v5.13.0

See the full release announcement with graphical examples on the forum: https://community.plotly.com/t/announcing-plotly-py-5-13-0-grouped-scatter-new-markers-and-marker-angles-sankey-links-with-arrows/72205

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to from version 2.17.1 to version 2.18.0. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information. Notable changes include:
  • Add sync tickmode option [#6356, #6443], with thanks to @filipesantiagoAM and @VictorBezak for the contribution!
• Build process now uses Node 18.x and version 2 lockfile (should be an invisible change for users) [#4034]

Fixed

• write_html() now explicitly encodes output as UTF-8 because Plotly.js' bundle contains such characters [#4021] and [#4022]
• fixed iframe renderer regression from 5.12 and also fixed error when this renderer was used in the very first cell in a notebook [#4036]

v5.12.0

Updated

• Support for ipywidgets 8 [#3930]
• Updated Plotly.js to from version 2.16.1 to version 2.17.1. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information. Notable changes include:
  • Add shift and autoshift to cartesian y axes to help avoid overlapping of multiple axes [#6334],
    with thanks to Gamma Technologies for sponsoring the related development!
  • Introduce group attributes for scatter trace i.e. alignmentgroup, offsetgroup, scattermode and scattergap [#6381],
    this feature was anonymously sponsored: thank you to our sponsor!
  • Add marker.cornerradius attribute to treemap trace [#6351]

Fixed

• Fixed the usage of some deprecated NumPy types which were removed in NumPy 1.24 [#3997]
• Fixed bug for trendlines with datetime axes [#3683]
• marker.angle attribute now accepts iterables where appropriate [#4013]
• selector=0 now correctly returns the first trace in .select_traces() and related methods [#3817]

v5.11.0

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to from version 2.14.0 to version 2.16.1. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information. Notable changes include:
  • Add clustering options to scattermapbox [#5827],
    with thanks to @elben10 for the contribution!
  • Add bounds to mapbox suplots [6339]
  • Add angle, angleref and standoff to marker and add backoff to line; also introduce new arrow symbols to facilitate drawing networks [#6297]
  • Add minreducedwidth and minreducedheight to layout for increasing control over automargin [#6307]
  • Add entrywidth and entrywidthmode to legend [#6202, #6324]

v5.10.0

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to from version 2.12.1 to version 2.14.0. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information. Notable changes include:
  • Add support for sankey links with arrows
  • Add selections, newselection and activeselection layout attributes to have persistent and editable selections over cartesian subplots
  • Add unselected.line.color and unselected.line.opacity options to parcoords trace
  • Display Plotly's new logo in the modebar

v5.9.0

Added

• pattern_shape options now available in px.timeline() #3774
• facet_* and category_orders now available in px.pie() #3775

Performance

• px methods no longer call groupby on the input dataframe when the result would be a single group, and no longer groups by a lambda, for significant speedups #3765 with thanks to @jvdd

Updated

• Allow non-string extras in flaglist attributes, to support upcoming changes to ax.automargin in plotly.js plotly.js#6193, #3749

v5.8.2

Fixed

• Fixed a syntax error that caused rendering issues in Databricks notebooks and likely elsewhere. #3763 with thanks to @fwetdb

v5.8.1

(no changes in this release due a build-process error, please see https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/releases/tag/v5.8.2 for the changes that were initially reported to be in this build)

v5.8.0

See the full release announcement on the forum at https://community.plotly.com/t/announcing-plotly-py-5-8-0-better-autocompletions-with-type-hints-minor-ticks/64002 !

Fixed

• Improve support for type checking and IDE auto-completion by bypassing lazy-loading when type checking. #3425 with thanks to @JP-Ellis
• line dash-style validators are now correctly used everywhere so that values like 10px 2px are accepted #3722
• Resolved various deprecation warning messages and compatibility issues with upstream dependencies and Python 3.11, plus removed dependency on six, with thanks to @maresb, @hugovk, @tirkarthi, @martinRenou, and @BjoernLudwigPTB
• Better support for MathJax 3 #3706

Added

• Type annotations for Plotly Express functions and chainable go.Figure methods, for better IDE auto-completion #3708

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to from version 2.11.1 to version 2.12.1. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information. Notable changes include:
  • Add minor ticks to cartesian axes
  • Add griddash option to most axes

v5.7.0

See the full release announcement here: https://community.plotly.com/t/announcing-plotly-py-5-7-0-text-on-histograms-and-heatmaps-patterns-on-areas-plotly-js-version-number-access-smith-charts/62735

Added

• added pattern_shape options to px.area() #3668

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to from version 2.9.0 to version 2.11.1. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information. Notable changes include:
  • Add fillpattern options to scatter trace
  • Various JS-specific improvements such as MathJax 3.0 support

v5.6.0

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to from version 2.8.3 to version 2.9.0. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information. Notable changes include:
  • Implement ticklabelstep to reduce labels on cartesian axes and colorbars
  • Display the version of plotly.js when hovering over the modebar