PLplot 5.14.0 has been released

PLplot-5.14.0 is the latest release of PLplot. This cross-platform software package is suitable for creating scientific plots whose (UTF-8) plot symbols and text (in virtually all human languages and scripts) are limited in practice only by what Unicode-aware system fonts are installed on a user's computer. The PLplot software, which is primarily licensed under the LGPL, has a clean architecture that is organized as a core C library, separate computer language bindings for that library, and separate device drivers that are dynamically loaded by the core library which control how the plots are presented in noninteractive and interactive plotting contexts.

This release of PLplot-5.14.0 represents the ongoing efforts of the PLplot community to improve this software, and we encourage all users to upgrade to this version since this is the only version we support.

Highlights of the release include the following:

• Bug fixes
• Update control of Python version
• Rewrite the build-system logic for determining PYQT_SIP_DIR and PYQT_SIP_FLAGS
• Implement plStatic2dGrid
• Replace use of the deprecated WIN32 and __WIN32__ macros by the _WIN32 macro
• Difference report default device changed from psc to svg
• Resolve the remaining difference report issues
• Improve command-line parsing
• Cleanup of plmap
• wxwidgets development status
• First step toward using best CMake-3 practices for our build system
• Update PLplot to be consistent with modern free software
• Rewrite documentation of PLplot testing
• Configure the ps and psttf device drivers just like all other device drivers

PLplot releases may be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/plplot/files/plplot. Release notes (which summarize the backwards incompatibilities and which give further details about the highlights of this release) and a detailed ChangeLog are given in the README.release and ChangeLog.release files included with the release tarball. (The README.release file available separately at http://sourceforge.net/projects/plplot/files/plplot/5.14.0%20Source is a concatanation of those two files.) PLplot feedback and contributions can be submitted to the mailing lists provided at http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/mailman. PLplot's Home Page is http://plplot.org/.