Add 0.8.2 release notes (#980)

Author: maximlt

CHANGELOG.md

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-## Version 0.8.0
+# Changelog
 
-**May 8, 2022**
-
-The 0.8.0 release is a minor release with some exciting new features and a large number of bug fixes and enhancements. Many thanks to @FabianHofmann, @jomey, @ablythed, @jlstevens, @Hoxbro, @michaelaye, @MridulS, @ppwadhwa, @maximlt, @philippjfr for contributing!
-
-Main new features:
-- Add ability to call `.interactive()` on bound functions ([#720](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/720))
-- Add support to the Matplotlib and Plotly backends ([#653](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/653))
-- Add the `hvPlotExplorer`, a Panel UI component designed to explore data ([#638](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/638), [#639](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/639), [#651](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/651), [#710](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/710), [#726](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/726))
-
-Enhancements:
-- Interactive:
-  - Allow using getitem on an accessor in interactive ([#633](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/633))
-  - Allow attribute access on ufunc on interactive ([#635](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/635))
-  - Enhancements for `interactive` API ([#640](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/640))
-  - Flatten op_args to be able to find nested widgets ([#699](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/699))
-- Allow dynspread to be used with `rasterize` ([#637](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/637))
-- Add a title to xarray plots with scalar coords ([#659](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/659))
-- Adding `datashade` and `rasterize` options to scatter_matrix ([#495](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/495))
-- Update the default internal value of `clim` to support Matplotlib ([#679](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/679))
-- Ensure bokeh/panel extension is loaded only once ([#686](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/686))
-- Add support for planar layout from Networkx ([#700](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/700))
-- Wrap color in `hv.dim` when it matches a dimension/column ([#717](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/717))
-- Expose datashader line_width and rescale_discrete_levels options ([#731](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/731))
-- Improve array-like handling for x and y inputs ([#714](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/714))
-
-Fixes:
-- Interactive:
-  - Interactive fixes ([#630](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/630))
-  - Fix for interactive transform ([#632](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/632))
-  - Fix issue with accessors on interactive ([#641](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/641))
-  - Consistently dereference attribute access ([#642](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/642))
-- State that the data cannot be symmetric if it's empty ([#680](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/680))
-- Disable hover on errorbars plot ([#721](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/721))
-- Fix application of the scale argument for geoviews features ([#725](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/725))
-
-Documentation:
-- Add scatter matrix reference ([#689](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/689))
-- Plotting user guide enhancement ([#694](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/694))
-- Download a tutorial file with the right filename ([#711](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/711))
-- Add more imports to try/except import check ([#693](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/693))
-- Various minor documentation enhancements and fixes ([#625](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/625), [#643](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/643), [#644](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/644), [#663](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/663), [#678](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/678), [#722](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/722))
-
-Maintenance:
-- Drop support for Python 2.7, minimum supported version is now Python 3.6 ([#702](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/702))
-- Changed to `packaging.version` ([#708](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/708))
-
-## Version 0.7.3
-
-**August 4, 2021**
-
-This is a minor release focusing on greatly improving the
-[`.interactive()`](https://hvplot.holoviz.org/user_guide/Interactive.html)
-API for flexibly building simple apps using widget controls. Thanks to
-@jbednar and @jlstevens for a few small fixes and many thanks to
-@philippjfr for all the rest!
-
-Features:
-
-- Improved `.interactive` Dataframe support: max_rows display, column
-  access ([#640](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/640))
-- Improved accesssor and attribute behavior for `.interactive`
-  ([#633](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/633),
-  [#635](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/635),
-  [#641](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/641),
-  [#642](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/642))
-- Add `.holoviews()` terminal method to `.interactive` pipelines
-- Add support for kwargs to `.interactive.layout`
-- Misc fixes to `.interactive` API
-([#630](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/630),
-[#632](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/632))
-- Allow `dynspread=True` to be used with `rasterize=True` (now that
-  Datashader supports it)
-
-## Version 0.7.2
-
-**May 22, 2021**
-
-This is  a minor release with a number of bug fixes and enhancements.
-Many thanks to @StefanBrand, @loicduffar, @brl0, @michaelaye,
-@aaronspring, @toddrjen, @raybellwaves, @jlstevens, @jbednar and
-@philippjfr for contributing.
-
-Features:
-
-- Add support for geographic features ([#622](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/622))
-- Added support for OHLC plot ([#623](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/623))
-
-Enhancements:
-
-- Support setting options for diagonal plots in ``scatter_matrix`` ([#602](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/602))
-- Take ``group_label`` from columns if available ([#615](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/615))
-- Add kwargs to ``interactive.layout()``
-
-Bug fixes:
-
-- Fix support for ``clim`` on ``contours`` ([#587](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/587))
-- Adding default coordinates to datasets with missing coords ([#605](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/605))
-- Do not plot ``streamz`` example point ([#614](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/614))
-- Fix passing in multiple z-values ([#616](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/616))
-- Ensure ``violin`` and ``boxplot`` color is applied ([#619](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/))
-- Ensure categorical colormapping is applied during ``datashade`` ([#621](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/621))
-
-Compatibility:
-
-- Switch default tile source to ``OSM`` (since ``Wikipedia`` is no longer available) ([#610](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/610))
-
-Documentation:
-
-- Correctly document .hist rather than ``.histogram`` ([#571](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/571))
-- Use strings rather than bytes when referring to airplane dataset columns ([#538](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/issues/538))
-- Preserve function signature and docstring in ``with_hv_extension`` ([#601](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/601))
-- Add ``hover_cols`` example ([#612](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/612))
-- Switch to pydata sphinx theme ([#613](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/613))
-- Update available options in customization docs ([#620](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/620))
-
-## Version 0.7.1
-
-**March 3, 2021**
-
-Major new features:
-
-- Add Ibis backend, providing hvPlot features for lazy SQL queries ([#507](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/507))
-
-Enhancements:
-
-- Cycles for continuous colormaps ([#548)
-- Validate by column(s) ([#565)
-- Add `hover='vline'` `hover='hline'` options to expose Bokeh HoverTool mode ([#493](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/493))
-- Support streaming plots from HoloViews streams (not needing a streamz source) ([#542](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/542))
-
-Bug fixes:
-
-- Drop tuple NetworkX attributes to avoid errors ([#549](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/549))
-- Cast types after applying melt to data ([#566](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/566))
-
-## Version 0.7.0
-
-**November 18, 2020**
-
-Thanks to @philippjfr for managing this release and implementing most
-of the features, and to @jbednar, @ahuang11, and @AurelienSciarra for
-contributions.
-
-Major new features:
-
-- Powerful new `.interactive()` API for building easy apps ([#505](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/505), [#523](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/523))
-- New `transforms` argument to transform data in `.hvplot()` calls ([#526](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/526))
-
-Other new features and enhancements:
-
-- Support passing geographic projections as strings ([#372](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/372))
-- Improved data selection, e.g. for filtering on metadata ([#522](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/522))
-- Provide color_key to datashade as well as cmap, for convenience ([#525](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/525))
-- Update param warnings to new API ([#528](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/528))
-- Replace TravisCI tests with GitHub Actions ([#524](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/524))
-
-Bug fixes:
-
-- Fix for specifying ``hover_cols`` ([#504](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/504))
-- Remove outdated reference to `__main__` console script ([#494](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/494))
-- Misc doc fixes, including to Streaming.ipynb ([#481](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/481), [#511](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/511))
-- Handle ``node_shape`` for networkx ([#527](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/527))
-
-## Version 0.6.0
-
-**June 1, 2020**
-
-This release includes major contributions from @philippjfr (overall
-maintenance and bugfixes) and @jsignell (reference gallery), plus
-additional contributions from @slamer59 (environment), @anitagraser
-(examples), @itcarroll (color_key alias), @Timothy-W-Hilton (bugfix),
-@jbednar (bugfix), @SandervandenOord (fontscale), and @jordansamuels
-(doc fixes).
-
-New features:
-
-- Improved ``save`` and ``show`` utilities ([#451](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/451))
-- Improved compatibility for tab completion ([#411](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/411))
-- Major performance enhancement with Datashader in some cases ([#465](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/465))
-- Add support for cuDF ([#454](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/454), [#466](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/466))
-- Support `by` argument for categorical aggregation ([#461](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/461))
-- Support ``color_key`` alias ([#446](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/446), [#458](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/458))
-- Support ``spatialpandas`` for large sets of polygons ([#459](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/459))
-- Add ``fontscale`` keyword ([#397](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/397))
-
-Bug fixes and compatibility:
-
-- Fixed ``'title_format'`` deprecation warning ([#428](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/428))
-- Avoid sorting overlays, to make color cycles consistent ([#475](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/475))
-- Fix inference of non-declared index coordinates ([#329](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/329))
-- Improved handling of indexes on flattened grid ([#452](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/452))
-- Preserve ``Dataset.pipeline`` ([#453](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/453))
-- Fixes for option handling ([#458](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/458))
-
-Documentation:
-
-- Added (a start to) a reference gallery
-- Added heat and trees example to topics ([#378](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/378))
-- Replaced sphinx_pyviz_theme with sphinx_holoviz_theme ([#366](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/366))
-- Removed references to pyviz ([#373](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/373))
-- Fix networkx documentation ([#476](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/476))
-
-## Version 0.5.2
-
-
-**October 17, 2020**
-
-This release mostly includes contributions from @jsignell.
-
-- Allow tile sources to be objects as well as strings ([#345](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/345))
-- Set ``geo=True`` by default for coastline ([#344](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/344))
-- Add ``check_symmetric_max`` limit for working with large data ([#340](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/340))
-- Expose plot at top level, to support `pd.options.plotting.backend = 'hvplot'` ([#347](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/347))
-- Misc bug fixes ([#341](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/341), [#343](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/343), [#346](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/346))
-
-## Version 0.5.1
-
-**October 13, 2019**
-
-Minor release with updates to continuous integration setup (from @jsignell).
-
-## Version 0.5.0
-
-**October 10, 2019**
-
-This is a major release that includes bug fixes, changes to default behavior, and enhancements.
-
-Features:
- - Widget handling capabilities to facilitate interactivity ([#323](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/323), [#331](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/331))
- - New default colormaps ([#258](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/258), [#316](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/316), [#206](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/206))
- - long_name(units) used to label xarray objects ([#173](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/173))
- - Derived datetime accessor handlind ([#263](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/263), [#286](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/286))
- - `coastline` and `tiles` options for easy geo plots.
- - Automatic date sorting ([#259](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/259))
- - Allow use of strings as aggregators for datashader ([#257](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/257))
-
-## Version 0.4.0
-
-**January 28, 2019**
-
-This is a major release which includes the addition of a networkx
-plotting API and a number of important bug fixes.
-
-Features:
-
-- A new NetworkX interface providing equivalents for the networkx plotting module ([#152](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/152), [#154](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/154))
-
-Fixes:
-
-- Fixed handling of labelled property to hide axis labels ([#142](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/142))
-- Fixed handling of DataArrays and groupby on RGB plots ([#138](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/138), [#141](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/141))
-- Allow setting axis position ([#149](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/149))
-- Fixes for setting the axis positions ([#145](https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/145))
-
-## Version 0.3.0
-
-**January 7, 2019**
-
-This release includes a number of major improvements to the documentation and core functionality as well as a variety of bug fixes.
-
-- Added improved docstrings including all available options ([#103](https://github.com/pyviz/hvplot/pull/103), [#134](https://github.com/pyviz/hvplot/pull/134))
-- Added support for tab-completion in interactive environments such as IPython and Jupyter notebooks ([#134](https://github.com/pyviz/hvplot/pull/134))
-- Added support for ``rgb`` ([#137](https://github.com/pyviz/hvplot/pull/137)) and ``labels`` ([#98](https://github.com/pyviz/hvplot/pull/98)) plot types
-- Exposed bokeh styling options for all plot types ([#134](https://github.com/pyviz/hvplot/pull/134))
-- Compatibility with latest HoloViews/GeoViews releases ([#113](https://github.com/pyviz/hvplot/pull/113), [#118](https://github.com/pyviz/hvplot/pull/118), [#134](https://github.com/pyviz/hvplot/pull/134))
-- Added control over tools ([#120](https://github.com/pyviz/hvplot/pull/120)) and legend position ([#119](https://github.com/pyviz/hvplot/pull/119))
+For the release notes, please consult ./doc/releases.md

doc/index.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ width: 70%
 
 ---
 
-By replacing `.plot()` with `.hvplot()` you get an interactive figure. Try it out below! 
+By replacing `.plot()` with `.hvplot()` you get an interactive figure. Try it out below!
 
 ```{code-cell} ipython3
 import hvplot.pandas