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0.12.3 (Oct 2016)

Bokeh Version 0.12.3 is a minor, incremental update that adds a few new small features and fixes several bugs. Some of the highlights include:

  • BokehJS reduced in size by nearly twenty percent
  • New Categorical color mapper
  • Tap tool and tooltips working for VBar and HBar
  • Better hover tool support for some Charts
  • Auto-generate legends from data in a column
  • Many small bugfixes

NOTE: the 0.12.x series is the last planned release series before a version 1.0 release. The focus of the 1.0 release will be implementing build automation to enforce API stability, and a very small number of high value features.

Migration Guide

As the project approaches a 1.0 release, it is necessary to make some changes to bring interfaces and functionality up to a point that can be maintained long-term. We try to limit such changes as much as possible, and have a period of deprecation.

Specifying Font Sizes

Setting text font size properties directly as strings (e.g. font_size="10pt") has been UN-DEPRECATED. This usage will continue to work, without any further deprecation warning. (https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/pull/5274)

output_server

The output_server function is deprecated and will be removed in the near future. Use bokeh.client functions such as push_session instead. (https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/pull/5225)

Glyph Methods and Data Sources

It is now deprecated to supply both sequence literals and an explicit source to glyph methods. For example:

p.circle([1,2,3], y='foo', source=source)  # BAD

Either provide only sequence literals, e.g:

p.circle([1,2,3], y=[4,5,6])

or put all data into the explicitly provided source, e.g:

p.circle(x='foo, y='foo', source=source)

The older usage will continue to function for some time with a deprecation warning, and will result in an error in a future release. (https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/pull/5187)

FuncTickFormatter

FuncTickFormatter instances using JavaScript or CoffeeScript now require code snippets (i.e., function bodies) instead of full function definitions. Additionally, these formatters now accept Bokeh models as arguments so that the models can be readily available to the formatter function code. (https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/pull/4659/files)

Legend

Several legend properties had duplicative legend_ prefixes. The following property names have been changed:

old property name new property name
legend_margin margin
legend_padding padding
legend_spacing spacing

The old property names will continue to work for some time with a deprecation warning.

Additionally, the legends property of Legend has been renamed to items, and given a new type. The new type now accepts a list of LegendItem models, instead of a list of tuples. The previous format is still accepted for convenience and compatibility and values are converted automatically. The legends property will also continue to work for some time with a deprecation warning.(https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/pull/5229)

Dimensions

Specifying dimensions for tools has changed. The 'x' and 'y' aliases for 'width' and 'height' have been immediately removed. Additionally, instead of List(Enum(Dimension), dimensions are now specified more simply as Enum(Dimension) with valid values "width", "height", and "both". The previous format will continue to work for some time and be converted automatically with a deprecation warning. (https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/pull/5225)

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