This is the second minor release in the Matplotlib 2.x series and the first
release with major new features since 1.5.

This release contains approximately 2 years worth of work by 275 contributors
across over 950 pull requests.  Highlights from this release include:

- support for string categorical values
- export of animations to interactive javascript widgets
- major overhaul of polar plots
- reproducible output for ps/eps, pdf, and svg backends
- performance improvements in drawing lines and images
- GUIs show a busy cursor while rendering the plot


along with many other enhancements and bug fixes.

This previews the new default style and many bug-fixes.  A full list of
the style changes will be collected for the final release.

In addition to the style change this release includes:
- overhaul of font handling/text rendering to be faster and clearer
- many new rcParams
- Agg based OSX backend
- optionally deterministic SVGs
- complete re-write of image handling code
- simplified color conversion
- specify colors in the global property cycle via `'C0'`,
`'C1'`... `'C9'`
- use the global property cycle more places (bar, stem, scatter)

There is a 'classic' style sheet which reproduces the 1.Y defaults:

import matplotlib.style as mstyle
mstyle.use('classic')

This is the second and final planned release candidate for mpl v2.0

This release includes:
- Bug fixes and documentation changes
- Expanded API on plot_surface and plot_wireframe
- Pin font size at text creation time
- Suppress fc-cache warning unless it takes more than 5s

This is the first release candidate for mpl v2.0

This release includes:
- A re-implementation of the way margins are handled during auto
scaling to allow artists to 'stick' to an edge of the Axes
- Improvements to the ticking with log and symlog scales
- Deprecation of the finance module.  This will be spun off into a stand-alone package
- Deprecation of the 'hold' machinery 
- Bumped the minimum numpy version to 1.7
- Standardization of hatch width and appearance across backends
- Made threshold for triggering 'offset' in `ScalarFormatter` configurable
and default to 4 (plotting against years should just work now)
- Default encoding for mp4 is now h264
- `fill_between` and `fill_betweenx` now use the color cycle
- Default alignment of bars changed from 'edge' to 'center'
- Bug and documentation fixes

Fourth and final beta release

Third beta for v2.0.0 release

This tag includes several critical bug fixes and updates the dash patterns.

This release contains a few critical bug fixes:
- eliminate fatal exceptions with Qt5.7
- memory leak in the contour code
- keyboard interaction bug with nbagg
- automatic integration with the ipython event loop (if running) which
fixes 'naive' integration for IPython 5+

Final planned release for the 1.5.x series.