v3.1.4

Highlights

This release contains various improvements and bugfixes to the matplotlib-based visualization of spaces. Hexgrids are now fully supported, including property layers. In making this possible, various minor bugs were encountered and also fixed. In addition to the visualization improvements, there are various minor convenience improvements to the docs.

What's Changed

🛠 Enhancements made

• Fixed hex-space draw function to avoid overlaps by @Sahil-Chhoker in #2609
• Fix: Property layer visualization for HexGrid by @Sahil-Chhoker in #2646
• Enhance DataCollector to validate model_reporters functions by @peter-kinger in #2605
• Implemented post_process in Altair based components by @sanika-n in #2641

🐛 Bugs fixed

• bugfix for draw_property_layer by @quaquel in #2639
• Uses array for hex grid property layer fix by @Sahil-Chhoker in #2651
• Update Binder environment to use latest Mesa version (#2652) by @aarav-shukla07 in #2655
• Change Hexgrid._connect_cells_2d to use x,y coordinates by @quaquel in #2632

🔍 Examples updated

• Added property layer viz to sugarscape by @sanika-n in #2653
• added color-bar for spice by @sanika-n in #2622

📜 Documentation improvements

• remove any reference to using --pre by @quaquel in #2618
• Updated Docs by @sanika-n in #2624
• Fixed 404 error for Examples Tab in Introductory Tutorial (#2662) by @aarav-shukla07 in #2664
• Documentation by @Spartan-71 in #2630
• Adding a copy option at the top of the code written in the docs by @PrashantChoudhary13579 in #2628
• Adding Mesa Extension page by @PrashantChoudhary13579 in #2627

🔧 Maintenance

• remove remnants of mesa cli by @quaquel in #2617
• benchmarks.yml: Install SciPy and use uv for pip install by @EwoutH in #2633
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in #2659

New Contributors

• @PrashantChoudhary13579 made their first contribution in #2628
• @aarav-shukla07 made their first contribution in #2655
• @peter-kinger made their first contribution in #2605

Full Changelog: v3.1.3...v3.1.4