.. _release-3-8-0:

3.8.0

Bokeh version 3.8.0 (August 2025) is a minor milestone of Bokeh project.

• Added support for filters, sorters and limits to HoverTool (:bokeh-pull:14484)
• Added support for session reconnect, connection events and UI notifications (:bokeh-pull:14201, :bokeh-pull:14576)
• Added support for Plot side panel layouts and SizeBar annotation (:bokeh-pull:14487)
• Added support for document configuration (Document.config) (:bokeh-pull:14608)
• Added support for legend_name argument to glyph APIs for easier legend management (:bokeh-pull:14325)
• Added support for compression of buffers in Bokeh's serialization protocol (:bokeh-pull:14485)
• Converted PNG icons to SVG and generally refreshed existing icons (:bokeh-pull:14518, :bokeh-pull:14563, :bokeh-pull:14577)
• Added preliminary support for theming using CSS variables (:bokeh-pull:14349)
• Various performance improvements in BokehJS (:bokeh-pull:14556, :bokeh-pull:14428, :bokeh-pull:14419)
• Upgraded bokehjs build system to TypeScript 5.9 (:bokeh-pull:14589)