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)