Changelog

Version 2024.03.0

(full changelog)

New features added

• Implement support for dockerignore and containerignore #1205 (@sgaist)

Enhancements made

• rstudio: log-level info to stderr #1317 (@manics)

Bugs fixed

• Get Zenodo working again #1315 (@manics)

Maintenance and upkeep improvements

• Update mamba to 1.5.7 from 1.5.1, and conda to 24.3.0 from 23.7.4 #1337 (@SylvainCorlay)

• Dockerfile: bump alpine from 3.17 to 3.19 and Python 3.10 to 3.11 #1332 (@yuvipanda)

• Upgrade base image from to Ubuntu 22.04 from 18.04 #1287 (@yuvipanda)

Documentation improvements

• Add Ubuntu 22.04 upgrade guide #1309 (@manics)

• Update version of R available #1288 (@yuvipanda)

• Add changelog for 2023.06.0 #1286 (@yuvipanda)

Other merged PRs

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #1333 (@pre-commit-ci)

• build(deps): bump codecov/codecov-action from 3 to 4 #1331 (@dependabot)

• Support pytest=8 #1330 (@manics)

• Update versioneer #1329 (@TimoRoth)

• build(deps): bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 #1328 (@dependabot)

• build(deps): bump actions/upload-artifact from 3 to 4 #1327 (@dependabot)

• Add NYCU Dataverse #1326 (@twtw)

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #1322 (@pre-commit-ci)

• New domain for Edmond MPG repository #1321 (@haarli)

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #1319 (@pre-commit-ci)

• [MRG] docs: Add base_image parameter example. #1318 (@hiroyuki-sato)

• Upgrade mamba and refreeze #1313 (@manics)

• r: Bump version of rsession-proxy #1310 (@yuvipanda)

• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 #1308 (@dependabot)

• build(deps): bump docker/build-push-action from 4 to 5 #1307 (@dependabot)

• build(deps): bump docker/setup-qemu-action from 2 to 3 #1306 (@dependabot)

• build(deps): bump docker/setup-buildx-action from 2 to 3 #1305 (@dependabot)

• Update conda and mamba #1299 (@SylvainCorlay)

• Point to official documentation for handling JupyterLab workspace #1294 (@fcollonval)

• Fix rstudio-build selection #1293 (@yamaton)

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #1291 (@pre-commit-ci)

Contributors to this release

(GitHub contributors page for this release)

@annakrystalli | @betatim | @bollwyvl | @consideRatio | @dependabot | @dolfinus | @fcollonval | @felder | @haarli | @hiroyuki-sato | @manics | @mathieuboudreau | @minrk | @pre-commit-ci | @rgaiacs | @ryanlovett | @sgaist | @SylvainCorlay | @TimoRoth | @twtw | @welcome | @yamaton | @yuvipanda

Version 2023.06.0

(full changelog)

Breaking changes

• JupyterHub version installed by default upgraded from 1.5 to 3.1.1

• Microsoft killed MRAN, so all package snapshots now come from Posit Package Manager. Snapshots from before 2018-12-07 are now no longer available, so you might have to update the snapshot date in your runtime.txt.

New features added

• Support Python 3.11 and upgrade jupyterhub from 1.5.0 to 3.1.1 #1239 (@minrk)

• allow user to specify a single port with default command #918 (@minrk)

• Let FROM <base_image> in the Dockerfile template be configurable #909 (@yuvipanda)

Enhancements made

• Update to mamba 1.4.0 #1256 (@SylvainCorlay)

• [MRG] download original file formats from Dataverse #1242 #1253 (@pdurbin)

• Add optional registry credentials to push() #1245 (@manics)

• Add ARM64 support where possible #1228 (@manics)

• Switch default python to 3.10 #1219 (@yuvipanda)

Bugs fixed

• Microsoft killed MRAN, stop relying on it #1285 (@minrk)

• Update the location of R packagemanager #1273 (@Xarthisius)

• missing f in julia fetch error f-string #1264 (@minrk)

• avoid duplicate log statements by memoizing getters #1248 (@minrk)

• Add Conda env library path to RStudio configuration #1237 (@TimStewartJ)

• Create Julia projects based on binder/Project.toml when found #1216 (@frankier)

• Allow REPO_DIR to be a non-existing folder by creating it and providing the user with permissions #976 (@bollwyvl)

Maintenance and upkeep improvements

• Microsoft killed MRAN, stop relying on it #1285 (@minrk)

• Relax pins to major versions and refreeze, introduce explicit jupyter_server v1 pin #1283 (@consideRatio)

• fix github link templates #1276 (@minrk)

• dependabot: monthly updates of github actions #1262 (@consideRatio)

• Remove deprecated nteract_on_jupyter #1259 (@yuvipanda)

• disable codecov failures #1251 (@minrk)

• Support Python 3.11 and upgrade jupyterhub from 1.5.0 to 3.1.1 #1239 (@minrk)

• pre-commit update to fix ci #1238 (@minrk)

• Upgrade to mamba 1.1 and enable rich SAT error messages #1232 (@SylvainCorlay)

• Upgrade to mamba 1.0 #1213 (@SylvainCorlay)

• docker image: update alpine to 3.16 #1212 (@consideRatio)

• reconcile CLI/config priority #1211 (@minrk)

• pipfile: pass –clear flag, and do it separetely to not be ignored #1208 (@consideRatio)

• run submodule test over https #1204 (@minrk)

• pre-commit: add pyupgrade, isort, and prettier for .md files #1202 (@consideRatio)

• Create wheels with the build package, stop calling setup.py directly #1199 (@consideRatio)

• Add check-tmp step to local repo tests #1126 (@minrk)

• Set default, type, and help method for engine in argparse #1073 (@jgarte)

Documentation improvements

• Fix links to jupyterlab-demo postBuild file #1282 (@fcollonval)

• Recreate changelog as markdown #1281 (@yuvipanda)

• fix github link templates #1276 (@minrk)

• update docs for default and supported Python versions #1250 (@minrk)

• docs: add devenv, linkcheck, and refresh misc config etc #1197 (@consideRatio)

Other merged PRs

• build(deps): bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.5 to (edit) release/v1 #1279 (@dependabot)

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #1270 (@pre-commit-ci)

• build(deps): bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.4 to 1.8.5 #1263 (@dependabot)

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #1261 (@pre-commit-ci)

• build(deps): bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.3 to 1.8.4 #1260 (@dependabot)

• build(deps): bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.6.4 to 1.8.3 #1257 (@dependabot)

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #1252 (@pre-commit-ci)

• Ensure BuildPack.python_version is specified #1249 (@minrk)

• Update install-nix.bash #1244 (@robertodr)

• build(deps): bump docker/build-push-action from 3 to 4 #1241 (@dependabot)

• Update to jupyter-resource-usage==0.7.0 #1236 (@jtpio)

• Also install dev requirements on Gitpod #1235 (@jtpio)

• Bump to Node 18 #1234 (@jtpio)

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #1229 (@pre-commit-ci)

• Quick-fix for Docker image build #1227 (@manics)

• Fix tests/external/reproductions.repos.yaml #1226 (@manics)

• Fix typo #1224 (@fkohrt)

• build(deps): bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.5.1 to 1.6.4 #1223 (@dependabot)

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #1222 (@pre-commit-ci)

• ci: cleanup no longer used test logic related to memlimit #1218 (@consideRatio)

• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate #1217 (@pre-commit-ci)

• ci: use non-deprecated codecov uploader #1209 (@consideRatio)

• ci: stop running pre-commit in gha, rely on pre-commit.ci #1200 (@consideRatio)

• Initial changelog for 2022.10.0 #1194 (@manics)

Contributors to this release

(GitHub contributors page for this release)

@AliMirlou | @betatim | @bollwyvl | @choldgraf | @consideRatio | @craig-willis | @dependabot | @fcollonval | @fkohrt | @frankier | @jgarte | @jhamman | @jtpio | @manics | @meeseeksmachine | @minrk | @nuest | @pdurbin | @pre-commit-ci | @robertodr | @SylvainCorlay | @TimStewartJ | @trybik | @welcome | @westurner | @Xarthisius | @yamaton | @yuvipanda

Version 2022.10.0

Full changelog

New features

• Update Jupyter dependencies PR #1193 by @jtpio

• add Python 3.10 base environment PR #1175 by @minrk

• Bump default R version to 4.2 from 4.1, and let R 3.4 go from 3.4.0 to 3.4.4 PR #1165 by @yuvipanda

• Support pulling from zenodo sandbox too PR #1169 by @yuvipanda

• Add MPDL Dataverse PR #1167 by @wilhelmfrank

• Add JPL Dataverse PR #1163 by @foobarbecue

• upgrade RStudio Server to v2022.02.1 PR #1148 by @aplamada

• Pass build_args to render() during --no-build for consistency with regular builds PR #1135 by @yoogottamk

Documentation improvements

• Update ‘how to get R’ section PR #1147 by @yuvipanda

• Post release fixes PR #1133 by @manics

API changes

Bug fixes

• consistent log handling when not using JSON loggers PR #1177 by @minrk

• Fix Read-Only filesystem permission issue for log file PR #1156 by @timeu

• handle permission issue writing .jupyter-server-log.txt in REPO_DIR PR #1151 by @pymonger

• handle r version being unspecified in environment.yml PR #1141 by @minrk

Other merged PRs

• Remove conda buildpacks pin of r-irkernel to 1.2 PR #1191 by @consideRatio

• ci: refactor julia/r/conda tests - now ~25 min instead of ~50 min PR #1188 by @consideRatio

• ci: general refresh of github workflows, update gha versions and let dependabot do it, etc. PR #1186 by @consideRatio

• Use enum to standardise phase PR #1185 by @manics

• fail on unsupported Python PR #1184 by @minrk

• mount wheels from build stage instead of copying them PR #1182 by @minrk

• get CI working again PR #1178 by @minrk

• explicitly build linux/amd64 images PR #1176 by @minrk

• Freeze.py update PR #1173 by @manics

• Bump version of nodejs PR #1172 by @yuvipanda

• Update mamba PR #1171 by @SylvainCorlay

• ci: switch to using a 2fa enabled accounts pypi api-token PR #1166 by @consideRatio

• Get R from RStudio provided apt packages (.deb files) PR #1161 by @yuvipanda

• Shallow clone HEAD PR #1160 by @daradib

• Update black version PR #1150 by @yuvipanda

• Update base notebook packages PR #1149 by @yuvipanda

• Update Dockerfile to current Alpine (ALPINE_VERSION=3.15.0) PR #1136 by @holzman

• update Python in some dockerfile tests PR #1130 by @minrk

Version 2022.02.0

Full changelog

New features

• Update ipywidgets jupyter-offlinenotebook jupyterlab PR #1127 by @manics

• Allow passing in extra args to Docker initialization PR #1124 by @yuvipanda

• Allow passing in traitlets via commandline PR #1123 by @yuvipanda

• Bump default R version to 4.1 PR #1107 by @yuvipanda

• Update jupyterlab 3.2.5 jupyter-resource-usage 0.6.1 PR #1105 by @manics

• Get binary R packages from packagemanager.rstudio.com PR #1104 by @yuvipanda

• Support R 4.1 PR #1102 by @yuvipanda

• Add command line option to pass extra build args PR #1100 by @TimoRoth

• Set labels when building image from Dockerfile PR #1097 by @TimoRoth

• jupyterlab 3.1.17 PR #1092 by @minrk

• Bump JupyterLab to 3.1.11 PR #1081 by @choldgraf

• Bootstrap base env with micromamba PR #1062 by @wolfv

• Default UI to JupyterLab PR #1035 by @SylvainCorlay

API changes

Bug fixes

Other merged PRs

• Put micromamba in /usr/local/bin and use mamba for installs PR #1128 by @minrk

• Remove deprecated calls to distutils PR #1122 by @minrk

• Delete /tmp/downloaded_packages after running install.R PR #1119 by @yuvipanda

• Use a smaller R library in our tests PR #1118 by @yuvipanda

• Only get R itself (r-base-core) from apt, not CRAN packages PR #1117 by @minrk

• set USER root after each directive block PR #1115 by @minrk

• Say ‘apt repository’ rather than PPA PR #1111 by @yuvipanda

• add tests for R conda PR #1108 by @aplamada

• Add help message to freeze.py PR #1106 by @manics

• Quieter R builds PR #1103 by @yuvipanda

• update user_interface doc to reflect that lab is default PR #1085 by @minrk

• Updates to dev docs + Recommonmark -> MyST Parser PR #1082 by @choldgraf

• Fix Docker build (again) PR #1078 by @manics

• [mrg] __init__.py: r_version: fixed description PR #1074 by @magnush0lm

• Typo fix in utils docstring PR #1072 by @jgarte

• Rename requirements.py-3.5.txt to requirements.py-3.5.pip PR #1061 by @manics

• Remove nodesource’ nodejs PR #847 by @yuvipanda

Version 2021.08.0

Full changelog

The repo2docker container image has moved to quay.io/jupyterhub/repo2docker

New features

• always unpack a single zenodo zip PR #1043 by @akhmerov

• Refreeze with conda-lock PR #1024 by @minrk

• Refine buffered output debugging PR #1016 by @minrk

• reimplement entrypoint in Python PR #1014 by @minrk

• Fetch available Julia versions from hosted json PR #994 by @tomyun

• Define an interface for Container engines PR #848 by @manics

API changes

Bug fixes

• Workaround docker-py dependency’s failure to import six PR #1066: by @consideratio

• fix: add chardet, a not explicitly declared dependency PR #1064 by @johnhoman

• Add build-base to build stage of docker image PR #1051 by @yuvipanda

• Fix regression in hydroshare introduced after moving to requests PR #1034 by @MridulS

Other merged PRs

• Update README quay.io URL, Add docker latest tag PR #1075 by @manics

• GitHub workflow build and push to Docker hub PR #1071 by @manics

• Rename master branch to main PR #1068 by @manics

• Remove Pipfile & Pipfile.lock PR #1054 by @yuvipanda

• Remove CircleCI docs build PR #1053 by @yuvipanda

• Pin doc requirements to avoid CI breakages PR #1052 by @manics

• Stop using deprecated add_stylesheet in sphinx PR #1050 by @yuvipanda

• Add study participation notice to readme PR #1046 by @sgibson91

• Bump urllib3 from 1.26.4 to 1.26.5 PR #1045 by @dependabot

• State newly used installation command PR #1040 by @fkohrt

• Bump pyyaml from 5.1.1 to 5.4 PR #1029 by @dependabot

• Set default Julia version to 1.6 PR #1028 by @tomyun

• Fix logo URL in README PR #1027 by @betatim

Version 2021.03.0

Full changelog

New features

• freeze with mamba, add 3.9 PR #1017 by @minrk

• Add GH workflow to push releases to PYPi and introduce CalVer PR #1004 by @betatim

• Add entrypoint script which automatically propagates *_PROXY env vars… PR #1003 ([@g-braeunlich](g-braeunlich))

• Update to JupyterLab 3.0 PR #996 by @jtpio

• Fetch available Julia versions from hosted json PR #994 by @tomyun

• Add a contentprovider for Software Heritage persistent ID (SWHID) PR #988 by @douardda

• Stream jupyter server logs to a file PR #987 by @betatim

• add 4.0, 4.0.2 to list of supported R versions PR #960 by @minrk

API changes

Bug fixes

• fix dataverse regression introduced in last release PR #1011 by @MridulS

• buildpacks.r: dont use apt-key directly to respect *_proxy env vars PR #1019 ([@g-braeunlich](g-braeunlich))

Other merged PRs

• Cleanup install_requires including duplicates PR #1020 by @manics

• bump docker action version PR #1018 by @minrk

• bump python in circleci test PR #1013 by @minrk

• Investigating the missing logs PR #1008 by @betatim

• Experiment with different install mechanism to get code coverage stats again PR #982 by @betatim

Version 2021.01.0

Full changelog

New features

• Replace urllib by requests in contentproviders PR #993 by @douardda

• Use mambaforge instead of miniforge PR #992 by @SylvainCorlay

• buildpacks/nix: 2.3 -> 2.3.9 PR #991 by @FRidh

• Drop support for stencila PR #985 by @minrk

• Add Julia 1.5.3 support PR #984 by @tomyun

• Update to node 14 PR #983 by @jtpio

• Mamba 0.6.1 PR #979 by @minrk

• Ensure REPO_DIR owned by NB_USER PR #975 by @tomyun

• Add Julia 1.5.2 support PR #965 by @tomyun

• Mamba number three PR #962 by @SylvainCorlay

• Add a Mercurial contentprovider PR #950 by @paugier

• Add Julia 1.5.1 support PR #949 by @tomyun

• Handle requirements.txt with --pre lines PR #943 by @betatim

• Add Julia 1.5.0 support PR #938 by @tomyun

• Update JupyterLab to 2.2.0 PR #933 by @manics

• Bump nix version to 2.3 PR #915 by @jboynyc

• Add nbresuse==0.3.3 (full freeze.py) PR #904 by @manics

• Add Julia 1.4.2 support PR #899 by @davidanthoff

• Bump version of irkernel for R 4.0 PR #892 by @betatim

• chmod start script from repo2docker-entrypoint PR #886 by @danlester

• pypi jupyter-offlinenotebook==0.1.0 PR #880 by @manics

• Add support for Julia 1.4.1 PR #878 by @davidanthoff

• Change –env option to work like docker’s PR #874 by @hwine

• Add support for Julia 1.4.0 PR #870 by @davidanthoff

• Update server proxy and rsession proxy PR #869 by @betatim

• Use miniforge instead of miniconda to get conda PR #859 by @yuvipanda

• If looking for latest MRAN URL try earlier snapshots too PR #851 by @manics

• Add jupyter-offlinenotebook extension PR #845 by @betatim

API changes

• Bump Python requirement to 3.6 from 3.5 PR #951 by @betatim

Bug fixes

• buildpacks/nix: disable sandboxing (bugfix) PR #990 by @FRidh

• avoid deprecated import of collections.abc PR #924 by @minrk

• Add missing “:” for R code PR #900 by @adamhsparks

• Fix RShiny proxy PR #893 by @betatim

• Work around a Julia bug PR #879 by @davidanthoff

• Fix typo PR #862 by @jtpio

Other merged PRs

• Fix figshare test PR #1001 by @manics

• Weekly test of master to check for external failures PR #998 by @manics

• Remove reference to master branch from CLI doc PR #977 by @betatim

• add chown to COPY commands to reduce layer count PR #969 by @bollwyvl

• set TIMEFORMAT for timed bash conda commands PR #966 by @manics

• Disable jupyterlab extension build minimize PR #963 by @manics

• Bump Black version to 20.8b1 and use –target-version=py36 PR #955 by @paugier

• Add workflow to build Docker image PR #954 by @manics

• Crosslink ‘Configuring your repository’ with usage PR #952 by @manics

• Add www-frame-origin=same to /etc/rstudio/rserver.conf PR #944 ([@rkevin-arch](rkevin-arch))

• GitHub Actions PR #942 by @minrk

• stop running tests on travis PR #940 by @minrk

• update repo URLs for jupyterhub/repo2docker PR #939 by @minrk

• Upgrade custom test infrastructure for pytest 6.0.0 PR #936 by @betatim

• validate_image_name: mention lowercase, fix formatting PR #934 by @manics

• Update snapshot date for simple R test PR #930 by @betatim

• little improvement for testing binder_dir PR #928 by @bitnik

• update docs for config dirs PR #927 by @bitnik

• doc: runtime.txt installs python x.y (& concise rewording) PR #914 by @mdeff

• doc: environment.yml installs a conda env, not only python PR #913 by @mdeff

• Make the memory limit test simpler PR #912 by @betatim

• Add gitpod.io config for docs PR #908 by @betatim

• fix repo2docker logo in Sphinx docs PR #906 by @trallard

• Update Dockerfile to add Docker PR #896 by @hamelsmu

• Document test failure workarounds PR #890 by @hwine

• Workaround Docker issue impacting some tests on macOS PR #882 by @hwine

• [docs] fix grammatical error in section title PR #872 by @jameslamb

• Fix long form args requirements PR #866 by @betatim

• Adopt new Sphinx theme name PR #864 by @xhochy

• Document loose conda export with –from-history PR #863 by @xhochy

• utils.execute_cmd flush buffer if no EOL PR #850 by @manics

• Update black 19.10b0, target Python 3.5 PR #849 by @manics

• docs: postBuild warn about shell script errors being ignored PR #844 by @manics

• Update changelog for 0.11.0 PR #842 by @betatim

Version 0.11.0

Release date: 2020-02-05

New features

• Add support for Figshare in PR #788 by @nuest.

• Add support for Dataverse in PR #739 by @Xarthisius.

• Add support for configuring the version of R installed in PR #772 by @betatim.

• Add support for Julia 1.2.0 in PR #768 by @davidanthoff.

• Add support for Julia 1.3.0 and 1.0.5 in PR #822 by @davidanthoff.

• Add support for Julia 1.3.1 in PR #831 by @davidanthoff.

• Update Miniconda to 4.7.10 in PR #769 by @davidrpugh.

• Update IRKernel to 1.0.2 in PR #770 by @GeorgianaElena.

• Update RStudio to 1.2 in PR #803 by @pablobernabeu.

• Switch to “pandas” sphinx theme for documentation in PR #816 by @choldgraf.

• Add content provider documentation in PR #824 by @choldgraf.

• Remove legacy buildpack in PR #829 by @betatim.

• Add support for automatic RStudio install when using R packages via conda in PR #838 by @xhochy.

• Add support for Python 3.8 in PR #840 by @minrk.

• Add Hydroshare as content provider in PR #800 by @sblack-usu.

• Update to Jupyter Notebook 6 and Lab 1.2 in PR #839 by @minrk.

Bug fixes

• Fix for submodule check out in PR #809 by @davidbrochart.

• Handle requirements.txt files with different encodings in PR #771 by @GeorgianaElena.

• Update to nteract-on-jupyter 2.1.3 in PR #2.1.3 by :user:betatim`.

• Use useradd --no-log-init to fix exhausting disk space in PR #804 by @manics.

• Add help text for commandline arguments in PR #517 by @yuvipanda.

• Fix submodule checkout in PR #809 by @davidbrochart.

Version 0.10.0

Release date: 2019-08-07

New features

• Increased minimum Python version supported for running repo2docker itself to Python 3.5 in PR #684 by @betatim.

• Support for Pipfile and Pipfile.lock implemented in PR #649 by @consideratio.

• Use only conda packages for our base environments in PR #728 by @scottyhq.

• Fast rebuilds when repo dependencies haven’t changed by @minrk and @betatim in PR #743, PR #752, PR #718 and PR #716.

• Add support for Zenodo in PR #693 by @betatim.

• Add support for general Invenio repositories in PR #704 by @tmorrell.

• Add support for julia 1.0.4 and 1.1.1 in PR #710 by @davidanthoff.

• Bump Conda from 4.6.14 to 4.7.5 in PR #719 by @davidrpugh.

API changes

Bug fixes

• Prevent building the image as root if –user-id and –user-name are not specified in PR #676 by @Xarthisius.

• Add bash to Dockerfile to fix usage of private repos with git-crendential-env in PR #738 by @eexwhyzee.

• Fix memory limit enforcement in PR #677 by @betatim.

Version 0.9.0

Release date: 2019-05-05

New features

• Support for julia Project.toml, JuliaProject.toml and Manifest.toml files in PR #595 by @davidanthoff

• Set JULIA_PROJECT globally, so that every julia instance starts with the julia environment activated in PR #612 by @davidanthoff.

• Update Miniconda version to 4.6.14 and Conda version to 4.6.14 in PR #637 by @jhamman

• Install notebook into notebook env instead of root. Activate conda environments and shell integration via ENTRYPOINT in PR #651 by @minrk

• Support for .binder directory in addition to binder directory for location of configuration files, in PR #653 by @jhamman.

• Updated contributor guide and issue templates for bugs, feature requests, and support questions in PR #654 and PR #655 by @KirstieJane and @betatim.

• Create a page naming and describing the “Reproducible Execution Environment Specification” (the specification used by repo2docker) in PR #662 by @choldgraf.

API changes

Bug fixes

• Install IJulia kernel into ${NB_PYTHON_PREFIX}/share/jupyter in PR #622 by @davidanthoff.

• Ensure git submodules are updated and initilized correctly in PR #639 by @djhoese.

• Use archive.debian.org as source for the debian jessie based legacy buildpack in PR #633 by @betatim.

• Update to version 5.7.6 of the notebook package used in all environments in PR #628 by @betatim.

• Update to version 5.7.8 of the notebook package and version 2.0.12 of nteract-on-jupyter in PR #650 by @betatim.

• Switch to newer version of jupyter-server-proxy to fix websocket handling in PR #646 by @betatim.

• Update to pip version 19.0.3 in PR #647 by @betatim.

• Ensure ENTRYPOINT is an absolute path in PR #657 by @yuvipanda.

• Fix handling of --build-memory-limit values without a postfix in PR #652 by @betatim.

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