# \[Ann\] Makie v0.19.5 and new blogpost

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-v0-19-5-and-new-blogpost/99235>\
**Category:** Package Announcements\
**Created:** [May 22, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-v0-19-5-and-new-blogpost/99235 "2023-05-22T16:10:42Z")\
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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:** [May 22, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-v0-19-5-and-new-blogpost/99235/1 "2023-05-22T16:10:42Z")

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Exciting updates from the Makie universe!🎉  
Check out the latest blogpost to learn about the Makie@0.19.5 release, exciting developments in the Makie community and what came out off MakieCon!

A few teasers (more content in the [blogpost](https://blog.makie.org/blogposts/May-2023-News.html)):

## Makie is now the most starred Julia plotting library

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/2/2/2216d35703e59330c9e33c87c99337daca50dd9a.png)

## Datashader in Makie - visualize massive data sets

[https://github.com/MakieOrg/Makie.jl/assets/1010467/f13c3ae0-0250-4feb-a9ec-08bc40fe44a5(image larger than 10 MB)](https://github.com/MakieOrg/Makie.jl/assets/1010467/f13c3ae0-0250-4feb-a9ec-08bc40fe44a5)

## Added contour labels [#2496](https://github.com/MakieOrg/Makie.jl/pull/2496)

![](https://github.com/MakieOrg/Makie.jl/assets/1010467/0c94a1f6-8e10-4dc9-afbd-a1720c14d8b5)

## [Miner.jl](https://github.com/ashwani-rathee/Miner.jl)

[https://blog.makie.org/miner.gif(image larger than 10 MB)](https://blog.makie.org/miner.gif)

## [TidierPlots.jl](https://github.com/TidierOrg/TidierPlots.jl)

```julia
using CairoMakie; CairoMakie.activate!(type=:png)
using TidierPlots, PalmerPenguins, DataFrames
penguins = dropmissing(DataFrame(PalmerPenguins.load()))
(@ggplot(penguins, aes(x = bill_length_mm, y = bill_depth_mm, color = species)) +
    @geom_point() +
    @geom_smooth(method = "lm") +
    @labs(x = "Bill Length (mm)", y = "Bill Width (mm)",
        title = "Bill Length vs. Bill Width",
        subtitle = "Using geom_point and geom_smooth")) |> draw_ggplot

```

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/4/2/422be7a869b3758cc43c4b26367e4eb53df099d0.png)

Read the [blogpost](https://blog.makie.org/blogposts/May-2023-News.html) for the full list of announcements, more details and proper attribution 🙂