Hi all,

We are pleased to announce the publication of the 3.9.0 meso¹ release.

Pre-built wheels are available for most major platforms, and can be installed using `pip install matplotlib==3.9.0`. Other packages may also be available already; please check with your preferred source.

This release is the work of 175 authors over 450 Pull Requests, fixing 97 Issues. 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

For further details, please see the release notes at
https://matplotlib.org/3.9.0/users/release_notes.html#version-3-9
and the milestone on GitHub:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/milestone/78?closed=1

¹ Starting with this release, we have moved to the Effective Versioning scheme: https://jacobtomlinson.dev/effver/

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Elliott

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