Changes in Jupyter console¶

A summary of changes in Jupyter console releases.

5.1¶

New ZMQTerminalInteractiveShell.true_color config option to use 24-bit colour.
New ZMQTerminalInteractiveShell.confirm_exit config option to turn off asking ‘are you sure’ on exit.
New --simple-prompt flag to explicitly use the fallback mode without prompt_toolkit.
Fixed executing an empty input.
Fixed formatting for code and outputs from other frontends executing code.
Avoid using functions which will be removed in IPython 6.

5.0¶

5.0.0¶

Interactive Shell architecture¶

disinherit shell class from IPython Interactive Shell #68 This separates jupyter_console’s ZMQTerminalInteractiveShell from IPython’s TerminalInteractiveShell and InteractiveShell classes.
update SIGINT handler to not use the old interactive API shell #80

Image Handling improvement¶

use PIL as default image handler #79
better indication of whether image data was handled #77

Prompts improvement¶

use prompt_toolkit 1.0 #74
don’t use prompt_manager #75
remove colors_force flag that have no effects: #88

4.1¶

4.1.1¶

fix for readline history
don’t confuse sys.path with virtualenvs

4.1.0¶

readline/completion fixes
use is_complete messages to determine if input is complete (important for non-Python kernels)
fix: 4.0 was looking for jupyter_console_config in IPython config directories, not Jupyter

4.0¶

4.0.3¶

fix jupyter console --generate-config

4.0.2¶

setuptools fixes for Windows

4.0.0¶

First release as a standalone package.