JupyterLab 3.6.0 Release
Here are the new cool features available in JupyterLab 3.6.0:
- Real-time collaboration rework
- Notifications
- Terminals enhancements
- Various highlights
- Performance improvements
The full changelog is available there.
Real-time collaboration rework
The major work done for 3.6.0 is an important rework of the experimental real-time collaboration feature.
In real-time collaboration mode, the current user identity is
highlighted in the top right corner. And you can see all connected
users in a new side panel. You can even click to their name to jump
their current position.
See the documentation for more information and requirements.
Notifications
Notifications in JupyterLab are now a thing. At start up, you will notice a toast asking your consent to get news from Jupyter and to check if an update is available:
An annoucement will only be shown as a toast the first.
More information to customize the behavior can be found there.
You can disable this popup either by creating an overrides.json file with:
{
"@jupyterlab/apputils-extension:notification": {
"fetchNews": "false"
}
}
Or disabling notifications plugin altogether by running:
jupyter labextension disable "@jupyterlab/apputils-extension:announcements"
Terminals enhancements
- New context menu entries to copy and paste (support varies between browsers)
- Links are now clickable in the terminals.
Hoora to Mladen Gibanica for contributing with this feature.
Various highlights
- Pause execution during debug
- Better contrast for error highlights in dark mode traceback
- Add line history for input:
Performance improvements
- Improved performance of menus which are now positioned in compositor
- Improved output rendering times
- (opt-in) Faster tab switching
To enable faster tab-switching on Chromium browsers (and experimentally on latest Firefox version) you can go to “Settings” → “JupyterLab Shell” and switch the “hiddenMode” to “contentVisibility”. Feedback on performance and behaviour of this feature is welcome.
Edited to add how to disable the pop-up and to add performance improvements section
