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

v5.5.0

Added

• text_auto argument to px.bar, px.histogram, px.density_heatmap, px.imshow #3518
• Deprecated ff.create_annotated_heatmap, ff.create_county_choropleth, ff.create_gantt #3518
• div_id argument to pio.to_html, pio.write_html, fig.to_html and fig.write_html to optionally make its IDs deterministic #3487 with thanks to @Skn0tt

Fixed

• Fixed ValueError when ff.create_annotated_heatmap passes rgba() colors into to_rgb_color_list #3478 with thanks to @janosh

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to from version 2.6.3 to version 2.8.3. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information. Notable changes include:
  • Horizontal color bars
  • texttemplate for histogram-like and heatmap-like traces

v5.4.0

Fixed

• Fixed error when serializing dict with mix of string and non-string keys #3380

Updated

• The JSON serialization engines no longer sort their keys #3380
• Updated Plotly.js to from version 2.4.2 to version 2.6.3. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information. Notable changes include:
  • New subplot type smith that supports scattersmith trace types for visualizing data in the complex domain
  • Changes to Plotly.js packaging

v5.3.1

Updated

Updated Plotly.js to from version 2.4.1 to version 2.4.2. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information. These changes are reflected in the auto-generated plotly.graph_objects module. Notable changes include:

• Bug fix for rendering unified hover labels in classic Jupyter Notebooks

v5.3.0

• Updated Plotly.js to from version 2.3.1 to version 2.4.1. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information. These changes are reflected in the auto-generated plotly.graph_objects module. Notable changes include:
  • Added legend.groupclick options
  • Provide bbox of hover items in event data