This is the last planned bug-fix release in the 1.4 series.

Many bugs are fixed including:

• fixing drawing of edge-only markers in AGG
• fix run-away memory usage when using %inline or saving with
  a tight bounding box with QuadMesh artists
• improvements to wx and tk gui backends

Additionally the webagg and nbagg backends were brought closer to
feature parity with the desktop backends with the addition of keyboard
and scroll events thanks to Steven Silvester.

Minor bug-fix release for 1.4 series

• regenerated pyplot.py

Bug-fix release for the 1.4 series.

• reverts the changes to interactive plotting so ion will work as
  before in all cases
• fixed boxplot regressions
• fixes for finding freetype and libpng
• sundry unicode fixes (looking up user folders, importing
  seaborn/pandas/networkx with macosx backend)
• nbagg works with python 3 + new font awesome
• fixed saving dialogue in QT5

This release has contributions from ~170 authors
(http://matplotlib.org/users/github_stats.html).

This release contains many bug fixes as will as a number of new
features. For the full list see
http://matplotlib.org/users/whats_new.html#new-in-matplotlib-1-4.
Some highlights are:

• style module : experimental package to make managing the style of
  matplotlib figures easier
• nbagg : interactive figures in ipython notebooks backed by the AGG renderer
• full python 3 support (including cairo backends)
• Qt5 support (for python 3 only)
• violin plots and 3D quiver plots (projects done for a course at
  University of Toronto, Scarborough)
• improved box plot interface