Next API changes#

This page lists API changes for the next release.

Behavior changes#

• Behavior change template
• Text.set_font now performs a partial update for string arguments
• Axes.violinplot and cbook.violin_stats ignore non-finite values

Deprecations#

• Template for deprecations
• pie labels and labeldistance parameters
• Direct modification of (Sub)Figure artist lists
• MaxNLocator.default_params
• The Axes.ArtistList attribute
• Line2D.recache_always

Removals#

• Removal change template
• ft2font module-level constants replaced by enums
• FontProperties initialization
• Passing floating-point values to RendererAgg.draw_text_image
• Passing floating-point values to FT2Image

Development changes#

• Development change template
• Increase to minimum supported versions of dependencies
• PySide2 support