Jupyternaut (jupyter-ai) chat-history missing

Hi,
I am new to AI assited coding and I did set up my JupyterLab environment.
On several videos I saw you can start a new Chat by hitting the “+” button and naming the new chat like “chat 1”, “chat 2”, “chat 3” and so on… below you can see a screenshot I took from deep learning.ai education video:

In my environment (jupyter_ai 2.31.6) however, when I hit the “+”-Button, my current chat will disappear and I start from scratch with no way to access the old chat.

Any ideas? Maybe some access priviliges are missing?

Environment Summary

Setup

  • Host: Proxmox (latest stable release)
  • Guest OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (headless)
  • Access: HTTPS (Nginx reverse proxy with Let’s Encrypt), SSH / xterm.js
  • GPU passthrough: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB GDDR7) — confirmed working
    torch.cuda.is_available() == True

Jupyter (Server / Frontend)

  • JupyterLab: 4.4.10 (as shown in WebGUI “About”)
  • Jupyter Server: 2.17.0
  • Reverse Proxy: Nginx (TLS via Let’s Encrypt)
  • Browser Access: HTTPS on public domain
  • jupyter_ai 2.31.6
  • AI Plugins (frontend): OpenAI Chat (GPT-5), AI Code Interpreter, AI Plot Explorer

Jupyter Kernel / Python Environment

  • Python: 3.12.12
  • sys.executable: /home/peter/miniconda3/envs/trading/bin/python (example)
  • Conda environment: trading
  • IPython: 9.6.0
  • ipykernel: 6.x
  • JupyterLab (pkg in kernel): 4.4.9
  • Jupyter Server (pkg in kernel): 2.17.0
  • Notebook (pkg): not installed

Data & AI Stack (Kernel)

  • PyTorch: 2.9.0 + cu130
  • CUDA: 13.0
  • Triton: 3.5.0
  • pandas: 2.3.3
  • numpy: 2.2.6
  • matplotlib: 3.10.7
  • pandas_ta: not installed
  • ccxt: 4.5.11
  • yfinance: 0.2.66

GPU Info

  • Device: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
  • Driver: 580
  • CUDA available: True
  • PyTorch CUDA version: 13.0
  • Persistence mode: Enabled
  • Frameworks used: PyTorch, Triton (GPU kernels)

Notes:
The JupyterLab version shown in the web interface (4.4.10) refers to the server/frontend installation. The jupyterlab version inside the Python kernel (4.4.9) refers to the kernel-side package.