ipywidgets Changelog

This is a summary of changes in ipywidgets releases. For more detailed information, see the issues and pull requests for the appropriate milestone on GitHub.

8.0.4

Highlights include:

Fix: slider change event issue with tapping: #3597, #3617
Fix: unintentional deprecation warnings: #3648, #3650
Fix: registry state lookup failed, making is impossible to create widgets from the frontend: #3653

8.0.3

Highlights include:

Fix: be backwards compatibel with 7.x, where we re-instroduced .widget and .widget_types #3567
Fix: be backwards compatibel with 7.x, revert hold_sync during set_state #3642

8.0

To see the full list of pull requests and issues, see the 8.0 milestone on GitHub, or the full list of changes since 7.x. See the user migration guide for suggestions about migrating your code that uses ipywidgets to 8.0. If you author a custom widget, please see the custom widget migration guide for suggestions about migrating your widget to support ipywidgets 8.

Users

Here are some highlights of user-visible changes in ipywidgets 8.0.

Date and time pickers

In addition to the existing DatePicker widget, we now have new DatetimePicker and TimePicker widgets. (#2715)

from ipywidgets import VBox, TimePicker, DatetimePicker
VBox([
  TimePicker(description='Time'),
  DatetimePicker(description='Date/Time')
])

Tags input widget

The new TagsInput widget provides an easy way to collect and manage tags in a widget. You can drag and drop tags to reorder them, limit them to a set of allowed values, or even prevent making duplicate tags. (#2591, #3272)

from ipywidgets import TagsInput
TagsInput(
    value=['pizza', 'fries'],
    allowed_tags=['pizza', 'fries', 'tomatoes', 'steak'],
    allow_duplicates=False
)

Similarly, the new ColorsInput widget provides a way to select colors as tags

from ipywidgets import ColorsInput
ColorsInput(
    value=['red', '#2f6d30'],
    # allowed_tags=['red', 'blue', 'green'],
    # allow_duplicates=False
)

Stack widget

The new Stack container widget shows only the selected child widget, while other child widgets remain hidden. This can be useful if you want to have a area that displays different widgets depending on some other interaction.

from ipywidgets import Stack, Button, IntSlider, Dropdown, VBox, link
s = Stack([Button(description='Click here'), IntSlider()], selected_index=0)
d = Dropdown(options=['button', 'slider'])
link((dropdown, 'index'), (stacked, 'selected_index'))
VBox([d, s])

File upload widget

The file upload widget has been overhauled to handle multiple files in a more useful format:

The .value attribute is now a list of dictionaries, rather than a dictionary mapping the uploaded name to the content.
The contents of each uploaded file is a memory view in the .content key, e.g., uploader.value[0].content.
The .data attribute has been removed.
The .metadata attribute has been removed.

See the user migration guide for details on how to migrate your code.

(#2767, #2724, #2666, #2480)

More styling options

Many style and layout options have been added to core widgets:

Tooltips are now supported for many core widgets, rather than just a few description tooltips (#2680)
```
from ipywidgets import Button
Button(description="Click me", tooltip='An action')
```
Borders can be styled independently with the layout's border_top, border_right, border_bottom, border_left attributes (#2757, #3269)
```
from ipywidgets import Button
Button(description="Click me", layout={'border_bottom': '3px solid blue'})
```
Descriptions are now plain text by default for security, but you can set them to allow HTML with the description_allow_html attribute (HTML content is still sanitized for security). (#2785)
```
from ipywidgets import Text
Text(description="<b>Name</b>", description_allow_html=True)
```
Many other styling attributes can be set on core widgets, such as font family, size, style, weight, text color, and text decoration. See the table in the documentation for a reference. (#2728)
The SelectionSlider now has a handle_color style attribute (#3142)
To control keyboard navigation, widgets can be set to be tabbable or not (i.e., that the tab key will traverse to the widget) (#2640)

Selection container titles

The Accordion, Tab, and Stack widgets now have a .titles attribute that you can use to get and set titles from the constructor or as an attribute. (#2746, #3296, #3477)

from ipywidgets import Tab, IntSlider, Text
Tab([IntSlider(), Text()], titles=('Slider', 'Text'))

Slider implementation

The slider implementation in the core widgets now uses nouislider. This enables us to fix long-standing bugs and introduce new features, like dragging the range in a RangeSlider. (#2712, #630, #3216, #2834)

Collaboration

By default, ipywidgets 8 enables a collaboration mode, where widget updates from one frontend are reflected back to other frontends, enabling a consistent state between multiple users and fixing synchronization between the kernel and frontend. You may want to disable these update echo messages if they are using too much bandwidth or causing slower interactivity. To disable echo update messages across ipywidgets, set the environment variable JUPYTER_WIDGETS_ECHO to 0. For widget authors, to opt a specific attribute of custom widget out of echo updates (for example, if the attribute contains a lot of data that does not need to be synchronized), tag the attribute with echo_update=False metadata (we do this in core for the FileUpload widget's data attribute). (#3195, #3343, #3394, #3407)

CDN for html manager

We have made it easier to load widgets from content delivery networks.

The default CDN is changed from unpkg to jsDelivr (#3121, #1627)
You can use the data-jupyter-widgets-cdn-only attribute to load modules only from CDN (#2792, #2786)
We have updated the webpack public path settings so the HTMLManager and the Jupyter Notebook extensions pull assets from wherever they are loaded, rather than only from CDN. If you author a custom widget, we highly encourage you to apply similar changes to your widget by adapting the changes at https://github.com/jupyter-widgets/widget-cookiecutter/pull/103/files. #3464, #3508

Other changes

Here is a short list of some of the other changes in ipywidgets 8.0.

Add a cookiecutter-based tutorial to build a custom widget (#2919)
Change media widgets to use memory views. (#2723)
Upgrade to FontAwesome 5 in html-manager (#2713)
Play widget now toggles between play and pause button as needed (#2703, #2671)
Drop support for mapping types as selection options (#2679, #1958)
Focus or blur a widget. (#2664, #2692, #2691, #2690)
Drop notebook dependency from widgetsnbextension (#2590)
Cast 'value' in range sliders to a tuple (#2441)
Play widget: expose playing and repeat (#2283, #1897)
Fix debouncing and throttling code (#3060)
Fix regression on spinning icons (#2685, #2477)
Fix selection container default index (#1823)
Remove deprecated overflow properties (#2688)
Select: Do not force a selection if there is currently no selection and the options list changes (#3284)
Add support for localization to the lab extension (#3286)
Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.4, and 3.5 (#2558, #2655, #3131, #3120)
Fix character escapes in combobox options (#2972)
Modify outputs to use a comm if IPython is not available (#2954)
Bugfix/parameters in the from_file method to be passed along in the media class (#3074)
Widgetsnbextension: throw error on failure to render (#3280)
Fix memory leak from Image widget not releasing object urls (#3171, #3170)
ErrorWidget as fallback when widgets models or views fail - Following up (#3304)
Fix matplotlib plots in interact (#3277)
Fix selection equality checking (#2897)
Remove the on_displayed Python callback mechanism (#2021)

Developers

To see an overview of the changes to the core widget model specification, see #3455.

Python

Widget.widgets and Widget.widget_types are now private variables (#3122, #3173)
Generate the widget data spec as JSON (#2193)
Use _repr_mimebundle_ and require ipython 6.1 or later. (#2021, #1811)
Hold sync during set_state + fix selection widgets flakiness (#3271)
Remove deprecated handle_kernel alias (#2694)
Removed deprecated signature of the register decorator (#2695)

Javascript

Fix CSS variable names to match JupyterLab names (#2801, #2062)
Delete display_model and display_view (#2752, #2751)
Drop underscore usage (#2742)
Upgrade to es2017 javascript (#2725)
Split base manager into separate packages (#2710, #2561)
Change Phosphor to Lumino (#2681, #3267)
Widgetmanagerbase: improve create_view return type (#2662)
Refactor the JupyterLab widget manager so it can be reused (#2532)
Make more of lab manager dependencies optional (#2528)
Remove class jupyter-widgets from jp-outputarea-output node (#2500)
Rename pWidget to luminoWidget and deprecate pWidget (#3118, #3141, #3358,)
Add layout, style, and shown events (#3300)
Implement jupyter.widget.control comm channel (#3313)
Update to TypeScript 4.3 (#3162)
Add event listener for resize events (#3124)
Remove process.cwd polyfill (#3315)
Make sure buffer is a DataView (#3127)
Deprecate the overly broad CSS class widget and introduce a similar jupyter-widget CSS class (#3146)
Fetch the full widget state via a control Comm (#3021)
Export LabWidgetManager and KernelWidgetManager (#3166)
More helpful semver range message (#3185)
Make the base widget manager .get_model() method always return a Promise, which is rejected if the requested model is not registered. To test if a model is registered, use the new .has_model() method (#3389)

Documentation improvements

Documentation overhaul (#3104, #3096, #3099, #3076, #2824, #3246, #3243, #3103, #3165, #3283, #2927, #3062, #3129, #3130, #3155, )
Remove step parameter from widget list notebook (#3106)
Remove extra requirements from doc to fix RTD build (#3098)
Align doc requirements for 7.x branch with master (#3094)
Remove defunct deep-links from install in README (#3225)
Fix documentation about embedding widget in HTML (#3224)
Fix example web3 missing process during runtime (#3223)
Complete docstring for interactive. (#3169)
Unpin ipykernel<6 for the docs (#3168)
Checking milestone and generating changelog (#3125)
Change graph example to receive a tuple instead of a dict (#3117)
Fix debouncing and throttling code (#3060)
Variable Inspector example used a wrong callback argument signature (#3302)

Repo maintenance

Visual regression testing using Galata (#3172, #3279)
Reorganize packages in the monorepo, moving the python packages to the python folder (#3301, #3316)
Use new custom widget label on issue template (#3176)
Create and upload reference screenshots on CI failure (#3227)
Allow generate-spec to take optional output file (#3174)
Update to Jupyter Packaging 0.10 (#3194)
Update bug report test environment (#3156)
Create links out to gitter and discourse from the new issue options (#3153)
Adapt the milestone_check script from JupyterLab for ipywidgets. (#3091)
Fix spec generation for traitlets 5 (#3234)
Add documentation issue template (#3095)
Add Binder links and badges (#3164, #3212, #3151, #3148, #2701)

Contributors to this release

(GitHub contributors page for this release)

7.7.1

To see the full list of pull requests, see the 7.7.1 milestone on GitHub.

Highlights include:

Fix broken link icon for FontAwesome 4 and 5 #3495
Fix message throttling bug #3494
Fix state message parsing to be more permissive #3486
Fix tests on Python 3.11 #3480
Add better front-page docs #3496

7.7

To see the full list of pull requests and issues, see the 7.7 milestone on GitHub.

Highlights include:

Fix installation on Python 3.10. #3368
Throw an error if we cannot render a widget, enabling the rendering system to fall back to rendering a different data type if available. #3290
Create a new widget control comm channel, enabling more efficient fetching of kernel widget state. #3201
Refactor logic for fetching kernel widget state to the manager base class. This logic first tries to use the new widget control comm channel, falling back to the existing method of requesting each widget's state individually. #3337
Enable HTMLManager output widgets to render state updates. #3372
Do not reset JupyterLab CSS variables if they are already defined. #3344
Fix variable inspector example. #3302
Introduce new widget manager has_model method for synchronously checking if a widget model is registered. #3377
Work around bug in Chrome rendering Combobox arrows. #3375
Optionally echo update messages from frontends to other frontends. This enables widget views in different frontends to maintain consistent state simultaneously, and also makes sure that simultaneous updates from the kernel and frontend resolve to a consistent state. This is off by default in ipywidgets 7.7, and it is anticipated this will be on by default in ipywidgets 8.0. To enable echo update messages across ipywidgets, set the environment variable JUPYTER_WIDGETS_ECHO to 1. To opt a specific attribute out of echo updates, tag the attribute with echo_update=False metadata (we do this in core for the FileUpload widget's data attribute). #3400, #3394

7.6

To see the full list of pull requests and issues, see the 7.6.0 milestone on GitHub.

The main change in this release is that installing ipywidgets 7.6.0 will now automatically enable ipywidgets support in JupyterLab 3.0—a user has no extra JupyterLab installation step and no rebuild of JupyterLab, nor do they need Node.js installed. Simply install the python ipywidgets package with pip (pip install ipywidgets==7.6.0) or conda/mamba (conda install -c conda-forge ipywidgets=7.6.0) and ipywidgets will automatically work in classic Jupyter Notebook and in JupyterLab 3.0.

This is accomplished with the new python package jupyterlab_widgets version 1.0, on which ipywidgets 7.6.0 now depends (similar to how ipywidgets already depends on the widgetsnbextension package to configure ipywidgets for the classic Jupyter Notebook). The jupyterlab_widgets Python package is a JupyterLab 3.0 prebuilt extension, meaning that it can be installed into JupyterLab 3.0 without rebuilding JupyterLab and without needing Node.js installed.

Updates for Widget Maintainers

Custom widget maintainers will need to make two changes to update for JupyterLab 3:

Update the @jupyter-widgets/base dependency version to include ^4 to work in JupyterLab 3.0. For example, if you had a dependency on @jupyter-widgets/base version ^2 || ^3, update to ^2 || ^3 || ^4 for your widget to work in classic Jupyter Notebook, JupyterLab 1, JupyterLab 2, and JupyterLab 3. See #2472 for background.

In the package.json, add the following sharedPackages configuration inside the jupyterlab key. See the JupyterLab extension documentation for more information.

  "jupyterlab": {
    "sharedPackages": {
      "@jupyter-widgets/base": {
        "bundled": false,
        "singleton": true
      }
    }
  }

Separate from these two steps to update for JupyterLab 3, we also recommend that you make your widget's JupyterLab extension a prebuilt extension for JupyterLab 3.0. Users will be able to install your JupyterLab 3.0 prebuilt extension without rebuilding JupyterLab or needing Node.js. See the JupyterLab 3 extension developer documentation or the new widget extension cookiecutter for more details.

7.5

To see the full list of pull requests and issues, see the 7.5 milestone on GitHub.

Changes include:

New AppLayout and GridLayout templates for positioning interactive widgets. #2333
New FileUpload widget allowing users to upload files from the browser. #2258
New ComboBox widget. #2390
JupyterLab CSS variables are now exposed by default even in the case of the classic notebook. #2418

Updates for Widget Maintainers

Custom widget maintainers will need to update their @jupyter-widgets/base dependency version to work in JupyterLab 1.0. For example, if you had a dependency on @jupyter-widgets/base version ^1.1, update to ^1.1 || ^2 for your widget to work in classic notebook, JupyterLab 0.35, and JupyterLab 1.0. See #2472 for background.

7.4

To see the full list of pull requests and issues, see the 7.4 milestone on GitHub.

Changes include:

New Video and Audio widgets have been introduced. #2162 We updated the @jupyter-widgets/controls widget specification version to 1.4.0, leading to the version bump to 7.4.
The use of mappings for the options attribute of selection widgets is deprecated. #2130

7.3

To see the full list of pull requests and issues, see the 7.3 milestone on GitHub.

Changes include:

A new GridBox widget is introduced and associated CSS grid properties are added to the layout. This enables using the CSS Grid spec for laying out widgets. See the Widget Styling documentation for some examples. Because of this and other model specification changes, the view and module versions of widgets was incremented in both the base and controls packages. (#2107, #2064, #1942)
Widgets with a description attribute now also have a description_tooltip attribute to set a tooltip on the description. The tooltip defaults to the description text. Setting description_tooltip to '' removes it, and setting it to None makes the tooltip default to the description text. (#2070)
'transparent' is now a valid color for color attributes. (#2128)
Dropdowns now have extra padding to make room for the dropdown arrow. (#2052, #2101)
Image widget repr now truncates the image value to prevent huge amounts of output in notebooks. (#2111)
Python 3.3 support is dropped. Python 3.3 support was dropped in the Python community in September 2017. (#2129)
The license information has been consolidated into the LICENSE file, and the COPYING.md file is removed. If you are repackaging ipywidgets or widgetsnbextension, please make sure to include LICENSE instead of COPYING.md. (#2133, #2048, #1701, #1706)

7.2

To see the full list of pull requests and issues, see the 7.2 milestone on GitHub.

User-visible changes include:

A new FloatLogSlider widget is a slider with a log scale, suitable for exploring a wide range of magnitudes. (#1928, #2014)
```
from ipywidgets import FloatLogSlider
FloatLogSlider()
```
link and dlink are now exported from ipywidgets for convenience, so that you can import them directly from ipywidgets instead of needing to import them from traitlets. (#1923)
A new option manual_name has been added to interact_manual() to change the name of the update button, for example interact_manual(manual_name='Update'). (#1924)
The Output widget now has a .capture() method, which returns a decorator to capture the output of a function.
```
from ipywidgets import Output
out = Output()

@out.capture()
def f():
  print('This output is captured')
```
The .capture() method has a clear_output boolean argument to automatically clear the output every time the function is run, as well as a wait argument corresponding to the clear_output wait argument. (#1934)
The Output widget has much more comprehensive documentation in its own section. (#2020)
Installing widgetsnbextension now automatically enables the nbextension in Jupyter Notebook 5.3 or later. (#1911)
The default rendering of a widget if widgets are not installed is now a short description of the widget in text instead of a much longer HTML message. (#2007)

Changes for developers include:

The JavaScript base widget manager class now has a resolveUrl method to resolve a URL relative to the current notebook location. (#1993)
The html manager now exposes a way to specify which JavaScript file is fetched for a package and the loader used to fetch the library. (#1995, #1998)
The @jupyter-widgets/controls widget specification version was bumped to 1.2.0. Changes include the FloatLogSlider widget and more specific documentation about array element types. (#2017)

7.1

To see the full list of pull requests and issues, see the 7.1 milestone on GitHub.

We updated the @jupyter-widgets/controls widget specification version to 1.1.0, leading to the version bump to 7.1. The new widget model specification now includes new description_width and font_weight attributes for the ToggleButtonsStyle widget. There are also other bugfixes in this release.

7.0.x patch releases

See the GitHub milestones for the 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, and 7.0.5 releases for bugfixes in these releases.

7.0

To see the full list of pull requests and issues, see the 7.0 milestone on GitHub.

Major user-visible changes in ipywidgets 7.0 include:

Widgets are now displayed in the output area in the classic notebook and are treated as any other output. This allows the widgets to work more naturally with other cell output. To delete a widget, clear the output from the cell. Output from functions triggered by a widget view is appended to the output area that contains the widget view. This means that printed text will be appended to the output, and calling clear_output() will delete the entire output, including the widget view. (#1274, #1353)
Removed the version validation check since it was causing too many false warnings about the widget javascript not being installed or the wrong version number. It is now up to the user to ensure that the ipywidgets and widgetsnbextension packages are compatible. (#1219)
The documentation theme is changed to the new standard Jupyter theme. (#1363)
The layout and style traits can be set with a dictionary for convenience, which will automatically converted to a Layout or Style object, like IntSlider(layout={'width': '100%'}, style={'handle_color': 'lightgreen'}). (#1253)
The Select widget now is a listbox instead of a dropdown, reverting back to the pre-6.0 behavior. (#1238)
The Select and SelectMultiple widgets now have a rows attribute for the number of rows to display, consistent with the Textarea widget. The layout.height attribute overrides this to control the height of the widget. (#1250)
Selection widgets (Select, Dropdown, ToggleButtons, etc.) have new .value, .label, and .index traits to make it easier to access or change the selected option. (#1262, #1513)
Selection container widgets (Accordion, Tabs) can have their .selected_index set to None to deselect all items. (#1495)
The Play widget range is now inclusive (max value is max, instead of max-1), to be consistent with Sliders
The Play widget now has an optional repeat toggle button (visible by default). (#1190)
A refactoring of the text, slider, slider range, and progress widgets in resulted in the progress widgets losing their step attribute (which was previously ignored), and a number of these widgets changing their _model_name and/or _view_name attributes (#1290)
The Checkbox description is now on the right of the checkbox and is clickable. The Checkbox widget has a new indent attribute (defaults to True) to line up nicely with controls that have descriptions. To make the checkbox align to the left, set indent to False. (#1346)
A new Password widget, which behaves exactly like the Text widget, but hides the typed text: Password(). (#1310)
A new SelectionRangeSlider widget for selecting ranges from ordered lists of objects. For example, this enables having a slider to select a date range. (#1356)
The Label widget now has no width restriction. (#1269)
The description width is now configurable with the .style.description_width attribute (#1376)
ToggleButtons have a new .style.button_width attribute to set the CSS width of the buttons. Set this to 'initial' to have buttons that individually size to the content width. (#1257)
The readout_format attribute of number sliders now validates its argument. (#1550)
The IntRangeSlider widget now has a .readout_format trait to control the formatting of the readout. (#1446)
The Text, Textarea, IntText, BoundedIntText, FloatText, and BoundedFloatText widgets all gained a continuous_update attribute (defaults to True for Text and TextArea, and False for the others). (#1545)
The IntText, BoundedIntText, FloatText, and BoundedFloatText widgets are now rendered as HTML number inputs, and have a step attribute that controls the resolution. (#1545)
The Text.on_submit callback is deprecated; instead, set continuous_update to False and observe the value attribute: mywidget.observe(callback, 'value'). The Textarea.scroll_to_bottom method was removed. (#1545)
The msg_throttle attribute on widgets is now gone, and the code has a hardcoded message throttle equivalent to msg_throttle=1. (#1557)
Using function annotations to specify interact controls for a function is now deprecated and will be removed in a future version of ipywidgets. (#1292)
There are now two simple ways to embed widgets in an HTML page: with a simple script tag that does not use require.js and does not support anything but the basic widgets, and a require module that does support custom widgets. See the migration guide for more details. (#1615, #1629, #1630)

If you are developing a custom widget or widget manager, here are some major changes that may affect you. The migration guide also walks through how to upgrade a custom widget.

On the Python/kernel side:
- The Python @register decorator for widget classes no longer takes a string argument, but registers a widget class using the _model_* and _view_* traits in the class. Using the decorator as @register('name') is deprecated and should be changed to just @register. #1228, #1276
- Widgets will now need correct _model_module and _view_module Unicode traits defined.
- Selection widgets now sync the index of the selected item, rather than the label. (#1262)
- The Python ipywidget.domwidget.LabeledWidget is now ipywidget.widget_description.DescriptionWidget, and there is a new ipywidget.widget_description.DescriptionStyle that lets the user set the CSS width of the description.
- Custom serializers can now return a structure that contains binary objects (memoryview, bytearray, or Python 3 bytes object). In this case, the sync message will be a binary message, which is much more efficient for binary data than base64-encoding. The Image widget now uses this binary synchronization. (#1194, #1595, #1643)
On the Javascript side:
- The jupyter-js-widgets Javascript package has been split into @jupyter-widgets/base package (containing base widget classes, the DOM widget, and the associated layout and style classes), and the @jupyter-widgets/controls package (containing the rest of the Jupyter widgets controls). Authors of custom widgets will need to update to depend on @jupyter-widgets/base instead of jupyter-js-widgets (if you use a class from the controls package, you will also need to depend on @jupyter-widgets/controls). See the cookie cutter to generate a simple example custom widget using the new packages.
- Custom serializers in Javascript are now synchronous, and should return a snapshot of the widget state. The default serializer makes a copy of JSONable objects. (#1270)
- Custom serializers can now return a structure that contains binary objects (ArrayBuffer, DataView, or a typed array such as Int8Array, Float64Array, etc.). In this case, the sync message will be a binary message, which is much more efficient for binary data than base64-encoding. The Image widget now uses this binary synchronization. (#1194, #1643)
- A custom serializer is given the widget instance as its second argument, and a custom deserializer is given the widget manager as its second argument.
- The Javascript model .id attribute has been renamed to .model_id to avoid conflicting with the Backbone .id attribute. (#1410)
Regarding widget managers and the syncing message protocol:
- The widget protocol was significantly overhauled. The new widget messaging protocol (version 2) is specified in the version 2 protocol documentation.
- Widgets are now displayed with a display_data message instead of with a custom comm message. See the ipywidgets implementation for an example. (#1274)
- Custom widget managers are now responsible completely for loading widget model and view classes. Widget managers should provide an output model and view class appropriate for their environment so that the Output widget works. (#1313)
- The widget manager clear_state method no longer has a commlessOnly argument. All models in the widget manager will be closed and cleared when clear_state is called. (#1354)

6.0

Major user-visible changes in ipywidgets 6.0 include:

Rendering of Jupyter interactive widgets in various web contexts

sphinx documentation: http://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/Widget%20List.html nbviewer: http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/jupyter-widgets/ipywidgets/blob/main/docs/source/examples/Widget%20List.ipynb Static web pages: http://jupyter.org/widgets
Addition of a DatePicker widget in the core widget collection.
Changes to the automatic control generation syntax in @interact, inspired by the Sage interact syntax.
Removal of APIs which had been deprecated in 5.0, including top-level styling in attributes of DOMWidgets and some corner cases in the behavior of @interact.
A new API for custom styling of widgets is provided, through a top-level style attribute. For example, the color of a slider handler can be set by slider.style.handle_color.
Removal of the Proxy and PlaceProxy widgets.
Removal of the deprecated FlexBox widget. Use the Box, HBox, or VBox widgets instead. Various flex properties can be set using the layout attribute.
Removal of the deprecated Latex widget. Use the new HTMLMath widget with Latex math inside $ or $$ delimiters instead.
Removal of the deprecated layout properties on a widget such as .width, .height, etc. Use the layout attribute with a Layout widget to manage various layout properties instead.
The Label widget now has styling to make it consistent with labels on various widgets. To have freeform text with mathematics, use the new HTMLMath widget.
Removal of the button_style attribute of the Dropdown widget
Addition of an OutputWidget for capturing output and rich display objects. @interact has changed to use an OutputWidget for function output instead of overwriting the output area of a cell.
The jupyter-js-widgets Javascript implementation now relies on the PhosphorJS framework for the management of rich layout and a better integration of JupyterLab.
Numerous bug fixes.

Note for custom widget authors:

ipywidgets 6.0 breaks backward compatibility with respect to the handling of default values of the JavaScript side. Now, the default values for core widget models are specified with a default() method returning a dictionary instead of a default dictionary attribute. If you want your library to be backwards compatible with ipywidgets 5.x, you could use _.result like this:

...
defaults: function() {
        return _.extend(_.result(this, 'widgets.DOMWidgetModel.prototype.defaults'), {
          ....
        })
},
...

This should not have an impact when using your custom widgets in the classic notebook, but will be really important when deploying your interactive widgets in web contexts.

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8.0.4

8.0

Users

Date and time pickers

Tags input widget

Stack widget

File upload widget

More styling options

Selection container titles

Slider implementation

Collaboration

CDN for html manager

Other changes

Developers

Python

Javascript

Documentation improvements

Repo maintenance

Contributors to this release

7.7.1

7.6

Updates for Widget Maintainers

7.5

Updates for Widget Maintainers

7.4

7.3

7.2

7.1

7.0.x patch releases

7.0

6.0

5.x

4.1.x

4.1.1

4.1.0

4.0.x

4.0.3

4.0.2

4.0.1

4.0.0