DOC: whats new other section reduced

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.3.0.rst

@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ We provided some focused development on :class:`.Styler`, including altering met
 to accept more universal CSS language for arguments, such as ``'color:red;'`` instead of
 ``[('color', 'red')]`` (:issue:`39564`). This is also added to the built-in methods
 to allow custom CSS highlighting instead of default background coloring (:issue:`40242`).
+Enhancements to other built-in methods include extending the :meth:`.Styler.background_gradient`
+method to shade elements based on a given gradient map and not be restricted only to
+values in the DataFrame (:issue:`39930` :issue:`22727` :issue:`28901`).
 
 The :meth:`.Styler.apply` now consistently allows functions with ``ndarray`` output to
 allow more flexible development of UDFs when ``axis`` is ``None`` ``0`` or ``1`` (:issue:`39393`).
@@ -818,24 +821,29 @@ ExtensionArray
 - Fixed a bug where some properties of subclasses of :class:`PandasExtensionDtype` where improperly cached (:issue:`40329`)
 -
 
+Styler
+^^^^^^
+
+- Bug in :class:`Styler` where ``subset`` arg in methods raised an error for some valid multiindex slices (:issue:`33562`)
+- :class:`Styler` rendered HTML output minor alterations to support w3 good code standard (:issue:`39626`)
+- Bug in :class:`Styler` where rendered HTML was missing a column class identifier for certain header cells (:issue:`39716`)
+- Bug in :meth:`Styler.background_gradient` where text-color was not determined correctly (:issue:`39888`)
+- Bug in :class:`Styler` where multiple elements in CSS-selectors were not correctly added to ``table_styles`` (:issue:`39942`)
+- Bug in :class:`.Styler` where copying from Jupyter dropped top left cell and misaligned headers (:issue:`12147`)
+- Bug in :class:`.Styler.where` where ``kwargs`` were not passed to the applicable callable (:issue:`40845`)
+- Bug in :class:`Styler` which caused CSS to duplicate on multiple renders. (:issue:`39395`, :issue:`40334`)
+
+
 Other
 ^^^^^
 - Bug in :class:`Index` constructor sometimes silently ignoring a specified ``dtype`` (:issue:`38879`)
 - Bug in :func:`pandas.api.types.infer_dtype` not recognizing Series, Index or array with a period dtype (:issue:`23553`)
 - Bug in :func:`pandas.api.types.infer_dtype` raising an error for general :class:`.ExtensionArray` objects. It will now return ``"unknown-array"`` instead of raising (:issue:`37367`)
 - Bug in constructing a :class:`Series` from a list and a :class:`PandasDtype` (:issue:`39357`)
-- Bug in :class:`Styler` which caused CSS to duplicate on multiple renders. (:issue:`39395`, :issue:`40334`)
 - ``inspect.getmembers(Series)`` no longer raises an ``AbstractMethodError`` (:issue:`38782`)
 - Bug in :meth:`Series.where` with numeric dtype and ``other = None`` not casting to ``nan`` (:issue:`39761`)
 - :meth:`Index.where` behavior now mirrors :meth:`Index.putmask` behavior, i.e. ``index.where(mask, other)`` matches ``index.putmask(~mask, other)`` (:issue:`39412`)
 - Bug in :func:`pandas.testing.assert_series_equal`, :func:`pandas.testing.assert_frame_equal`, :func:`pandas.testing.assert_index_equal` and :func:`pandas.testing.assert_extension_array_equal` incorrectly raising when an attribute has an unrecognized NA type (:issue:`39461`)
-- Bug in :class:`Styler` where ``subset`` arg in methods raised an error for some valid multiindex slices (:issue:`33562`)
-- :class:`Styler` rendered HTML output minor alterations to support w3 good code standard (:issue:`39626`)
-- Bug in :class:`Styler` where rendered HTML was missing a column class identifier for certain header cells (:issue:`39716`)
-- Bug in :meth:`Styler.background_gradient` where text-color was not determined correctly (:issue:`39888`)
-- Bug in :class:`Styler` where multiple elements in CSS-selectors were not correctly added to ``table_styles`` (:issue:`39942`)
-- Bug in :class:`.Styler` where copying from Jupyter dropped top left cell and misaligned headers (:issue:`12147`)
-- Bug in :class:`.Styler.where` where ``kwargs`` were not passed to the applicable callable (:issue:`40845`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.equals`, :meth:`Series.equals`, :meth:`Index.equals` with object-dtype containing ``np.datetime64("NaT")`` or ``np.timedelta64("NaT")`` (:issue:`39650`)
 - Bug in :func:`pandas.util.show_versions` where console JSON output was not proper JSON (:issue:`39701`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.convert_dtypes` incorrectly raised ValueError when called on an empty DataFrame (:issue:`40393`)