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-# Plotters Release Notes
-
-This documents contains the release notes for every major release since v0.3.
-
-## Plotters v0.3
-
-Plotters v0.3 is shipped with multiple major improvements.
-
-## Plug-and-play backend importing
-
-### Introduction
-
-Previously, Plotters implements all supported backend in the core crate. As the project is becoming bigger and bigger and
-more and more backend is supported, those backend implementation cause a huge mantainance burden.
-
-For example, when `cairo-rs` crate is updated, plotters should release a new version with updated `cairo-rs` dependency for
-our cairo backend. However, most of the users doesn't actually use this backend and pushing new version for updating cairo backend
-seems to be annoying for most of the people. As more and more backend is added, the depdendency is out of control.
-
-### Details
-
-To address this, we are now move all backend implementation code out of the plotters crate. To use a specific backend, you need to
-explicitly add backend crate to your dependency. For example, to use bitmap backend for v0.2.x, we can do this
-
-```rust
-use plotters::prelude::*;
-fn main() {
- let backend = BitMapBackend::new(...)
-}
-```
-
-After this update, you should do the following code instead:
-
-```rust
-use plotters::prelude::*;
-use plotter_bitmap::BitMapBackend; // <= This extra import is used to plug the backend to Plotters
-
-fn main() {
- let backend = BitMapBackend::new(...)
-}
-
-```
-
-### Backward compatibility
-
-Plotters 0.3 has introduced concept of tier 1 backends, which is the most supported.
-All tier 1 backends could be imported automatically with the core crate (But can be opt-out as well).
-Currently we have two tier 1 backends: `plotters-bitmap` and `plotters-svg`.
-These are used by most of the people.
-
-To ease the upgrade for tier 1 backends, we still keep feature options in the core crate that can opt in those crates. And this is enabled by default.
-
-Thus, if plotters is imported with default feature set, there would require no change. If the default feature set is opt out, then the following change
-should be make with your `Crates.toml`:
-
-```toml
-plotters = {version = "0.3", default_features = false, features = ["bitmap_backend", "svg_backend"]} # Instead of using feature "bitmap" and "svg"
-```
-
-For non tier 1 backends, manmually import is required (Please note tier on backends can be imported in same way). For example:
-
-```toml
-plotters = {version = "0.3", default_features = false} # Instead of having features = ["cairo"] at this point
-plotters-cairo = "0.3" # We should import the cairo backend in this way.
-```
-
-And in your code, instead of import `plotters::prelude::CairoBackend`, you should import `plotters_cairo::CairoBackend`
-
-## Enhanced Coordinate System Abstraction
-
-### Details
-
-Plotters 0.3 ships with tons of improvement made in the coordinate abstraction and support much more kinds of coordinate.
-
-* `chrono::NaiveDate` and `chrono::NaiveDateTime` are now supported
-* Better abstraction of discrete coordinates
-* Linspace coordinate, which can be used converting a continous coorindate into a discrete buckets
-* Nested coordinate
-* Slices can now be used as cooradnite specification, which allows people define an axis of category.
-* 3D Coordinate is now supported
-
-## Fix bugs and improve testing