Matplotlib

This is the first release candidate for Matplotlib 3.10.0

This is the third bugfix release of the 3.9.x series.

This release contains several bug-fixes and adjustments:

- Fix `axline` with extremely small slopes
- Fix `axline` with non-linear axis scales
- Fix `minimumSizeHint` with Qt backend
- Fix config directory usage when it's behind a symlink
- Fix draggable legend when blitting is enabled
- Fix high CPU utilization in the `macosx` backend
- Fix multiple hatch `edgecolors` passed to `contourf`
- Improve compatibility with `pytest` 8.2.0

This is the second bugfix release of the 3.9.x series.

This release contains several bug-fixes and adjustments:

- Be more resilient to I/O failures when writing font cache
- Fix nondeterministic behavior with subplot spacing and constrained layout
- Fix sticky edge tolerance relative to data range
- Improve formatting of image values in cases of singular norms

Windows wheels now bundle the MSVC runtime DLL statically to avoid inconsistencies with other wheels and random crashes depending on import order.

This is the first bugfix release of the 3.9.x series.

This release contains several bug-fixes and adjustments:

- Add GitHub artifact attestations for sdist and wheels
- Re-add `matplotlib.cm.get_cmap`; note this function will still be removed at a later date
- Allow duplicate backend entry points
- Fix `Axes` autoscaling of thin bars at large locations
- Fix `Axes` autoscaling with `axhspan` / `axvspan`
- Fix `Axes3D` autoscaling of `Line3DCollection` / `Poly3DCollection`
- Fix `Axes3D` mouse interactivity with non-default roll angle
- Fix box aspect ratios in `Axes3D` with alternate vertical axis
- Fix case handling of backends specified as `module://...`
- Fix crash with TkAgg on Windows with `tk.window_focus: True`
- Fix interactive update of SubFigures
- Fix interactivity when using the IPython console
- Fix pickling of AxesWidgets and SubFigures
- Fix scaling on GTK3Cairo / GTK4Cairo backends
- Fix text wrapping within SubFigures
- Promote `mpltype` Sphinx role to a public extension; note this is only intended for development reasons

Highlights of this release include:

- Plotting and Annotation improvements
- Axes.inset_axes is no longer experimental
- Legend support for Boxplot
- Percent sign in pie labels auto-escaped with usetex=True
- hatch parameter for stackplot
- Add option to plot only one half of violin plot
- axhline and axhspan on polar axes
- Subplot titles can now be automatically aligned
- axisartist can now be used together with standard Formatters
- Toggle minorticks on Axis
- StrMethodFormatter now respects axes.unicode_minus
- Figure, Axes, and Legend Layout
- Subfigures now have controllable zorders
- Getters for xmargin, ymargin and zmargin
- Mathtext improvements
- mathtext documentation improvements
- mathtext spacing corrections
- Widget Improvements
- Check and Radio Button widgets support clearing
- 3D plotting improvements
- Setting 3D axis limits now set the limits exactly
- Other improvements
- New BackendRegistry for plotting backends
- Add widths, heights and angles setter to EllipseCollection
- image.interpolation_stage rcParam
- Arrow patch position is now modifiable
- NonUniformImage now has mouseover support

This is the second release candidate for the meso release 3.9.0.