BUGFIX:  This change fixes #2475, where contour labels added manually
produce ugly spikes in the contours.  The problem was that screen
coordinates were being passed as data coordinates when the contour was
split to add room for the label.

Incorporate my fix and miili's #2806 change
TST : added test to exercise transform kwarg to `add_label_near`

This exercises with input in both display and data units.
BUG : fix fetch of freetype version during build

Use freetype-config --ftversion flag to get freetype version (previously
using freetype-config --version which returns libtool version).
DOC : added whats_new entry for Qt5 backend
restored default boxplot style and respect for the sym kwarg
fixed typos/formatting in docstrings
clean up whitespace
BUG : fix errors when using fliers

doplot for horizontal boxes (internal bxp helper function) assumes that
it will be passed an even number of positional arguments which it swaps
pair-wise.  The code to draw the fliers also passes in a format string
which breaks the assumption.

 - re-worked how `bxp` deals with the `sym` input
 - minor pep8
BUG : handle colors passed in via sym in bxp

If the user passes is the string 'ro' assume they want filled circles.
This is also the old behavior.
DOC : added warning to doc of get_window_extent

This is in response to issues raised in #2831.

Closes #3055
TST : drop 3.2, add 3.4
DOC : tweaked references to python versions
DOC : fixed grammer
BUG : raise exception in subplot if num out of range

if subplot(rows, cols, num) is called with num not in
0 < num <= rows * cols raise a ValueError

close #3166
Properly deprecate num=0 in subplot related functions
Added 'PyQt4v2' to valid values for backend.qt4

Matching to what is allowed by the code in qt4_compat.py

Closes #2977
DOC : fixed errors in docstrings
MNT : Changed labeling to maintain back-compatibility

 changed labeling in cbook.box_plotstats to start at 1 to
 maintain back compatibility
DOC : improved add_label_near

 - added some in-line comments to explain what is going on
Revert "pep8ify more examples in examples/ + use np.radians/np.degrees"