New features

• Closed #2216: Additional selectize.js options can now be passed along to highlight()'s selectize argument. (#2217)

Improvements

• Closed #2259: ggplotly() now provides better support for ggplot2 >v3.4.2. (#2262)

Bug fixes

• Closed #2212: ggplotly() no longer silently drops legends that are customized through ggplot2::guide_legend().
• Closed #2179: save_image() no longer needs reticulate::py_run_string("import sys") in order to run without error. (#2179)
• Closed #2218: highlight(selectize = TRUE) no longer yields an incorrect selectize.js result when there is a combination of crosstalk and non-crosstalk traces. (#2217)
• Closed #2208: ggplotly() no longer errors given a geom_area() with 1 or less data points (error introduced by new behavior in ggplot2 v3.4.0). (#2209)
• Closed #2220: ggplotly() no longer errors on stat_summary(geom = "crossbar"). (#2222)
• Closed #2212: ggplotly() no longer removes legends when setting guide properties via guides(aes = guide_xxx(...)).