CHANGELOG.md

2016-08-15 Version 1.1.0 Egon Geerardyn

• Added or improved support for:
  • Octave 4.0 (#759)
  • scatter, quiver and errorbar support in Octave (#669)
  • cleanfigure has been improved:
    • New and superior (Opheim) simplification algorithm
    • Simplification for plot3 (3D plots) (#790)
    • Vectorized implementations (#756, #737)
    • Overall clean-up of the code (#797, #787, #776, #744)
    • Optional limitation of data precision (#791)
    • Textbox removal is being phased out (#817)
  • Quiver plots now translate to native pgfplots quivers (#679, #690)
  • Legends, especially with plotyy, now use \label (#140, #760, #773)
  • Tick labels with datetime (#383, #803)
  • contourf/contour plots with matrix arguments and nonstandard line widths (#592, #721, #722, #871)
  • Colored ticks and axes (#880, #908)
  • Scatter plots with different marker colors and sizes (#859, #861)
  • colorbar positioning and tick placement (#933, #937, #941)
  • The self-updater has been improved
• New parameters:
  • arrowHeadSizeFactor for tweaking the size of arrowheads
  • semanticLineWidths for tweaking semantic line width conversion (e.g. thick instead of 0.8pt)
• Extra requirements:
  • Quiver plots require \usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
• Bug fixes:
  • Errorbars without lines & markers (#813)
  • light/camera objects are now ignored (#684)
  • Draw baseline in bar/stem plots (#798)
  • Multiple annotation containers (#728, #730)
  • Legends of bode plots (#700, #702)
  • Titles of bode plots (#715, #716, #753)
  • Patch without fill/edge color (#682, #701, #740)
  • Warn about usage of faceted interp shader (#699)
  • Tick labels are properly escaped now (#711)
  • Swapped image dimensions (#714)
  • Width of bar plots was incorrect (#727, #696)
  • Stacking and placement of bar plots (#851, #845, #840, #785, #903)
  • Handling of tick labels when parseStrings=false (#86, #871)
  • Properly escape tick labels for LaTeX (#710, #711, #820, #821)
  • Respect edge color in scatter plots (#900)
  • Output directory is created automatically (#889, #929)
  • TikZ output format has been improved slightly (#936, #921, #801)
• For developers:
  • Please check out the (guidelines)[CONTRIBUTING.md]
  • We now use allchild and findall (#718)
  • SublimeText project files
  • Test hashes can be saved selectively (#720)
  • Continuous testing for MATLAB and Octave 3.8 with Jenkins
  • Test suite timing is tracked (#738)
  • The testing reports have been improved for GitHub (#708)
  • Testing can output to different directories (#818)
  • A new tool to help track regressions (#814)
  • A new tool to consistently format the code (#808, #809)
  • figure2dot updated for HG2

2015-06-15 Version 1.0.0 Egon Geerardyn

• Added support for:
  • Annotations (except arrows) in R2014b (#534)
  • Histogram in R2014b (#525)
  • Filled contour plots in R2014b (#379, #500)
  • Contour plots with color maps in R2014b (#380, #500)
  • Axes background color and overlap (#6, #509, #510)
  • Horizontal/Vertical text alignment (#491)
• Extra requirements:
  • Patch plots now require \usepgfplotslibrary{patchplots} (#386, #497)
• Bug fixes:
  • Pgfplots 1.12 (row sep=crcr) in combination with externalData==true (#548)
  • Updater has been fixed (#502)
  • 3D plot sizing takes viewing angle into account (#560, #630, #631)
  • Alpha channel (transparency) in images (#561)
  • Colorbar labels in R2014b (#429, #488)
  • Scaling of color data at axes level (#486)
  • Text formatting (for TeX parser) is improved (#417)
  • Support for | character in labels (#587, #589)
  • Legends for stairs and area plots (#601, #602)
  • cleanfigure() removes points outside of the axes for stairs plots (#226, #533)
  • cleanfigure() removes points outside of the axes better (#392, #400, #547)
  • Support > and < in text (#522)
  • Better text positioning (#518)
  • Text boxes on 3D graphs (#528)
  • File closing is more robust (#496, #555)
  • TikZ picture output, i.e.imageAsPng==false, improved (#581, #596)
  • standalone==true sets the font and input encoding in LaTeX (#590)
  • Legend text alignment in Octave (#668)
  • Improved Octave legend if not all lines have an entry (#607, #619, #653)
  • Legend without a drawn box in R2014b+ (#652)
  • Misc. fixes: #426, #513, #520, #665
• For developers:
  • The testing framework has been revamped (see also test/README.md)
  • A lot of the tests have been updated (#604, #614, #638, ...)
  • Cyclomatic complexity of the code has been reduced (#391)
  • Repository has been moved to matlab2tikz/matlab2tikz
  • Extra files have been pruned (#616)

2014-11-02 Version 0.6.0 Nico Schlömer

• Annotation support in R2014a and earlier
• New subplot positioning approach (by Klaus Broelemann) that uses absolute instead of relative positions.
• Support stacked bar plots and others in the same axes (needs pgfplots 1.11).
• Support legends with multiline entries.
• Support for the alpha channel in PNG output.
• Test framework updated and doesn't display figures by default.
• Major code clean-up and code complexity checks.
• Bug fixes:
  • Cycle paths only when needed (#317, #49, #404)
  • Don't use infinite xmin/max, etc. (#436)
  • Warn about the noSize parameter (#431)
  • Images aren't flipped anymore (#401)
  • No scientific notation in width/height (#396)
  • Axes with custom colors (#376)
  • Mesh plots are exported properly (#382)
  • Legend colors are handled better (#389)
  • Handle Z axis properties for quiver3 (#406)
  • Better text handling, e.g. degrees (#402)
  • Don't output absolute paths into TikZ by default
  • ...

2014-10-20 Version 0.5.0 Nico Schlömer

• Support for MATLAB 2014b (with it's substantial graphics changes). All credit goes to Egon Geerardyn.
• Bugfixes:
  • single bar width
  • invisible bar plots
  • surface options
  • patch plots and cycling
  • patches with literal colors

2014-03-07 Version 0.4.7 Nico Schlömer

• Acid tests: Remove MATLAB-based eps2pdf.
• Bugfixes:
  • multiple patches
  • log plot with nonzero baseline
  • marker options for scatter plots
  • table data formatting
  • several fixes for Octave

2014-02-07 Version 0.4.6 Nico Schlömer

• Set externalData default to false.
• Properly check for required Pgfplots version.
• Marker scaling in scatter plots.

2014-02-02 Version 0.4.5 Nico Schlömer

• Arrange data in tables.
• Optionally define custom colors.
• Allow for strict setting of font sizes.
• Bugfixes:
  • tick labels for log plots
  • tick labels with commas

2014-01-02 Version 0.4.4 Nico Schlömer

• Support for color maps with scatter plots.
• Support for different-length up-down error bars.
• Input options validation.
• Bugfixes:
  • legends for both area and line plots
  • invisible text fields

2013-10-20 Version 0.4.3 Nico Schlömer

• Support for 3D quiver plots.
• Extended support for colorbar axis options.
• New logo!
• Bugfixes:
  • text generation
  • extraCode option
  • join strings
  • ...

2013-09-12 Version 0.4.2 Nico Schlömer

• Support for explicit color specification in 3D plots.
• Better color handling for patch plots.
• Support for various unicode characters.
• Bugfixes:
  • edge colors for bar plots
  • multiple color bars
  • ...

2013-08-14 Version 0.4.1 Nico Schlömer

• Replaced option extraTikzpictureCode by extraCode for inserting code at the beginning of the file.
• Support for relative text positioning.
• Improved documentation.
• Code cleanup: moved all figure manipulations over to cleanfigure()
• Bugfixes:
  • error bars
  • empty tick labels
  • ...

2013-06-26 Version 0.4.0 Nico Schlömer

• Added cleanfigure() for removing unwanted entities from a plot before conversion
• Add option floatFormat to allow for custom specification of the format of float numbers
• Bugfixes:
  • linewidth for patches
  • ...

2013-04-13 Version 0.3.3 Nico Schlömer

• Support for:
  • pictures in LaTeX subfloats
• Bugfixes:
  • axes labels
  • extra* options
  • logscaled axes
  • ...

2013-03-14 Version 0.3.2 Nico Schlömer

• Support for:
  • waterfall plots
• Bugfixes:
  • axis locations
  • color handling
  • stacked bars
  • ...

2013-02-15 Version 0.3.1 Nico Schlömer

• Use table{} for plots for cleaner output files.
• Support for:
  • hg transformations
  • pcolor plots
• Removed command line options:
  • minimumPointsDistance
• Bugfixes:
  • legend positioning and alignment
  • tick labels
  • a bunch of fixed for Octave
  • line width for markers
  • axis labels for color bars
  • image trimming
  • subplots with bars
  • ...

2012-11-19 Version 0.3.0 Nico Schlömer

• Support for:
  • area plots
  • legend position
  • inner color bars
  • log-scaled color bars
• New command line options:
  • standalone (create compilable TeX file)
  • checkForUpdates
• mlint cleanups.
• Removed deprecated options.
• Bugfixes:
  • colorbar-axis association
  • option parsing
  • automatic updater
  • unit 'px'
  • ...

2012-09-01 Version 0.2.3 Nico Schlömer

• Multiline text for all entities.
• Support for logical images.
• Support for multiple legends (legends in subplots).
• Fixed version check bug.
• Fix minimumPointsDistance.

2012-07-19 Version 0.2.2 Nico Schlömer

• Support for multiline titles and axis labels.
• Respect log-scaled axes for minimumPointsDistance.
• Add support for automatic graph labels via new option.
• About 5 bugfixes.

2012-05-04 Version 0.2.1 Nico Schlömer

• Support for color maps.
• Support for native color bars.
• Partial support for hist3 plots.
• Support for spectrogram plots.
• Support for rotated text.
• Native handling of Infs and NaNs.
• Better info text.
• matlab2tikz version checking.
• Line plotting code cleanup.
• About 10 bugfixes.

2012-03-17 Version 0.2.0 Nico Schlömer

• Greatly overhauled text handling. (Burkhart Lingner)
• Added option tikzFileComment.
• Added option parseStrings.
• Added option extraTikzpictureSettings.
• Added proper documetion (for help matlab2tikz).
• Improved legend positioning, orientation.
• Support for horizontal bar plots.
• Get bar widths right.
• Doubles are plottet with 15-digit precision now.
• Support for rectangle objects.
• Better color handling.
• Testing framework improvements.
• Several bugfixes:
  • ticks handled more concisely
  • line splitting bugs
  • ...

2011-11-22 Version 0.1.4 Nico Schlömer

• Support for scatter 3D plots.
• Support for 3D parameter curves.
• Support for 3D patches.
• Support for minor ticks.
• Add option interpretTickLabelsAsTex (default false).
• Several bugfixes:
  • % sign in annotations
  • fixed \omega and friends in annotations
  • proper legend for bar plots
  • don't override PNG files if there is more than one image plot
  • don't always close patch paths

2011-08-22 Version 0.1.3 Nico Schlömer

• Greatly overhauled text handling.
• Better Octave compatibility.
• Several bugfixes:
  • subplot order
  • environment detection

2011-06-02 Version 0.1.2 Nico Schlömer

• Support for logscaled color bar.
• Support for truecolor images.
• Initial support for text handles.
• Speed up processing for line plots.
• Several bugfixes:
  • axis labels, tick labels, etc. for z-axis
  • marker handling for scatter plots
  • fix for unicolor scatter plots

2011-04-06 Version 0.1.1 Nico Schlömer

• Improved Octave compatibility.
• Several bugfixes:
  • input parser

2011-01-31 Version 0.1.0 Nico Schlömer

• Basic Octave compatibility.
• Several bugfixes:
  • bar plots fix (thanks to Christoph Rüdiger)
  • fix legends with split graphs

2010-09-10 Version 0.0.7 Nico Schlömer

• Compatibility fixes for older MATLAB installations.
• Several bugfixes:
  • line plots with only one point
  • certain surface plots
  • orientation of triangle markers (< vs. >)
  • display of the color purple

2010-05-06 Version 0.0.6 Nico Schlömer

• Support for scatter plots.
• Preliminary support for surface plots; thanks to Pooya.
• Large changes in the codebase:
  • next to matlab2tikz.m, the file pgfplotsEnvironment.m is now needed as well; it provides a much better structured approach to storing and writing environments when parsing the MATLAB(R) figure
• proper MATLAB(R) version check
• lots of small fixes

2009-12-21 Version 0.0.5 Nico Schlömer

• Improvements in axis handling:
  • colored axes
  • allow different left and right ordinates
• Improvements for line plots:
  • far outliers are moved toward the plot, avoiding Dimension too large-type errors in LaTeX
  • optional point reduction by new option minimumPointsDistance
• Improvements for image handling:
  • creation of a PNG file, added by \addplot graphics
  • fixed axis orientation bug
• Bugfixes for:
  • multiple axes
  • CMYK colors
  • legend text alignment (thanks Dragan Mitrevski)
  • transparent patches (thanks Carlos Russo)
• Added support for:
  • background color
  • Bode plots
  • zplane plots
  • freqz plots

2009-06-09 Version 0.0.4 Nico Schlömer

• Added support for:
  • error bars (thanks Robert Whittlesey for the suggestion)
• Improvents in:
  • legends (thanks Theo Markettos for the patch),
  • images,
  • quiver plots (thanks Robert for spotting this).
• Improved options handling.
• Allow for custom file encoding (thanks Donghua Wang for the suggestion).
• Numerous bugfixes (thanks Andreas Gäb).

2009-03-08 Version 0.0.3 Nico Schlömer

• Added support for:
  • subplots
  • reverse axes
• Completed support for:
  • images

2009-01-08 Version 0.0.2 Nico Schlömer

• Added support for:
  • quiver (arrow) plots
  • bar plots
  • stem plots
  • stairs plots
• Added preliminary support for:
  • images
  • rose plots
  • compass plots
  • polar plots
• Moreover, large code improvement have been introduced, notably:
  • aspect ratio handling
  • color handling
  • plot options handling

2008-11-07 Version 0.0.1 Nico Schlömer

• Initial version