microsoft/vscode-jupyter 2021.5.0

Release 2021.5.0

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Enhancements

1. Be able to provide string argument to jupyter.execSelectionInteractive for extensibility.
   (thanks Andrew Craig)
   (#1689)

Fixes

1. Jupyter variables tab will always be named 'Jupyter Variables'.
   (#4458)
2. Variable view will stay as long as you have a notebook open (not necessarily active).
   (#4562)
3. Add quotations to arguments with blank spaces when executing kernel processes.
   (#4647)
4. Do not prompt to install Python extension when creating a blank notebook.
   (#4965)
5. Cache the active workspace Python Interpreter.
   (#5004)
6. Don't prewarm variables for global jupyter interpreter if ZMQ is supported.
   (#5009)
7. When closing the Interactive Window, shutdown sessions started by Interactive Window.
   (#5030)
8. Stop wrapping new errors if we threw the original error.
   (#5089)
9. Ignore errors when getting the environment variables for a Python environment.
   (#5093)
10. Revert viewsContainter name to Jupyter and view name to Variables to avoid un-named viewsContainer.
    (#5102)
11. Ensure extensions depending on Jupyter do not fail to load if Jupyter extension fails to load.
    (#5145)
12. Don't display the data science banner for non-Jupyter notebooks.
    (#5181)
13. Don't use NotebookEditor.onDidDispose and support new err / out specific stream mime types.
    (#5191)
14. Prevent unnecessary activation of the Python extension.
    (#5193)
15. Update widget kernel for new NotebookOutputEventParams.
    (#5195)
16. Updates to code used to run Python in an isolated manner.
    (#5212)
17. Changes to proposed API for using resolveKernel instead of resolveNotebook. Since this change goes along with widget tests also renable and fix those tests.
    (#5217)
18. Fix data viewer display of non-numeric index columns in DataFrames.
    (#5253)
19. Display messages notifying user to enable support for CDNs when rendering IPyWidgets.
    (#5074)
20. When reopening a newly created Notebook with a Julia kernel, the cells should be detected as Julia.
    (#5148)
21. Support switching kernels in Native Notebooks when connecting to Jupyter.
    (#1215)
22. Refactor how Kernels are searched and selected.
    (#4995)
23. Fix run selection/line to work from the active editor
    (#5287)
24. Update variable view to use the new API for native cell execution notification.
    (#5316)
25. Ensure users in CodeSpaces do not get prompted to forward Kernel Ports.
    (#5283)
26. Disable surveys in CodeSpaces.
    (#5295)
27. Ensure Git diff viewer does not get replaced by Notebook Editor.
    (#633)
    (thanks Matt Bierner)

Code Health

1. Ability to queue telemetry until all of the data required is available.
   (#4956)
2. Fix variables test. We had a new import of sys, which was causing the variable fetching to have to do one extra fetch, pushing it over the limit to require a second chunk fetch.
   (#5016)
3. Add tests for data viewer slice data functionality.
   (#5066)
4. Remove setting jupyter.useNotebookEditor.
   (#5130)
5. Enable debug logging by default.
   (#5238)

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,