NEWS.md

Plots.jl NEWS

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

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0.28.3

• support generalized array interface
• save to pdf, svg and eps in plotlyjs
• fix for clims in line_z
• optimize heatmap logic in gr

0.26.3

• fix vline with dates
• fix PyPlot logscale bug
• avoid annotation clipping for PyPlot
• allow plotting of Any vectors and 3D plotting again in convertToAnyVector
• specify legend title font in GR and PyPlot
• delete pushtomaster.sh
• use === nothing

0.26.2

• improve empty animation build error
• fix GR axis flip for heatmaps and images
• fix ribbons specified as tuples
• add Char recipe
• fix Plotly plots with single-element series
• rewrite PlotlyJS backend

0.26.1

• handle Chars as input data
• fix html saving for Plotly
• expand ~ in paths on UNIX systems
• convertToAnyVector clean-up
• fix color_palette grouping issue

0.26.0

• use FFMPEG.jl
• add missing method for convertToAnyVector

0.25.3

• add areaplot
• allow missing in z_color arguments
• more general tuple recipe
• stephist logscale improvements

0.25.2

• improvements to handle missings
• pyplot: allow setting the color gradient for z values
• document :colorbar_entry
• limit number of automatic bins
• fix ENV['PLOTS_DEFAULT_BACKEND']
• don't let aspect_ratio impact subplot size
• implement arrowstyle for GR
• fix bug in plotly_convert_to_datetime
• improve missing support
• gr: polar heatmaps
• make sure show returns nothing

0.25.1

• fix gr_display

0.25.0

• Replace StaticArrays with GeometryTypes
• Contour fixes for GR

0.24.0

• Update to the new PyCall and PyPlot API
• fix drawing of ticks
• fix y label position with GR

0.23.2

• pyplot fixes
• Add option :tex_output_standalone to set the 'include_preamble' argument in the PGFPlots backend.
• fix ticks
• support plotly json mime
• fix image axis limits
• default to radius 0 at center for polar plots

0.23.1

• slightly faster load time
• fixed errant MethodError
• fix bar plots with unicodeplots
• better colorbars for contour
• add volume seriestype for GR
• fix passing a tuple to custom ticks
• add vline to pgfplots
• add tex output for pyplot
• better 3d axis labels for GR

0.23.0

• compatible with StatPlots -> StatsPlots name shift
• fix histograms for vectors with NaN and Inf
• change gif behaviour (remove cache-busting)
• improved docstrings for shorthands functions
• fix font rotation for pyplot
• fix greyscale images for pyplot
• clamp greyscale images with values outside 0,1
• support keyword argument for font options
• allow vector of markers for pyplot scatter

0.22.5

• improve behaviour of plotlyjs backend

0.22.4

• Add support for discrete contourf plots with GR

0.22.3

• Fix the showtheme function

0.22.2

• Allow annotations to accept a Tuple instead of the result of a text call (making it possible to specify font characteristics in recipes). E.g. annotations = (2, 4, ("test", :right, 8, :red)) is the same as annotations = (2, 4, text("test", :right, 8, :red))

0.22.1

• push PlotsDisplay just after REPLDisplay

0.22.0

• deprecate GLVisualize
• allow 1-row and 1-column heatmaps
• add portfoliodecomposition recipe from PlotRecipes
• solve Shape bug
• simplify PyPlot backend installation
• fix wireframe bug in PyPlot
• fix color bug in PyPlot
• minor bug fixes in gr and pyplot

0.21.0

• Compatibility with StaticArrays 0.9.0
• Up GR min version to 0.35
• fix :mirror

0.20.6

• fixes for PlotDocs.jl
• fix gr axis color argument
• Shapes for inspectdr
• don't load plotly js file by default

0.20.5

• fix precompilation issue when depending on Plots

0.20.4

• honour html_output_format in Juno

0.20.3

• implement guide position in gr, pyplot and pgfplots
• inspectdr fixes
• default appveyor
• rudimentary missings support
• deprecation fixes for PGFPlots

0.20.0

Many updates, min julia 1.0

• change display type to use PlotsDisplay (fixes Juno integration)
• change all internal uses of d to plotattributes (no user change)
• change spy implementation to use scatter not heatmap
• sort x axes when passing a vector of strings as x
• improve performance of marker_z
• update CI to 1.0
• minor depwarn ifixes
• only draw one colorbar with GR
• add colorbar_title to GR and pgfplots
• fix savefig with latexstrings for PyPlot
• fix NamedTuple integration
• don't export P2 and P3
• make it possible to use 2-argument function as argument to marker_z
• make plotattr work again

0.19.3

• fix some julia 0.7 deprecations
• fix 32-bit OS functionality

0.19.2

• several small fixes for 1.0 compatibility

0.19.1

• don't broadcast plot_color

0.19.0

• Refactor conditional loading to use Requires
• Many fixes for 1.0 compatibility

0.18.0

• update minor version to 0.7

0.17.4

• fix thickness_scaling for pyplot

0.17.3

• Log-scale heatmap edge computation
• Fix size and dpi for GR and PyPlot
• Fix fillrange with line segments on PyPlot and Plotly
• fix flip for heatmap and image on GR
• New attributes for PGFPlots
• Widen axes for most series types and log scales
• Plotly: fix log scale with no ticks
• Fix axis flip on Plotly
• Fix hover and zcolor interaction in Plotly
• WebIO integration for PlotlyJS backend

0.17.2

• fix single subplot in plotly
• implement (xyz)lims = :round
• PyPlot: fix bg_legend = invisible()
• set fallback tick specification for axes with discrete values
• restructure of show methods

0.17.1

• Fix contour for PGFPlots
• 32Bit fix: Int64 -> Int
• Make series of shapes and segments toggle together in Plotly(JS)
• Fix marker arguments
• Fix processing order of series recipes
• Fix Plotly(JS) ribbon
• Contour plots with x,y in grid form on PyPlot

0.17.0

• Add GR dependency to make it the default backend
• Improve histogram2d bin estimation
• Allow vector arguments for certain series attributes and support line_z and fill_z on GR, PyPlot, Plotly(JS) and PGFPlots
• Automatic scientific notation for tick labels
• Allow to set the theme in PLOTS_DEFAULTS
• Implement plots_heatmap seriestype providing a Plots recipe for heatmaps

0.16.0

• fix 3D plotting in PyPlot
• Infinite objects

0.15.1

• fix scientific notation for labels in GR
• fix labels with logscale
• fix image cropping with GR
• fix grouping of annotations
• fix annotations in Plotly
• allow saving notebook with plots as pdf from IJulia
• fix fillrange and ribbon for step recipes
• implement native ticks that respond to zoom
• fix bar plot with one bar
• contour labels and colorbar fixes
• interactive linked axis for PyPlot
• add NamedTuple syntax to group with named legend
• use bar recipe in Plotly
• implement categorical ticks

0.15.0

• improve resolution of png output of GR with savefig()
• add check for ticks=nothing
• allow transparency in heatmaps
• fix line_z for GR
• fix legendcolor for pyplot
• fix pyplot ignoring alpha values of images
• don't let abline! change subplot limits
• update showtheme recipe

0.14.2

• fix plotly bar lines bug
• allow passing multiple series to ribbon
• add a new example for line_z

0.14.1

• Add linestyle argument to the legend
• Plotly: bar_width and stroke_width support for bar plots
• abline! does not change axis limits
• Fix default log scale ticks in GR backend
• Use the :fontsize keys so the scalefontsizes command works
• Prepare support for new PlotTheme type in PlotThemes

0.14.0

• remove use of imagemagick; saving gifs now requires ffmpeg
• improvements to ffmpeg gif quality and speed
• overhaul of fonts, allows setting fonts in recipes and with magic arguments
• added camera attribute to control camera position for 3d plots
• added showaxis attribute to control which axes to display
• improvements of polar plots axes, and better backend consistency
• changed the 'spy' recipe back to using heatmap
• added scatterpath seriestype
• allow plotlyjs to save svg
• add reset_defaults() function to reset plot defaults
• update syntax to 0.6
• make fill = true fill to 0 rather than to 1
• use new @df syntax in StatsPlots examples
• allow changing the color of legend box
• implement title_location for gr
• add hline marker to pgfplots - fixes errorbars
• pyplot legends now show marker types
• pyplot colorbars take font style from y axis
• pyplot tickmarks color the same as axis color
• allow setting linewidth for contour in gr
• allow legend to be outside plot area for pgfplots
• expand axis extrema for heatmap
• extendg grid lines to axis limits
• fix line_z for pyplot and gr
• fixed colorbar problem for flipped axes with gr
• fix marker_z for 3d plots in gr
• fix weights functionality for histograms
• fix gr annotations with colorbar
• fix aspect ratio in gr
• fix "hidden window" problem after savefig in gr
• fix pgfplots logscale ticks error
• fix pgfplots legends symbols
• fix axis linking for plotlyjs
• fix plotting of grayscale images

0.13.1

• fix a bug when passing a vector of functions with no bounds (e.g. plot([sin, cos]))
• export pct and px from Plots.PlotMeasures

0.13.0

• support plotattributes rather than d in recipes
• no longer export w, h and names from Measures.jl; use using Plots.PlotMeasures to get these names back
• bar_width now depends on the minimum distance between bars, not the mean
• better automatic x axis limits for plotting Functions
• tick_direction attribute now allows ticks to be on the inside of the plot border
• removed a bug where p1 = plot(randn(10)); plot(p1, p2) made display(p1) impossible
• allow plot([]) to generate an empty plot
• add origin framestyle
• ensure finite bin number on histograms with only one unique value
• better automatic histogram bins for 2d histograms
• more informative error message on passing unsupported seriestype in a recipe
• allow grouping in user recipes
• GR now has line_z and fill_z attributes for determining the color of shapes and lines
• change GR default view angle for 3D plots to match that of PyPlot
• fix clims on GR
• fix marker_z for plotly backend
• implement framestyle for plotly
• fix logscale bug error for values < 1e-16 on pyplot
• fix an issue on pyplot where >1 colorbar would be shown if there was >1 series
• fix writemime for eps

0.12.4

• added a new framestyle argument with choices: :box, :semi, :axes, :grid and :none
• changed the default bar width to 0.8
• added working ribbon to plotly backend
• ensure that automatic ticks always generate 4 to 8 ticks
• group now groups keyword arguments of the same length as the input
• allow passing DateTime objects as ticks
• allow specifying the number of ticks as an integre
• fix bug on errorbars in gr
• fixed some but not all world age issues
• better margin with room for text
• added a match option for linecolor
• better error message un unsupported series types
• add a 'stride' keyword for the pyplot backend

0.12.3

• new grid line style defaults
• grid is now an axis attribute and a magic argument: it is now possible to modify the grid line style, alpha and line width
• Enforce plot order in user recipes
• import plot! from RecipesBase
• GR no longer automatically handles _ and ^ in texts
• fix GR colorbar for scatter plots

0.12.2

• fix an issue with Juno/PlotlyJS compatibility on new installations
• fix markers not showing up in seriesrecipes using :scatter
• don't use pywrap in the pyplot backend
• improve the bottom margin for the gr backend

0.12.1

• fix deprecation warnings
• switch from FixedSizeArrays to StaticArrays.FixedSizeArrays
• drop FactCheck in tests
• remove julia 0.5 compliant uses of transpose operator
• fix GR heatmap bugs
• fix GR guide padding
• improve legend markers in GR
• add surface alpha for Plotly(JS)
• add fillrange to Plotly(JS)
• allow usage of Matplotlib 1.5 with PyPlot
• fix GLVisualize for julia 0.6
• conform to changes in InspectDR

0.12.0

• 0.6 only

0.11.3

• add HDF5 backend
• GR replaces PyPlot as first-choice backend
• support for legend position in GR
• smaller markers in GR
• better viewport size in GR
• fix glvisualize support
• remove bug with three-argument method of text
• legendtitle attribute added
• add test for spy

0.11.0

• julia 0.6 compatibility
• matplotlib 2.0 compatibility
• add inspectdr backend
• improved histogram functionality:
• added a :stephist and :scatterhist series type as well as ``:barhist` (the default)
• support for log scale axes with histograms
• support for plotting StatsBase.Histogram
• allowing bins to be specified as :sturges, :rice, :scott or :fd
• allow normalization to be specified as :density (for unequal bins) or :pdf (sum to 1)
• add a plotattr function to access documentation for Plots attribute
• add fill_z attribute for pyplot
• add colorbar_title to plotlyjs
• enable standalone window for plotlyjs
• improved support for pgfplots, ticks rotation, clims, series_annotations
• restore colorbars for GR
• better axis labels for heatmap in GR
• better marker sizes in GR
• fix color representation in GR
• update GR legend
• fix image bug on GR
• fix glvisualize dependencies
• set dotted grid lines for pyplot
• several improvements to inspectdr
• improved tick positions for TimeType x axes
• support for improved color gradient capability in PlotUtils
• add a showlibrary recipe to display color libraries
• add a showgradient recipe to display color gradients
• add vectorfield as an alias for quiver
• use PlotUtils.adaptedgrid for functions

0.9.5

• added dependency on PlotThemes
• set_theme --> theme
• remove Compat from REQUIRE
• warning for DataFrames without StatsPlots
• closeall exported and implemented for gr/pyplot
• fix DateTime recipe
• reset theme with theme(:none)
• fix link_axes! for nested subplots
• fix plotly lims for log scale

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 #460 (comment))
• 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 StatsPlots.jl)
• BREAKING: removed boxplot/violin/density recipes (now in StatsPlots.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)
• const 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 #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 #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 #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 #111 (comment))
• 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