Version 0.9.0

The 0.9.0 release is a minor release with some exciting new features and a large number of bug fixes and enhancements. Many thanks to @rdesai9 (first contribution!), @dogbunny (first contribution!), @bikegeek (first contribution!), @ahuang11, @droumis, @hoxbro, @MarcSkovMadsen, @maximlt and @philippjfr for their contributions. A special thanks to @ahuang11 and @hoxbro without who these release notes would be much shorter!

New features:

• The Explorer has been extended with the following features:
  • Support for Xarray data, enhanced geographic support and add a live update checkbox (#1141)
  • Display the code snippet within a tab (#1156)
  • Allow defining options passed to plot.opts() (#1171)
• Add experimental Fugue integration (#1102)
• Add basic Polars integration (#1129)

Enhancements:

• Add .hvplot.explorer() as an alternate entry point to create an explorer (#1154)
• Add the resample_when option to dynamically enable datashade/rasterize/downsample (#1103)
• Expose the HoloViews timeseries downsampling algorithm (LTTB) with the downsample option (#1127, #1157)
• Expose the HoloViews autorange option (#1128, #1158, #1174)
• Allow string formatting for labels plots (#1140)
• Support plots that use by with rasterize with HoloViews ImageStack (#1132, #1144)
• Update show to return the configured Server or StoppableThread (#1121)

Bug fixes:

• Do not force geo=True if tiles are provided (#1083, #1113)
• Fix x-limit, y-limit, and rasterize support for geo features (#1135, #1163)
• Fix handling WKT strings and add pyproj.CRS support (#1092, #1139)
• Underlay land and ocean features (#1151)
• Fix .hist for the Ibis data source (#997)
• No longer suggest installing datashader and geoviews from the pyviz channel (#1130)
• Silence GDAL exceptions warning (#1142)

Documentation:

• Various docs improvements and addition of an Integrations guide (#1084, #1173, #1177)
• Extending the reference gallery (#999)
• Added extra size parameter to scatter plot example (#1118)

Compatibility:

• Preparations before the release of Param 2.0 (#1146, #1164)
• Pin Param to <3.0 (#1175)
• Drop Python 3.6 and 3.7 (#1077)

Infrastructure / Tests:

• Add Dask DataFrame plot test (#1131)
• Add codespell to pre-commit (#1172)
• Add OpenCollective sponsor link on the repo page (#1123)

Full changelog