pandoc 2.2.1 too new for nbconvert?

[Tom Kwong]

Is there any reason why nbconvert cannot work with the latest version of pandoc?

nbconvert/utils/pandoc.py:52: RuntimeWarning: 

You are using an unsupported version of pandoc (2.2.1). 

 Your version must be at least (1.12.1) but less than (2.0.0).

[Matthias Geier]

Good question!

I've asked myself the same thing:
https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/issues/928

cheers,
Matthias

[Roland Weber]

That restriction looks like a generic safeguard based on semantic versioning. With semantic versioning, a new major version indicates an incompatible API change. So somebody will have to look into it and adapt to the breaking changes, or at least verify that everything still works. I guess that nobody got around to doing that for nbconvert with pandoc 2.0 - at least until recently...

https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/pull/933