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Highlights
* 🎉 **First official release of PyGMT** 🎉
* Python 3.8 is now supported ([398](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/398))
* PyGMT now uses the stable version of GMT 6.0.0 by default ([363](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/363))
* Use sphinx-gallery to manage examples and tutorials ([268](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/268))
New Features
* Wrap blockmedian ([349](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/349))
* Add pygmt.config() to change gmt defaults locally and globally ([293](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/293))
* Wrap grdview ([330](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/330))
* Wrap grdtrack ([308](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/308))
* Wrap colorbar ([332](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/332))
* Wrap text ([321](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/321))
* Wrap legend ([333](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/333))
* Wrap makecpt ([329](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/329))
* Add a new method to shift plot origins ([289](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/289))
Enhancements
* Allow text accepting "frame" as an argument ([385](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/385))
* Allow for grids with negative lat/lon increments ([369](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/369))
* Allow passing in list to 'region' argument in surface ([378](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/378))
* Allow passing in scalar number to x and y in plot ([376](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/376))
* Implement default position/box for legend ([359](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/359))
* Add sequence_space converter in kwargs_to_string ([325](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/325))
Documentation
* Update PyPI install instructions and API disclaimer message ([421](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/421))
* Fix the link to GMT documentation ([419](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/419))
* Use napoleon instead of numpydoc with sphinx ([383](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/383))
* Document using a list for repeated arguments ([361](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/361))
* Add legend gallery entry ([358](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/358))
* Update instructions to set GMT_LIBRARY_PATH ([324](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/324))
* Fix the link to the GMT homepage ([331](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/331))
* Split projections gallery by projection types ([318](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/318))
* Fix the link to GMT/Matlab API in the README ([297](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/297))
* Use shinx extlinks for linking GMT docs ([294](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/294))
* Comment about country code in projection examples ([290](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/290))
* Add an overview page listing presentations ([286](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/286))
Bug Fixes
* Let surface return xr.DataArray instead of xr.Dataset ([408](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/408))
* Update GMT constant GMT_STR16 to GMT_VF_LEN for GMT API change in 6.1.0 ([397](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/397))
* Properly trigger pytest matplotlib image comparison ([352](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/352))
* Use uuid.uuid4 to generate unique names ([274](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/274))
Maintenance
* Quickfix Zeit Now miniconda installer link to anaconda.com ([413](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/413))
* Fix GitHub Pages deployment from Travis ([410](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/410))
* Update and clean TravisCI configuration ([404](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/404))
* Quickfix min elevation for new SRTM15+V2.1 earth relief grids ([401](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/401))
* Wrap docstrings to 79 chars and check with flake8 ([384](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/384))
* Update continuous integration scripts to 1.2.0 ([355](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/355))
* Use Zeit Now to deploy doc builds from PRs ([344](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/344))
* Move gmt from requirements.txt to CI scripts instead ([343](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/343))
* Change py.test to pytest ([338](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/338))
* Add Google Analytics to measure site visitors ([314](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/314))
* Register mpl_image_compare marker to remove PytestUnknownMarkWarning ([323](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/323))
* Disable Windows CI builds before PR [313](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/313) is merged ([#320](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/320))
* Enable Mac and Windows CI on Azure Pipelines ([312](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/312))
* Fixes for using GMT 6.0.0rc1 ([311](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/311))
* Assign authorship to "The PyGMT Developers" ([284](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/284))
Deprecations
* Remove mention of gitter.im ([405](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/405))
* Remove portrait (-P) from common options ([339](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/339))
* Remove require.js since WorldWind was dropped ([278](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/278))
* Remove Web WorldWind support ([275](https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/pull/275))
Contributors
* [Dongdong Tian](https://github.com/seisman)
* [Wei Ji Leong](https://github.com/weiji14)
* [Leonardo Uieda](https://github.com/leouieda)
* [Liam Toney](https://github.com/liamtoney)
* [Brook Tozer](https://github.com/btozer)
* [Claudio Satriano](https://github.com/claudiodsf)
* [Cody Woodson](https://github.com/Dovacody)
* [Mark Wieczorek](https://github.com/MarkWieczorek)
* [Philipp Loose](https://github.com/phloose)
* [Kathryn Materna](https://github.com/kmaterna)