v2024.4.0

Changes:

• #15636: cache in correct variable
• #15604: Download vscode arm64, use action output for python executable
• #15580: Fix recursive dispose error
• #15576: Fixes to disposing of Import tracker
• #15569: Remove unwanted event handlers
• #15561: Fixes to ipykernel detection
• #15559: Capture more information when running cells
• #15558: Add additional logging when hiding kernels
• #15556: Add logging when hiding default kernelspecs
• #15555: Set env variable PYTHON_FROZEN_MODULES

See More

• #15552: Do not add self to disposables
• #15554: Remove unwanted file and change log level
• #15551: filter out unneeded variables, bring back privates but sort them last
• #15546: remove unnecessary when condition so command can be menu defualt
• #15540: Bump engine version
• #15506: dispose listener, don't end early on unrelated error
• #15536: Remove traceLog function
• #15537: Initialize telemetry data only once
• #15535: Bump tar from 6.1.11 to 6.2.1
• #15532: Throttle hover provider creation
• #15531: Debounce handling notebook updates
• #15529: Detect changes instead of querying every time
• #15528: Stop monitoring events when no longer required
• #15526: Fix activated conda env vars from PythonApi
• #15523: Breakdown of kernel startup
• #15519: Move startup code into shared file
• #15505: only ask for summary on supported types
• #15504: correct try scope, clarify required parameters
• #15495: Get variable info with background thread
• #15494: Reduce logging unwanted kernel messages
• #15492: No waiting for zmq ports to be used in prerelease
• #15491: log errors that occur in bg threads
• #15482: Drop duplicate commands
• #15480: Connecting to Jupyter lab without pwd and token
• #15464: Enable vscode test in Test Explorer
• #15479: Include slideshow into endgame plan
• #15475: Updated copy for data viewer depreciation notification
• #15474: Update @vscode/test-web
• #15471: Fix & simplify code to initialize CWD of kernels
• #15472: Add some logging when Pylance gets interpreter info
• #15105: Bump codecov/codecov-action from 1 to 4
• #15470: Include comments into the generated file
• #15468: Prefix display paths with workspace folder name
• #15469: Remove redundant test
• #15462: Check access to kernels only when executing code
• #15467: Restore failing widget tests
• #15465: Remove old Python API code
• #15460: Remove KernelCompletions experiment
• #15459: Ignore as keys/pwd are only used in tests
• #15457: Search for script files in nested directories
• #15456: Do not log errors unnecessarily
• #15458: Allow powertoys ext to use new Proposed API
• #15444: clean up stack trace parsing code
• #15447: deprecate setting
• #15442: bump version for next iteration
• #15440: skip adding diagnostic info for IW, guard against bad regex results
• #15435: Improve error handling and logging in background execution and extension activation
• #15418: Setup experiment for deprecation.
• #15416: Contribute run precedent cells in quick fix.
• #15415: Fix test plan item validator
• #15408: Fix typo in event name
• #15404: Support summarization for jupyter variables
• #15398: custom in metadata is optional based on ipynb ext
• #15401: Remove duplicate await
• #15397: Delete unwanted code generating/accessing metadata
• #15394: Add execution analysis test suites against Pylance.
• #15393: Disable caching of npm on win, as it does not work
• #15388: Align list variables return type with VS Code API
• #15390: use interfaces property
• #15389: Centralize accessing nb metadata
• #15377: Improve Variable Summarization
• #15374: Improve variable summarization
• #15383: Use ipynb extension to serialize and drop ICell
• #15381: Store isInteractiveWindowMessageCell at root level
• #15379: Engineering - cleanup TSA pipeline template parameter
• #15253: Adopt new document symbol api
• #15372: Bump follow-redirects from 1.15.4 to 1.15.6
• #15371: Support requesting kernel runtime states
• #15361: Reduce warning/debug messages
• #15364: use qualtype to see nested classes
• #15363: Enable native test explorer for unit test.
• #15357: Reduce verbose logging
• #15358: more fine grained type info
• #15356: cut down on message size when getting variables
• #15334: include error location when ending a cell execution with error
• #15346: refresh variable view for kernel crash/restarts
• #15343: use repr function to get string representation
• #15336: populate notebook filepath from notebookwatcher if needed
• #15321: Remove uri and pass notebook
• #15315: Enable random assignment
• #15312: Update classifier schema
• #15293: Identification of caller on remote servers
• #15301: Dispose before registering provider
• #15299: Update status when kernel finders are disposed
• #15291: add error diagnostic in cell document for run failure
• #15284: Do not resolve env (sysPrefix) if not required
• #15283: Fixes to Proposed API Access
• #15273: Update pre-release helper to fix boolean checks
• #15275: chore: add APIScan field
• #15272: enable DW variable viewer experiment for IW
• #15269: Throttle updates to kernel cache
• #15261: Remove startup resolving and interpreter refreh
• #15267: Bump minimal engine
• #15264: Prepare for March.
• #15260: Remove resolvedEnvironments property
• #15257: reduce usages of resolveEnvironments
• #15252: fix the infinite loop on getListOfKernelsWithCachedConnection
• #15256: Part 1 of simpler test utils for Python Envs
• #15250: Remove displayPath property
• #15249: Remove known, envPath and envName properties
• #15243: Use new port forwarding API
• #15246: Remove environment type property
• #15245: Remove PythonEnvironment property isCondaEnvWithoutPython
• #15242: Store in cache only if found
• #15240: Guard against invalid Python versions
• #15231: Convert old tests to web tests (run in web extension, local host, etc)
• #15239: Do not flood ipykernel with completion requsts
• #15236: Bump es5-ext from 0.10.53 to 0.10.63
• #15232: Remove IDisposable ref and move package to dev deps
• #15226: Faster completions with background execution
• #15230: Non-blocking background Python kernel execution
• #15227: Ensure we timeout on waiting for completions

This list of changes was auto generated.

February 2024

v2024.2.0

Disable warning about Python version (#15238)

2023.10.1100000000

The update includes a fix for a security vulnerability.

2022.09.120

Enhancements

1. Display an error message (with instructions to resolve the issue) in the cell output when attempting to run a cell against a kernel from an untrusted location.
   (#11622)

Thanks

Thanks to the following projects which we fully rely on to provide some of
our features:

• Python Extension
• debugpy

Also thanks to the various projects we provide integrations with which help
make this extension useful:

• Jupyter:
  Notebooks,
  JupyterHub,
  ipywidgets,
  nbconvert

2022.09.110

Fixes

1. Fixed vulnerability described in CVE-2022-41083

Thanks

Thanks to the following projects which we fully rely on to provide some of
our features:

• Python Extension
• debugpy

Also thanks to the various projects we provide integrations with which help
make this extension useful:

• Jupyter:
  Notebooks,
  JupyterHub,
  ipywidgets,
  nbconvert

2022.9.100

2022.9.100 (4 October 2022)

Enhancements

1. Add code folding regions for # %% cells within python files.
   (#1527)
2. Deleting a cell in the interactive window is now an undo-able operation.
   (#7756)
3. Add cell tag and slideshow editing support.
   (#1121)

Fixes

1. The cell scrolled to will be selected after using the go to cell code lens.
   (#7687)
2. Make sure the "Install Python" and "Install Python Extension" commands only show up after we have loaded our controllers.
   (#10960)
3. Ensure the cache of kernels is not updated when kernel discovery ends midway.
   (#11240)
4. Don't show unclickable links when failing to connect to a jupyter server in the web extension.
   (#11285)

Code Health

1. Removed delayed scrolling reveal in the interactive window now that core does auto-scrolling.
   (#7686)
2. Ignore errors when disposing a kernel.
   (#11304)

Thanks

Thanks to the following projects which we fully rely on to provide some of
our features:

• Python Extension
• debugpy

Also thanks to the various projects we provide integrations with which help
make this extension useful:

• Jupyter:
  Notebooks,
  JupyterHub,
  ipywidgets,
  nbconvert

2022.8.100

Changelog

2022.8.100 (30 August 2022)

Fixes

1. Display a prompt when Python environment used to start Jupyter cannot, providing the user with the ability to select a Python Environment.
   (#1110)
2. Start and maintain a single Python process for interrupting Python kernels (one process per session).
   (#9909)
3. Don't save an incorrect server password in our cached password list, and keep displaying the server input prompt after a failed password attempt.
   (#10300)
4. Pass --user flag when installing dependencies into a Global Python environment such as the one installed from Windows Store.
   (#10478)
5. Handle situations when the connection to a remote Kernel is lost after executing a cell.
   This also fixes the issue Unable to interrupt a kernel when the remote kernel connection is lost #9828.
   (#10568)
6. Ensure cells in Interactive Window are executed in correct order when executing from both code lenses and the input box.
   (#10671)
7. Do not append/prepend path values unnecessarily.
   (#10906)
8. Ensure user variables overriding builtins do not break the dataframe viewer.
   (#10941)
9. Remove duplicate Cancel button from modal dialog for interrupting kernels.
   (#10999)
10. Kill all of the child processes spawned by a local kernel when the kernel is shutdown.
    (#11018)
11. Initialize the environment variable PYDEVD_IPYTHON_COMPATIBLE_DEBUGGING for the Python debugger when debugging Interactive Window and Notebooks.
    This also addresses the following issues 10600, 10106
    (#11033)
12. Ensure users can connect to Azure ML Jupyter Server.
    (#11084)

Code Health

1. Stop creating hidden terminals to look for Jupyter Notebook application.
   (#10935)
2. Fix the test "Export a basic notebook document with nbconvert" CI failure.
   (#11190)
3. Fix the macOS smoke test which is failing every time on CI.
   (#11193)

Thanks

Thanks to the following projects which we fully rely on to provide some of
our features:

• Python Extension
• debugpy

Also thanks to the various projects we provide integrations with which help
make this extension useful:

• Jupyter:
  Notebooks,
  JupyterHub,
  ipywidgets,
  nbconvert

2022.07.100

Changelog

2022.7.100 (3 Aug 2022)

Enhancements

1. Warn users when a Python file could override an existing Python package (there by interfering with the kernels. More info).
   This feature could be turned off via the setting "jupyter.diagnostics.reservedPythonNames.enabled": false.
   (#7538)
2. DataFrame viewer enabled on the web.
   (#9665)
3. The Variable Viewer now shows strings wrapped in single quotes.
   (#10225)
4. Rework kernel selection to be in either 'remote' mode or 'local' mode to avoid confusion about what kernels should be displayed.
   (#10435)
5. Added a more info button to the kernel depedency prompt to give more information about ipykernel.
   (#10658)
6. Use the Python Extension install python command versus just pointing at python.org.
   (#10696)
7. Only show the "kernel may need to be restarted" message when installing Python if there are active kernels.
   (#10697)
8. Added a setting 'jupyter.showOnlyOneTypeOfKernel' to allow trying out the new kernel picker UI.
   (#10782)
9. Don't show the Python getting started page when installing via the Jupyter kernel picker command.
   (#10793)

Fixes

1. Fixes related to loading of environment variables from .env files (#10359, #9774, #10392, #10755).
2. Load environment variables for Python kernels from file defined in the setting python.envFile (#9691).
3. Fixes problem where clipboard permissions are required in order to enter a Jupyter server URL. (only applies when 'jupyter.showOnlyOneTypeOfKernel' is enabled)
   (#10191)
4. Fix problem of determining whether or not in 'local' or 'remote' mode for a Jupyter connection.
   (#10363)
5. Don't prompt to install python extension on just trying to check the packages that are in an interpreter.
   (#10615)
6. Ensure the extension loads in the Safari browser.
   (#10621)
7. Fixed localization on package.json sections: capabilities, contributes.walkthroughs, contributes.commands and contributes.debuggers. As well as the localizations on the exceptions thrown if the extension fails to activate and the localization on the messages for deprecated features.
   (#10624)
8. Fix language of picking a jupyter server when in the web extension.
   (#10672)
9. Change wording on 'Connect to Your Own Jupyter Server' to 'Connect to a Jupyter Server'.
   (#10675)
10. Fix error that pops up when trying to restart during debugging a notebook.
    (#10741)
11. Stop waiting for kernel to start (or be idle) when switching kernels.
    (#10795)
12. Display messages from background threads in cell outputs.
    (#10864)
13. Fixes problem with starting a kernel when ZMQ wasn't supported on Windows.
    (#10940)

Code Health

1. Use modal dialogs in places where user input is necessary as part of a workflow.
   (#10436)
2. Load static resources for IPyWidgets from known directories as documented here.
   (#10722)

Thanks

Thanks to the following projects which we fully rely on to provide some of
our features:

• Python Extension
• debugpy

Also thanks to the various projects we provide integrations with which help
make this extension useful:

• Jupyter:
  Notebooks,
  JupyterHub,
  ipywidgets,
  nbconvert

2022.06.120

Changelog

2022.6.120 (14 July 2022)

Fixes

1. Stop incorrectly looking at .python property in the python debug configuration.
   (#10789)

2022.6.110 (11 July 2022)

Fixes

1. Temporarily disable localising certain phrases that would break some of the extension features while we investigate the underlying reason.
   (#10752)

Thanks

Thanks to the following projects which we fully rely on to provide some of
our features:

• Python Extension
• debugpy

Also thanks to the various projects we provide integrations with which help
make this extension useful:

• Jupyter:
  Notebooks,
  JupyterHub,
  ipywidgets,
  nbconvert

2022.06.100

Changelog

2022.6.100 (6 July 2022)

Enhancements

1. Ensure static resources required by IPyWidgets get downloaded appropriately in the Web and when using local or remote Jupyter Servers.
   (#8834)
2. Enabled export Interactive Window for web.
   (#10291)
3. Enabled expand and collapse Interactive Window cells in Web.
   (#10524)
4. For the new "Install Python Extension" command only show the modal dialog box if triggered via a running document.
   (#10548)
5. Change the logic to show our "Install Python (Extension)" commands in the kernel picker more often.
   (#10583)

Fixes

1. Support displaying of complex outputs (such as Plots) in the Output Widget.
   (#9503)
2. Fixes to pick the correct python version when opening in the DataViewer from python debug menu.
   (#10007)
3. Ensure IPyWidgets get loaded correctly when loading resources from the CDN, Remote Jupyter or local the Python Environment.
   (#10060)
4. Fix problem with variable view not refreshing when switching between tabs.
   (#10241)
5. Fix error link clicking in the web version of the extension.
   (#10287)
6. Fixed loading of scripts related to custom IPyWidgets.
   (#10319)
7. Enable IPyWidgets for Kernels other than Python.
   (#10330)
8. Fix inconsistent link in README. Thanks @ChaseKnowlden
   (#10396)
9. Fix problem with continuous progress bar in the 'Jupyter:Variables' window by making the jupyter extension load when this view is visible.
   (#10413)
10. Fix problem with widgets being rendered offscreen and not appearing when scrolling.
    (#10485)
11. Replace 'Python 3' dummy kernel with commands to install the python extension or install python.
    (#10513)
12. Ensure we always import scripts required to load DataFrame and variable information.
    (#10516)
13. Ensure we can run Latex from within a Interactive Window cell (with a cell marker).
    (#10531)
14. Remove extra button from Restart Kernel modal. (Thanks kilacoda)
    (#10539)
15. Add support for loading of widget scripts found within the global Jupyter data directory.
    (#8241)
16. Set a longer timeout so that if we fail to install the Python extension for some reason we don't just wait forever.
    (#10617)
17. Expose jQuery in Notebook Cell outputs for IPyWidgets.
    (#10660)

Code Health

1. Removed deprecated 'change directory on import/export' option
   (#8752)
2. Remove usage of console.log in renderers.
   (#10202)
3. Fix 'Special Token Check' test.
   (#10565)

Thanks

Thanks to the following projects which we fully rely on to provide some of
our features:

• Python Extension
• debugpy

Also thanks to the various projects we provide integrations with which help
make this extension useful:

• Jupyter:
  Notebooks,
  JupyterHub,
  ipywidgets,
  nbconvert