REL: v3.9.0

Highlights of this release include:

- Plotting and Annotation improvements
   - Axes.inset_axes is no longer experimental
   - Legend support for Boxplot
   - Percent sign in pie labels auto-escaped with usetex=True
   - hatch parameter for stackplot
   - Add option to plot only one half of violin plot
   - axhline and axhspan on polar axes
   - Subplot titles can now be automatically aligned
   - axisartist can now be used together with standard Formatters
   - Toggle minorticks on Axis
   - StrMethodFormatter now respects axes.unicode_minus
- Figure, Axes, and Legend Layout
   - Subfigures now have controllable zorders
   - Getters for xmargin, ymargin and zmargin
- Mathtext improvements
   - mathtext documentation improvements
   - mathtext spacing corrections
- Widget Improvements
   - Check and Radio Button widgets support clearing
- 3D plotting improvements
   - Setting 3D axis limits now set the limits exactly
- Other improvements
   - New BackendRegistry for plotting backends
   - Add widths, heights and angles setter to EllipseCollection
   - image.interpolation_stage rcParam
   - Arrow patch position is now modifiable
   - NonUniformImage now has mouseover support

REL: v3.9.0rc2

This is the second release candidate for the meso release 3.9.0.

REL: v3.9.0rc1

This is the first release candidate for the meso release 3.9.0.

REL: v3.8.4

This is the fourth micro release of the 3.8 series.

Highlights of the 3.8.4 release include:

- Enable building against numpy 2.0; released wheels are built against numpy 2
- macosx: Clean up single-shot timers correctly
- Add a draw during show for macos backend
- Fix color sequence data for Set2 and Set3
- gtk: Ensure pending draws are done before GTK draw
- Update "Created with" url in hand.svg
- Avoid modifying user input to Axes.bar
- fix quiver3d incorrect arrow colors

REL: v3.7.5

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

This release contains two bug-fixes:

- Fix hanging on `plt.pause` on the MacOS backend
- Fix crash on exit when using the PGF backend on Windows

REL: v3.8.3

This is the third micro release of the 3.8 series.

Highlights of the 3.8.3 release include:

- Improvements to the MacOS backend
  - Fix hanging on `plt.pause`
  - Fix warnings about "Secure coding is not enabled for restorable state"
- Fix crash at exit for PGF backend

REL: v3.7.4

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

This release contains one bug-fix:

- Fix a segmentation fault when resizing on Python 3.12 and macOS 14

REL: v3.8.2

This is the second bugfix release of the 3.8 series.

Highlights of this release include:

- Fix a segfault in the MacOS backend when running on Python 3.12
- Fix Contour labeling manual positions selecting incorrect contours.
- Various documentation improvements

REL: v3.8.1

This is the first bugfix release of th3 3.8.x series.

This release contains several bug fixes and adjustments:

- Bump setuptools required version because of setuptools_scm v8
- Update ``find_nearest_contour`` and revert contour deprecations
- ``allsegs`` and ``allkinds`` return individual segments
- Restore default behavior of hexbin mincnt with C provided
- Try/except import of Axes3D
- Ensure valid path mangling for ContourLabeler
- BLD: Remove development dependencies from sdists
- FIX 2-tuple of colors in to_rgba_array
- Fix issue with non-string labels and legend
- Fix issue with locale comma when not using math text
- Various type hinting improvements
- Various documentation improvements
- Improvementes to the MacOS backend

REL: v3.8.0

Highlights of this release include:

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