# \[ANN\] Makie@0.19.7 release

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-0-19-7-release/102162
**Category:** Package Announcements
**Tags:** announcement, plotting, makie
**Created:** [July 27, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-0-19-7-release/102162 "2023-07-27T15:44:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![sdanisch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sdanisch/32/1406_2.png) [@sdanisch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sdanisch)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-0-19-7-release/102162/1 "2023-07-27T15:44:29Z")

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We’re happy to release a new Makie version 🙂  
Read all about it on the [Makie blog](https://blog.makie.org/blogposts/v0.19.7)!  
It may be a patch version, but it offers lots of fixes/improvements and new features like polar axis:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/7/5/75311a4234bb2d161ab069ace3d110f99dcb78b0.jpeg)

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### Author: ![jw3126](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jw3126/32/3086_2.png) [@jw3126](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jw3126)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2023, 5:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-0-19-7-release/102162/2 "2023-07-28T05:22:00Z")

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This looks very nice, congrats! I wonder why is it a patch release and not a minor version bump?

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### Author: ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2023, 5:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-0-19-7-release/102162/3 "2023-07-28T05:40:18Z")

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Presumably because Makie is pre 1.0, so that minor Version bumps are considered breaking. In other words, you can’t distinguish feature from patch releases if you’re at 0.x.y

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### Author: ![jw3126](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jw3126/32/3086_2.png) [@jw3126](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jw3126)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2023, 5:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-0-19-7-release/102162/4 "2023-07-28T05:45:03Z")

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Ah right totally makes sense…

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### Author: ![sijo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sijo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sijo)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2023, 10:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-0-19-7-release/102162/5 "2023-07-28T10:58:56Z")

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Very happy to see the `alpha` keyword! I’ve had several cases where I wanted to use transparency as another dimension independent from the color itself, which was previously awkward. Hopefully next time I can do `alpha=values` and have it work orthogonally to the colormap 🙂