Changes in IPython kernel

4.6

4.6.1

4.6.1 on GitHub

  • Fix eventloop-integration bug preventing Qt windows/widgets from displaying with ipykernel 4.6.0 and IPython ≥ 5.2.
  • Avoid deprecation warnings about naive datetimes when working with jupyter_client ≥ 5.0.

4.6.0

4.6.0 on GitHub

  • Add to API DisplayPublisher.publish two new fully backward-compatible keyword-args:

    • update: bool
    • transient: dict

  • Support new transient key in display_data messages spec for publish. For a display data message, transient contains data that shouldn’t be persisted to files or documents. Add a display_id to this transient dict by display(obj, display_id=...)

  • Add ipykernel_launcher module which removes the current working directory from sys.path before launching the kernel. This helps to reduce the cases where the kernel won’t start because there’s a random.py (or similar) module in the current working directory.

  • Add busy/idle messages on IOPub during processing of aborted requests

  • Add active event loop setting to GUI, which enables the correct response to IPython’s is_event_loop_running_xxx

  • Include IPython kernelspec in wheels to reduce reliance on “native kernel spec” in jupyter_client

  • Modify OutStream to inherit from TextIOBase instead of object to improve API support and error reporting

  • Fix IPython kernel death messages at start, such as “Kernel Restarting...” and “Kernel appears to have died”, when parent-poller handles PID 1

  • Various bugfixes

4.5

4.5.2

4.5.2 on GitHub

  • Fix bug when instantiating Comms outside of the IPython kernel (introduced in 4.5.1).

4.5.1

4.5.1 on GitHub

  • Add missing stream parameter to overridden getpass()
  • Remove locks from iopub thread, which could cause deadlocks during debugging
  • Fix regression where KeyboardInterrupt was treated as an aborted request, rather than an error
  • Allow instantiating Comms outside of the IPython kernel

4.5.0

4.5 on GitHub

  • Use figure.dpi instead of savefig.dpi to set DPI for inline figures
  • Support ipympl matplotlib backend (requires IPython update as well to fully work)
  • Various bugfixes, including fixes for output coming from threads, and input() when called with non-string prompts, which stdlib allows.

4.4

4.4.1

4.4.1 on GitHub

  • Fix circular import of matplotlib on Python 2 caused by the inline backend changes in 4.4.0.

4.4.0

4.4.0 on GitHub

  • Use MPLBACKEND environment variable to tell matplotlib >= 1.5 use use the inline backend by default. This is only done if MPLBACKEND is not already set and no backend has been explicitly loaded, so setting MPLBACKEND=Qt4Agg or calling %matplotlib notebook or matplotlib.use('Agg') will take precedence.
  • Fixes for logging problems caused by 4.3, where logging could go to the terminal instead of the notebook.
  • Add --sys-prefix and --profile arguments to ipython kernel install
  • Allow Comm (Widget) messages to be sent from background threads.
  • Select inline matplotlib backend by default if %matplotlib magic or matplotlib.use() are not called explicitly (for matplotlib >= 1.5).
  • Fix some longstanding minor deviations from the message protocol (missing status: ok in a few replies, connect_reply format).
  • Remove calls to NoOpContext from IPython, deprecated in 5.0.

4.3

4.3.2

  • Use a nonempty dummy session key for inprocess kernels to avoid security warnings.

4.3.1

  • Fix Windows Python 3.5 incompatibility caused by faulthandler patch in 4.3

4.3.0

4.3.0 on GitHub

  • Publish all IO in a thread, via IOPubThread. This solves the problem of requiring sys.stdout.flush() to be called in the notebook to produce output promptly during long-running cells.
  • Remove refrences to outdated IPython guiref in kernel banner.
  • Patch faulthandler to use sys.__stderr__ instead of forwarded sys.stderr, which has no fileno when forwarded.
  • Deprecate some vestiges of the Big Split: - ipykernel.find_connection_file() is deprecated. Use jupyter_client.find_connection_file() instead. - Various pieces of code specific to IPython parallel are deprecated in ipykernel and moved to ipyparallel.

4.2

4.2.2

4.2.2 on GitHub

  • Don’t show interactive debugging info when kernel crashes
  • Fix handling of numerical types in json_clean
  • Testing fixes for output capturing

4.2.1

4.2.1 on GitHub

  • Fix default display name back to “Python X” instead of “pythonX”

4.2.0

4.2 on GitHub

  • Support sending a full message in initial opening of comms (metadata, buffers were not previously allowed)
  • When using ipython kernel install --name to install the IPython kernelspec, default display-name to the same value as --name.

4.1

4.1.1

4.1.1 on GitHub

  • Fix missing ipykernel.__version__ on Python 2.
  • Fix missing target_name when opening comms from the frontend.

4.1.0

4.1 on GitHub

  • add ipython kernel install entrypoint for installing the IPython kernelspec
  • provisional implementation of comm_info request/reply for msgspec v5.1

4.0

4.0 on GitHub

4.0 is the first release of ipykernel as a standalone package.