Plugins

#. Provided a standardized method for plugin discoverability, creation, installation, and usage. See the :ref:documentation <plugins>.

Fixes

#. JsRender is optional to install. (via :pr:697). #. Allow importing modules from the same directory as the input file when using manim from the command line (via :pr:724). #. Remove some unnecessary or unpythonic methods from :class:~.Scene (get_mobjects, add_mobjects_among, get_mobject_copies), via :pr:758. #. Fix formatting of :class:~.Code (via :pr:798).

Configuration

#. Removed the skip_animations config option and added the Renderer.skip_animations attribute instead (via :pr:696). #. The global config dict has been replaced by a global config instance of the new class :class:~.ManimConfig. This class has a dict-like API, so this should not break user code, only make it more robust. See the Configuration tutorial for details. #. Added the option to configure a directory for external assets (via :pr:649).

Documentation

#. Add :issue: and :pr: directives for simplifying linking to issues and pull requests on GitHub (via :pr:685). #. Add a skip-manim tag for skipping the .. manim:: directive when building the documentation locally (via :pr:796).

Mobjects, Scenes, and Animations

#. The alignment attribute to Tex and MathTex has been removed in favour of tex_environment. #. :class:~.Text now uses Pango for rendering. PangoText has been removed. The old implementation is still available as a fallback as :class:~.CairoText. #. Variations of :class:~.Dot have been added as :class:~.AnnotationDot (a bigger dot with bolder stroke) and :class:~.LabeledDot (a dot containing a label). #. Scene.set_variables_as_attrs has been removed (via :pr:692). #. Ensure that the axes for graphs (:class:GraphScene) always intersect (:pr:580). #. Now Mobject.add_updater does not call the newly-added updater by default (use call_updater=True instead) (via :pr:710) #. VMobject now has methods to determine and change the direction of the points (via :pr:647). #. Added BraceBetweenPoints (via :pr:693). #. Added ArcPolygon and ArcPolygonFromArcs (via :pr:707). #. Added Cutout (via :pr:760). #. Added Mobject raise not implemented errors for dunder methods and implementations for VGroup dunder methods (via :pr:790). #. Added :class:~.ManimBanner for a animated version of our logo and banner (via :pr:729) #. The background color of a scene can now be changed reliably by setting, e.g., self.camera.background_color = RED (via :pr:716).