Version 0.13.0

The 0.13.0 release is a minor release that adds experimental support for plotting Xugrid unstructured grids as trimeshes, fixes a couple of bugs, and continues the documentation overhaul with new and reorganized guides and enhanced docstrings. The documentation is now also easier for AI assistants to consume, with an llms.txt file, every page published as Markdown, and a pointer to the holoviz-skills. This release also deprecates the streamz and intake data sources and drops support for Python 3.10. Many thanks to @Azaya89, @hoxbro, @Laxman-Rajpurohit-coder (first contribution!), @maximlt, and @Mrun25 (first contribution!) for their contributions!

New features:

• Add experimental support for Xugrid-based trimesh plots (#1737, #1740, #1778)

Bug Fixes:

• Fix handling of area plots with stacked and y2 (#1762)
• Fix magnitude scaling of vectorfield plots (#1770)

Documentation:

• Enhance docstrings of plotting methods (#1658)
• Publish llms.txt and make pages available as Markdown (#1746)
• Document llms.txt, Markdown pages, and holoviz-skills (#1751)
• Add an API reference section to the gallery (#1775)
• Reorganize the widgets documentation (#1654)
• Add an Explorer tutorial (#1660)
• Add how-to and explanation guides for statistical plots (#1665)
• Add how-to guides for saving and displaying plots (#1659)
• Reorganize the plotting extension documentation (#1656)
• Add how-to guides for subplots (#1657)
• Various smaller changes (#1710, #1717, #1744, #1779, #1728)

Deprecation:

• Deprecate support for the streamz data source (#1714)
• Deprecate support for the intake data source (#1727)
• Deprecate the internal sample_data module (use the newer sampledata module) (#1725)

Compatibility:

• Drop Python 3.10 and add support for Python 3.15 (#1771)
• Add support for Polars 2.0 (#1764)

Code quality:

• Enable many more ruff rules (#1738)

Infrastructure / Tests:

• Refactor the test suite (#1766)
• Analyze the CI with zizmor (#1726)
• Publish the conda package with the Anaconda upload-package action (#1748)
• Add Renovate config (#1747)
• Smaller changes (#1720, #1731, #1739, #1772, #1773)

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