JupyterLab v2.1.0 Release Notes
-
April 2020
๐ See the JupyterLab 2.1 milestone on GitHub for the full list of pull requests and issues closed.
๐ User-facing changes
- 0๏ธโฃ Display the extension manager in the left sidebar by default. Users will need to acknowledge the disclaimer in the extension manager before using it. (#8050, #8145)
- โ Added
blacklist and whitelist support <extension_listings>
for the extension manager (#7989) - Automatically link URLs in notebook output text (#8075, #7393)
- โ Added a \"Restart Kernel and Run All Cells...\" button to the notebook toolbar (#8024)
โ Added a context menu item for opening a Markdown editor from the Markdown preview (#7942)
โ Added a command to replace the selection in an editor with text (inserting if there is no selection). This can be assigned a keyboard shortcut, as shown below. We also added a command to go through a series of commands and run the first enabled command. (#7908) Here is a keyboard shortcut to insert text in a currently-active notebook editor:
{ command: "notebook:replace-selection", selector: ".jp-Notebook", keys: ["Ctrl L"], args: {text: "lambda x: x"} }
Here is a keyboard shortcut to insert text into an editor of the currently active console, file editor, or notebook:
{ command: "apputils:run-first-enabled", selector: "body", keys: ["Ctrl L"], args: { commands: [ "console:replace-selection", "fileeditor:replace-selection", "notebook:replace-selection", ], args: {text: "lambda x: x"} } }
For developers
- ๐
NotebookWidgetFactory
is now a plugin so it can be overridden (#8066, #7996) - Many improvements to
LabIcon
: work with all SVG loaders, improve performance, fix issue with menus from extensions (#8125) - ๐ Change the header application area to a box panel, which means the header area will display if its children set their minimum height (#8059, #7279)
- JupyterLab\'s custom context menu is now disabled on all descendants
of a DOM element with a
data-jp-suppress-context-menu
attribute (#7877, #7670)
๐ Bugfixes
- ๐ Fix property inspector restoration on reload (#8114)
- โฑ Increase the timeout for yarn (#8104, #8102)
- ๐ Fix find and replace with empty strings (#8100, #8098)
- Select search text when focusing the search overlay (#8073, #7932)
- ๐ Fix attaching images with spaces in their names to Markdown cells (#8095)
- ๐ Fix build errors by distributing the
.yarnrc
configuration with the Python package (#8045) - Throttle fetch requests in the setting registry\'s data connector (#7927)
- Close the gap between lines in notebook output (#7832, #7760)