Enhancements

• Improve error message for removed random_tree function (#8105).
• Update approx current_flow betweenness to use k directly (#8007).
• Proposal: update semantics for nonisomorphic trees with order 0 or 1 (#8083).
• SCC benchmarks and use of G._adj in Tarjan algorithm (#8064).
• Performance improvement and tests for edges_equal (#8077).
• optimise is_reachable() (#8112).
• Optimise harmonic centrality (#8158).
• feat(drawing): add missing connection styles in draw_networkx_edge_labels and display (#8108).
• Optimizing Dijkstra's paths to target (~50x faster for graphs with multiple-hops shortest path) (#8023).
• Add all_triangles generator yielding all unique triangles in a graph (#8135).
• refactor: simplify k_factor (#8139).
• feat: add directed star graph (#8151).
• Faster intersection_array computation for checking distance-regularity (#7181).
• enh: short-circuit in is_regular for directed graphs (#8138).
• Avoid re-exploring nodes in Kosaraju's SCC algorithm (#8056).
• trust rank implementation and testing (#8165).
• Add hyper_wiener_index function (#8184).
• Bidirectional dijkstra optimization: from 1.1x to 25x faster (#8206).
• Implement the algorithm to find the centroid(s) of a tree (#8089).
• Set length threshold in FR and use np.clip (#8145).
• Add panther++ (#4400).
• maint: use nx.circulant_graph to generate Harary graphs (#8189).
• ENH: add directed kwarg to edges_equal (#8192).
• Optimizing Dijkstra's path construction for all targets case (#8218).
• ENH: adds ISMAGS support for directed and multigraph with tests and refactor (#8274).
• Dispatch classes such as nx.Graph(backend=...) (#7760).
• ENH: Add is_perfect_graph using SPGT (follow-up to #8111) (#8318).
• Add benchmark suite for shortest path algorithms on weighted graphs (#8059).
• Adding Generalized Petersen Graph (#8147).
• ENH: add normalize option for subgraph_centrality and its _exp version (#8340).
• FEAT: Add a describe method for some basic info about graphs (#8338).

Bug Fixes

• Add Python 3.14 to testing matrix (#8096).
• Fix round-trip to and from pygraphviz.AGraph setting spurious graph attributes (#8121).
• Add input validation to non_randomness() and clarify its behavior (#8057).
• Ensure that backend names are valid Python identifiers (#8160).
• fix: resolve failure to pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(PlanarEmbedding())) (#8186).
• Add GEXF 1.3 to the recognized GEXF versions (#8196).
• BUG: Raise on directed graphs in nx.find_cliques_recursive (#8211).
• fix optimize_edit_paths handling of self-loops (#8207).
• BUG: add check for isolated nodes in degree_sequence_tree (#8235).
• Mehlorn Steiner Tree (#8052).
• BUG/MAINT: fix edge betweenness centrality scaling when k<N and merge all b.c. rescale helper functions (#8256).
• Fix node attributes on lattice graphs (#8311).
• BUG: allow graphs with nonstandard node labels in FISTA (#8332).
• Make dominance functions consistent with definitions (#8061).
• Pin last value to 1.0 in cumulative_distribution to address floating-point errors (#8342).

Documentation

• Fix min_weight_matching (#8062).
• Update deploy-docs yml to use Python 3.12 when deploying the docs (#8102).
• DOC: Add missing params to bfs_layout docstring (#8086).
• Add input validation to non_randomness() and clarify its behavior (#8057).
• doc: improve docstring for hypercube_graph (#8012).
• Improved documentation for boundary_expansion function (#7905).
• DOC: Add docstring example count number of unique triangles (#8144).
• Add function bfs_labeled_edges to docs (#8149).
• Fix issues with urls in HITS reference docs (#8156).
• Correct the docs for display() keyword node_pos (#8153).
• Adding Notes on Multi-Target Shortest Path Queries (#8169).
• 3d facebook plot example (#6893).
• trust rank implementation and testing (#8165).
• Improve docs for all_neighbors() (#8166).
• Adding shortest-paths documentation (#8187).
• Add Linux Foundation health score badge to README (#8219).
• DOC: Add docstring for number_of_cliques (#8216).
• DOC: add docstring for degree_sequence_tree (#8236).
• DOC: Add examples to contracted_nodes (#7856).
• DOC: fix wrong reference in leiden docs (#8277).
• Fix over-indentation of list in chordless_cycles docstring (#8288).
• Add iplotx to network drawing documentation (#8289).
• Fix sphinx build errors (#8303).
• DOC: Move deprecation procedure from contributing->dev guide (#8308).
• DOC: add gallery example for metric_closure (#8306).
• Cross-link Platonic graphs in See Also section (#8307).
• Add seealso crosslinks between lattice graphs (#8310).
• CI,DOC: Only run one parallel betweenness example (#8305).
• DOC: rework betweenness centrality docstrings (#8264).
• Rm 3D layout and animation from greedy_color example (#8315).
• DOC: Clarify node and edge removal behavior in tutorial (#8321).
• Improving connected module docs (#8267).
• Docs: add nx-neptune backend documentation (#8258).
• Improving shortest paths docs when there is no path between source and target (#8327).
• Adding floating point considerations to tutorial (#8324).
• Adding Dijkstra's algo specific doc (#8286).
• Minor documentation build improvements (#8329).
• Clarify the meaning of the cutoff parameter in some path-finding functions (#7487).
• Switch to the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct (#8320).
• Fix formatting for release docs (#8336).
• DOC: Add warning about special GEXF reserved keywords (#8343).
• Adding @amcandio as contributor (#8345).
• Fix sphinx warnings 3.6rc (#8352).

Maintenance

• Rm extraneous print from nx.display (#8084).
• Remove structuralholes.py from needs_(num|sci)py (#8088).
• Refactor image comparison tests (#8097).
• Update deploy-docs yml to use Python 3.12 when deploying the docs (#8102).
• Fix typo in extra name (#8103).
• MAINT: Support PEP 639 for license metadata (#8100).
• Use scipy.sparse array versions where applicable (#8080).
• pass numpy seed by value not index (#8116).
• Maintenance for broadcasting.py (#8082).
• Bump the actions group across 1 directory with 6 updates (#8085).
• Revert dict comprehensions -> dict.fromkeys accidentally introduced in #8017 (#8018).
• refactor: improve generate_adjlist (#8146).
• MAINT: Weekly cron job to run dispatch test with an extensive matrix (#8154).
• Add benchmarks for multisrc_dijkstra over many small graphs (#8164).
• test: clean up k_factor tests (#8140).
• Use pytest.raises as a context (#8170).
• Testing sentinel-node trick (#8171).
• chore: make benchmarking and release requirements extras in pyproject.toml (#8172).
• Add benchmarks for is_regular (#8173).
• MAINT: use matrix_power from scipy.sparse in number_of_walks (#8197).
• MAINT: remove try except for tomllib in generate_requirements (#8198).
• MAINT: Ignore graph hashing warnings in tests (#8205).
• STY: Variable rename proposal in bidirectional_dijkstra (#8210).
• MAINT: Rm print from threshold_graph (#8212).
• feat(api): update non-tree check in _tree_center and move to tree subpackage (#8174).
• TST: add seed for random_cograph test (#8228).
• Update links for broken testing badge in README (#8234).
• Clarifying @_dispatchable(name= (#8168).
• MAINT/TST: increase non-slow coverage in k_components (#8239).
• MAINT/TST: clean up tests for degree_seq (#8257).
• Use CircleCI for coverage workflow (#8178).
• Bump the actions group across 1 directory with 5 updates (#8261).
• BUG/MAINT: fix edge betweenness centrality scaling when k<N and merge all b.c. rescale helper functions (#8256).
• DOC/MAINT: Use itertools.pairwise in pairwise and add docstring (#8201).
• Optimizing is_connected (#8266).
• Rm outdated codecov badge from README (#8272).
• CI: Move slow tests from coverage to dedicated run (#8273).
• Move coverage configuration to pyproject.toml (#8287).
• Making weakly connected logic consistent with connected logic (#8285).
• Bump scientific-python/circleci-artifacts-redirector-action from 1.2.0 to 1.3.1 in the actions group (#8309).
• CI: Add nicer rendering of env contents (#8301).
• CI: Install ffmpeg in circleci docs pipeline (#8291).
• Add/bump Python 3.14 to testing matrices (#8319).
• Rm 3D layout and animation from greedy_color example (#8315).
• MAINT: Remove unused sphinx extensions from conf.py (#8314).
• optimize _single_shortest_path function (#6337).
• Add autoflake and pyupgrade as manual pre-commit hooks (#7870).
• ignore autoflake and pyupgrade changes (#8333).
• Revert "ignore autoflake and pyupgrade changes" (#8334).
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 5 in the actions group (#8335).

Other

• TST: improve coverage for generators/deg_seq.py (#8226).
• TST: test max_iter in asyn_fluidc (#8224).
• MAINT: clean up tests for steiner_tree (#8259).
• TST: add non-slow coverage for random graph generators (#8252).
• TST: Add a nonslow test for all_node_cuts with shortest augmenting path flow function (#8230).
• TST/MAINT: add non-slow coverage for random generators (#8233).
• TST: add coverage for isomorphvf2 (#8251).
• TST: ensure determinism in nx_pylab drawing tests (#8232).
• TST: add random_k_out_graph to tests to hit try except path (#8231).
• TST: add coverage for some branches in internet_as_graphs.py (#8225).
• TST: test topo_sort skips visited nodes in goldberg_radzik (#8279).
• CI: Use tag protection rulesets to control releases (#8337).

Contributors

40 authors added to this release (alphabetically):

• @Aka2210
• @dean985
• @georako
• @georakom
• @ishrathtahaseen-9
• @rudyarthur
• @sourabh-sudesh-paradeshi
• Aditi Juneja (@Schefflera-Arboricola)
• Adriano Meligrana (@Tortar)
• akshita (@akshitasure12)
• Albert Koppelmaa (@albastardoto)
• Alejandro Candioti (@amcandio)
• Andrew Carbonetto (@acarbonetto)
• Anthony Labarre (@alabarre)
• Casper van Elteren (@cvanelteren)
• Colman Bouton (@LorentzFactor)
• Dan Schult (@dschult)
• dgpb (@dg-pb)
• Erik Welch (@eriknw)
• Fabio Zanini (@iosonofabio)
• Fei Pan (@fei0319)
• Florian2Richter (@Florian2Richter)
• Gilles Peiffer (@Peiffap)
• Gustavo Ataide (@gustavo-ataide)
• Hadrien Crassous (@Hadrien-Cr)
• Jarrod Millman (@jarrodmillman)
• Jeff Bradberry (@jbradberry)
• Jonathan Reimer (@jonathimer)
• Maninder Dhanauta (@Maninder-sd)
• Marcus Fedarko (@fedarko)
• Mauricio Souza de Alencar (@mdealencar)
• Michael Recachinas (@mrecachinas)
• Mridul Seth (@MridulS)
• Peter Cock (@peterjc)
• Ross Barnowski (@rossbar)
• Stefano Vallodoro (@ilvallod)
• Supreeth Mysore Venkatesh (@supreethmv)
• Till Hoffmann (@tillahoffmann)
• Yasser El Haddar (@YasserElHaddar16)
• Yasser El Haddar (@Yasserelhaddar)

24 reviewers added to this release (alphabetically):

• @Aka2210
• @dean985
• @georakom
• @ishrathtahaseen-9
• Aditi Juneja (@Schefflera-Arboricola)
• akshita (@akshitasure12)
• Alejandro Candioti (@amcandio)
• Anthony Labarre (@alabarre)
• Christian Clauss (@cclauss)
• Colman Bouton (@LorentzFactor)
• Dan Schult (@dschult)
• dgpb (@dg-pb)
• Erik Welch (@eriknw)
• Fei Pan (@fei0319)
• Gilles Peiffer (@Peiffap)
• Hiroki Hamaguchi (@HirokiHamaguchi)
• Jarrod Millman (@jarrodmillman)
• Jeff Bradberry (@jbradberry)
• Marcus Fedarko (@fedarko)
• Michael Recachinas (@mrecachinas)
• Mridul Seth (@MridulS)
• Ross Barnowski (@rossbar)
• Supreeth Mysore Venkatesh (@supreethmv)
• Yasser El Haddar (@YasserElHaddar16)

These lists are automatically generated, and may not be complete or may contain duplicates.