# Spellchecker extension improved, has a new home

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/spellchecker-extension-improved-has-a-new-home/8146>\
**Category:** extensions\
**Tags:** announcement, release\
**Created:** [February 28, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/spellchecker-extension-improved-has-a-new-home/8146 "2021-02-28T23:32:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![krassowski](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/krassowski/32/1685_2.png) [@krassowski](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/krassowski)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/spellchecker-extension-improved-has-a-new-home/8146/1 "2021-02-28T23:32:41Z")

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The JupyterLab spellchecker extension received a few improvements recently, including:

- alternative themes for highlighting misspelt words (wavy underline, dotted underline),
- better compatibility with alternative frontends (statusbar and command palette no longer required)
- language can be now changed from the command palette
- bug fixes specific to issues in German dictionary
- better performance when changing language
- you can install it with pip for JupyterLab 3.0 (Node.js is no longer required 🎉)

The extension repository was moved to the new GitHub organisation: [GitHub - jupyterlab-contrib/spellchecker: Spellchecker for JupyterLab notebook markdown cells and file editor.](https://github.com/jupyterlab-contrib/spellchecker)

 ![demo-themes-opt](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/jupyter/original/2X/4/4116ed3b0bcf566bf8200e92faac7aff9c4a32f8.gif)