Update Makie requirement to 0.24.8

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Updates the requirements on Makie to permit the latest version.

Release notes

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v0.24.8

Makie v0.24.8

Diff since v0.24.7

Merged pull requests:

• support RichText concatenation (#5221) (@​aplavin)
• CairoMakie: make poly respect linecap, joinstyle and miter_limit (#5415) (@​manuelbb-upb)
• Reexport GridLayoutBase.Protrusion, to be used with the Mixed alignment mode (#5416) (@​jmert)
• async latest for computepipeline (#5417) (@​SimonDanisch)
• Improve text bounding boxes (fix empty Menu, Textbox issues) (#5420) (@​ffreyer)
• Fix passthrough of Attributes() (#5422) (@​ffreyer)
• Bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6 (#5430) (@​dependabot[bot])
• Implement equality for RichText (#5437) (@​henrik-wolf)
• Fix poly(Rect2[...]) float precision issues in CairoMakie (#5441) (@​ffreyer)
• due to padding html widget textbox input would clip (#5447) (@​SimonDanisch)
• Update annotation to use the compute graph (#5448) (@​ffreyer)
• Fix marker updates not propagating in scatter (#5451) (@​ffreyer)
• Allow FFMPEG version 8. (#5452) (@​fredrikekre)
• Fix GLMakie precompilation when using native Wayland on COSMIC (#5453) (@​lpaulino07)
• Bump package versions (patch) (#5457) (@​github-actions[bot])

Closed issues:

• define * for rich text concatenation (#4393)
• convert_arguments runs twice (#5308)
• Legend with empty labels crashes in CairoMakie 0.15 but works in 0.14 (#5311)
• Empty strings no longer supported for Menu block options. (#5333)
• attribute values change even without assignments (#5348)
• Label initialized with empty string does not show new text (#5365)
• text from SliderGrid observables errors out (#5392)
• Inspector label gets incorrect position on Maximize/restore window button (#5425)
• Uses deprecated Formatting.jl (#5428)
• legend merging fails with rich labels (#5435)
• Barplots with limits do not display any data or incorrect data when made with CairoMakie. (#5440)

Changelog

Sourced from Makie's changelog.

[0.24.8] - 2025-12-04

• Introduce ComputePipeline.map_latest! for slow computations inside computegraph and add init kw for map! and map_latest! #5417.
• Improved handling of empty strings in text bounding boxes, fixing errors and broken layouting with empty strings in Label, Menu and Textbox #5420
• Added support for RichText concatenation using the * operator, e.g., "text" * rich("bold", font=:bold) #5221
• Reexport Protrusion from GridLayoutBase for use with the Mixed alignment mode #5416.
• Fixed poly(Rect2[...]) having float precision issues in CairoMakie #5441
• Fixed plot!(..., attr, ...) overwriting attr::Attributes #5422
• Fixed scatter markers not updating correctly #5451
• Fixed poly!() ignoring linecap, joinstyle, miter_limit and linestyle in CairoMakie #5415
• Fixed GLMakie precompilation error with native Wayland in COSMIC compositor #5453
• Translated annotation to compute graph and fix resizing updates #5448
• Improved handling of empty strings in text bounding boxes, fixing errors and broken layouting with empty strings in Label, Menu and Textbox #5420

[0.24.7] - 2025-11-18

• Fixed ComputePipeline.is_same for missing data #5327.
• Fixed resize_to in WGLMakie #5374.
• Fixed streamplot and contour plots not considering transform functions in arrow/text rotation #5249
• LogTicks now work well with pseudolog10 #5135
• Fixed Symlog10 to work correctly with lower or upper thresholds smaller than 1, and adds a linscale argument #5279
• Fixed xlims!/ylims! not fully propagating to linked axis #5239
• Added docstrings for undocumented plot attributes. Also fixed some missing attribute passthrough and expanded on the available attributes for recipes #5294
• Added support for plotting units with DynamicQuantities.jl #5280
• Adjusted compute nodes to keep unspecialized types when transitioning from one graph to another #5302
• Added a section to the CONTRIBUTING.md about code formatting #5337
• Fixed depthsorting = true in GLMakie scatter plots not sorting correctly depending on camera rotation #5344
• Added option to replace Makie native widgets with HTML based widget for WGLMakie #5285
• Fixed empty Label not updating #5362.
• Fixed band not working with StructArrays in CairoMakie #5381
• Updated scatterlines to include all remaining scatter attributes and pass all applicable attributes to its subplots #5388
• Adjusted stem so that dash and dot patterns of stems start at the trunk #5367
• Fixed heatmap, surface, image not ignoring -Inf/Inf values when computing their automatic colorrange #5384
• Fixed cases of heatmap not displaying with log10 scale and narrow xlims/ylims #5390
• Fixed outline based poly fats paths no considering transform functions in CairoMakie #5397
• Fixed manual DateTime and Time ticks given via StepRanges or AbstractVectors with or without formatters #5404.
• Fixed Menu erroring when changing size of options before display #5410
• Added stroke to band #5035
• Reduced whitespace in Axis3 when aspect ratios aren't 1. #5183
• Added a variant to qqplot that takes one positional argument and a distribution keyword to make it compatible with AlgebraOfGraphics #5413.

[0.24.6] - 2025-08-19

• Widened types for axis keys #5243
• Fixed getlimits(::Axis3) error related to unchecked access of :visible attribute.
• Add simple compression for arrays containing only the same value in WGLMakie #5252.
• Fixed 3D contour plots not rendering the correct isosurfaces when colorrange is given. Also fixed isorange not working, tweaked default isorange, colormap resolution, and changed colormap extractor for Colorbar to ignore alpha. #5213
• Fixed double application of alpha regression in Band plots in CairoMakie #5258.
• Updated boxplot, crossbar, density, hist, stephist, violin and waterfall to use the new compute graph instead of observables. #5184

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Commits

• f9b432d Bump package versions (patch) (#5457)
• 09fcab1 async latest for computepipeline (#5417)
• af16163 Fix GLMakie precompilation when using native Wayland on COSMIC (#5453)
• 6669916 Generalizes the text Base.show from 2D Axis to any AbstractAxis. (#5434)
• 2b2601e Allow FFMPEG version 8. (#5452)
• ca1a29d Update annotation to use the compute graph (#5448)
• 23bbce0 Improve text bounding boxes (fix empty Menu, Textbox issues) (#5420)
• 9fe79ab Fix poly(Rect2[...]) float precision issues in CairoMakie (#5441)
• 79180b9 Fix marker updates not propagating in scatter (#5451)
• d8e38de CairoMakie: make poly respect linecap, joinstyle and miter_limit (#5415)
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[asinghvi17]

ehh probably unnecessary, I'd skip