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