From 65e18a8669612c998905d0ced3ee638fc6a26635 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Breloff Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 12:36:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] upper bound on RecipesBase in REQUIRE; added NEWS.md; closes #259 --- NEWS.md | 124 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ REQUIRE | 2 +- test/REQUIRE | 2 +- 3 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 NEWS.md diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..45d179a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@ + +# Plots.jl NEWS + +#### notes on release changes, ongoing development, and future planned work + +- I (@tbreloff) am in development of totally revamped internals, in which much of the logic in building series is changed to recursively stacking recipes in a modular fashion. I'll write a blog post sometime soon detailing why this is amazing, but for now you can get a taste of it by looking at the [RecipesBase readme](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/RecipesBase.jl) +- Version 0.6.2 will be the last full release of the "Old Plots", and the 0.6 minor will be only small bug fixes. +- All new development should target 0.7 (recipes and subplots)! + +## 0.7 (WIP on tb_recipes/dev and master) + +- Revamped and simplified internals +- [Recipes, recipes, recipes](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/RecipesBase.jl/issues/6) +- [Layouts and Subplots](https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl/issues/60) + +## Version 0.6 + +#### 0.6.2 + +- `linewidth` fixes +- `markershape` fix +- converted center calc to centroid for shapes +- new dependency on [RecipesBase](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/RecipesBase.jl) +- REQUIRE upper limit for RecipesBase: 0.0.1 +- GR fixes/improvements (@jheinen) + - support `zlims`, `bins` + - allow Plots colormaps + - other bug fixes + - native image support +- PGFPlots fixes/improvements (@pkofod) +- DataFrames are handled by recipes +- Plotly: zaxis, tick rotation, 3d axis fix +- Improvements in handling discrete data +- Support for image display +- `arrow` keyword and support for adding arrows to paths +- changed quiver recipe to use arrows +- Bug fixes for boxplots, heatmaps, and more + +#### 0.6.1 + +- `rotation` keyword +- improved supported graphs +- subplot bug fix + +#### 0.6.0 + +- `apply_series_recipe` framework for built-in recipes +- [boxplot/violin recipes](https://github.com/tbreloff/ExamplePlots.jl/blob/master/notebooks/boxplot.ipynb) +- [errorbar/ribbon recipes](https://github.com/tbreloff/ExamplePlots.jl/blob/master/notebooks/errorbars.ipynb) +- [quiver recipe](https://github.com/tbreloff/ExamplePlots.jl/blob/master/notebooks/quiver.ipynb) +- `polar` coordinates +- better support for shapes and custom polygons (see [batman](https://github.com/tbreloff/ExamplePlots.jl/blob/master/notebooks/batman.ipynb)) +- z-axis keywords +- 3D indexing overhaul: `push!`, `append!` support +- matplotlib colormap constants (`:inferno` is the new default colormap for Plots) +- `typealias KW Dict{Symbol,Any}` used in place of splatting in many places +- png generation for plotly backend using wkhtmltoimage +- `normalize` and `weights` keywords +- background/foreground subcategories for fine-tuning of looks +- `add_theme`/`set_theme` and ggplot2 theme (see [this issue](https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl/issues/201)) +- `PLOTS_DEFAULT_BACKEND` environment variable +- `barh` linetype +- support for non-gridded surfaces with pyplot's trisurface +- pyplot surface zcolor +- internal refactor of supported.jl +- `wrap` method to bypass input processing +- `translate`, `scale` and `rotate` methods for coordinates and shapes +- and many more minor fixes and improvements + +#### 0.5.4 + +- old heatmaps have been renamed to hist2d, and true heatmaps implemented (see https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl/issues/147) +- lots of reorganization and redesign of the internals +- lots of renaming to keep to conventions: AbstractPlot, AbstractBackend, etc +- initial redesign of layouts +- integration with Atom PlotPane +- arc diagram and chord diagram (thanks to @diegozea: see https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl/issues/163) +- work on GR, GLVisualize, and PGFPlots backends (thanks @jheinen @dlfivefifty @pkofod) +- improvements to Plotly setup (thanks @spencerlyon2) +- overhaul to series creation logic and groupby mechanic +- replace Dict with `typealias KW Dict{Symbol,Any}` in many places, also replacing keyword arg splatting +- new `shape` linetype for plotting polygons in plot-coordinates (see https://github.com/tbreloff/ExamplePlots.jl/blob/master/notebooks/batman.ipynb) +- many other fixes + +#### 0.5.3 + +- `@gif` macro with `every`/`when` syntax +- bezier curves and other graph drawing helpers +- added FixedSizeArrays dependency with relevant functionality +- merged lots of improvements to GR (thanks @jheinen) +- `overwrite_figure`/`reuse` arg for reusing the same figure window +- deprecated Qwt, Winston, and Bokeh backends +- improved handling of 3D inputs (call `z=rand(10,10); surface(z)` for example) +- fix IJulia display issue +- lots of progress on PlotlyJS backend +- and many other changes and fixes... + +#### 0.5.2 + +- Added [GR.jl](https://github.com/jheinen/GR.jl) as a backend (unfinished but functional) All credit to @jheinen +- Set defaults within backend calls (i.e. `gadfly(legend=false)`) +- `abline!`; also extrema allows plotting functions without giving x (i.e. `plot(cos, 0, 10); plot!(sin)`) @pkofod @joshday +- Integration with [PlotlyJS.jl](https://github.com/spencerlyon2/PlotlyJS.jl) for using Plotly inside a Blink window @spencerlyon2 +- The Plotly backend has been split into my built-in version (`plotly()`) and @spencerlyon2's backend (`plotlyjs()`) +- Revamped backend setup code for easily adding new backends +- New docs (WIP) at http://plots.readthedocs.org/ +- Overhaul to `:legend` keyword (see https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl/issues/135) +- New dependency on Requires, allows auto-loading of DataFrames support +- Support for plotting lists of Tuples and FixedSizeArrays +- new `@animate` macro for super simple animations (see https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl/issues/111#issuecomment-181515616) +- allow Function for `:fillrange` and `zcolor` arguments (for example: `scatter(sin, 0:10, marker=15, fill=(cos,0.4), zcolor=sin)`) +- allow vectors of PlotText without x/y coords (for example: `scatter(rand(10), m=20, ann=map(text, 1:10))`) +- Lots and lots of fixes + +#### 0.5.1 + +#### 0.5.0 + +- `with` function for temporary defaults +- contours +- basic 3D plotting +- preliminary support for Bokeh +- `stroke` and `brush` for more fine-tuned control over visuals +- smarter "magic" arguments: `line`, `marker` diff --git a/REQUIRE b/REQUIRE index 37795210..7e341d99 100644 --- a/REQUIRE +++ b/REQUIRE @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ julia 0.4 -RecipesBase +RecipesBase 0.0.1 0.0.2 Colors Reexport Compat diff --git a/test/REQUIRE b/test/REQUIRE index b8806bb9..32a0c01e 100644 --- a/test/REQUIRE +++ b/test/REQUIRE @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ julia 0.4 -RecipesBase +RecipesBase 0.0.1 0.0.2 Colors Reexport Requires