Altair 5 release candidate info and feedback

[mattijn]

Thanks for your interest in the release candidate for Vega-Altair 5!

If you have any general feedback on the direction of the release candidate, please feel free to share it here (e.g. on the new method-based syntax for setting encoding channel options). If you run into specific problems, please open individual issues for those.

Before you get started, make sure that you read the release notes to see what has changed and take a tour of the revamped documentation pages to learn more about the new features.

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Please take note of the following limitations present in the release candidate, which we are working to resolve before the official release of Altair 5.0.0.

• Downstream dependencies such as altair_data_saver, altair_viewer and altair_saver are not yet ready for Altair 5. If you are dependent on these, please wait.

You can install the release candidate of version 5 using the following pip-command:

pip install altair==5.0.0rc3

[firasm]

This is very exciting!! Thank you to everyone involved 🥳🥳🤩🤩

[philippjfr]

Great work on this! One quick question, what's the timeline for the release? We're going to push out a Panel 0.14.4 patch release with compatibility for selections with older and newer vega-lite/altair versions. I'd like to show the new altair API (.add_params) in the docs but if it's a few weeks out I'd probably postpone the docs update.

[mattijn]

Its not fixed, but a few weeks sounds likely.

[philippjfr]

Thank you, might hold off on the documentation updates for now then.

[AdamCiuris]

thank you for docs additions

[joelostblom]

Closing this as we have released v5!