v4.5.1

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to version 1.52.2. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information on bug fixes.

Fixed

• update_annotations, update_shapes and update_layout_images now no longer require the patch argument, as per the docstring #2167
• px.defaults no longer accepts arbitrary keys #2168
• better error message when pandas is not installed #2125
• support columns of numerical type in path argument of px.sunburst/px.treemap and add values of color column in hoverlabel for px.sunburst/px.treemap #2133

v4.5.0

[4.5.0] - 2020-01-22

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to version 1.52.1. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information on numerous new attribute and bug fixes.
• Plotly Express uses the new legend.title attribute and so now has shorter trace names #2051
• The heuristic used by px.parallel_categories to determine which columns of the data frame to draw has been changed and made more configurable with the dimensions_max_cardinality argument #2102
• The simple_white colorbar styling has been streamlined #2110
• The jupyterlab-plotly and plotlywidget JupyterLab extensions should now share code when installed together, resulting in smaller JupyterLab vendor bundle sizes #2103

Fixed

• Plotly Express category_orders are now respected independent of the contents of the data set #2084
• go.Scattergl symbols now accept numeric specification #1928
• px.scatter trendline coefficients are now more readable #1984
• Built-in cyclical color scales now all have identical start and end points #2016

Added

• px.sunburst and px.treemap now accept a path argument for passing
  columns of a rectangular dataframe to build the charts #2006
• px.choropleth now accepts a user-supplied geojson attribute #2057
• px.choropleth and px.choropleth_mapbox now accept featureidkey to specify the GeoJSON field to use to match locations #2057
• px.choropleth and px.choropleth_mapbox now accept discrete color #2057
• px.bar_polar now accepts continuous color #2017
• New layout.uniformtext attribute allows for automatic standardization of font sizes across bar-like and hierarchical traces. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information

v4.4.1

[4.4.1] - 2019-12-10

Fixed

• Fixed improper JSON encoding exception when the pillow module not installed #1993

v4.4.0

[4.4.0] - 2019-12-10

Added

• Extended the plotly.express functional API with 7 new functions: px.pie,
  px.sunburst, px.treemap, px.funnel, and px.funnel_area (#1909) px.density_mapbox and
  px.choropleth_mapbox #1937.
• plotly.express mapbox functions in plotly.express have new arguments center and mapbox_style #1937.
• plotly.express polar plots (scatter_polar, line_polar, bar_polar) now
  have a range_theta keyword argument for representing only an angular
  section #1969.
• All continuous colorscales now accept a _r suffix that reverses their direction #1933
• Docstrings of plotly.py are now doctested #1921.

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to version 1.51.2. See the
  plotly.js CHANGELOG
  for more information
• The tutorials of the plotly.py documentation are
  now in the main plotly.py Github repository. Contributions in order to improve or extend the documentation are very welcome!
• plotly.express generated plots no longer have a default height of 600 pixels, instead they inherit the default height of regular figures #1990. To restore the old behavior, set px.defaults.height=600 once per session, or set the height keyword arguement to any px.function() to 600.

Fixed

• Fixed a plotly.express input bug when using data frame indices#1934
• Fixed how to display facet labels with plotly express #1966
• Fixed a bug to use correctly the zmin/zmax parameter in px.imshow for single-channel images #1981
• Clipped docstring width for better display in Jupyterlab #1939. Thank you @joelostblom!
• Fixed a bug in the case of external orca server #1915 thank you @dev-dsp!

v4.3.0

[4.3.0] - 2019-11-11

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to version 1.51.1. See the
  plotly.js CHANGELOG
  for more information
• Improved propagation of empty templates (#1892)
• Update the add_annotations/add_shapes/add_images methods to no longer default to adding objects in paper coordinates. This allows plotly.js to determine the default reference frame based on context (#1888)
• Use the default template's background color for displaying color swatches (#1872). Special thanks to @joelostblom for this contribution!
• Improved docstrings (#1835, #1837)

Added

• Added image trace type (plotly.js#4289, plotly.js#4307, plotly.js#4313, plotly.js#4319)
• Added matplotlib-style plotly.express.imshow convenience function to display images and heatmaps (#1855, #1885)
• Added matplotlib-style simple_white template (#1864). Special thanks to @joelostblom for this contribution.
• Added support for using an externally managed orca server for image export features (#1850). Special thanks to @miriad for this contribution.
• Added facet wrapping support to plotly express functions using the new facet_col_wrap argument (#1838)

v4.2.1

[4.2.1] - 2019-10-18

Fixed

• Fixed regression in 4.2.0 that caused all figure factories to require that scikit-image be installed (#1832)

v4.2.0

[4.2.0] - 2019-10-16

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to version 1.50.1. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information

Added

• Added treemap trace type (plotly.js#4185, plotly.js#4219, plotly.js#4227, plotly.js#4242)
• Added add_*/select_*/for_each_*/update_* convenience figure methods for annotations, shapes, and images (#1817)
• Added overwrite kwarg to update* figure methods to fully replace property values, rather than update them recursively (#1726)
• Added texttemplate attribute to all traces that support on-graph text (plotly.js#4071, plotly.js#4179)
• Added date custom formatting in hovertemplate and texttemplate e.g. '%{x|%b %-d, %Y}' (plotly.js#4071)
• Added transition support to bar trace length, width, on-graph text positioning, marker style and error bars (plotly.js#4180, plotly.js#4186)
• Added support for legend scrolling via touch interactions (plotly.js#3873, plotly.js#4214)

Fixed

• Fixed iframe renderer on Python 2 (#1822)
• Fixed use of merged templates in plotly.express (#1819)

v4.1.0

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to version 1.49.1. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information.
• Bars in the figures produced by the create_gantt figure factory may now be hidden by clicking on the legend (#1665). Special thanks to @csabaszan for this contribution!
• Improved performance when serializing figures containing large numpy arrays (#1690). Special thanks to @miriad for this contribution!

Added

• Added new renderers for displaying figures from within the Databricks and CoCalc notebook services (#1703)
• Added indicator traces (plotly/plotly.js#3978)
• Added choroplethmapbox traces (plotly/plotly.js#3988)
• Added densitymapbox traces (plotly/plotly.js#3993)
• Added new mapbox style values: open-street-map, carto-positron, carto-darkmatter,
  stamen-terrain, stamen-toner, stamen-watercolor and white-bg
  that do not require a Mapbox access token (plotly/plotly.js#3987, plotly/plotly.js#4068)
• Added support for sourcetype value raster and image and type raster
  for mapbox layout layers (plotly/plotly.js#4006)
• Added below attribute to scattermapbox traces (plotly/plotly.js#4058)
• Added support for below: 'traces' in mapbox layout layers (plotly/plotly.js#4058)
• Added sourceattribution attribute to mapbox layout layers (plotly/plotly.js#4069)
• Added labelangle and labelside attributes to parcoords traces (plotly/plotly.js#3966)
• Added doubleClickDelay config option (plotly/plotly.js#3991)
• Added showEditInChartStudio config option (plotly/plotly.js#4061)

Fixed

• Fixed incorrect facet row ordering in figures generated by plotly.express functions (plotly/plotly_express#129)
• Fixed "The truth value of an array with more than one element is ambiguous" error when specifying subplot titles as numpy array of strings (#1685). Special thanks to @MrQubo for this contribution!
• The line_3d plotly express function was not visible by default when importing * from plotly.express (#1667)

v4.0.0

[4.0.0] - 2019-07-16

This is a major release that includes many new features, and a few breaking changes. See the version 4 announcement for a summary of the important changes.

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to version 1.48.3. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information.

Added

• The Plotly Express tech preview (https://medium.com/@plotlygraphs/introducing-plotly-express-808df010143d) has been integrated as the plotly.express module (#1613)
• Added a new renderers framework the supports rendering figure in a wide variety of contexts (#1474). See the new Displaying Plotly Figures documentation page for more information.
• Added plotly.io.write_html and plotly.io.to_html functions for exporting figures to HTML (1474). Also available as .write_html and .to_html figure methods.
• Added new figure methods for batch updating figure properties (update_layout, update_traces, update_xaxes, etc.) (#1624). See the new Creating and Updating Figures documentation page for more details.
• Added support for all trace types in make_subplots (#1528)
• Added support for secondary y-axes in make_subplots (#1564)
• Support passing a scalar trace object (rather than a list or tuple of trace objects) as the data property to the Figure constructor (#1614)
• Added dictionary-stule .pop method to graph object classes (#1614)
• New jupyterlab-plotly JupyterLab extension for rendering figures in JupyterLab. Replaces the @jupyterlab/plotly-extension extension, and includes JupyterLab 1.0 support.
• Added new suite of built-in colorscales to the plotly.colors module, and support for specifying this wide range of colorscales by name. Also added support for specifying colorscales as a list of colors, in which case the color spacing is assumed to be uniform (#1647).
• Added sphinx-gallery renderer for embedding plotly figures in Sphinx-Gallery (#1577, plotly/plotly-sphinx-gallery).

Removed

• The follow modules for interfacing with the Chart Studio cloud service have been removed from plotly.py and moved to the new chart-studio distribution package. The following modules have been moved to a new top-level chart_studio module:
  • plotly.plotly -> chart_studio.plotly
  • plotly.api -> chart_studio.api
  • plotly.dashboard_objs -> chart_studio.dashboard_objs
  • plotly.grid_objs -> chart_studio.grid_objs
  • plotly.presentation_objs -> chart_studio.presentation_objs
• The legacy plotly.widgets.GraphWidget class for displaying online figures hosted by Chart Studio as ipywidgets has been removed. Please use the offline, and much more capable, plotly.graph_objects.FigureWidget class instead.
• The fileopt argument to chart_studio.plotly.plot has been removed, so in-place modifications to previously published figures are no longer supported, and a figure will always overwrite a figure with the same name.

Changed

• The 'plotly' template is used as the default theme across all figures.
• In order to reduce the size of the core plotly distribution package, the bundled geographic shape files used by the create_choropleth figure factory have been moved to a new optional plotly-geo distribution package (1604)
• For consistency with other figure factories, the create_choropleth and create_gantt figure factories now always returns Figure objects, rather than dictionaries (#1600, #1607).
• Figure add trace methods (.add_trace, .add_traces, .add_scatter, etc.) now return a reference to the calling figure, rather than the newly created trace (#1624)
• plotly.tools.make_subplots has been moved to plotly.subplots.make_subplots, though it is still available at the previous location for backward compatibility
• The plotly.graph_objs module has been moved to plotly.graph_objects, though it is still available at the previous location for backward compatibility (#1614)
• Trace uid properties are only generated automatically when a trace is added to a FigureWidget. When a trace is added to a standard Figure graph object the input uid, if provided, is accepted as is (#1580).
• datetime objects that include timezones are not longer converted to UTC (#1581)
• When a tuple property (e.g. layout.annotations) is updated with a list/tuple that is longer than the current value, the extra elements are appended to the end of the tuple.

Fixed

• Fixed visibility of bar trace error bars in built-in templates (1656)

v3.10.0

[3.10.0] - 2019-05-31

Updated

• Updated Plotly.js to version 1.48.1. See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information.

Added

• Added funnel trace (plotly/plotly.js#3817, plotly/plotly.js#3911)
• Added funnelarea traces (#3876, #3912)
• Added support for shared color axes via coloraxis attributes in the layout (#3803, #3786, #3901, #3916)
• Added support for sorting categorical cartesian axes by value (#3864)
• Added bingroup to histogram, histogram2d and histogram2dcontour to group traces to have compatible auto-bin values (#3845)
• Add legend itemclick and itemdoubleclick attributes to set or disable the legend item click and double-click behavior (#3862)
• Added support for calling orca through Xvfb to support static image export on Linux when X11 is not available (#1523).

Fixed

• Fixed PlotlyJSONEncoder encoding error when simplejson is installed (#1556, #1561)
• HTML export now honors the figure height specified in the figure template (#1560)
• Fixed display height of figure displayed in JupyterLab (#1572,
  #1571)
• Fixed honouring of the validate=False option for all renderer types (#1576)