v4.2.0

Added

• Add layout.legend.itemheight to set the height of the legend fill swatch, so more of a trace fillpattern is visible in the legend [#7925], with thanks to @MannXo for the contribution!
• Add spikelines to ternary plots [#8041], with thanks to @Lexachoc for the contribution!
• Add TypeScript declarations for lifecycle and WebGL context events [#8145]

Fixed

• Respect explicit node.x/node.y positions in Sankey traces that contain unlinked or grouped nodes [#7826], with thanks to @kyo5uke for the contribution!
• Fix incorrect positioning of tick labels when using ticklabelindex on period axes [#7934], with thanks to @my-tien for the contribution!
• Fix tick label format sometimes being incompatible with the labeled tick when using ticklabelindex [#7935], with thanks to @my-tien for the contribution!
• Fix unified hover swatch color and pattern for bar marker.pattern arrays [#8039], with thanks to @Dmao233 for the contribution!
• Keep cartesian traces aligned with their axes when an automargin title is combined with any component that expands the margins [#8045]
• Fix hover labels ignoring MathJax for text that is a single tex expression [#8051], with thanks to @SergeyAxiomatic
• Fix XSS via javascript: URLs in MathJax \href macros by sanitizing links in MathJax-rendered text [#8051], with thanks to @SergeyAxiomatic
• Fix issue causing scattergl plot to freeze up when hovering over points [#8052], with thanks to @emilykl for the contribution!
• Fix quiver arrow colors for a discrete marker.color array [#8069], with thanks to @Yahiro025 for the contribution!
• Fix numeric and numeric-string marker symbol variant detection in scattergl [#8071]
• Fix hoverlabel.align so that it aligns the item text in x unified and y unified hover labels [#8104], with thanks to @MannXo for the contribution!
• Convert modern CSS color formats to rgba for scattergl based traces [#8119]
• Update TypeScript types so that Plotly.relayout, Plotly.restyle, Plotly.update, and the plotly_relayout event accept attribute paths such as 'xaxis.autorange' [#8126]
  • Add the LayoutUpdate and DataUpdate types for these update objects
  • Add the (root, attribute, value) call form to the types of Plotly.relayout and Plotly.restyle
• Fix funnel percentTotal text formatting to display formatted percentages instead of raw ratios [#8139], with thanks to @ORITOMI for the contribution!