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Makie.jl

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Velocity2.5

Data visualization ecosystem for Julia

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Makie is grinding through render backends while quietly growing interactive widgets

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◆Current state
The 0.24.x line ships roughly monthly with dense, contributor-heavy release notes. Recent work splits three ways: volume and contour rendering correctness, backend-specific repairs in GLMakie and CairoMakie such as glyph batching in PDF and SVG export and text glow, and a steady expansion of interactive elements - most notably an editable text recipe with selections, multi-cursor and paste. A reference-image release signals 0.25.0 is being staged.
◆Where it's heading
Two currents run together. Output fidelity is being levelled across backends so a figure looks the same whether it goes to screen, PDF or SVG, and the tick and text systems are being rebuilt on Makie's own primitives - scientific labels moved to RichText, dropping Showoff. Alongside that, Makie keeps accreting the widget vocabulary of a GUI toolkit rather than a plotting library.
◆Prediction
The reference-image work points at 0.25.0 as the next line, and the backlog of backend-parity fixes suggests it will carry rendering changes rather than new plot types. Expect the interactive widget set to keep growing off the textbox work.

◆Recent moves

  1. 8d ago

    Zero-division fix for meshscatter normals

    A reference-image update for the upcoming 0.25.0 line carrying a single fix for zero-division in meshscatter normals. Test-fixture maintenance rather than a user-facing release.

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  2. 1mo ago

    v0.24.13

    A backport release whose automated changelog was suppressed as unreliable, leaving no description of what changed. Nothing can be read from it.

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  3. 1mo ago

    Volume rendering weighting and contourf band fixes

    Volume rendering gets real attention: smaller float types persist through volume plots and additive samples are weighted by step size, fixing long-standing colorrange and clipping issues. contourf also stops dropping hollow bands around extrema.

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  4. 2mo ago

    Editable text recipe and RichText scientific tick labels

    The densest release in this window: an editable text recipe with selections, multi-cursor and paste, decade-aware ticks for pseudolog10 and Symlog10, and scientific tick labels rendered as RichText so the Showoff dependency drops. Backend fixes for macOS line drawing come alongside.

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  5. 3mo ago

    CairoMakie text glow and batched PDF/SVG glyph export

    Backend parity work: CairoMakie gains text glow rendering and batches glyphs in PDF and SVG export, while Legend can now be built from multiple axes and colorrange can adapt in one direction only.

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