**November 4, 2024**
This release focuses on performance improvement, enhancing streaming support, and refining popup functionality, along with several bug fixes.
Many thanks to the new contributors grapesmoker, arafune, and LecrisUT, as well as the returning contributors ahuang11, droumis, jbednar, maximlt, philippjfr, and hoxbro.
Enhancements:
- De-parameterize the options `Keywords` objects ([6314](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6314))
- Freeze models while updating plot(s) ([6315](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6315))
- Support hit-tested group-wise wheel zoom renderers for `subcoordinate_y` ([6277](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6277))
- Adds Bokeh 3.5 enhancements to RangeToolLink ([6341](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6341))
- Add MultiAxisTap stream ([6374](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6374))
- Add `sublabel_index` and `sublabel_skip` option for matplotlib backend ([6375](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6375))
- Handle datetimes and empty selections better for inspect operations ([6377](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6377))
- Improve following behavior when streaming ([6318](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6318))
- Enh: Add `Scalebar` support for `subcoordinate_y` plots ([6403](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6403), [#6420](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6420))
- Support async callbacks for `popup` ([6390](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6390))
- Add `popup` position and anchor ([6414](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6414))
Bug fixes:
- Wrap `popup` in `set_curdoc` ([6337](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6337))
- Fixes `popup` being invisible forever after closing once ([6347](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6347))
- Disable simple id in notebook ([6367](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6367))
- Ensure `pixel_ratio` is applied when computing resampling coordinates ([6373](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6373))
- Add support for rendering `HLine`, `VLine` and `Span` on `multi_y` ([6376](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6376))
- Drop the `z` dimension from `ImageStack` `DataArray` before shading ([6378](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6378))
- Improve datetime support for continuous `hv.Bars` ([6365](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6365))
- Don't clone Span in `HoverTool` ([6387](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6387))
- Ensure proper cleanup of stream subscribers ([6389](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6389))
- Handle datetime selection in the `cuDF` interface ([6407](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6407))
- Fix `popup` positioning on polygons ([6411](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6411))
- Fix a problem where linked selections were resulting in repeated columns ([6336](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6336))
- Ensure streams are correctly mapped to plots ([6415](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6415))
- Fix `Bars` width for small discrete differences on the x-axis ([6428](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6428))
- Documentation fixes ([6392](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6392), [#6421](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6421))
- Fix rasterizing a `Path` where categorical values include empty strings ([6429](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6429))
Compatibility:
- Handle `DeprecationWarning` from Pandas ([6346](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6346), [#6391](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6391))
- Compatibility with Ibis 9.5 ([6371](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6371)), Python 3.13 ([#6383](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6383)), cuDF 24.10 ([#6409](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6409)), and Matplotlib 3.10 ([#6431](https://github.com/holoviz/holoviews/pull/6431))