* :ghissue:`14247`: latex \substack doesn't work
+* :ghissue:`17190`: ipython autocomplete does not work for plt.figure()
+* :ghissue:`13164`: Figures in windows not tabs
+* :ghissue:`23212`: Support ``\middle``
+* :ghissue:`26082`: [MNT]: Make cyclers indexable and rely on indexing them rather than itertools.cycle
+* :ghissue:`16938`: keyword share_all in ImageGrid class
+* :ghissue:`26340`: [ENH]: ContourSet.set_paths
+* :ghissue:`26236`: [Bug]: ax.scatter (projection='3d') - incorrect handling of NaN
+* :ghissue:`22714`: [Bug]: parasite_axes does not properly handle units
+* :ghissue:`22338`: [Bug]: rcParams['legend.loc'] can't use float-tuple like kwarg legend(loc...)
+* :ghissue:`25942`: Make ``TexManager.texcache`` private
+* :ghissue:`26289`: [Bug]: mathtext caching issue in multi-threaded environment with tight_layout=True
+* :ghissue:`26272`: [Bug]: qt window blank after using save button
+* :ghissue:`26308`: [Bug]: labels can't be placed at start of contours
+* :ghissue:`2369`: Cleaning up kwargs in ContourSet
+* :ghissue:`14118`: imshow() should not modify axes aspect if transform != ax.transData.
+* :ghissue:`26081`: [ENH]: Add setters for _AxLine._xy1, ._xy2, ._slope
+* :ghissue:`25643`: [ENH]: Support for ``\boldsymbol``
+* :ghissue:`1366`: Support \boldsymbol. (Feature request.)
+* :ghissue:`26283`: [Bug]: set_ticks provides mysterious error message
+* :ghissue:`25162`: [Bug]: pcolormesh properties and getter shapes changed w/o notice
+* :ghissue:`26261`: [Doc]: Double entries in navigation menu of Using Matplotlib
+* :ghissue:`4334`: Axes3D: factor out 3D coordinate guessing from format_coord()
+* :ghissue:`22775`: [Bug]: 3d mouse coords values reported in toolbar are meaningless
+* :ghissue:`25770`: [ENH]: support RGB(A) in pcolor
+* :ghissue:`26031`: [MNT]: decrease timeout on interactive tests locally
+* :ghissue:`26264`: [Doc]: Incorrectly drawn bounding box
+* :ghissue:`26206`: [Doc]: follow on to #25247
+* :ghissue:`26225`: [Bug]: MultiCursor in inset axes
+* :ghissue:`22277`: [Doc]: Exchange step() for stairs() in the Plot types - Basic section
+* :ghissue:`25493`: [Doc]: users/explain bare index looks bad
+* :ghissue:`25114`: [Bug]: matplotlib.path.Path.to_polygons fails with TriContourSet paths
+* :ghissue:`26194`: [Bug]: dataLims get replaced by inf for charts with twinx if ax1 is a stackplot
+* :ghissue:`6139`: 'QuadContourSet' object has no attribute 'set_visible' or 'set_animated'
+* :ghissue:`25128`: [MNT]: Turn ContourSet into a (nearly) plain Collection
+* :ghissue:`26100`: [Bug]: Axis multiplier when using plot_surface appears outside of the figure window
+* :ghissue:`15518`: Collections could check x- and y- transforms separately to decide whether to autoscale each direction
+* :ghissue:`26182`: [TST] Upcoming dependency test failures
+* :ghissue:`25857`: [Doc]: gitwash deleting main branch
+* :ghissue:`15054`: Improve tests by removing text or using figure comparisons
+* :ghissue:`8794`: animation.save problems with ffmpeg
+* :ghissue:`26140`: [Doc]: Sort greek/hebrew letters in math docs alphabetically
+* :ghissue:`25042`: [Bug]: ``\geqslant``, ``\leqslant`` and ``\eqslantgtr`` are not spaced like their non-slanted versions
+* :ghissue:`25014`: [ENH]: Add public method to update ``Legend`` object's loc property .
+* :ghissue:`26124`: [Bug]: NavigationToolbar2 mouse over event causes toolbar height increase and axes reposition
+* :ghissue:`24663`: [ENH]: Set color of legend shadow
+* :ghissue:`7199`: Old whatsnews should be rendered using classic style
+* :ghissue:`12926`: Inconsistent behavior of hexbins mincnt parameter, depending on C parameter
+* :ghissue:`25030`: [BUG]: Button widgets don't work in inset axes
+* :ghissue:`10009`: document event handling with twined axes
+* :ghissue:`25477`: Plot ellipse with arrow showing rotation
+* :ghissue:`26083`: [Bug]: Star marker (using mathtext) is not center-aligned
+* :ghissue:`26015`: [ENH]: Missing mathematical operations
+* :ghissue:`8802`: Masked pcolormesh is not tested correctly
+* :ghissue:`25244`: [Bug]: DeprecationWarning for pkg_resources.declare_namespace usage in mpl_toolkit
+* :ghissue:`25344`: pydata-sphinx-theme 0.13 causes doc builds to fail
+* :ghissue:`25590`: [Doc]: type annotations rendering
+* :ghissue:`25941`: [Doc]: Rewrite rainbow_text example to use annotate()
+* :ghissue:`25497`: [ENH]: hi-res plot directive...
+* :ghissue:`25675`: [ENH]: Add get/set_antialiased to Text objects
+* :ghissue:`17069`: Error creating AxisGrid with non-default axis class
+* :ghissue:`8965`: Add alias for colormaps for grey vs gray English issues
+* :ghissue:`25945`: [Bug]: (edge case) no ticks are drawn in colorbars with SymLogNorm
+* :ghissue:`25907`: [ENH]: Add test for annotate(textcoods="offset fontsize")
+* :ghissue:`25654`: [Bug]: bar/barh don't trigger datetime units
+* :ghissue:`19120`: Raise when both singular and plural scatter attributes are specified
+* :ghissue:`14233`: Feature Request: Allow setting default AutoMinorLocator
+* :ghissue:`25900`: [Doc]: I think you missed a ``fig`` here.
+* :ghissue:`18425`: Add fontfamily/labelfont to tick_params
+* :ghissue:`25864`: [MNT]: add tests for nargs_error
+* :ghissue:`23595`: [Bug]: ``CbarAxesBase.toggle_label`` doesn't seem to work properly
+* :ghissue:`25835`: [MNT]: Do not accept arbitrary positional parameters in Figure.add_axes()
+* :ghissue:`25833`: [MNT]: Privatize Tick.set_label1() / Tick.set_label2()
+* :ghissue:`11181`: [feature request] multiple 3d plots with tied viewing angles
+* :ghissue:`25724`: [MNT]: Switch docs/examples to use Noto Sans CJK instead of WenQuanYi Zen Hei as CJK font
+* :ghissue:`24779`: [Doc]: windows install instructions do not work
+* :ghissue:`24701`: VS Code: Autocomplete and Syntax Highlighting do not work for matplotlib
+* :ghissue:`25682`: [Bug]: fill_between{x} does not respect Axes transform
+* :ghissue:`23061`: [Bug]: macosx timers don't fire if plt.show() hasn't been called
+* :ghissue:`19769`: Memory leak when plotting multiple figures with the macOS backend
+* :ghissue:`24331`: [Doc]: Lazy loading for images
+* :ghissue:`24689`: [Bug]: Axes3D.set_frame_on not working as documented
+* :ghissue:`5087`: Confusing (broken?) colormap name handling
+* :ghissue:`22331`: [Bug]: First and or last minor ticks sometimes not plotted
+* :ghissue:`19393`: \bf\it in mathtext
+* :ghissue:`23171`: [Bug]: axes vlines() / hlines() incorrectly use data coordinate as min when blended transform is applied
+* :ghissue:`5234`: Unicode with usetex=True and pgf backend
+* :ghissue:`25677`: [Doc]: Axes.hlines and Axes.vlines (and probably others) can accept a single color as well as a list of colors.
+* :ghissue:`25649`: [Doc]: backport strategy: inconsistency in guide
+* :ghissue:`25582`: [Doc]: Commented Out Code in Downloadable Examples for Toolkits Tutorials
+* :ghissue:`25695`: [Bug]: codecov.yml is invalid
+* :ghissue:`23810`: [Bug]: Text objects don't take Mathtext into account while wrapping.
+* :ghissue:`7560`: Edge cases in eventplot are likely broken
+* :ghissue:`25613`: [Doc]: better document default margins
+* :ghissue:`25638`: [MNT]: numdecs parameter in ``LogLocator``
+* :ghissue:`11375`: PGF output: Contour labels extend beyond figure boundary
+* :ghissue:`25608`: [Bug]: ``bbox_inches="tight"`` does not work for writer.grab_frame()
+* :ghissue:`25599`: [MNT]: The new default x and ymargin setting is too wasteful
+* :ghissue:`25410`: [Bug]: Small Scatter Plot Marker Size Results in Circles
+* :ghissue:`25053`: [Doc]: How to show an ASCII hyphen in math text without using TeX?
+* :ghissue:`18520`: Matplotlib cannot parse TeX with \text command
+* :ghissue:`25560`: [Bug]: legend for Poly3dCollection fails
+* :ghissue:`20504`: Support type checking with mypy
+* :ghissue:`7160`: pgf_pdflatex test fails on Windows
+* :ghissue:`14527`: Log scale messed up in histograms when sharing axes
+* :ghissue:`25521`: [Doc]: ``TABLEAU_COLORS`` ``XKCD_COLORS`` etc undocumented
+* :ghissue:`5424`: Update colorbar after changing mappable.norm
+* :ghissue:`22211`: [Bug]: scroll_event is broken after motion_notify_event in WXAgg
+* :ghissue:`24092`: [Bug]: LogLocator with subs argument fragile.
+* :ghissue:`23626`: [Bug]: unintended space between comma and digit when using useMathText = True together with comma as decimal separator
+* :ghissue:`23154`: [MNT]: requirements/testing/minver.txt could also test oldest-supported pytest version
+* :ghissue:`5675`: plt.pause() with threading is extremely slow for MacOSX backend
+* :ghissue:`6630`: handling of zeros in log-scale changes irreversibly after user zoom
+* :ghissue:`6324`: artist.contains should check that the event occurred in the same figure
+* :ghissue:`16561`: Feature request: proper ECDF
+* :ghissue:`25426`: [ENH]: Update grid_helper on FloatingSubplot
+* :ghissue:`22663`: [Doc]: Consoldiate scatter symbol examples
+* :ghissue:`24681`: [ENH]: set facecolor and edgecolor alpha separately
+* :ghissue:`5336`: RendererAgg.tostring_rgb merely truncates alpha
+* :ghissue:`22494`: [ENH]: Add ``get_shape`` as alias for ``get_size`` in AxesImage, or make that include depth too
+* :ghissue:`5327`: Make ``mpl_toolkits`` a non-namespace package
+* :ghissue:`9823`: Missing __init__.py file in mpl_toolkits
+* :ghissue:`24605`: [Bug]: Validation not performed for ``loc`` argument to ``legend``
+* :ghissue:`25445`: [Doc]: Not possible to see upcoming what's new etc?
+* :ghissue:`24450`: [MNT]: Fix or drop support for Tk 8.4
+* :ghissue:`25453`: [ENH]: Let norm argument accept string values in tripcolour
+* :ghissue:`25401`: [Bug]: savefig + jpg + metadata fails with inscrutable error message
+* :ghissue:`1735`: ``_path.get_path_collection_extents`` potentially wrong return value
+* :ghissue:`25431`: [TST] Upcoming dependency test failures
+* :ghissue:`25199`: [Bug]: AttributeError: 'LassoSelector' object has no attribute '_props'
+* :ghissue:`25080`: Add note in contrib guide admonishing against use of f strings in logs
+* :ghissue:`25165`: [Bug]: offsetText is colored based on tick.color instead of tick.labelcolor
+* :ghissue:`25329`: [Bug]: Unable to pickle figure with aligned labels
+* :ghissue:`14124`: plt.contour with all NaNs fails assertion in _contour.cpp
+* :ghissue:`22674`: [Bug]: savefig(..., transparent=True) does not make inset_axes transparent
+* :ghissue:`25303`: CI: isort should check plot_types?
+* :ghissue:`25137`: [Bug]: stop responding in demo program "matplotlib/examples/event_handling/lasso_demo.py"
+* :ghissue:`24910`: [Bug]: Suptitle not visible with subfigures
+* :ghissue:`25222`: [ENH]: add organizational charts to supported plots
+* :ghissue:`24796`: [Bug]: gapcolor not supported for LineCollections
+* :ghissue:`25172`: [Doc]: cross link locator example with locator API
+* :ghissue:`24419`: [Doc]: add from file to font family example
+* :ghissue:`23809`: [Bug]: blitting after closing second tkinter embed causes silent crash
+* :ghissue:`16580`: Segmentation fault when blitting onto closed figure (TkAgg)
+* :ghissue:`24743`: [Bug]: contour raises IndexError if Z is specified as keyword argument
+* :ghissue:`24283`: [Bug]: colorbar interacts poorly with TwoSlopeNorm when one slope is infinite
+* :ghissue:`24906`: [DOC/BUILD] add ability to selectively build docs
+* :ghissue:`24901`: [TST] Upcoming dependency test failures
+* :ghissue:`17991`: type stubs for matplotlib
+* :ghissue:`17583`: Linter complains about unexpected data-type, however, docs say this is possible
+* :ghissue:`15926`: Support for Python Type Hints (PEP 484)
+* :ghissue:`13798`: Add PEP484 type hints to the code (For IDE autocompletion / hints)
+
diff --git a/doc/users/project/citing.rst b/doc/users/project/citing.rst
index 77a7449b356e..d6b924afec2f 100644
--- a/doc/users/project/citing.rst
+++ b/doc/users/project/citing.rst
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ By version
 .. START OF AUTOGENERATED
 
 
+v3.8.1
+   .. image:: ../../_static/zenodo_cache/10059757.svg
+      :target:  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10059757
 v3.8.0
    .. image:: ../../_static/zenodo_cache/8347255.svg
       :target:  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8347255
diff --git a/doc/users/release_notes.rst b/doc/users/release_notes.rst
index c3cd17ce59ea..ca09d218cae4 100644
--- a/doc/users/release_notes.rst
+++ b/doc/users/release_notes.rst
@@ -19,8 +19,10 @@ Version 3.8
     :maxdepth: 1
 
     prev_whats_new/whats_new_3.8.0.rst
+    ../api/prev_api_changes/api_changes_3.8.1.rst
     ../api/prev_api_changes/api_changes_3.8.0.rst
     github_stats.rst
+    prev_whats_new/github_stats_3.8.0.rst
 
 Version 3.7
 ^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index 1cf6bd0a60e7..1487578a443b 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ dependencies:
   - fonttools>=4.22.0
   - importlib-resources>=3.2.0
   - kiwisolver>=1.3.1
+  - pybind11>=2.6.0
   - meson-python>=0.13.1
   - numpy>=1.21
   - pillow>=8
   - pkg-config
-  - pybind11>=2.6.0
   - pygobject
   - pyparsing>=2.3.1
   - pyqt
diff --git a/galleries/tutorials/images.py b/galleries/tutorials/images.py
index 24ab2bf8f495..0867f7b6d672 100644
--- a/galleries/tutorials/images.py
+++ b/galleries/tutorials/images.py
@@ -156,9 +156,8 @@
 #    commands together in one cell.  plt commands will not change plots from earlier
 #    cells.
 #
-# There are many other colormap schemes available.  See the `list and
-# images of the colormaps
-# <../colors/colormaps.html>`_.
+# There are many other colormap schemes available.  See the :ref:`list and images
+# of the colormaps<colormaps>`.
 #
 # .. _`Color Bars`:
 #
diff --git a/galleries/users_explain/quick_start.py b/galleries/users_explain/quick_start.py
index eef9d13a016e..7cdd2b0b3208 100644
--- a/galleries/users_explain/quick_start.py
+++ b/galleries/users_explain/quick_start.py
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
 # to provide the ``data`` keyword argument and generate plots passing the
 # strings corresponding to the *x* and *y* variables.
 #
-# .. _structured numpy array: <https://numpy.org/doc/stable/user/basics.rec.html#structured-arrays>`_  # noqa: E501
+# .. _structured numpy array: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/user/basics.rec.html#structured-arrays  # noqa: E501
 
 np.random.seed(19680801)  # seed the random number generator.
 data = {'a': np.arange(50),
diff --git a/tools/cache_zenodo_svg.py b/tools/cache_zenodo_svg.py
index 2058701e5999..cbd1304bd14c 100644
--- a/tools/cache_zenodo_svg.py
+++ b/tools/cache_zenodo_svg.py
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ def _get_xdg_cache_dir():
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     data = {
+        "v3.8.1": "10059757",
         "v3.8.0": "8347255",
         "v3.7.3": "8336761",
         "v3.7.2": "8118151",