Summary
This is our last alpha 😅 for the desktop app! 🛠
This is technically one of our smallest releases with some of the biggest most game changingest features, including auto updating. Check out the release notes down below for more. 😄
Installers
- OS X/macOS
- Windows
- Linux
Disclaimer
The only bundled kernel is JavaScript (node.js). To detect your current python kernel you will need to run
python -m ipykernel install --user
at the command line. For other kernels, check out https://nteract.io/kernels.
Gratitude
This release wouldn't be as amazing without all the wonderful contributors over the past two weeks (our quickest turnaround time 😝 ). We're loving this version and hope you do too. ❤️
People who contributed to this release:
- Daniel Chen
- John Detlefs
- Lukas Geiger
- Brian Granger
- Tim Head
- Kyle Kelley
- Eric Massey
- Madhumitha Natarajan
- Grant Nestor
- Marius van Niekerk
- M Pacer
- Kayur Patel
- Jay Phelps
- Carol Willing
Bots who contributed to this release:
- Appveyor
- Codecov
- Greenkeeper
- Travis CI
Features
Auto updating!
We've wanted this for a long time and now you have access to it. Demo video of an update.
🤞 Here's to hoping our next release auto upgrades in place for you cleanly after this release.
vdom support
Hot off the presses, we've got integration with the new vdom output:
One VDOM example notebook tutorial is built in to the app. Try it out today!
Bug fixes
- Don't use shellEnv when launched from terminal (#1906)
- Fix modified indicator on mac
- Don't show close warning when file is already saved
Extra under the hood 🚗 bits
- App size is smaller, both packed and unpacked
- We're on React 16!
- We're using the new lettable operators from RxJS