We are pleased to announce the release of matplotlib 1.4.0! This release has contributions from ~170 authors (http://matplotlib.org/users/github_stats.html).
This release contains many bug fixes as will as a number of new features. For the full list see http://matplotlib.org/users/whats_new.html#new-in-matplotlib-1-4. Some highlights are: - style module : experimental package to make managing the style of matplotlib figures easier - nbagg : interactive figures in ipython notebooks backed by the AGG renderer - full python 3 support (including cairo backends) - Qt5 support (for python 3 only) - violin plots and 3D quiver plots (projects done for a course at University of Toronto, Scarborough) - improved box plot interface ( The release can be installed via pip (but requires local compilation) Tarballs are available at: - http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.4.0/matplotlib-1.4.0.tar.gz - https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/archive/v1.4.0.tar.gz - https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/m/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.4.0.tar.gz Windows install binaries and wheels are available (thanks to Christoph Gohlke) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-1.4.0/. Mac OSX wheels are available (thanks to Matthew Brett) from http://wheels.scikit-image.org The Matplotlib Team -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/