matplotlib: v1.5.0 Release Candidate 1

Michael Droettboom, John Hunter, Thomas A Caswell, Eric Firing, Phil Elson, Darren S. Dale, Jae‐Joon Lee, Benjamin T. Root, Jens Hedegaard Nielsen, Damon McDougall, Jouni K. Seppänen, Andrew David Straw, Ryan May, Nelle Varoquaux, Tony S Yu, Charlie Moad, Steven Silvester, Eric Ma, Christoph Gohlke, Peter Würtz · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2015

First release candidate for the 1.5.0 series. This release contains many new features. The highlights include: the object oriented API will now automatically re-draw the figure when working in the command line automatic unpacking of labeled data into most plotting functions arbitrary style cycling four new perceptually linear color maps mouse-over for pixel values with imshow many new rcparams In addition there are significant improvements to nbagg and a complete overhaul of the c++ bindings to AGG. Please see the drafts of the full whats new and api changes

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