### Bug report **Bug summary** In v2.2.0, the `verbose` class was removed (and replaced with `logging`) - see #9302. The [API changes](https://matplotlib.org/api/api_changes.html) document has no mention of this change. This was definitely part of the external API - the default matplotlibrc file contained the note: ``` # You can access the verbose instance in your code # from matplotlib import verbose. ```