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Plots.jl NEWS

notes on release changes, ongoing development, and future planned work

  • All new development should target 0.9!
  • Minor version 0.8 is the last one to support Julia 0.4!!
    • Critical bugfixes only
    • backports branch is for Julia 0.4

0.9 (current master/dev)

0.9.4

  • optimizations surrounding Subplot.series_list
  • better Atom support, support plotlyjs
  • gr:
    • gks_wstype defaults and gr_set_output
    • heatmap uses GR.drawimage
  • histogram2d puts NaN for zeros
  • improved support of NaN in heatmaps
  • rebuilt spy recipes to output scatters with marker_z set
  • deprecate png support in plotly... point to plotlyjs
  • fixes:
    • axis widen with lims set
    • reset_extrema, setxyz
    • bar plot widen
    • better tick padding
    • consistent tick rotation
    • consistent aspect_ratio
    • pyplot dpi
    • plotly horizontal bars
    • handle series attributes when combining subplots
    • gr images transposed
    • converted Date/DateTime to new type recipe approach for arrays
  • issues closed include: #505 #513 #479 #523 #526 #529

0.9.3

  • support pdf and eps in plotlyjs backend
  • allow curly after grid: @layout [a b; grid(4,4){0.8h}]
  • add_backend redesign

0.9.2

  • glvisualize backend (@SimonDanisch)
    • too much to list! ready for alpha testing
  • Volume and volume seriestype
  • Atom: support for PlotPane and proper gui display
  • gr:
    • clims
    • aspect ratio
  • pgfplots:
    • fixes for ticks, axes, and more
  • pyplot:
    • font families
    • colorbar guide
    • pixel marker
  • unicodeplots
    • basic support for shapes
  • improved add_backend
  • refactor of is_supported methods
  • element-wise type recipes (see https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl/issues/460#issuecomment-248428908)
  • several other fixes/improvements

0.9.1

  • Pkg.dir --> dirname (@tkelman)
  • axis = nothing magic
  • fixes:
    • clim for line_z
    • sticks default range for log scale
    • rotate method
    • pyplot heatmap
    • spurious scale warnings
    • gr image/alpha
    • plotly.js path
    • orientation extrema
    • bar, reset orientation
  • switch transpose_z to use permutedims
  • skinny x/+ markers
  • ticks in pgfplots
  • eps in savefig (@anriseth)
  • add_backend convenience
  • type recipes for Date/DateTime (@maximsch2)
  • mirror attribute and twinx convenience
  • Axis.sp --> Axis.sps
  • recipe postprocessing for allowing aliases and magic args in recipe bodies

0.9.0

  • fixes to cycle
  • add back single function recipe: plot!(cos)
  • new axis formatter attribute... accepts functions to convert numbers to strings
  • fix for inset plots
  • GR:
    • fillrange fix
    • annotations fix
    • force double buffering in display

0.8

0.8.2 (backported bug fixes for julia 0.4)

  • plotly ticks fix
  • unicodeplots size fix
  • remove mkdir call in tests

0.8.1

  • manual drawing of axes/ticks/labels
  • get_ticks uses optimize_ticks and Showoff
  • changed PLOTS_DEFAULTS to be a global variable, not ENV key
  • parameterized Segments for pushing tuples
  • fix to axis extrema for Bool/nothing
  • GR:
    • manually draw 2D axes... fixes several issues and missing features
    • fontsize fix
  • PGFPlots: pass axis syle

0.8.0

  • added dependency on PlotUtils
  • BREAKING: removed DataFrames support (now in StatPlots.jl)
  • BREAKING: removed boxplot/violin/density recipes (now in StatPlots.jl)
  • GR:
    • inline iterm2 support
    • trisurface support
    • heatmap fix
  • PyPlot:
    • ijulia display fix
  • GLVisualize:
    • first try with shapes
  • iter_segments improvements
  • bar_width support
  • horizontal bars
  • improve tick display
  • better shape handling in pyplot, plotly
  • improved padding calcs
  • internal reorg of _plots method, add pipeline.jl

0.7

0.7.5

  • GR: LaTeX support
  • Changed docs url to juliaplots.github.io
  • added contourf seriestype
  • allow plt[1] to return first Subplot
  • allow sp[1] to return the first Series of the Subplot
  • series[k] now passes through to series.d[k]
  • allow calling plot!(sp, ...) to update a target Subplot
  • PyPlot: zorder fix
  • new DataFrames logic/recipe: more flexible/robust and allow Symbols for:
    • (:fillrange, :line_z, :marker_z, :markersize, :ribbon, :weights, :xerror, :yerror)
  • new display_type and extra_kwargs plot attributes
  • surface fix

0.7.4

  • added snooped precompiles, but left commented out
  • GR fixes: markersize, shapes, legends
  • fixes to recipes
  • turned on Appveyor

0.7.3

  • rebuild violin and boxplot recipes
  • "plot recipes"
  • cgrad method for easy color gradient creation
  • improvements to inset subplots
  • Segments and iter_segments for NaN-separated vectors
  • bar recipe now creates a shape series
  • writemime fix for Interact.jl
  • link = :square option
  • !!! set shape attributes with line/fill, NOT marker/markerstroke !!!
  • basic DPI support
  • moved chorddiagram to PlotRecipes
  • GR:
    • use temp files for img output
    • basic support for marker strokes and other marker fixes
  • PyPlot:
    • Switch to recipes for bar, histogram, histogram2d
  • GLVisualize
    • subplots
    • path/scatter and path3d/scatter3d
    • initial drawing of axes
  • many smaller fixes and improvements

0.7.2

  • line_z arg for multicolored line segments
  • pyplot
    • line_z (2d and 3d)
    • pushed all fig updates into display pipeline
    • remove native sticks/hline/vline in favor of recipes
  • unicodeplots cleanup, ijulia fixes, ascii canvas
  • curves series type
  • iter_segments iterator
  • moved arcdiagram out and into PlotRecipes (thanks @diegozea)
  • several other fixes/checks

0.7.1

  • inset (floating) subplots
  • change: when setting subplot/axis args from user recipes, they should apply only to their own subplot
  • trim for violin/boxplot
  • scatter3d recipe
  • removed plotly.js in favor of build.jl download
  • improvements/fixes to pgfplots backend
  • improvements/fixes to plotly/plotlyjs backends
    • titles are annotations and properly placed with title_position
    • hover attribute
    • shapes (almost)
    • scattergl
  • minimum perimeter logic in layout calc... fixed misaligned subplots
  • new clims attribute
  • more options for test_examples
  • GR refactor
    • added transparency
    • moved axis/grid logic out of series loop
    • generalized 3d and polar projections
  • renamed get_mod to Base.cycle
  • pyplot log scale fixes
  • PLOTS_DEFAULTS environment var processing
  • rename :ellipse to :circle, :ellipse is now an alias
  • supported args/types cleanup
  • seriestype dependency methods and @deps macro
  • bbox h_anchor/v_anchor
  • new axis arg: :link is a list of subplots to link axes with
  • cleanup/simplification of glvisualize backend

0.7.0

  • Check out the summary
  • Revamped and simplified internals
  • Recipes, recipes, recipes
  • Layouts and Subplots
  • DataFrames is loaded automatically when installed
  • Overhaul to GroupBy mechanic (now offloads to a recipe)
  • Replaced much of the argument processing with recipes
  • Added series recipes, and began to strip down un-needed backend code. Some recipes:
    • line, step, sticks, bar, histogram, histogram2d, boxplot, violin, quiver, errorbars, density, ohlc
  • Added @shorthands and @userplot macros for recipe convenience
  • Better handling of errorbars and ribbons
  • New Axis type
    • Tracks extrema and discrete values
    • New link_axes functionality
  • linetype has been renamed seriestype (the alias is reversed)
  • Many fixes and huge cleanup in GR
  • Brand new subplot layout mechanics:
    • @layout macro
    • AbstractLayout, Subplot, GridLayout, and everything related
    • Added dependency on Measures.jl
    • Computations of axis/guide sizes and precise positioning
  • Refactored and compartmentalized default dictionaries for attributes
  • Deprecated Gadfly and Immerse backends
  • Added series_annotations attribute (previously that functionality was merged with annotations, which are not series-specific)
  • Removed axis attribute... currently not supporting twin (right) y axes
  • Check for ENV["PLOTS_USE_ATOM_PLOTPANE"] and default to false
  • Improved backend interface to reduce redundant code. Template updated.
  • Added html_output_format, primarily for choosing between png and svg output in IJulia.
  • Partial support of Julia v0.5
  • Switched testing to dump reference images to JuliaPlots/PlotReferenceImages.jl
  • Moved docs-specific code to new JuliaPlots/PlotDocs.jl
  • Moved example list from ExamplePlots into Plots.
  • Added several examples and improved others.
  • Many other smaller changes and bug fixes.

Version 0.6

0.6.2

  • linewidth fixes
  • markershape fix
  • converted center calc to centroid for shapes
  • new dependency on RecipesBase
  • 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
  • errorbar/ribbon recipes
  • quiver recipe
  • polar coordinates
  • better support for shapes and custom polygons (see batman)
  • 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)
  • 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

Version 0.5

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 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 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://juliaplots.github.io/
  • 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