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

REL: v2.0.0b4 Forth beta release for v2.0.0

REL: v1.5.3 This release contains a few critical bug fixes: - eliminate fatal exceptions with Qt5.7 - memory leak in the contour code - keyboard interaction bug with nbagg - automatic integration with the ipython event loop (if running) which fixes 'naive' integration for IPython 5+

REL: v2.0.0b3 Third beta for v2.0.0 release This tag includes several critical bug fixes and updates the dash patterns.