Matplotlib Enhancement Proposals#
Matplotlib Enhancement Proposals (MEP), inspired by cpython'sPEP's but less formal, are designdocuments for large or controversial changes to Matplotilb. Thesedocuments should provide a discussion of both why and how the changesshould be made.
To create a new MEP open a pull request (PR) adding a file based onthe template to this the MEP directory. For theinitial PR only a rough description is required and it should bemerged quickly. Further detailed discussion can happen in follow onPRs.
- Release:
3.11.0.dev1563+g90748a566
- Date:
October 08, 2025
- MEP8: PEP8
- MEP9: Global interaction manager
- MEP10: Docstring consistency
- MEP11: Third-party dependencies
- MEP12: Improve Gallery and Examples
- MEP13: Use properties for Artists
- MEP14: Text handling
- MEP15: Fix axis autoscaling when limits are specified for one axis only
- MEP19: Continuous Integration
- MEP21: color and cm refactor
- MEP22: Toolbar rewrite
- MEP23: Multiple Figures per GUI window
- MEP24: Negative radius in polar plots
- MEP25: Serialization
- MEP26: Artist styling
- MEP27: Decouple pyplot from backends
- MEP28: Remove Complexity from Axes.boxplot
- MEP29: Text light markup