Next what's new?

• Non-linear scales on 3D axes
• 3D performance improvements
• Instructions for writing "What's new" entries
• Standard getters/setters for axis inversion state
• bar_label supports individual padding per label
• BarContainer properties
• Arrow-style sub-classes of BoxStyle support arrow head resizing
• broken_barh() vertical alignment though align parameter
• CallbackRegistry.disconnect allows directly callbacks by function
• Setting the default color cycle to a named color sequence
• Colormaps support giving colors for bad, under and over values on creation
• Tuning transparency of colormaps
• axes.prop_cycle rcParam security improvements
• 3D depth-shading fix
• Figure size units
• Fonts addressable by all their SFNT family names
• Specifying font feature tags
• Saving figures as GIF works again
• Grouped bar charts
• hist() supports a single color for multiple datasets
• New environment variable to ignore system fonts
• Missing glyphs use Last Resort font
• legend.linewidth rcParam and parameter
• Complex text layout with libraqm
• Maximum levels on log-scaled contour plots are now respected
• Improved selection of log-scale ticks
• Mathtext distinguishes italic and normal font
• Separate styling options for major/minor grid line in rcParams
• Okabe-Ito accessible color sequence
• Partial figsize specification at figure creation
• edgegapcolor for Patches
• PatchCollection legends now supported
• Improved font embedding in PDF
• Adding labels to pie chart wedges
• Figures can be attached to and removed from pyplot
• RadioButtons and CheckButtons widgets support flexible layouts
• Zooming using mouse wheel
• Separated hatchcolor from edgecolor
• Six and eight color Petroff color cycles
• Callable valfmt for Slider and RangeSlider
• Snapping 3D rotation angles with Control key
• Stackplot styling
• Streamplot integration control
• Multiple arrows on a streamline
• Resetting the subplot parameters for figure.clear()
• mathtext support for \phantom, \llap, \rlap
• Specifying text language
• Support for loading TrueType Collection fonts
• Twin Axes delta_zorder
• PDF files created with usetex now embed subsets of Type 1 fonts
• borderpad accepts a tuple for separate x/y padding
• violin_stats simpler method parameter
• violinplot now accepts color arguments
• WebAgg scroll capture control
• xtick and ytick rotation modes
• Consistent zoom boxes