Jupyter notebook changelog

A summary of changes in the Jupyter notebook. For more detailed information, see GitHub.

Tip

Use pip install notebook --upgrade or conda upgrade notebook to upgrade to the latest release.

4.2.2

4.2.2 is a small bugfix release on 4.2, with an important security fix. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 4.2.2.

Highlights:

• Security fix: CVE-2016-6524, where untrusted latex output could be added to the page in a way that could execute javascript.
• Fix missing POST in OPTIONS responses.
• Fix for downloading non-ascii filenames.
• Avoid clobbering ssl_options, so that users can specify more detailed SSL configuration.
• Fix inverted load order in nbconfig, so user config has highest priority.
• Improved error messages here and there.

See also

4.2.2 on GitHub.

4.2.1

4.2.1 is a small bugfix release on 4.2. Highlights:

• Compatibility fixes for some versions of ipywidgets
• Fix for ignored CSS on Windows
• Fix specifying destination when installing nbextensions

See also

4.2.1 on GitHub.

4.2.0

Release 4.2 adds a new API for enabling and installing extensions. Extensions can now be enabled at the system-level, rather than just per-user. An API is defined for installing directly from a Python package, as well.

See also

Distributing Jupyter Extensions as Python Packages

Highlighted changes:

• Upgrade MathJax to 2.6 to fix vertical-bar appearing on some equations.
• Restore ability for notebook directory to be root (4.1 regression)
• Large outputs are now throttled, reducing the ability of output floods to kill the browser.
• Fix the notebook ignoring cell executions while a kernel is starting by queueing the messages.
• Fix handling of url prefixes (e.g. JupyterHub) in terminal and edit pages.
• Support nested SVGs in output.

And various other fixes and improvements.

4.1.0

Bug fixes:

• Properly reap zombie subprocesses
• Fix cross-origin problems
• Fix double-escaping of the base URL prefix
• Handle invalid unicode filenames more gracefully
• Fix ANSI color-processing
• Send keepalive messages for web terminals
• Fix bugs in the notebook tour

UI changes:

• Moved the cell toolbar selector into the View menu. Added a button that triggers a “hint” animation to the main toolbar so users can find the new location. (Click here to see a screencast )

  

• Added Restart & Run All to the Kernel menu. Users can also bind it to a keyboard shortcut on action restart-kernel-and-run-all-cells.

• Added multiple-cell selection. Users press Shift-Up/Down or Shift-K/J to extend selection in command mode. Various actions such as cut/copy/paste, execute, and cell type conversions apply to all selected cells.

  

• Added a command palette for executing Jupyter actions by name. Users press Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-P or click the new command palette icon on the toolbar.

  

• Added a Find and Replace dialog to the Edit menu. Users can also press F in command mode to show the dialog.

  

Other improvements:

• Custom KernelManager methods can be Tornado coroutines, allowing async operations.
• Make clearing output optional when rewriting input with set_next_input(replace=True).
• Added support for TLS client authentication via --NotebookApp.client-ca.
• Added tags to jupyter/notebook releases on DockerHub. latest continues to track the master branch.

See the 4.1 milestone on GitHub for a complete list of issues and pull requests handled.

4.0.x

4.0.6

• fix installation of mathjax support files
• fix some double-escape regressions in 4.0.5
• fix a couple of cases where errors could prevent opening a notebook

4.0.5

Security fixes for maliciously crafted files.

• CVE-2015-6938: malicious filenames
• CVE-2015-7337: malicious binary files in text editor.

Thanks to Jonathan Kamens at Quantopian and Juan Broullón for the reports.

4.0.4

• Fix inclusion of mathjax-safe extension

4.0.2

• Fix launching the notebook on Windows
• Fix the path searched for frontend config

4.0.0

First release of the notebook as a standalone package.