BUG: 3 fixes for widgets (MultiCrusor, SpanSelector, Slider)
BUG : fix str vs bytes issue in py3 in ps backend

de-code the encoded ascii string so that it is a string, not
bytes, when it gets passed to the format function.  Having the
b'' from the bytes string appear in the eps file breaks the file.

closes #3494
Merge pull request #3600 from phobson/boxplot-flier-artists

BUG : now only set 'marker' and 'color' attribute of fliers in boxplots
Icon for font awesome 3.2.1 and 4

Should fix https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/3606
Updated icons for nbagg backend to work with IPython 3.0
Merge pull request #3611 from lpsinger/widgets_slider_spelling

DOC : Fix spelling error
Merge pull request #3609 from pelson/nbagg_icons

BUG : Fix Nbagg icons on dev-branch of ipython
PatchCollection: pass other kwargs for match_original=True

    - match_original should only ignore the following kwargs:
          edgecolors
          facecolors
          linewidths
          linestyles
      all others should be passed onto the Collection constructor
Merge pull request #3496 from tacaswell/eps_fontname_bytes

BUG : fix str vs bytes issue in py3 in ps backend
Merge pull request #3313 from eyurtsev/fix-minor-widgets-issues

BUG : 3 fixes for widgets (MultiCrusor, SpanSelector, Slider)
Merge pull request #3613 from demotu/master

Fix problem with legend if data has NaN's [backport to 1.4.x]
examples: fix pep8 error classes E111 and E113

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hisch <t.hisch@gmail.com>
remove unused path_exists function in rc_traits example
rerun autopep8

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hisch <t.hisch@gmail.com>
Revert interactive mode determination
Merge pull request #3620 from mdboom/revert-interactive-change

MNT : Revert interactive determination
Fix freetype include path lookup -- don't use freetype-config since it
seems to be broken.  Use that only for version determination.  Warn if
pkg-config is not present.
Revert version to byte string
Merge pull request #3621 from mdboom/issue3621

matplotlib.__version__: revert from unicode to native str
Fixed Image pickling closes #3614.