2020.7.96456

2020.7.1 (22 July 2020)

1. Fix language server setting when provided an invalid value, send config event more consistently.
   (#13064)
2. Add banner for pylance, and remove old LS experiment.
   (#12817)

2020.7.94776

2020.7.0 (16 July 2020)

Enhancements

1. Support connecting to Jupyter hub servers. Use either the base url of the server (i.e. 'https://111.11.11.11:8000') or your user folder (i.e. 'https://111.11.11.11:8000/user/theuser).
   Works with password authentication.
   (#9679)
2. Added "argsExpansion" to debugpy launch.json schema.
   (#11678)
3. The extension will now automatically load if a pyproject.toml file is present in the workspace root directory.
   (thanks Brandon White)
   (#12056)
4. Add ability to check and update whether a notebook is trusted.
   (#12146)
5. Support formatting of Notebook Cells when using the VS Code Insiders API for Notebooks.
   (#12195)
6. Added exporting notebooks to HTML.
   (#12375)
7. Change stock launch.json "attach" config to use "connect".
   (#12446)
8. Update to the latest version of jedi (0.17.1). This brings completions for Django (via django-stubs) as well as support for Python 3.9 and various bugfixes (mostly around generic type annotations). (thanks Peter Law)
   (#12486)
9. Prompt users that we have deleted pythonPath from their workspace settings when in Deprecate PythonPath experiment.
   (#12533)
10. Changed public API for execution to return an object and provide a callback which is called when interpreter setting changes.
    (#12596)
11. Allow users to opt out of us checking whether their notebooks can be trusted. This setting is turned off by default and must be manually enabled.
    (#12611)
12. Include the JUPYTER_PATH environment variable when searching the disk for kernels.
    (#12694)
13. Added exporting to python, HTML and PDF from the interactive window.
    (#12732)
14. Show a prompt asking user to upgrade Code runner to new version to keep using it when in Deprecate PythonPath experiment.
    (#12764)
15. Opening notebooks in the preview Notebook editor for Visual Studio Code Insiders.
    (#10496)

Fixes

1. Ensure we only have a single isort process running on a single file.
   (#10579)
2. Provided a method for external partners to participate in jupyter server URI picking/authentication.
   (#10993)
3. Check for hideFromUser before activating current terminal.
   (#11122)
4. In Markdown cells, turn HTML links to markdown links so that nteract renders them.
   (#11254)
5. Prevent incorrect ipywidget display (double plots) due to synchronization issues.
   (#11281)
6. Removed the Kernel Selection toolbar from the Interactive Window when using a local Jupyter Server.
   To show it again, set the setting 'Python > Data Science > Show Kernel Selection On Interactive Window'.
   (#11347)
7. Get Jupyter connections to work with a Windows store installed Python/Jupyter combination.
   (#11412)
8. Disable hover intellisense in the interactive window unless the code is expanded.
   (#11459)
9. Make layout of markdown editors much faster to open.
   (#11584)
10. Watermark in the interactive window can appear on top of entered text.
    (#11691)
11. Jupyter can fail to run a kernel if the user's environment contains non string values.
    (#11749)
12. On Mac meta+Z commands are performing both cell and editor undos.
    (#11758)
13. Paste can sometimes double paste into a notebook or interactive window editor.
    (#11796)
14. Fix jupyter connections going down when azure-storage or other extensions with node-fetch are installed.
    (#11830)
15. Variables should not flash when running by line.
    (#12046)
16. Discard changes on Notebooks when the user selects 'Don't Save' on the save changes dialog.
    (#12180)
17. Disable Extract variable & method commands in Notebook Cells.
    (#12206)
18. Disable linting in Notebook Cells.
    (#12208)
19. Register services before extension activates.
    (#12227)
20. Infinite loop of asking to reload the extension when enabling custom editor.
    (#12231)
21. Fix raw kernel autostart and remove jupyter execution from interactive base.
    (#12330)
22. If we fail to start a raw kernel daemon then fall back to using process execution.
    (#12355)
23. Fix the export button from the interactive window to export again.
    (#12460)
24. Process Jupyter messages synchronously when possible.
    (#12588)
25. Open variable explorer when opening variable explorer during debugging.
    (#12773)
26. Use the given interpreter for launching the non-daemon python
    (#12821)
27. Correct the color of the 'Collapse All' button in the Interactive Window
    (#12838)

Code Health

1. Move all logging to the Python output channel.
   (#9837)
2. Add a functional test that opens both the interactive window and a notebook at the same time.
   (#11445)
3. Added setting python.logging.level which carries the logging level value the extension will log at.
   (#11699)
4. Monkeypatch console.* calls to the logger only in CI.
   (#11896)
5. Replace python.dataScience.ptvsdDistPath with python.dataScience.debugpyDistPath.
   (#11993)
6. Rename ptvsd to debugpy in Telemetry.
   (#11996)
7. Update JSDoc annotations for many of the APIs (thanks Anthony Shaw)
   (#12101)
8. Refactor LinterId to an enum instead of a string union.
   (thanks to Anthony Shaw)
   (#12116)
9. Remove webserver used to host contents in WebViews.
   (#12140)
10. Inline interface due to issues with custom types when using ts-node.
    (#12238)
11. Fix linux nightly tests so they run and report results. Also seems to get rid of stream destroyed messages for raw kernel.
    (#12539)
12. Log ExP experiments the user belongs to in the output panel.
    (#12656)
13. Add more telemetry for "Select Interpreter" command.
    (#12722)
14. Add tests for trusted notebooks.
    (#12554)
15. Update categories in package.json.
    (#12844)

Thanks

Thanks to the following projects which we fully rely on to provide some of
our features:

• debugpy
• isort
• jedi
  and parso
• Microsoft Python Language Server
• exuberant ctags (user-installed)
• rope (user-installed)

Also thanks to the various projects we provide integrations with ...

2020.6.91350

2020.6.3 (30 June 2020)

Fixes

1. Correctly check for ZMQ support, previously it could allow ZMQ to be supported when zmq could not be imported.
   (#12585)
2. Auto indentation no longer working for notebooks and interactive window.
   (#12389)
3. Add telemetry for tracking run by line.
   (#12580)
4. Add more telemetry to distinguish how is the start page opened.
   (#12603)
5. Stop looking for mspythonconfig.json file in subfolders.
   (#12614)

2020.6.90262

2020.6.2 (25 June 2020)

Fixes

1. Fix linting.pylintEnabled setting check.
   (#12285)
2. Don't modify LS settings if jediEnabled does not exist.
   (#12429)

2020.6.89148

2020.6.1 (17 June 2020)

Fixes

1. Fixed issue when python.jediEnabled setting was not removed and python.languageServer setting was not updated.
   (#12429)

2020.6.88468

2020.6.0 (16 June 2020)

Enhancements

1. Removed python.jediEnabled setting in favor of python.languageServer. Instead of "python.jediEnabled": true please use "python.languageServer": "Jedi".
   (#7010)
2. Added a start page for the extension. It opens to new users or when there is a new release. It can be disabled with the setting 'Python: Show Start Page'.
   (#11057)
3. Preliminary support using other languages for the kernel.
   (#11919)
4. Enable the use of the custom editor for native notebooks.
   (#10744)

Fixes

1. Ensure sorting imports in a modified file picks up the proper configuration.
   thanks Peter Law)
   (#4891)
2. Made variable explorer (from IPython Notebook interface) resizable.
   (#5382)
3. Add junit family to pytest runner args to remove pytest warning.
   (#10673)
4. Switch order of restart and cancel buttons in interactive window to be consistent with ordering in notebook toolbar.
   (#11091)
5. Support opening other URI schemes besides 'file' and 'vsls'.
   (#11393)
6. Fix issue with formatting when the first line is blank.
   (#11416)
7. Force interactive window to always scroll long output. Don't allow scrollbars within scrollbars.
   (#11421)
8. Hover on notebooks or interactive window seems to stutter.
   (#11422)
9. Make shift+tab work again in the interactive window. Escaping focus from the prompt is now relegated to 'Shift+Esc'.
   (#11495)
10. Keep import and export working with raw kernel mode. Also allow for installing dependencies if running an import before jupyter was ever launched.
    (#11501)
11. Extra kernels that just say "Python 3 - python" are showing up in the raw kernel kernel picker.
    (#11552)
12. Fix intermittent launch failure with raw kernels on windows.
    (#11574)
13. Don't register a kernelspec when switching to an interpreter in raw kernel mode.
    (#11575)
14. Keep the notebook input prompt up if you focus out of vscode.
    (#11581)
15. Fix install message to reference run by line instead of debugging.
    (#11661)
16. Run by line does not scroll to the line that is being run.
    (#11662)
17. For direct kernel connection, don't replace a notebook's metadata default kernelspec with a new kernelspec on startup.
    (#11672)
18. Fixes issue with importing debupy in interactive window.
    (#11686)
19. Reopen all notebooks when rerunning the extension (including untitled ones).
    (#11711)
20. Make sure to clear 'outputPrepend' when rerunning cells and to also only ever add it once to a cell.
    (thanks Barry Nolte)
    (#11726)
21. Disable pre-warming of Kernel Daemons when user does not belong to the LocalZMQKernel - experiment experiment.
    (#11751)
22. When switching to an invalid kernel (one that is registered but cannot start) in raw mode respect the launch timeout that is passed in.
    (#11752)
23. Make python.dataScience.textOutputLimit apply on subsequent rerun. We were letting the 'outputPrepend' metadata persist from run to run.
    (thanks Barry Nolte)
    (#11777)
24. Use ${command:python.interpreterPath} to get selected interpreter path in launch.json and tasks.json.
    (#11789)
25. Restarting a kernel messes up run by line.
    (#11793)
26. Correctly show kernel status in raw kernel mode.
    (#11797)
27. Hovering over variables in a python file can show two hover values if the interactive window is closed and reopened.
    (#11800)
28. Make sure to use webView.cspSource for all csp sources.
    (#11855)
29. Use command line arguments to launch our raw kernels as opposed to a connection file. The connection file seems to be causing issues in particular on windows CI machines with permissions.
    (#11883)
30. Improve our status reporting when launching and connecting to a raw kernel.
    (#11951)
31. Prewarm raw kernels based on raw kernel support and don't prewarm if jupyter autostart is disabled.
    (#11956)
32. Don't flood the hard drive when typing in a large notebook file.
    (#12058)
33. Disable run-by-line and continue buttons in run by line mode when running.
    (#12169)
34. Disable Sort Imports command in Notebook Cells.
    (#12193)
35. Fix debugger continue event to actually change a cell.
    (#12155)
36. Make Jedi the Default value for the python.languageServer setting.
    (#12225)
37. Make stop during run by line interrupt the kernel.
    (#12249)
38. Have raw kernel respect the jupyter server disable auto start setting.
    (#12246)

Code Health

1. Use ts-loader as a tyepscript loader in webpack.
   (#9061)
2. Fixed typo from unitest -> unittest.
   (thanks Rameez Khan).
   (#10919)
3. Make functional tests more deterministic.
   (#11058)
4. Reenable CDN unit tests.
   (#11442)
5. Run by line for notebook cells minimal implementation.
   (#11607)
6. Get shape and count when showing debugger variables.
   (#11657)
7. Add more tests to verify data frames can be opened.
   (#11658)
8. Support data tips overtop of python files that have had cells run.
   (#11659)
9. Functional test for run by line functionality.
   (#11660)
10. Fixed typo in a test from lanaguage -> language.
    (thanks Ashwin Ramaswami).
    (#11775)
11. Add bitness information to interpreter telemetry.
    (#11904)
12. Fix failing linux debugger tests.
    (#11935)
13. Faster unit tests on CI Pipeline.
    (#12017)
14. Ensure we can use proposed VS Code API with ts-node.
    (#12025)
15. Faster node unit tests on Azure pipeline.
    (#12027)
16. Use deemon package for background compilation with support for restarting VS Code during development.
    (#12059)

2020.5.86806

2020.5.3 (10 June 2020)

1. Update debugpy to use 1.0.0b11 or greater.

2020.5.86398

2020.5.2 (8 June 2020)

Fixes

1. Double-check for interpreters when running diagnostics before displaying the "Python is not installed" message.
   (#11870)
2. Ensure user cannot belong to all experiments in an experiment group.
   (#11943)
3. Ensure extension features are started when in Deprecate PythonPath experiment and opening a file without any folder opened.
   (#12177)

Code Health

1. Integrate VS Code experiment framework in the extension.
   (#10790)
2. Update telemetry on errors and exceptions to use vscode-extension-telemetry.
   (#11597)

2020.5.80290

2020.5.80290

2020.5.78807

2020.5.0 (12 May 2020)

Enhancements

1. Added ability to manually enter a path to interpreter in the select interpreter dropdown.
   (#216)
2. Add status bar item with icon when installing Insiders/Stable build.
   (thanks to ErwanDL)
   (#10495)
3. Support for language servers that don't allow incremental document updates inside of notebooks and the interactive window.
   (#10818)
4. Add telemetry for "Python is not installed" prompt.
   (#10885)
5. Add basic liveshare support for raw kernels.
   (#10988)
6. Do a one-off transfer of existing values for python.pythonPath setting to new Interpreter storage if in DeprecatePythonPath experiment.
   (#11052)
7. Ensure the language server can query pythonPath when in the Deprecate PythonPath experiment.
   (#11083)
8. Added prompt asking users to delete python.pythonPath key from their workspace settings when in Deprecate PythonPath experiment.
   (#11108)
9. Added getDebuggerPackagePath extension API to get the debugger package path.
   (#11236)
10. Expose currently selected interpreter path using API.
    (#11294)
11. Show a prompt asking user to upgrade Code runner to new version to keep using it when in Deprecate PythonPath experiment.
    (#11327)
12. Rename string ${config:python.pythonPath} which is used in launch.json to refer to interpreter path set in settings, to ${config:python.interpreterPath}.
    (#11446)

Fixes

1. Added 'Enable Scrolling For Cell Outputs' setting. Works together with the 'Max Output Size' setting.
   (#9801)
2. Fix ctrl+enter on markdown cells. Now they render.
   (#10006)
3. Cancelling the prompt to restart the kernel should not leave the toolbar buttons disabled.
   (#10356)
4. Getting environment variables of activated environments should ignore the setting python.terminal.activateEnvironment.
   (#10370)
5. Show notebook path when listing remote kernels.
   (#10521)
6. Allow filtering on '0' for the Data Viewer.
   (#10552)
7. Allow interrupting the kernel more than once.
   (#10587)
8. Make error links in exception tracebacks support multiple cells in the stack and extra spaces.
   (#10708)
9. Add channel property onto returned ZMQ messages.
   (#10785)
10. Fix problem with shape not being computed for some types in the variable explorer.
    (#10825)
11. Enable cell related commands when a Python file is already open.
    (#10884)
12. Fix issue with parsing long conda environment names.
    (#10942)
13. Hide progress indicator once Interactive Window has loaded.
    (#11065)
14. Do not perform pipenv interpreter discovery on extension activation.
    Fix for CVE-2020-1171.
    (#11127)
15. Ensure arguments are included in log messages when using decorators.
    (#11153)
16. Fix for opening the interactive window when no workspace is open.
    (#11291)
17. Conda environments working with raw kernels.
    (#11306)
18. Ensure isolate script is passed as command argument when installing modules.
    (#11399)
19. Make raw kernel launch respect launched resource environment.
    (#11451)
20. When using a kernelspec without a fully qualified python path make sure we use the resource to get the active interpreter.
    (#11469)
21. For direct kernel launch correctly detect if interpreter has changed since last launch.
    (#11530)
22. Performance improvements when executing multiple cells in Notebook and Interactive Window.
    (#11576)
23. Ensure kernel daemons are disposed correctly when closing notebooks.
    (#11579)
24. When VS quits, make sure to save contents of notebook for next reopen.
    (#11557)
25. Fix scrolling when clicking in the interactive window to not jump around.
    (#11554)
26. Setting "Data Science: Run Startup Commands" is now limited to being a user setting.
    Fix for CVE-2020-1192.

Code Health

1. Enable the Self Cert tests for Notebooks.
   (#10447)
2. Remove deprecated telemetry and old way of searching for Jupyter.
   (#10809)
3. Add telemetry for pipenv interpreter discovery.
   (#11128)
4. Update to the latest version of jedi (0.17). Note that this may be the last version of Jedi to support Python 2 and Python 3.5. (#11221; thanks Peter Law)
   (#11221)
5. Lazy load types from jupyterlab/services and similar npm modules.
   (#11297)
6. Remove IJMPConnection implementation while maintaining tests written for it.
   (#11470)
7. Implement an IJupyterVariables provider for the debugger.
   (#11542)