v6.0.0

[6.0.0] - 2025-01-28

Added

• Add plotly[express] extra for easily installing Plotly Express dependencies [#4644]
• Add subtitle attribute to all Plotly Express traces [#4830].

Removed

• Drop deprecated pointcloud and heatmapgl traces from the API [#4815]
• Drop tenacity dependency [#4831]
• Drop support for Jupyter Notebook version 6 and earlier [#4822]. The minimum supported version is now 7.0.0.

Updated

• Update Plotly.js from version 2.34.2 to version 3.0.0 See the plotly.js CHANGELOG for more information. These changes are reflected in the auto-generated plotly.graph_objects module. Notable changes include:
  • Make offsetgroup work with barmode "stacked" and "relative" for bar traces [#7009]
  • Drop support for deprecated attributes titlefont, titleposition, titleside, and titleoffset [#7212].
  • Drop deprecated pointcloud and heatmapgl traces and gl2d subplots [#7213]
  • Drop support for deprecated bardir attribute (use orientation instead) [#7214]
  • Drop support for deprecated annotation.ref attribute (use annotation.xref and annotation.yref instead) [#7215]
  • Drop support for deprecated error bar opacity attribute (use alpha channel of error bar color attribute instead) [#7214]
  • Drop support for deprecated attribute gl3d.cameraposition (use gl3d.camera instead) [#7217]
  • Drop deprecated plot3dPixelRatio from config [#7231]
  • Drop deprecated zauto, zmin and zmax from the surface trace [#7234]
  • Drop deprecated autotick attributes from cartesian axes [#7236]
  • Drop transforms from the API [#7240, #7254]
• Deprecate Mapbox-based traces.[#4900]. See the MapLibre Migration page for details on migrating from Mapbox to Maplibre.
• Update plotly.py to use base64 encoding of typed arrays e.g. numpy in plotly JSON to keep precision intact and improve performance [#4470].
• Make plotly-express dataframe agnostic via Narwhals [#4790].
• Update go.FigureWidget to use anywidget [#4823]
• Use modern native ES6 import to load plotly.js bundle instead of requirejs which is no longer under active development [#4736]

Fixed

• Fix a bug in JupyterLab >= 4 and Jupyter Notebook >= 7 that caused LaTeX to not render in plotly charts [#4763].
• Fix go.FigureWidget.show to return FigureWidget instead of displaying Figure [#4869]