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What's Changed

See the 8.0.0 changelog for a more comprehensive summary of changes. To see the full list of pull requests and issues, see the 8.0 milestone on GitHub, or the full list of changes since 7.x.

Users

Here are some highlights of user-visible changes in ipywidgets 8.0.

Date and time pickers

In addition to the existing DatePicker widget, we now have new DatetimePicker and TimePicker widgets. (#2715) 

from ipywidgets import VBox, TimePicker, DatetimePicker
VBox([
  TimePicker(description='Time'),
  DatetimePicker(description='Date/Time')
])

Tags input widget

The new TagsInput widget provides an easy way to collect and manage tags in a widget. You can drag and drop tags to reorder them, limit them to a set of allowed values, or even prevent making duplicate tags. (#2591, #3272) 

from ipywidgets import TagsInput
TagsInput(
    value=['pizza', 'fries'],
    allowed_tags=['pizza', 'fries', 'tomatoes', 'steak'],
    allow_duplicates=False
)

Similarly, the new ColorsInput widget provides a way to select colors as tags 

from ipywidgets import ColorsInput
ColorsInput(
    value=['red', '#2f6d30'],
    # allowed_tags=['red', 'blue', 'green'],
    # allow_duplicates=False
)

Stack widget

The new Stack container widget shows only the selected child widget, while other child widgets remain hidden. This can be useful if you want to have a area that displays different widgets depending on some other interaction. 

from ipywidgets import Stack, Button, IntSlider, Dropdown, VBox, link
s = Stack([Button(description='Click here'), IntSlider()], selected_index=0)
d = Dropdown(options=['button', 'slider'])
link((dropdown, 'index'), (stacked, 'selected_index'))
VBox([d, s])

File upload widget

The file upload widget has been overhauled to handle multiple files in a more useful format:

  • The .value attribute is now a list of dictionaries, rather than a dictionary mapping the uploaded name to the content.
  • The contents of each uploaded file is a memory view in the .content key, e.g., uploader.value[0].content.
  • The .data attribute has been removed.
  • The .metadata attribute has been removed.

See the user migration guide for details on how to migrate your code.

(#2767, #2724, #2666, #2480)

More styling options

Many style and layout options have been added to core widgets:

  • Tooltips are now supported for many core widgets, rather than just a few description tooltips (#2680) 
    from ipywidgets import Button
Button(description="Click me", tooltip='An action')
  • Borders can be styled independently with the layout's border_top, border_right, border_bottom, border_left attributes (#2757, #3269) 
    from ipywidgets import Button
Button(description="Click me", layout={'border_bottom': '3px solid blue'})
  • Descriptions are now plain text by default for security, but you can set them to allow HTML with the description_allow_html attribute (HTML content is still sanitized for security). (#2785) 
    from ipywidgets import Text
Text(description="<b>Name</b>", description_allow_html=True)
  • Many other styling attributes can be set on core widgets, such as font family, size, style, weight, text color, and text decoration. See the table in the documentation for a reference. (#2728)
  • The SelectionSlider now has a handle_color style attribute (#3142)
  • To control keyboard navigation, widgets can be set to be tabbable or not (i.e., that the tab key will traverse to the widget) (#2640)

Selection container titles

The Accordion, Tab, and Stack widgets now have a .titles attribute that you can use to get and set titles from the constructor or as an attribute. (#2746, #3296, #3477) 

from ipywidgets import Tab, IntSlider, Text
Tab([IntSlider(), Text()], titles=('Slider', 'Text'))

Slider implementation

The slider implementation in the core widgets now uses nouislider. This enables us to fix long-standing bugs and introduce new features, like dragging the range in a RangeSlider. (#2712, #630, #3216, #2834)

Collaboration

By default, ipywidgets 8 enables a collaboration mode, where widget updates from one frontend are reflected back to other frontends, enabling a consistent state between multiple users and fixing synchronization between the kernel and frontend. You may want to disable these update echo messages if they are using too much bandwidth or causing slower interactivity. To disable echo update messages across ipywidgets, set the environment variable JUPYTER_WIDGETS_ECHO to 0. For widget authors, to opt a specific attribute of custom widget out of echo updates (for example, if the attribute contains a lot of data that does not need to be synchronized), tag the attribute with echo_update=False metadata (we do this in core for the FileUpload widget's data attribute). (#3195, #3343, #3394, #3407)

CDN for html manager

We have made it easier to load widgets from content delivery networks.

  • The default CDN is changed from unpkg to jsDelivr (#3121, #1627)
  • You can use the data-jupyter-widgets-cdn-only attribute to load modules only from CDN (#2792, #2786)
  • We have updated the webpack public path settings so the HTMLManager and the Jupyter Notebook extensions pull assets from wherever they are loaded, rather than only from CDN. If you author a custom widget, we highly encourage you to apply similar changes to your widget by adapting the changes at https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/widget-cookiecutter/pull/103/files. #3464, #3508

Other changes

Here is a short list of some of the other changes in ipywidgets 8.0.

  • Add a cookiecutter-based tutorial to build a custom widget (#2919)
  • Change media widgets to use memory views. (#2723)
  • Upgrade to FontAwesome 5 in html-manager (#2713)
  • Play widget now toggles between play and pause button as needed (#2703, #2671)
  • Drop support for mapping types as selection options (#2679, #1958)
  • Focus or blur a widget. (#2664, #2692, #2691, #2690)
  • Drop notebook dependency from widgetsnbextension (#2590)
  • Cast 'value' in range sliders to a tuple (#2441)
  • Play widget: expose playing and repeat (#2283, #1897)
  • Fix debouncing and throttling code (#3060)
  • Fix regression on spinning icons (#2685, #2477)
  • Fix selection container default index (#1823)
  • Remove deprecated overflow properties (#2688)
  • Select: Do not force a selection if there is currently no selection and the options list changes (#3284)
  • Add support for localization to the lab extension (#3286)
  • Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.4, and 3.5 (#2558, #2655, #3131, #3120)
  • Fix character escapes in combobox options (#2972)
  • Modify outputs to use a comm if IPython is not available (#2954)
  • Bugfix/parameters in the from_file method to be passed along in the media class (#3074)
  • Widgetsnbextension: throw error on failure to render (#3280)
  • Fix memory leak from Image widget not releasing object urls (#3171, #3170)
  • ErrorWidget as fallback when widgets models or views fail - Following up (#3304)
  • Fix matplotlib plots in interact (#3277)
  • Fix selection equality checking (#2897)
  • Remove the on_displayed Python callback mechanism (#2021)

Developers

To see an overview of the changes to the core widget model specification, see #3455.

Python

  • Widget.widgets and Widget.widget_types are now private variables (#3122, #3173)
  • Generate the widget data spec as JSON (#2193)
  • Use _repr_mimebundle_ and require ipython 6.1 or later. (#2021, #1811)
  • Hold sync during set_state + fix selection widgets flakiness (#3271)
  • Remove deprecated handle_kernel alias (#2694)
  • Removed deprecated signature of the register decorator (#2695)

Javascript

  • Fix CSS variable names to match JupyterLab names (#2801, #2062)
  • Delete display_model and display_view (#2752, #2751)
  • Drop underscore usage (#2742)
  • Upgrade to es2017 javascript (#2725)
  • Split base manager into separate packages (#2710, #2561)
  • Change Phosphor to Lumino (#2681, #3267)
  • Widgetmanagerbase: improve create_view return type (#2662)
  • Refactor the JupyterLab widget manager so it can be reused (#2532)
  • Make more of lab manager dependencies optional (#2528)
  • Remove class jupyter-widgets from jp-outputarea-output node (#2500)
  • Rename pWidget to luminoWidget and deprecate pWidget (#3118, #3141, #3358,)
  • Add layout, style, and shown events (#3300)
  • Implement jupyter.widget.control comm channel (#3313)
  • Update to TypeScript 4.3 (#3162)
  • Add event listener for resize events (#3124)
  • Remove process.cwd polyfill (#3315)
  • Make sure buffer is a DataView (#3127)
  • Deprecate the overly broad CSS class widget and introduce a similar jupyter-widget CSS class (#3146)
  • Fetch the full widget state via a control Comm (#3021)
  • Export LabWidgetManager and KernelWidgetManager (#3166)
  • More helpful semver range message (#3185)
  • Make the base widget manager .get_model() method always return a Promise, which is rejected if the requested model is not registered. To test if a model is registered, use the new .has_model() method (#3389)

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