# \[ANN\] Makie v0.18

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-v0-18/88653>\
**Category:** Package Announcements\
**Tags:** package, announcement, plotting, makie\
**Created:** [October 13, 2022, 10:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-v0-18/88653 "2022-10-13T10:51:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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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:** [October 13, 2022, 10:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-v0-18/88653/1 "2022-10-13T10:51:56Z")

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We’re happy to announce Makie v0.18!

It’s a big release that we put lots of work into. It contains a few breaking changes but these should hopefully only cause minor inconvenience. You can find all the highlights in our [blogpost](https://blog.makie.org/blogposts/v0.18.html)

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/3/3/33928d6403d96b43fd78236978f5717394e143b9.png)

You can also have a look at [NEWS.md](https://docs.makie.org/stable/news/) for a selection of the most important changes.

And finally, the [v0.18 tag](https://github.com/MakieOrg/Makie.jl/releases/tag/v0.18.0) with every PR and issue closed and everyone who has contributed.

In other news, we moved all Makie packages to [MakieOrg](https://github.com/MakieOrg), and all github pages are now subdomains of `makie.org`:

[docs.makie.org](http://docs.makie.org), [geo.makie.org](http://geo.makie.org), [aog.makie.org](http://aog.makie.org), [beautiful.makie.org](http://beautiful.makie.org), [graph.makie.org](http://graph.makie.org)

This is part of the effort to stabilize and polish the Makie ecosystem 🙂

If you are working on a Makie package and are searching for a friendly org for it, feel free to PM me to help transfer it there.

We’re also currently planning the first **MakieCon** in Jena (Germany), if you’re interested you can join the discussion at the [Makie](https://discord.gg/7rcHHprU3V) discord!

Happy upgrading!

@jules & @sdanisch

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**Author:** ![wsshin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/wsshin/32/360_2.png) [@wsshin](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/wsshin)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-v0-18/88653/2 "2022-10-14T10:43:55Z")

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After upgrading to v0.18, plotting in VScode does not open the plot pane, even though “VScode \> Settings \> Extensions \> Julia \> Use Plot Pane” is checked. Instead, a .png file is generated and an external PDF viewer opens.

Is this an intended change? How can I recover the previous behavior?

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2022, 11:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-v0-18/88653/3 "2022-10-14T11:12:50Z")

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Not intended, there’s already an issue about it: [VSCode Plot Pane not working with CairoMakie v0.9.0 · Issue #2331 · MakieOrg/Makie.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/MakieOrg/Makie.jl/issues/2331)  
Things like that sometimes slip through because we can’t test VSCode plot pane behavior on CI, it should be fixed soon though.

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**Author:** ![Cory\_Simon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cory_simon/32/3950_2.png) [@Cory\_Simon](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Cory_Simon)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-v0-18/88653/4 "2022-10-18T22:40:56Z")

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woo-hoo for hexagonal bins!

would be neat if the creative data viz folks could pool together their cool Makie themes and make PRs to extend the list here:  
[https://docs.makie.org/v0.18.0/documentation/theming/predefined\_themes/index.html](https://docs.makie.org/v0.18.0/documentation/theming/predefined_themes/index.html)  
to make a larger library of themes.

e.g. a “scientific pub” theme for publication-ready plots. and something like how seaborn has `paper`, `notebook`, `talk`, and `poster` themes for different sized-plots. for _every_ Pluto notebook, I do ~:

```julia
	update_theme!(
		fontsize=20, 
		linewidth=4,
		markersize=14,
		resolution=(500, 380),
	)

```

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**Author:** ![liuyxpp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/liuyxpp/32/9870_2.png) [@liuyxpp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/liuyxpp)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 1:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-v0-18/88653/5 "2022-10-19T01:12:21Z")

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I have developed a package for creating publication quality figures, [MakiePublication.jl](https://github.com/liuyxpp/MakiePublication.jl). Maybe you will be interested. Feel free to comment and make PRs. The full doc is [here](http://www.yxliu.group/MakiePublication.jl/dev/).

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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:** [October 24, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-v0-18/88653/6 "2022-10-24T22:21:10Z")

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[Makie 0.18.1](https://github.com/MakieOrg/Makie.jl/releases/tag/v0.18.1) has just been released, which brings back `inline!` to fix the issue with the plotpane!