releases.md

Releases

See the HoloViz blog for a visual summary of the major features added in a selection of releases.

Version 0.8.4

June 5th, 2023

The 0.8.4 release brings a number of bugfixes and documentation improvements. Many thanks to @kthyng (first contribution!), @raybellwaves, @jsignell , @Hoxbro, @maximlt and @philippjfr for contributing.

Bug fixes:

• Fix .interactive layout compatibility with Bokeh 3 (1076)
• Fix usage with intake (1052)
• Fix deprecated usage of Param 2.0 (1064)
• Fix projection when xlim/ylim provided (1053)
• Fix interpretation of positional arg with geopandas, now used as color (1056)
• Fix import error messages for geo dependencies (1054)
• Fix usage of hover for geometries - make it less likely to fail (1055)

Documentation:

• Update to latest nbsite & pydata-sphinx-theme (1070)
• Update to Google Analytics4 (1075)

Maintenance:

• Add ipywidgets to the examples deps (1048)

Version 0.8.3

March 17, 2023

The 0.8.3 release brings a number of bugfixes and documentation improvements. This release is also marked by the adoption of a formal project governance, ensuring hvPlot's future as a healthy open-source project! Many thanks to @raybellwaves, @jsignell (welcome back!), @droumis, @Hoxbro, @maximlt, @philippjfr and @MarcSkovMadsen for contributing!

Please note that hvPlot is not yet compatible with Bokeh 3.

Bug fixes:

• Allow .hvplot to execute for the ibis backend (#990)
• Improve package name in error message (#1005)
• Let process_crs try a few approaches before raising error (#1026)
• Fix label on unnamed data array (#1025)
• Only use xarray long_name metadata if it is a string (#1031)
• Replace deprecated Param methods (#1030)
• Ensure interactive pipeline is not re-executed needlessly (#1029)
• Fixes subplots=True for geo=True and by (#761)
• Force column names to string (#1042)

Documentation:

• Docstring fixes (#985)
• Improve the hist reference guide (#1002)
• Improve the bar reference guide (#1032)

Project governance:

• Create initial project gov docs (#1016)

Maintenance:

• Rename master branch to main (#1011)
• Add Python 3.11 to the test matrix (#1015)
• Run examples with nbval instead of nbsmoke (#1044)
• Fix the build by better defining the package extras (#1046)

Version 0.8.2

November 24, 2022

The 0.8.2 release brings a number of bugfixes and documentation improvements. @MarcSkovMadsen has kept improving the docstrings and we congratulate @sophiamyang for her first contribution that made the landing page nicer! Many thanks to @droumis, @Hoxbro, @maximlt, @philippjfr and @MarcSkovMadsen for contributing!

Please note that hvPlot is not yet compatible with Bokeh 3.

• Dependencies:
  • Add Panel lower pin to ensure Bokeh 3 is not installed (#974)
• Interactive:
  • Support slice (#776)
• Plot:
  • Convert DataFrame columns with type RangeIndex to strings to ensure compatibility with HoloViews (#932)
  • Ensure that xarray dataset metadata propagates to NdOverlays (#930)
  • Support rioxarray (#905)
  • Improve error message mentioning pyproj (#950)
• Explorer:
  • Don't error on datetime-like axis (#968)
  • Don't use xlim/ylim slider if start and end values are identical (#966)
• Documentation:
  • New and updated docstrings (#892, #863)
  • Improve the landing page (#874, #903, #876)
  • Change http to https (#873)
  • Add intended rolling_window param into pipeline (#944)
  • Updates the README (#817)
  • Miscellaneous documentation improvements (#866, #887, #910)
• Development:
  • Add pre-commit to format and lint the code on commits (#967)
• CI:
  • Miscellaneous fixes and improvements (#867, #922, #947, #948, #949, #960, #977)

Version 0.8.1

August 26, 2022

The 0.8.1 release is a bug fix release, focusing mostly on improving .interactive and the explorer. The documentation has seen some improvements too; @MarcSkovMadsen has been improving the docstrings so make sure to check them out. Many thanks to @jlstevens, @Hoxbro, @maximlt, @philippjfr and @MarcSkovMadsen for contributing!

• Interactive:
  • Set interactive function to lazy to avoid calling it twice (#772)
  • Add support for hvplot kind accessor (#781, #858)
  • Add more tests to Interactive and some comments (#812)
  • Fixes to the operators implemented by Interactive (#814)
  • Propagate max_rows (#815)
  • Only register the function parameters watchers once (#818)
  • Do not re-execute transform on copied clones (#833)
  • Internal callback made dependent only when parameters are found (#857)
• Explorer:
  • Make the explorer easier to use (#799)
  • Enhancement to Fields tab in explorer (#811)
  • Remove the marker styling option of the explorer (#809)
• Plot:
  • Make rescale_discrete_levels a plot option (#758)
  • Ensure that dataframes with multiple columns are categorically shaded (#759)
  • Display a color bar when rasterize is enabled (#782)
  • Update the expected DataSet plot title after xarray 2022.6.0 (#795)
  • Set categorically shaded when there's more than one variable (#843)
  • Clone GeoViews' features (#850)
• Documentation:
  • Add new and improve existing docstrings (#793, #826, #827, #822)
  • Update developer install instructions (#794)
  • Rework the landing page and add a Getting started guide (#838)
• Misc:
  • No longer use basestring from holoviews.core.util (#757)
  • Ensure that repr is initialized on hvplot backend import (#774)
  • Add RGB test data (#779)
  • Add flatten utility function (#798)

Version 0.8.0

May 9, 2022

The 0.8.0 release is a minor release with some exciting new features and a large number of bug fixes and enhancements. Many thanks to @FabianHofmann, @jomey, @ablythed, @jlstevens, @Hoxbro, @michaelaye, @MridulS, @ppwadhwa, @maximlt, @philippjfr for contributing!

Main new features:

• Add ability to call .interactive() on bound functions (#720)
• Add support to the Matplotlib and Plotly backends (#653)
• Add the hvPlotExplorer, a Panel UI component designed to explore data (#638, #639, #651, #710, #726)

Enhancements:

• Interactive:
  • Allow using getitem on an accessor in interactive (#633)
  • Allow attribute access on ufunc on interactive (#635)
  • Enhancements for interactive API (#640)
  • Flatten op_args to be able to find nested widgets (#699)
• Allow dynspread to be used with rasterize (#637)
• Add a title to xarray plots with scalar coords (#659)
• Adding datashade and rasterize options to scatter_matrix (#495)
• Update the default internal value of clim to support Matplotlib (#679)
• Ensure bokeh/panel extension is loaded only once (#686)
• Add support for planar layout from Networkx (#700)
• Wrap color in hv.dim when it matches a dimension/column (#717)
• Expose datashader line_width and rescale_discrete_levels options (#731)
• Improve array-like handling for x and y inputs (#714)

Fixes:

• Interactive:
  • Interactive fixes (#630)
  • Fix for interactive transform (#632)
  • Fix issue with accessors on interactive (#641)
  • Consistently dereference attribute access (#642)
• State that the data cannot be symmetric if it's empty (#680)
• Disable hover on errorbars plot (#721)
• Fix application of the scale argument for geoviews features (#725)

Documentation:

• Add scatter matrix reference (#689)
• Plotting user guide enhancement (#694)
• Download a tutorial file with the right filename (#711)
• Add more imports to try/except import check (#693)
• Various minor documentation enhancements and fixes (#625, #643, #644, #663, #678, #722)

Maintenance:

• Drop support for Python 2.7, minimum supported version is now Python 3.6 (#702)
• Changed to packaging.version (#708)

Version 0.7.3

July 23, 2021

This is a minor release focusing on greatly improving the .interactive() API for flexibly building simple apps using widget controls. Thanks to @jbednar and @jlstevens for a few small fixes and many thanks to @philippjfr for all the rest!

Features:

• Improved .interactive Dataframe support: max_rows display, column access (#640)
• Improved accessor and attribute behavior for .interactive (#633, #635, #641, #642)
• Add .holoviews() terminal method to .interactive pipelines
• Add support for kwargs to .interactive.layout
• Misc fixes to .interactive API (#630, #632)
• Allow dynspread=True to be used with rasterize=True (now that Datashader supports it)

Version 0.7.2

May 22, 2021

This is a minor release with a number of bug fixes and enhancements. Many thanks to @StefanBrand, @loicduffar, @brl0, @michaelaye, @aaronspring, @toddrjen, @raybellwaves, @jlstevens, @jbednar and @philippjfr for contributing.

Features:

• Add support for geographic features (#622)
• Added support for OHLC plot (#623)

Enhancements:

• Support setting options for diagonal plots in scatter_matrix (#602)
• Take group_label from columns if available (#615)
• Add kwargs to interactive.layout()

Bug fixes:

• Fix support for clim on contours (#587)
• Adding default coordinates to datasets with missing coords (#605)
• Do not plot streamz example point (#614)
• Fix passing in multiple z-values (#616)
• Ensure violin and boxplot color is applied (#619)
• Ensure categorical colormapping is applied during datashade (#621)

Compatibility:

• Switch default tile source to OSM (since Wikipedia is no longer available) (#610)

Documentation:

• Correctly document .hist rather than .histogram (#571)
• Use strings rather than bytes when referring to airplane dataset columns (#538)
• Preserve function signature and docstring in with_hv_extension (#601)
• Add hover_cols example (#612)
• Switch to pydata sphinx theme (#613)
• Update available options in customization docs (#620)

Version 0.7.1

Mars 3, 2021

Major new features:

• Add Ibis backend, providing hvPlot features for lazy SQL queries (#507)

Enhancements:

• Cycles for continuous colormaps ([#548)
• Validate by column(s) ([#565)
• Add hover='vline' hover='hline' options to expose Bokeh HoverTool mode (#493)
• Support streaming plots from HoloViews streams (not needing a streamz source) (#542)

Bug fixes:

• Drop tuple NetworkX attributes to avoid errors (#549)
• Cast types after applying melt to data (#566)

Version 0.7.0

November 18, 2020

Thanks to @philippjfr for managing this release and implementing most of the features, and to @jbednar, @ahuang11, and @AurelienSciarra for contributions.

Major new features:

• Powerful new .interactive() API for building easy apps (#505, #523)
• New transforms argument to transform data in .hvplot() calls (#526)

Other new features and enhancements:

• Support passing geographic projections as strings (#372)
• Improved data selection, e.g. for filtering on metadata (#522)
• Provide color_key to datashade as well as cmap, for convenience (#525)
• Update param warnings to new API (#528)
• Replace TravisCI tests with GitHub Actions (#524)

Bug fixes:

• Fix for specifying hover_cols (#504)
• Remove outdated reference to __main__ console script (#494)
• Misc doc fixes, including to Streaming.ipynb (#481, #511)
• Handle node_shape for networkx (#527)

Version 0.6.0

June 2, 2020

This release includes major contributions from @philippjfr (overall maintenance and bugfixes) and @jsignell (reference gallery), plus additional contributions from @slamer59 (environment), @anitagraser (examples), @itcarroll (color_key alias), @Timothy-W-Hilton (bugfix), @jbednar (bugfix), @SandervandenOord (fontscale), and @jordansamuels (doc fixes).

New features:

• Improved save and show utilities (#451)
• Improved compatibility for tab completion (#411)
• Major performance enhancement with Datashader in some cases (#465)
• Add support for cuDF (#454, #466)
• Support by argument for categorical aggregation (#461)
• Support color_key alias (#446, #458)
• Support spatialpandas for large sets of polygons (#459)
• Add fontscale keyword (#397)

Bug fixes and compatibility:

• Fixed 'title_format' deprecation warning (#428)
• Avoid sorting overlays, to make color cycles consistent (#475)
• Fix inference of non-declared index coordinates (#329)
• Improved handling of indexes on flattened grid (#452)
• Preserve Dataset.pipeline (#453)
• Fixes for option handling (#458)

Documentation:

• Added (a start to) a reference gallery
• Added heat and trees example to topics (#378)
• Replaced sphinx_pyviz_theme with sphinx_holoviz_theme (#366)
• Removed references to pyviz (#373)
• Fix networkx documentation (#476)

Version 0.5.2

October 17, 2019

This release mostly includes contributions from @jsignell.

• Allow tile sources to be objects as well as strings (#345)
• Set geo=True by default for coastline (#344)
• Add check_symmetric_max limit for working with large data (#340)
• Expose plot at top level, to support pd.options.plotting.backend = 'hvplot' (#347)
• Misc bug fixes (#341, #343, #346)

Version 0.5.1

October 13, 2019

Minor release with updates to continuous integration setup (from @jsignell).

Version 0.5.0

October 10, 2019

This is a major release that includes bug fixes, changes to default behavior, and enhancements.

Features:

• Widget handling capabilities to facilitate interactivity (#323, #331)
• New default colormaps (#258, #316, #206)
• long_name(units) used to label xarray objects (#173)
• Derived datetime accessor handlind (#263, #286)
• coastline and tiles options for easy geo plots.
• Automatic date sorting (#259)
• Allow use of strings as aggregators for datashader (#257)

Version 0.4.0

January 28, 2019

This is a major release which includes the addition of a networkx plotting API and a number of important bug fixes.

Features:

• A new NetworkX interface providing equivalents for the networkx plotting module (#152, #154)

Fixes:

• Fixed handling of labelled property to hide axis labels (#142)
• Fixed handling of DataArrays and groupby on RGB plots (#138, #141)
• Allow setting axis position (#149)
• Fixes for setting the axis positions (#145)

Version 0.3.0

January 7, 2019

This release includes a number of major improvements to the documentation and core functionality as well as a variety of bug fixes.

• Added improved docstrings including all available options (#103, #134)
• Added support for tab-completion in interactive environments such as IPython and Jupyter notebooks (#134)
• Added support for rgb (#137) and labels (#98) plot types
• Exposed bokeh styling options for all plot types (#134)
• Compatibility with latest HoloViews/GeoViews releases (#113, #118, #134)
• Added control over tools (#120) and legend position (#119)

Previous versions

Versions 0.1.1, 0.2.0, 0.2.1 were released on the 6th of July 2018, 7th of July 2018 and 8th of July 2018.