v1.40.5

Plots v1.40.5

Diff since v1.40.4

Merged pull requests:

• Fix downloads count badge (#4922) (@pricklypointer)
• add recipe to plot series objects (#4930) (@BeastyBlacksmith)
• Bump julia-actions/cache from 1 to 2 (#4931) (@dependabot[bot])
• Making PGFPlotsX use deterministic series IDs (#4932) (@ajdunlap)
• use deterministic series IDs in PGFPlotsX (#4933) (@ajdunlap)
• Bump peter-evans/create-pull-request from 5 to 6 (#4936) (@dependabot[bot])
• Bump actions/cache from 3 to 4 (#4937) (@dependabot[bot])
• Bump julia-actions/cache from 1 to 2 (#4938) (@dependabot[bot])
• add recipe for series on Plots v2 (#4941) (@BeastyBlacksmith)
• lazily load Pkg (#4955) (@KristofferC)

Closed issues:

• [FR] redesign backend dependencies (#4567)
• [FR] remove explicit GR dependency from Project.toml (#4631)
• [BUG] Plots.jl dependencies are broken, cannot install the package (#4926)
• [BUG] savefig() not working properly in local (function) scope - PGFPlotsX (#4943)
• [BUG] Misleading behaviour when plotting complex numbers when real part may be 0 (#4944)
• [BUG] Dynamically assigning false for legendPosition property in plotly js is not working (#4952)