[Matplotlib-announce] ANN: matplotlib 0.98.1

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This is the first bugfix release of the 0.98 series, with lots of
small bugs fixed and a few features added.  Thanks to Charlie Moad for
the builds: src and binaries available from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706.  For
those of you on the 0.91 maintenance branch, we have also put out a
0.91.4 bugfix release with downloads at the link above.

0.98.1 CHANGELOG:

2008-06-22 Released 0.98.1 at revision 5637

2008-06-22 Removed axes3d support and replaced it with a
          NotImplementedError for one release cycle

2008-06-21 fix marker placement bug in backend_ps - DSD

2008-06-20 [ 1978629 ] scale documentation missing/incorrect for log - MGD

2008-06-20 Added closed kwarg to PolyCollection.  Fixes bug [ 1994535
          ] still missing lines on graph with svn (r 5548). - MGD

2008-06-20 Added set/get_closed method to Polygon; fixes error
          in hist - MM

2008-06-19 Use relative font sizes (e.g. 'medium' and 'large') in
          rcsetup.py and matplotlibrc.template so that text will
          be scaled by default when changing rcParams['font.size'] -
          EF

2008-06-17 Add a generic PatchCollection class that can contain any
          kind of patch. - MGD

2008-06-13 Change pie chart label alignment to avoid having labels
          overwrite the pie - MGD

2008-06-12 Added some helper functions to the mathtext parser to
          return bitmap arrays or write pngs to make it easier to use
          mathtext outside the context of an mpl figure.  modified
          the mathpng sphinxext to use the mathtext png save
          functionality - see examples/api/mathtext_asarray.py - JDH

2008-06-11 Use matplotlib.mathtext to render math expressions in
          online docs - MGD

2008-06-11 Move PNG loading/saving to its own extension module, and
          remove duplicate code in _backend_agg.cpp and _image.cpp
          that does the same thing - MGD

2008-06-11 Numerous mathtext bugfixes, primarily related to
          dpi-independence - MGD

2008-06-10 Bar now applies the label only to the first patch only, and
          sets '_nolegend_' for the other patch labels.  This lets
          autolegend work as expected for hist and bar - see
          https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1986597&group_id=80706&atid=560720
          JDH

2008-06-10 Fix text baseline alignment bug.  [ 1985420 ] Repair of
          baseline alignment in Text._get_layout.  Thanks Stan West -
          MGD

2008-06-09 Committed Gregor's image resample patch to downsampling
          images with new rcparam image.resample - JDH

2008-06-09 Don't install Enthought.Traits along with matplotlib. For
          matplotlib developers convenience, it can still be
          installed by setting an option in setup.cfg while we figure
          decide if there is a future for the traited config - DSD

2008-06-09 Added range keyword arg to hist() - MM

2008-06-07 Moved list of backends to rcsetup.py; made use of lower
          case for backend names consistent; use validate_backend
          when importing backends subpackage - EF

2008-06-06 hist() revision, applied ideas proposed by Erik Tollerud and
          Olle Engdegard: make histtype='step' unfilled by default
          and introduce histtype='stepfilled'; use default color
          cycle; introduce reverse cumulative histogram; new align
          keyword - MM

2008-06-06 Fix closed polygon patch and also provide the option to
          not close the polygon - MGD

2008-06-05 Fix some dpi-changing-related problems with PolyCollection,
          as called by Axes.scatter() - MGD

2008-06-05 Fix image drawing so there is no extra space to the right
          or bottom - MGD

2006-06-04 Added a figure title command subtitle as a Figure method
          and pyplot command -- see examples/figure_title.py - JDH

2008-06-02 Added support for log to hist with histtype='step' and fixed
          a bug for log-scale stacked histograms - MM

0.91.4 CHANGELOG
===================

2008-06-22 Released 0.91.4 at revision 5638

2008-06-09 Don't install Enthought.Traits along with matplotlib. For
          matplotlib developers convenience, it can still be
          installed by setting an option in setup.cfg while we figure
          decide if there is a future for the traited config - DSD

2008-06-02 Fix crash in Agg when drawing collections with no fill and/or
          edge color - MGD