After an extended development stretch, we are pleased to announce the first release candidate of Matplotlib 3.11.0.

The largest change within this release is a complete overhaul of text and font processing. Through the use of libraqm, HarfBuzz, SheenBidi, and an updated release of FreeType, all text should now support modern font features, enabling full internationalization in all languages. Not all features of these libraries are supported yet, but we expect this work to enable further improvements in an easier manner. Due to the update to the font rendering stack, we cannot guarantee that text will be bit-for-bit perfect with previous releases, so if you are using Matplotlib for testing, it may be necessary to introduce/raise a tolerance within your tests.

Outside of text handling, there are several improvements to 3D Axes, performance, new accessible colour sequences, flexible figure management, and more. Final release notes are still being curated, but you may browse the list of new features, API changes, and all issues/pull requests on the milestone.

As a note for downstream packagers, the font libraries have only been tested against the versions bundled with the wheels. It may be possible to expand the range of requirements, or that a requirement is too broad. Please report any issues you have building against external dependencies.

This is a micro release of the v3.10.x series.
Highlights of this release include:

• Various minor bug and doc fixes
• Security hardening validation of cyclers - Removing eval usage
• Security hardening in Latex and PS calls - Removing shell escapes

This is a bugfix release in the 3.10.x series.

The primary highlights of this release are:

• Properly allow freethreaded mode in the MacOS backend
• Better error handling for MacOS backend

This is the latest bugfix release in the 3.10.x series.

The most important update in this release is that the minimum version
of pyparsing has been updated to version 3.0.

This is a bugfix release in the 3.10.x series.

Highlights from this release include:

- Fix regression of hi-dpi support for Qt
- Fix race condition in TexManager.make_dvi & make_png
- Various documentation and other bugfixes

This is the fourth bugfix release of the 3.10.x series.

Included in this release is distributed wheels for Python 3.14 (including freethreaded) and Windows ARM.

There are also several smaller bugfixes.

This is the third bugfix release of the 3.10.x series

This is the first bugfix release of the 3.10.x series.

This release contains several bug-fixes and adjustments:

• Respect array alpha with interpolation_stage='rgba' in _Imagebase::_make_image
• Remove md5 usage to prevent issues on FIPS enabled systems
• Fix pyplot.matshow figure handling
• Fix modifying Axes' position also alters the original Bbox object used for initialization
• Fix title position for polar plots
• Add version gate to GTK4 calls when necessary
• Raise warning if both c and facecolors are used in scatter plot

As well as several documentation improvements and corrections.

Highlights of this release include:

- Preliminary support for free-threaded CPython 3.13
- New more-accessible color cycle
- Dark-mode diverging colormaps
- Exception handling control
- InsetIndicator artist
- FillBetweenPolyCollection
- Fill between 3D lines
- Data in 3D plots can now be dynamically clipped to the axes view limits
- Rotating 3d plots with the mouse
- Increased Figure limits with Agg renderer
- Subfigures no longer provisional
- Subfigures are now added in row-major order

This is the fourth bugfix release of the 3.9.x series.

This release contains two bug-fixes:

• Fix toolbar icons in GTK backend
• Fix Poly3DCollection initialization with list of lists