v4.7.1

[4.7.1] - 2025-08-13

Added

• ggsave():
  • support font synthesis for italic and bold styles.
  • px unit support for PNG and PDF formats.
  • w, h and unit parameters support for SVG [#1368].

Changed

• facet_wrap() now drops factor levels that do not appear in the data (i.e., empty panels) by default [#1322].
  
  To keep unused factor levels, use the new drop parameter, i.e., drop=False.

  See: example notebook.

• Removed extra spacing between facet strips and plot panels in facet_wrap() and facet_grid().

Fixed

• geom_livemap: can't draw a path crossing the antimeridian [#649].
• Tooltip for a line have higher priority than points, even if the point is specified first in the layer list [#1060].
• geom_ribbon(): tooltip appears in the wrong place on flipped ribbon [#1334].
• Arrow crossing -180 longitude is split into two arrows [#1364].
• Coordinate limits do not work on reversed scales [#1365]
• Misaligned axis labels and ticks in polar coordinates.
• Display order of fill categories not being set correctly in stacked plots? [#1367]
• Polars: add handling for Enum values [#1373]
• Unclear error when using geom_rect with discrete scales [#1287]
• xlim() breaks default scale_x_datetime() [#1348]
• scale_x_reverse breaks datetime formatting [#1257]
• theme(plot_title="blank") doesn't work with gggrid [#1349]
• theme: error parsing color value pen [#1216]
• Incorrect appearance of stacked density plot in polar coordinates [#1375]