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 Chaco CHANGELOG
 ===============
 
+Release 5.0.0
+-------------
+
+New features/Improvements
+
+* Add rectangular selection tool (#482)
+* Add missing property index_range to 1D plots (#491)
+* Support renderer traits (#514)
+
+Removals/Deprecations
+
+* Remove uses of PyArray_FromDims (#503)
+* Remove unused _speedups module (#504)
+* Remove SelectableOverlayPlotContainer and references to it (#574)
+* Remove chaco.datamapper and subdivision code (#577)
+* Remove serializable module and its tests (#598)
+* Delete codecov yaml configuration file (#622)
+* Remove examples for the vtk backend in chaco (#645)
+* Kill chaco.shell and related code (#667)
+* Remove objects/modules which explicitly raised a deprecation warning (#670)
+* Remove "chaco.scatter_markers" module (#677)
+* Delete "chaco.chaco_version" (#678)
+* Remove deprecated "ColorMapper._map" method (#684)
+* Delete sample_template.plt (#685)
+* Remove ChacoPlotItem / ChacoPlotEditor (#688)
+* Delete scalar_image_function_inspector_old.py (#689)
+* Officially deprecated VariableSizeScatterPlot (#691)
+* Remove PlotFrames (#692)
+* Delete "test_style.pss" (#697)
+* Remove plot_template.py (#702)
+* Remove a couple redundant old files (#711)
+* Delete PopupablePlot (#717)
+
+Fixes
+
+* Fix typo in the error name (#484)
+* Fix attempts to get the shape attribute of a list or tuple. (#487)
+* Fix scrollbar demo and update docstring (#489)
+* Fix stacked bar plot example, by using the correct starting_value (#498)
+* Limit the min zoom out factor along x axis to prevent date range error (#500)
+* Do not expose 'auto' for infinite series (#501)
+* Fix zoomout issues (#505)
+* Fix zoom not working with contour plots (#506)
+* Fix and clean up multiaxis.py example (#513)
+* Enforce underscore for click command (#523)
+* Handle index=None in ScatterInspector (#540)
+* Have ArrayDataSource.get_data return empty(shape=0,)), not 0.0 if _data is None (#578)
+* Return correct sized tuples of all 0s not None if image plot resized too small (#589)
+* Resolve the NotifierNotFound error in testsuite (#601)
+* Catch nans before they cause crash in auto_ticks (#636)
+* Fix windows/pyqt test_dont_crash_on_click failure (#663)
+* Use draw_marker_at_points if possible otherwise use draw_path_at_points in ColormappedScatterPlot (#672)
+* Fix a couple of demos (#676)
+* Use plot_range_event (aka event.new) not just event in stock_prices (#728)
+* Fix broken test and handle case when _data is None in ArrayDataSource.get_data_mask() (#731)
+* Replace [] default for data with None (#734)
+
+Documentation/examples
+
+* Documentation Refactor (#462)
+* Setup online redirect and proper index page for docset (#517)
+* Replace all jet color map use in examples with viridis (#557)
+* Update various comments and docstrings (#567)
+* Clean up updates for basic_elements docs pages (#570)
+* Use Enthought Sphinx Theme if available. (#571)
+* Fix broken image links on quickstart page (#588)
+* Replace handmade api docs with autogenerated api docs (#637)
+* Miscellaneous documentation fixes/changes (#642)
+* Add module doc string for chaco.api (#649, #665)
+* Use #: instead of # when needed (#650)
+* Update modules_and_classes.rst (#652)
+* Remove annotated examples from the usermanual (#653)
+* Use sphinx todo for currently empty sections of docs (#654)
+* Remove optparse from example (#655)
+* Delete the quickstart page from the docs (#668)
+* Remove references to chaco.shell from the documentation (#669)
+* Update van der waal example (#680)
+* Remove scipy tutorial content (#681)
+* Remove chaco_talk_apr_2008 from docs (#682)
+* Update hyetograph example (#687)
+* Remove unused images from codebase (#712)
+* Organize annotated examples (#721)
+* Link to "how do i", not "faq", from home page (#722)
+* Matplotlib to chaco cheatsheet in docs (#723)
+
+Maintenance
+
+* Import from traits.api instead of from traits.has_traits (#509)
+* Remove commented code (#511, #556, #582, #647)
+* Drop Python < 3.6 support (#554, #555)
+* Remove redundant 'control' in ZoomTool (#565)
+* Clean up style, fix warnings and broken links in tutorials/examples/faq (#568)
+* Update copyright year in license.txt (#569)
+* Remove EOF file markers (#579)
+* Remove unnecessary unittest.main calls in tests (#581)
+* Replace on_trait_change with observe (#585, #590, #591, #625, #630)
+* Remove dummy return statements (#592, #593, #594)
+* Run black on the codebase (#599)
+* Remove outdated coverage badge (#623)
+* Use requires_redraw when possible (#626)
+* Deal with __getstate__ methods (#633)
+* Dont alias traitsui.api as tui (#634)
+* Use api modules for ETS packages where possible (#643)
+* Remove unnecessary print statements (#646)
+* Use @property decorator instead of property function (#651)
+* Its TraitsUI, not Traits UI (#656)
+* Remove unnecessary uses of "use_draw_order" (#661)
+* Remove all uses/definitions of use_draw_order (#671)
+* Import color palette from chaco.api directly (#675)
+* Remove backwards compatibily imports from enable (#679)
+* Move tests in "tests_with_backend" submodule into "tests" submodule (#683)
+* Rename test so it is discovered by unittest discover (#693)
+* Cleanup License files (#696)
+* Update "super" usage (#703, #706, #725)
+* Use a plot default method instead of overriding the init method in examples (#704, #709)
+* Replace custom "assert_raises" with "unittest.TestCase.assertRaises" (#705)
+* Concatenate change logs (#710)
+* Re-export PolarLineRenderer and PolarMapper from chaco.api (#732)
+* Add editable option to ci install command (#733)
+* Remove calls to Component._draw_component (#737)
+* Add new chaco.plots submodule (#738)
+* Use mock through unittest (#740)
+* Consolidate overlays into "chaco.overlays" (#741)
+* Replace bg_color with bgcolor (#742)
+* Revive ScalyPlot (#744)
+
+Build/CI
+
+* Update edm and install/config scripts (#492)
+* Use Cython to build extension modules (#502)
+* Remove Python 2.7, 3.5 testing, add PyQt 5 (#524)
+* Add source click option used on cron jobs to install ets packages from source (#532)
+* Switch on default warning flag for CI test command (#537)
+* Use PySide2 from EDM instead of PyPI and Use the latest EDM version (3.0.1) (#538)
+* Disable macOS builds on Travis CI (#543)
+* Fix cron job not installing additional dependencies (#544)
+* Add ci command for building documentation (#566)
+* Run flake8 on CI but ignore all existing errors (#600)
+* Add GitHub Actions CI workflow (#631)
+* Import version from installed package if the file doesnt exist (#644)
+* Skip test_dont_crash_on_click on windows/pyqt (#666)
+* Cleanup ci module and setup (#695)
+* Unskip no longer failing test (#714)
+* Add pyproject.toml specifying numpy and cython as build deps (#730)
+* Add pyproject.toml to MANIFEST.in (#747)
+
 Release 4.8.0
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