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GoFish Update: March 17-24, 2026

Highlights
4 PRs landed this week. The big themes were expanding GoFish's visual vocabulary — with new layout primitives and color scale support — plus housekeeping to align the Python wrapper with the latest JS API and rebrand the org.

What changed
Layout & visualization
• New low-level Table operator for 2D grid layouts and heatmaps (PR #327)
• Color scale support for chart(), closing out four open issues (PR #306)

API & cross-language parity
• Python wrapper updated to match the JS v3 API — adds .name() on marks and select() for cross-chart layer references (PR #324)

Housekeeping
• Org renamed from starfish-graphics → gofish-graphics across all configs, docs, and tooling (PR #326)

Contributor shout-outs
• joshpoll — drove most of this week's work, including the new table operator for grid layouts (PR #327) and keeping the Python wrapper in sync with JS v3
• milintun — shipped color scale support (PR #306), knocking out four issues in one go