Changelog

Version 0.8.0

Release date: 2019-02-21

New features

• Add additional metadata to docker images about how they were built PR #500 by @jrbourbeau.
• Allow users to install global NPM packages: PR #573 by @GladysNalvarte.
• Add documentation on switching the user interface presented by a container. PR #568 by user:choldgraf.
• Increased test coverage to ~87% by @betatim and @yuvipanda.
• Documentation improvements and additions by @lheagy, @choldgraf.
• Remove f-strings from code base, repo2docker is compatible with Python 3.4+ again by @jrbourbeau in PR #520.
• Local caching of previously built repostories to speed up launch times by @betatim in PR #511.
• Make destination of repository content in the container image configurable on the CLI via --target-repo-dir. By @yuvipanda in PR #507.
• Expose CPU limit settings for building and running containers. By @GladysNalvarte in PR #579.
• Make Python 3.7 the default version. By @yuvipanda and @minrk in PR #539.

API changes

Bug fixes

• In some cases the version of conda installed in images was not pinned and got upgraded by user actions. Fixed in PR #576 by @minrk.
• Fix an error related to checking if debug output was enabled or not: PR #575 by @yuvipanda.
• Update nteract frontend to version 2.0.0 by @yuvipanda in PR #571.
• Fix quoting issue in GIT_CREDENTIAL_ENV environment variable by @minrk in PR #572.
• Change to using the first 8 characters of each Git commit, not the last 8, to tag each built docker image of repo2docker itself. @minrk in PR #562.
• Allow users to select the Julia when using a requirements.txt by @yuvipanda in PR #557.
• Set JULIA_DEPOT_PATH to install packages outside the home directory by @yuvipanda in PR #555.
• Update to Jupyter notebook 5.7.4 PR #519 by @minrk.

Version 0.7.0

Release date: 2018-12-12

New features

• Build from sub-directory: build the image based on a sub-directory of a repository PR #413 by @dsludwig.
• Editable mode: allows editing a local repository from a live container PR #421 by @evertrol.
• Change log added PR #426 by @evertrol.
• Documentation: improved the documentation for contributors PR #453 by @choldgraf.
• Buildpack: added support for the nix package manager PR #407 by @costrouc.
• Log a ‘success’ message when push is complete PR #482 by @yuvipanda.
• Allow specifying images to reuse cache from PR #478 by @yuvipanda.
• Add JupyterHub back to base environment PR #476 by @yuvipanda.
• Repo2docker has a logo! by @agahkarakuzu and @blairhudson.
• Improve support for Stencila, including identifying stencila runtime from document context PR #457 by @nuest.

API changes

• Add content provider abstraction PR #421 by @betatim.

Bug fixes

• Update to Jupyter notebook 5.7 PR #475 by @betatim and @minrk.

Version 0.6

Released 2018-09-09

Version 0.5

Released 2018-02-07

Version 0.4.1

Released 2018-09-06

Version 0.2

Released 2018-05-25

Version 0.1.1

Released 2017-04-19

Version 0.1

Released 2017-04-14