v0.4.0

Date:

March 3, 2021

The changes since Manim Community release v0.3.0 are listed below.

Breaking Changes

• PR #915: Manim’s SVG engine has been reworked and is able to handle a wider variations of SVG files. In particular: fill and stroke properties are now retained from the original files. Breaking change: VMobjectFromSVGPathstring is deprecated and has been renamed to SVGPathMobject.

New Features

• PR #1026: Add 3D Mobjects: Cone, Cylinder, Line3D, Arrow3D and Torus

• PR #1047: Add documentation and examples for Matrix

• PR #1044: register_font is available for macOS

• PR #995: Add generic set() method and compatibility layer between properties and get_*/set_* methods

Bugfixes and Enhancements

• PR #981: Fixed hot reload functionality for the WebGL renderer on Windows

• PR #1053: Repair links to source code in stable version of documentation

• PR #1067: Add ManimPango to ReadTheDocs requirements

• PR #1058: Replace <color> syntax by Pango’s <span foreground> for coloring parts of MarkupText and allow using colors for underline, overline and strikethrough in MarkupText

• PR #1063: Fix documentation related to .animate

• PR #1065: Remove duplicate word ‘vector’

• PR #1060: Update Linux installation instructions to mention the installation of Pango

• PR #1050: Ensure that the user-supplied stroke color and width gets applied to Cross

• PR #1059: More descriptive error when accessing an unhandled mobject attribute

• PR #1048: Use absolute path in make_and_open_docs.py

• PR #1000: Remove MovingCameraScene.setup and MovingCameraScene.camera_frame

• PR #1051: Corrections for setting stroke related attributes on VMobject

• PR #1043: Make CubicBezier explicitly accept four points

• PR #1046: Use any version of importlib-metadata

• PR #1030: Parse .log file and try to print LaTeX errors if compilation fails

• PR #1015: Documentation: Add more explicit instructions related to tlmgr

• PR #1028: Documentation: Update installation guide on mac with Apple Silicon

• PR #1032: Remove Square.side_length property

• PR #1031: Fix link to wikipedia vector graphics page

• PR #1021: Documentation: Added example to CubicBezier

• PR #1017: Added progress_bar to digest_args to fix the --progress_bar CLI flag

• PR #1018: Remove redundancy in FunctionGraph arguments

• PR #1024: Migrate width / height / depth to properties

• PR #1022: Fix -p flag when passing -s

• PR #1008: CI pipeline: fix release asset upload

• PR #983: Make sure last frame for animations with updaters is correct

• PR #984: Add manim version to CLI output, append version name for generated .gif and .png files, add version to metadata of rendered videos, change dark blue terminal text to default green

• PR #993: Fix setting Mobject color to a gradient by passing a list of colors in set_color()

• PR #1003: Fix animation GrowArrow

• PR #1010: Disable STDIN interaction for ffmpeg concat.

• PR #969: Fix the --tex_template CLI flag

• PR #989: Fix the manim cfg export subcommand

• PR #1005: Fix the feature where - is used as the filename

• PR #998: Allow using hexadecimal color codes with 3 characters

• PR #996: Changed the message of manim --version to not include “Edition”