Changes in Jupyter console

A summary of changes in Jupyter console releases.

5.0

Interactive Shell architecture

• disinherit shell class from IPython Interactive Shell #68 This separates jupyter_console’s ZMQTerminalInteractiveShell from IPython’s TerminalInteractiveShell and InteractiveShell classes.
• update SIGINT handler to not use the old interactive API shell #80

Image Handling improvement

• use PIL as default image handler #79
• better indication of whether image data was handled #77

Prompts improvement

• use prompt_toolkit 1.0 #74
• don’t use prompt_manager #75
• remove colors_force flag that have no effects: #88

4.1

• fix for readline history
• don’t confuse sys.path with virtualenvs

• readline/completion fixes
• use is_complete messages to determine if input is complete (important for non-Python kernels)
• fix: 4.0 was looking for jupyter_console_config in IPython config directories, not Jupyter

4.0

• fix jupyter console --generate-config

• setuptools fixes for Windows

First release as a standalone package.