holoviz/panel v0.5.0

Version 0.5.0

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Major new release, greatly improving usability and capabilities. Includes contributions from @philippjfr (docs, better layouts, and many other features), @xavArtley (VTK support, Ace code editor), @banesullivan (VTK support), @jbednar and @rtmatx (docs), @jsignell (docs, infrastructure, interact support), and @jlstevens (labels for parameters).

Major new features:

• Now uses Bokeh 1.1's greatly improved layout system, requiring far fewer manual adjustments to spacing (#32)
• Greatly expanded docs, now with galleries (#241, #251, #265, #281, #318, #332, #347, #340)
• Allow embedding app state, to support static HTML export of panels (#250)
• Added new GridSpec layout type, making it simpler to make grid-based dashboards (#338)
• Added VTK 3D object pane (#312, #337, #349, #355, #363)
• Added Ace code editor pane (#359)
• Allow defining external JS and CSS resources via config, making it easier to extend Panel (#330)
• Add HTML model capable of executing JS code, allowing more complex embedded items (#326)
• Add a KaTeX and MathJax based LaTeX pane, replacing the previous limited matplotlib/PNG-based support (#311)

Other new features:

• Allow passing Parameter instances to Param pane, making it much simpler to work with individual parameters (#303)
• Added parameter for widget alignment (#367)
• Allow specifying initial value when specifying min/max/step for interact (#334)
• Add support for param.Number step (#365)
• Add a PeriodicCallback (#348)
• Expose curdoc and session_context when using serve (#336)
• Add support for saving and loading embedded data from JSON (#301)
• Add support for specifying arbitrary label for Parameters (#290)
• Add ColorPicker widget (#267)
• Add support for interact title (#266)

Bugfixes and minor improvements:

• Combine HTML and JS in MIME bundle to improve browser compatibility (#327)
• Inlined subobject expand toggle button (#329)
• Use Select widget for ObjectSelector consistently to avoid issues with short lists and numeric lists (#362)
• Various small improvements (#238, #245, #257, #258, #259, #262, #264, #276, #289, #293, #307, #313, #343, #331)
• Various bugfixes (#247, #261, #263, #282, #288, #291, #297, #295, #305, #309, #322, #328, #341, #345, #354, #364)

Changes potentially affecting backwards compatibility:

• Refactored io subpackage (#315)
• Moved panes and widgets into subpackage (#283)
• Cleaned up wdiget, deploy, and export APIs (#268, #269)
• Renamed pane precedence to priority to avoid confusion with Param precedence (#235)