[Matplotlib-users] matplotlib v1.4.0 released

[Thomas C. <tca...@gm...>]

We are pleased to announce the release of matplotlib 1.4.0!

This release has contributions from ~170 authors
(http://matplotlib.org/users/github_stats.html).

This release contains many bug fixes as will as a number of new
features.  For the full list see
http://matplotlib.org/users/whats_new.html#new-in-matplotlib-1-4.
Some highlights are:

  - style module : experimental package to make managing the style of
matplotlib figures easier
  - nbagg : interactive figures in ipython notebooks backed by the AGG renderer
  - full python 3 support (including cairo backends)
  - Qt5 support (for python 3 only)
  - violin plots and 3D quiver plots (projects done for a course at
University of Toronto, Scarborough)
  - new box plot interface (as bxp)

The release can be installed via pip (but requires local compilation)

Tarballs are available at:
  - http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.4.0/matplotlib-1.4.0.tar.gz
  - https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/archive/v1.4.0.tar.gz
  - https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.4.0.tar.gz

Windows install binaries and wheels are available (thanks to Christoph
Gohlke) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.4.0/
.

Mac OSX wheels are available (thanks to Matthew Brett) from
http://wheels.scikit-image.org .


The Matplotlib Team