Changes in Jupyter console

A summary of changes in Jupyter console releases.

5.3

  • Highlight matching parentheses. PR #147

  • The config option JupyterConsoleApp.confirm_exit replaces ZMQTerminalInteractiveShell.confirm_exit, to avoid redundancy. PR #141.

5.2

  • When using a kernel that the console did not start, exiting with Ctrl-D now leaves it running. PR #127

  • Added Ctrl-\ shortcut to quit the console. PR #130

  • Input prompt numbers are now updated when another frontend has executed code in the same kernel. PR #119

  • Fix setting next input with newer versions of prompt_toolkit. PR #123

  • Ensure history entries are unicode, not bytes, on Python 2. PR #122

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 (PR #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. PR #80

Image Handling improvement

  • use PIL as default image handler PR #79

  • better indication of whether image data was handled PR #77

Prompts improvement

  • use prompt_toolkit 1.0 PR #74

  • don’t use prompt_manager PR #75

  • remove colors_force flag that have no effects: PR #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.