Hello, We are pleased to announce the release of matplotlib 1.4.1. This is a 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 Source tarballs are available on sourceforge, github, and pypi. In addition wheels for both mac and windows are available on both pypi and source forge and windows executable installers are available on source forge. http://matplotlib.org/downloads.html https://pypi.python.org/pypi/matplotlib/1.4.1 The matplotlib dev team