v5.9.0

Added

• pattern_shape options now available in px.timeline() #3774
• facet_* and category_orders now available in px.pie() #3775

Performance

• px methods no longer call groupby on the input dataframe when the result would be a single group, and no longer groups by a lambda, for significant speedups #3765 with thanks to @jvdd

Updated

• Allow non-string extras in flaglist attributes, to support upcoming changes to ax.automargin in plotly.js plotly.js#6193, #3749