Hello,

I am using:
Matplotlib 1.5.1
Python 3.5
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601)

And I installed Python and Matplotlib newly through Anaconda.

I used to set my default plot settings with the following code:

import matplotlib as mpl
mpl.rcParams['savefig.bbox']='standard'
mpl.rcParams['axes.linewidth']=1
mpl.rcParams['axes.grid']=True
mpl.rcParams['grid.linestyle']='-'
mpl.rcParams['grid.linewidth']=1
mpl.rcParams["savefig.facecolor"]='white'
mpl.rcParams['savefig.edgecolor']='black'
mpl.rcParams['figure.edgecolor']='black'    
mpl.rcParams["figure.facecolor"]='white'
mpl.rcParams["axes.facecolor"]='white'
mpl.rcParams['axes.edgecolor']='black'

Which gave me a plot with a black grid, a white background and a black line around the plot. I initialized my figures with plt.figure():

After updating to Matplotlib 1.5.1 I run the same code, but the black box around the figure is gone:

I can manually fix the issue by initializing my figures with plt.figure(linewidth=1) (Which is how I produced above plots), but I would like to set the default figure linewidth in rcparams. To my knowledge this is currently not possible. e.g. an entry such as:

mpl.rcParams["figure.linewidth"]

would be perfect. It would be much appreciated if I could get some support on this topic.

I don't remember the exact version of Python and Matplotlib in which this used to work, is there a way to check my update history in Anaconda?

Kind regards,

Nick