Jupyter Notebook 5.5.0

[Grant Nestor]

We released Jupyter Notebook 5.5.0. This is a minor release that includes a mix of new features, bug fixes, documentation, and improvements to our testing infrastructure.

You can install the new version of the notebook now using pip:

pip install --upgrade notebook

Or conda forge (it may be a few days before packages are available):

conda upgrade notebook    

Changelog

New features:

• The files list now shows file sizes (PR #3539)
  
• Add a quit button in the dashboard (PR #3004)
  
• Display hostname in the terminal when running remotely (PR #3356, PR #3593)
  
• Add slides exportation/download to the menu (PR #3287)
  
• Add any extra installed nbconvert exporters to the “Download as” menu (PR #3323)
  
• Editor: warning when overwriting a file that is modified on disk (PR #2783)
  
• Display a warning message if cookies are not enabled (PR #3511)
  
• Basic __version__ reporting for extensions (PR #3541)
  
• Add NotebookApp.terminals_enabled config option (PR #3478)
  
• Make buffer time between last modified on disk and last modified on last save configurable (PR #3273)
  
• Allow binding custom shortcuts for ‘close and halt’ (PR #3314)
  
• Add description for ‘Trusted’ notification (PR #3386)
  
• Add settings['activity_sources'] (PR #3401)
  
• Add an output_updated.OutputArea event (PR #3560)

Fixing problems:

• Fixes to improve web accessibility (PR #3507)
  
• There is more to do on this! See #1801.
• Fixed color contrast issue in tree.less (PR #3336)
  
• Allow cancelling upload of large files (PR #3373)
  
• Don’t clear login cookie on requests without cookie (PR #3380)
  
• Don’t trash files on different device to home dir on Linux (PR #3304)
  
• Clear waiting asterisks when restarting kernel (PR #3494)
  
• Fix output prompt when execution_count missing (PR #3236)
  
• Make the ‘changed on disk’ dialog work when displayed twice (PR #3589)
  
• Fix going back to root directory with history in notebook list (PR #3411)
  
• Allow defining keyboard shortcuts for missing actions (PR #3561)
  
• Prevent default on pageup/pagedown when completer is active (PR #3500)
  
• Prevent default event handling on new terminal (PR #3497)
  
• ConfigManager should not write out default values found in the .d directory (PR #3485)
  
• Fix leak of iopub object in activity monitoring (PR #3424)
  
• Javascript lint in notebooklist.js (PR #3409)
  
• Some Javascript syntax fixes (PR #3294)
  
• Convert native for loop to Array.forEach() (PR #3477)
  
• Disable cache when downloading nbconvert output (PR #3484)
  
• Add missing digestmod arg to HMAC (PR #3399)
  
• Log OSErrors failing to create less-critical files during startup (PR #3384)
  
• Use powershell on Windows (PR #3379)
  
• API spec improvements, API handler improvements (PR #3368)
  
• Set notebook to dirty state after change to kernel metadata (PR #3350)
  
• Use CSP header to treat served files as belonging to a separate origin (PR #3341)
  
• Don’t install gettext into builtins (PR #3330)
  
• Add missing import _ (PR #3316, PR #3326)
  
• Write notebook.json file atomically (PR #3305)
  
• Fix clicking with modifiers, page title updates (PR #3282)
  
• Upgrade jQuery to version 2.2 (PR #3428)
  
• Upgrade xterm.js to 3.1.0 (PR #3189)
  
• Upgrade moment.js to 2.19.3 (PR #3562)
  
• Upgrade CodeMirror to 5.35 (PR #3372)
  
• “Require” pyzmq>=17 (PR #3586)
  

Documentation:

• Documentation updates and organisation (PR #3584)
  
• Add section in docs about privacy (PR #3571)
  
• Add explanation on how to change the type of a cell to Markdown (PR #3377)
  
• Update docs with confd implementation details (PR #3520)
  
• Add more information for where jupyter_notebook_config.py is located (PR #3346)
  
• Document options to enable nbextensions in specific sections (PR #3525)
  
• jQuery attribute selector value MUST be surrounded by quotes (PR #3527)
  
• Do not execute special notebooks with nbsphinx (PR #3360)
  
• Other minor fixes in PR #3288, PR #3528, PR #3293, PR #3367

Testing:

• Testing with Selenium & Sauce labs (PR #3321)
  
• Selenium utils + markdown rendering tests (PR #3458)
  
• Convert insert cell tests to Selenium (PR #3508)
  
• Convert prompt numbers tests to Selenium (PR #3554)
  
• Convert delete cells tests to Selenium (PR #3465)
  
• Convert undelete cell tests to Selenium (PR #3475)
  
• More selenium testing utilities (PR #3412)
  
• Only check links when build is trigger by Travis Cron job (PR #3493)
  
• Fix Appveyor build errors (PR #3430)
  
• Undo patches in teardown before attempting to delete files (PR #3459)
  
• Get tests running with tornado 5 (PR #3398)
  
• Unpin ipykernel version on Travis (PR #3223)
  

Credits

Thanks to the following contributors:

• Arovit Narula (arovit)
  
• Ashley Teoh (ashleytqy)
  
• Nicholas Bollweg (bollwyvl)
  
• Alex Rothberg (cancan101)
  
• Celina Kilcrease (ckilcrease)
  
• dabuside (dabuside)
  
• Damian Avila (damianavila)
  
• Dana Lee (danagilliann)
  
• Dave Hirschfeld (dhirschfeld)
  
• Heng GAO (ehengao)
  
• Leo Gallucci (elgalu)
  
• Evan Van Dam (evandam)
  
• forbxy (forbxy)
  
• Grant Nestor (gnestor)
  
• Ethan T. Hendrix (hendrixet)
  
• Miro Hrončok (hroncok)
  
• Paul Ivanov (ivanov)
  
• Darío Hereñú (kant)
  
• Kevin Bates (kevin-bates)
  
• Maarten Breddels (maartenbreddels)
  
• Michael Droettboom (mdboom)
  
• Min RK (minrk)
  
• M Pacer (mpacer)
  
• Peter Parente (parente)
  
• Paul Masson (paulmasson)
  
• Philipp Rudiger (philippjfr)
  
• Mac Knight (Shels1909)
  
• Hisham Elsheshtawy (Sheshtawy)
  
• Simon Biggs (SimonBiggs)
  
• Sunil Hari (sunilhari)
  
• Thomas Kluyver (takluyver)
  
• Tim Klever (tklever)
  
• Gabriel Ruiz (unnamedplay-r)
  
• Vaibhav Sagar (vaibhavsagar)
  
• William Hosford (whosford)
  
• Hong (xuhdev)
  

See the 5.5 milestone on GitHub for a complete list of pull requests involved in this release.