6.0.0rc0

(Full Changelog)

New features added

• Implementation of the debugger #597 (@JohanMabille)

Enhancements made

• Make the isatty method of OutStream return True #683 (@peendebak)
• Allow setting cell name #652 (@davidbrochart)
• Try to capture all filedescriptor output and err #630 (@Carreau)
• Implemented inspectVariables request #624 (@JohanMabille)
• Specify ipykernel in kernelspec #616 (@SylvainCorlay)
• Use matplotlib-inline #591 (@martinRenou)
• Run control channel in separate thread #585 (@SylvainCorlay)

Bugs fixed

• call metadata methods on abort replies #684 (@minrk)
• fix keyboard interrupt issue in dispatch_shell #673 (@marcoamonteiro)
• Update Trio mode for compatibility with Trio >= 0.18.0 #627 (@mehaase)
• Follow up DeprecationWarning Fix #617 (@afshin)
• Flush control stream upon shutdown #611 (@SylvainCorlay)
• Fix Handling of shell.should_run_async #605 (@afshin)

Maintenance and upkeep improvements

• Keep preferring SelectorEventLoop on Windows #669 (@minrk)
• fix: Backwards compat with older versions of zmq #665 (@mlucool)
• Add Kernel.get_parent to match set_parent #661 (@minrk)
• flush control queue prior to handling shell messages #658 (@minrk)
• Add Kernel.get_parent_header #657 (@minrk)
• Build docs only on ubuntu : add jobs to check docstring formatting. #644 (@Carreau)
• make deprecated shell_streams writable #638 (@minrk)
• Use channel get_msg helper method #634 (@davidbrochart)
• Use native coroutines instead of tornado coroutines #632 (@SylvainCorlay)
• Make less use of ipython_genutils #631 (@SylvainCorlay)
• Run GitHub Actions on all branches #625 (@afshin)
• Move Python-specific bits to ipkernel #610 (@SylvainCorlay)
• Update Python Requirement to 3.7 #608 (@afshin)
• Replace import item from ipython_genutils to traitlets. #601 (@Carreau)
• Some removal of ipython_genutils.py3compat. #600 (@Carreau)

Documentation improvements

• Add 5.5.x Changelog entries #672 (@blink1073)
• Build docs only on ubuntu : add jobs to check docstring formatting. #644 (@Carreau)
• DOC: Autoreformat all docstrings. #642 (@Carreau)
• bump Python to 3.8 in readthedocs.yml #612 (@minrk)

Other merged PRs

• Fix typo #663 (@SylvainCorlay)
• Fixup get_parent_header call #662 (@SylvainCorlay)
• stop control thread before closing sockets on it #659 (@minrk)
• Fixes debugging with native coroutines #651 (@SylvainCorlay)
• Fixup master build #649 (@SylvainCorlay)
• Update of ZMQInteractiveshell. #643 (@Carreau)
• Fix "Socket operation on nonsocket" in downstream nbclient test. #641 (@SylvainCorlay)
• Fix parent header retrieval #639 (@davidbrochart)
• missing self #636 (@Carreau)
• Removed filtering of stack frames for testing #633 (@JohanMabille)
• Added 'type' field to variables returned by inspectVariables request #628 (@JohanMabille)
• Changed default timeout to 0.0 seconds for stop_on_error_timeout #618 (@MSeal)
• Attempt longer timeout #615 (@SylvainCorlay)
• Add release note to 5.5.0 about stop_on_error_timeout #613 (@glentakahashi)
• Move Changelog to Standard Location #604 (@afshin)
• Clean up release process and add tests #596 (@afshin)
• Change to markdown for changelog #595 (@afshin)

Contributors to this release

(GitHub contributors page for this release)

@afshin | @blink1073 | @Carreau | @ccordoba12 | @davidbrochart | @dsblank | @glentakahashi | @impact27 | @ivanov | @jkablan | @JohanMabille | @kevin-bates | @marcoamonteiro | @martinRenou | @mehaase | @minrk | @mlucool | @MSeal | @peendebak | @SylvainCorlay | @tacaswell