[Pgfplots-features] Pgfplots 1.11 released

[Christian F. <cfe...@go...>]

I am proud to announce the release of PGFPlots 1.11 .

It is available on https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgfplots/ and has 
been submitted to CTAN where it will become available within the next 24 
hours. Miktex will follow eventually (it acquires its packages from CTAN).

The release notes are attached below.

Kind regards

Christian

1.11: usability + bug fixes.
- new feature: "hide obscured x ticks=false" to disable the feature 
which hides ticks
- simplified UI for symbolic coords: now, it accepts unexpandable
   dictionary entries including umlauts, undefined macros, math mode, ...
- simplified UI for symbolic coords: added magic prefix
     [normalized]<number> to allow something like xmin={[normalized]0.7}
- simplified UI for custom annotations: one does not need to say "axis 
cs" any longer;
   coordinates like (1,2) are now automatically interpreted as (axis cs:1,2)
- new feature: 'type ticklabels with struts' improves baseline alignment 
of tick labels
- new feature: 'trig format plots=rad' allows to use radians in 
trigonometric evaluations
- simplified 'external lib': added driver auto-detection for pdflatex, 
lualatex, xelatex, dvips
     (\usepgfplotslibrary{external}, or, with the next PGF release, 
\usetikzlibrary{external})
- simplified UI for \addplot coordinates: now, it expands macros as it goes.
- new feature: 'intersection segments' now accepts negative indices to 
count from the last backwards
- simplified UI: 'intersection segments' now accepts new syntax with 
1-based indices (old 0-based are still supported)
- fixed bug: fillbetween has had a problem with pins on input paths
- fixed bug: now, 'stacked ignores zero' is no longer applied to error bars.
- fixed bug: tick lines were drawn incorrectly for centered axis lines in 3d
- fixed bug: variable=u failed to work in some contexts
- fixed bug: fill between implicitly activated layers, but did not 
install the
    correct layers for grid lines etc.
- fixed bug: z grid style was applied to y grid style
- fixed bug: using 'x=1cm' failed to work in axis descriptions (legends)
- fixed bug: mesh legend failed to work with 'shader=interp'
- fixed bug: bounding box of shader=interp was wrong if there were 
transformations.
- fixed bug: added support for \addplot graphics in ConTeXt
- fixed bug: external lib failed to work with dvips (since PGF 3.0.0 I 
suppose); now it produces correct bounding boxes
- fixed bug: \pgfplotstablenew can now overwrite existing tables.
- fixed bug: extra ticks near intersections of axis lines were hidden
- fixed bug: 'intersection segments' did not work with '--cycle'
- fixed bug: 'intersection segments' did not update the last tikz point
- fixed bug: tick lines/grid lines have been clipped when they were near 
the boundary
- fixed bug: soft clip decoration failed to apply the transformation matrix
- fixed bug: polar axes and units library resulted in broken bounding box
- fixed bug: \addplot[stack plots=false] used to work up to 1.8, but 
failed until now. Fixed.
- fixed bug: hist/density was broken since some time


1.10:
- new feature: fill between plots (library fillbetween)
- new feature: concatenate intersection segments (library fillbetween)
- fixed bug: xelatex failed to run contour external
- fixed incompatibility with \label and \usepackage{mcaption}
- fixed bug: histograms produced wrong point meta
- fixed bug: histograms reported the wrong 'plot name' and confused 
shifts of bar plots

1.9:
- new feature: asymmetric error bars
- new feature: activated math parser for axis limit arguments, arguments 
in axis cs, and domain argument in log plots
- new feature: stacked bar plots place their 'nodes near coords' 
correctly in the middle and print the increment (compat=1.9)
- new feature: stacked bar plots suppress empty increments (compat=1.9).
- new feature: 'scatter/position=relative|absolute' allow to position 
'nodes near coords' absolutely.
    use-case: bar plots + nodes near coords which are at, say, y=0 
rather than their y value
- new feature: integration of smooth shadings & auto-CMYK conversion
     \usepackage[cmyk]{xcolor} or \selectcolormodel{cmyk} will 
reconfigure pgfplots to use CMYK (document-wide)
- new feature (advanced audience only): programmatic access to data 
coordinates during the visualization phase
     -> allows much more customization for error bars, stacked plots, 
nodes near coords.
- wrote beginner tutorials
- fixed bug: error bars and point meta did not work together
- fixed bug: stacked plots did not respect 'visualization depends on'
- fixed bug: luatex 0.76 is not backwards compatible; added version switch
- fixed bug: ternary library precision has been improved
- fixed bug: problem with axis limits very close to 0
- fixed bug: colormap specification limit case produced out of bounds 
exception