REL: v2.2.0rc1

The first rc for Matplotlib 2.2.0

REL: v2.1.2

The second bug-fix release for the 2.1 series.

This release fixes a number of critical bugs:

 - fix a typo in mlab.cohere which yielded incorrect results
 - allow nonposx / nonposy to pass through loglog
 - fix color comparisons when finding handles with legend
 - fixes a recursive draw bug and a major performance regression in
   Qt5Agg backend
 - fix a re-draw bug in WxAgg
 - fix image scaling with high-bit depth integers
 - revert the busy-cursor

REL: v2.1.1

The first and only planned bug-fix release for the 2.1 series.

This release include many bug and documentation fixes.  Highlights are:

 - change default logscale behavior to clip
 - fixed webagg import errors
 - tweaks to polar ticks
 - fixed exception when guessing afm family names
 - update manifest to include all doc files
 - improve masked array handling in pcolormesh
 - fix segfault from reading invalid png
 - fix blocking_input
 - fix bug resulting in huge multi-page pdf files
 - make `show` in nbagg take args as other backends do
 - several fixes to OSX backend
 - restore positional arg handling on Figure.legend
 - fix bugs in interactive navigation
 - fix issues when panning with invalid limits
 - fix bug with fully masked arrays passed to imshow

REL: v2.1.0

Matplotlib v2.1.0 release.

This is a major feature release of Matplotlib. This release includes
several major new features such as:
 - improved polar plots
 - string categorical support
 - 'voxel' 3D plots
 - the `Figure` class now has a `subplots` method

and many bug fixes.

REL: v2.1.0rc1

First RC for Matplotlib v2.1

REL: v2.0.2

Critical bug fixes for 2.0.1

 - fixed Qt4 support
 - fixed LogFormatter
 - fixed hatched artists in legends
 - fixed segfault with large images

REL: v2.0.1

Bug fix release for 2.0.x series

This release includes bug fixes, documentation updates and one major change.

API

 - Do not clip the linewidth used for dash pattern scaling.  This is
   an API change, but is a major improvement.
 - Deprecate 'vega' color names in favor of 'tab'.

Bug Fixes

 - Hatching color follows edge color again.
 - Fixes a critical bug with masked images.
 - Improved high-dpi support for Qt5.
 - Log ticking no never skip minor ticks
 - Do not skip points surrounded by nan/inf in vector outputs.

Supported versions of Python

 - 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
 - Patches to improve compatibility with pypy

REL: v2.0.0

Major release of Matplotlib

This release completely overhauls the default style of the plots.

Highlights include:

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

REL: v2.0.0rc2

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

This release includes:

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

REL: v2.0.0rc1

This is the first release candidate for mpl v2.0

This release includes:

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