Jupyter Notebook 5.2.0

October 13, 2017 · Grant Nestor · Jupyter Notebook releases

We are pleased to announce the release of Jupyter Notebook 5.2.0. This is a minor release that includes mostly bug fixes and improvements with the notable addition of RTL (right-to-left) support.

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

pip install --upgrade notebook

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

conda upgrade notebook

Changelog

• Allow setting token via jupyter_token env (#2921).
• Fix some errors caused by raising 403 in get_current_user (#2919).
• Register contents_manager.files_handler_class directly (#2917).
• Ensure that keyboard shortcuts are disabled when editing them (#2912).
• Make all files in the dashboard editable by default and provide a whitelist of viewable file extensions (#2911).
• The root directory of the notebook server should never be hidden (#2907).
• Fix notebook require config to match tools/build-main (#2888).
• Give page constructor default arguments (#2887).
• Fix codemirror.less to match codemirror’s expected padding layout (#2880).
• Addx-xsrftoken to access-control-allow-headers (#2876).
• Buffer messages when websocket connection is interrupted (#2871).
• Load locale dynamically only when not en-us (#2866).
• Changed key strength to 2048 bits (#2861).
• Resyncjsversion with python version (#2860).
• Allow copy operation on modified, read-only notebook (#2854).
• Update error handling on apihandlers (#2853).
• Test python 3.6 on travis, drop 3.3 (#2852).
• Avoid base64-literals in image tests (#2851).
• Upgrade xterm.js to 2.9.2 (#2849).
• Changed all python variables named file to file_name to not override built_in file (#2830).
• Add more doc tests (#2823).
• Typos fix (#2815).
• Rename and update license (#2810).
• Travis builds doc (#2808).
• Pull request i18n (#2804).
• Factor out output_prompt_function, as is done with input prompt (#2774).
• Use rfc5987 encoding for filenames (#2767).
• Added path to the resources metadata, the same as in from_filename(...) in nbconvert.exporters.py (#2753).
• Make “extrakeys” consistent for notebook and editor (#2745).
• Bidi support (#2357).

Credits

This release has been a team effort and we would like to thank the following 18 people who contributed:

• Alexandra (aliandra)
• Alex Rothberg (cancan101)
• Gabriel Nützi (gabyx)
• Grant Nestor (gnestor)
• Douglas Hanley (iamlemec)
• Josh Barnes (jcb91)
• jianzi123 (jianzi123)
• Jiaqi Liu (jiaqi216)
• Madhu94 (Madhu94)
• Min RK (minrk)
• M Pacer (mpacer)
• Remco Verhoef (nl5887)
• Kyle Kelley (rgbkrk)
• Samar Sultan (samarsultan)
• Sam Lau (SamLau95)
• Syed TS (sytays)
• Thomas Kluyver (takluyver)
• Vidar Tonaas Fauske (vidartf)

We look forward to your feedback and contributions!