jupyterhub/docs/source/changelog.md

Changelog

For detailed changes from the prior release, click on the version number, and its link will bring up a GitHub listing of changes. Use git log on the command line for details.

Unreleased 0.8

JupyterHub 0.8 is a big release!

Perhaps the biggest change is the use of OAuth to negotiate authentication between the Hub and single-user services. Due to this change, it is important that the single-user server and Hub are both running the same version of JupyterHub. If you are using containers (e.g. via DockerSpawner or KubeSpawner), this means upgrading jupyterhub in your user images at the same time as the Hub. In most cases, a

pip install jupyterhub==version

in your Dockerfile is sufficient.

Added

• JupyterHub now defined a .Proxy API for custom proxy implementations other than the default. The defaults are unchanged, but configuration of the proxy is now done on the ConfigurableHTTPProxy class instead of the top-level JupyterHub. TODO: docs for writing a custom proxy.

• Single-user servers and services (anything that uses HubAuth) can now accept token-authenticated requests via the Authentication header.

• Authenticators can now store state in the Hub's database. To do so, the .authenticate method should return a dict of the form

  {
      'username': 'name'
      'state': {}
  }
  

  This data will be encrypted and requires JUPYTERHUB_CRYPT_KEY environment variable to be set and the Authenticator.enable_auth_state flag to be True. If these are not set, auth_state returned by the Authenticator will not be stored.

• There is preliminary support for multiple (named) servers per user in the REST API. Named servers can be created via API requests, but there is currently no UI for managing them.

• Add LocalProcessSpawner.popen_kwargs and LocalProcessSpawner.shell_cmd for customizing how user server processes are launched.

• Add Authenticator.auto_login flag for skipping the "Login with..." page explicitly.

• Add JupyterHub.hub_connect_ip configuration for the ip that should be used when connecting to the Hub. This is promoting (and deprecating) DockerSpawner.hub_ip_connect for use by all Spawners.

• Add Spawner.pre_spawn_hook(spawner) hook for customizing pre-spawn events.

• Add JupyterHub.active_server_limit and JupyterHub.concurrent_spawn_limit for limiting the total number of running user servers and the number of pending spawns, respectively.

Changed

• more arguments to spawners are now passed via environment variables (.get_env()) rather than CLI arguments (.get_args())
• internally generated tokens no longer get extra hash rounds, significantly speeding up authentication. The hash rounds were deemed unnecessary because the tokens were already generated with high entropy.
• JUPYTERHUB_API_TOKEN env is available at all times, rather than being removed during single-user start. The token is now accessible to kernel processes, enabling user kernels to make authenticated API requests to Hub-authenticated services.
• Cookie secrets should be 32B hex instead of large base64 secrets.
• pycurl is used by default, if available.

Fixed

So many things fixed!

• Collisions are checked when users are renamed
• Fix bug where OAuth authenticators could not logout users due to being redirected right back through the login process.
• If there are errors loading your config files, JupyterHub will refuse to start with an informative error. Previously, the bad config would be ignored and JupyterHub would launch with default configuration.
• Raise 403 error on unauthorized user rather than redirect to login, which could cause redirect loop.
• Set httponly on cookies because it's prudent.
• Improve support for MySQL as the database backend
• Many race conditions and performance problems under heavy load have been fixed.
• Fix alembic tagging of database schema versions.

Removed

• End support for Python 3.3

0.7

0.7.2 - 2017-01-09

Added

• Support service environment variables and defaults in jupyterhub-singleuser for easier deployment of notebook servers as a Service.
• Add --group parameter for deploying jupyterhub-singleuser as a Service with group authentication.
• Include URL parameters when redirecting through /user-redirect/

Fixed

• Fix group authentication for HubAuthenticated services

0.7.1 - 2017-01-02

Added

• Spawner.will_resume for signaling that a single-user server is paused instead of stopped. This is needed for cases like DockerSpawner.remove_containers = False, where the first API token is re-used for subsequent spawns.
• Warning on startup about single-character usernames, caused by common set('string') typo in config.

Fixed

• Removed spurious warning about empty next_url, which is AOK.

0.7.0 - 2016-12-2

Added

• Implement Services API #705
• Add /api/ and /api/info endpoints #675
• Add documentation for JupyterLab, pySpark configuration, troubleshooting, and more.
• Add logging of error if adding users already in database. #689
• Add HubAuth class for authenticating with JupyterHub. This class can be used by any application, even outside tornado.
• Add user groups.
• Add /hub/user-redirect/... URL for redirecting users to a file on their own server.

Changed

• Always install with setuptools but not eggs (effectively require pip install .) #722
• Updated formatting of changelog. #711
• Single-user server is provided by JupyterHub package, so single-user servers depend on JupyterHub now.

Fixed

• Fix docker repository location #719
• Fix swagger spec conformance and timestamp type in API spec
• Various redirect-loop-causing bugs have been fixed.

Removed

• Deprecate --no-ssl command line option. It has no meaning and warns if used. #789
• Deprecate %U username substitution in favor of {username}. #748
• Removed deprecated SwarmSpawner link. #699

0.6

0.6.1 - 2016-05-04

Bugfixes on 0.6:

• statsd is an optional dependency, only needed if in use
• Notice more quickly when servers have crashed
• Better error pages for proxy errors
• Add Stop All button to admin panel for stopping all servers at once

0.6.0 - 2016-04-25

• JupyterHub has moved to a new jupyterhub namespace on GitHub and Docker. What was juptyer/jupyterhub is now jupyterhub/jupyterhub, etc.
• jupyterhub/jupyterhub image on DockerHub no longer loads the jupyterhub_config.py in an ONBUILD step. A new jupyterhub/jupyterhub-onbuild image does this
• Add statsd support, via c.JupyterHub.statsd_{host,port,prefix}
• Update to traitlets 4.1 @default, @observe APIs for traits
• Allow disabling PAM sessions via c.PAMAuthenticator.open_sessions = False. This may be needed on SELinux-enabled systems, where our PAM session logic often does not work properly
• Add Spawner.environment configurable, for defining extra environment variables to load for single-user servers
• JupyterHub API tokens can be pregenerated and loaded via JupyterHub.api_tokens, a dict of token: username.
• JupyterHub API tokens can be requested via the REST API, with a POST request to /api/authorizations/token. This can only be used if the Authenticator has a username and password.
• Various fixes for user URLs and redirects

0.5 - 2016-03-07

• Single-user server must be run with Jupyter Notebook ≥ 4.0
• Require --no-ssl confirmation to allow the Hub to be run without SSL (e.g. behind SSL termination in nginx)
• Add lengths to text fields for MySQL support
• Add Spawner.disable_user_config for preventing user-owned configuration from modifying single-user servers.
• Fixes for MySQL support.
• Add ability to run each user's server on its own subdomain. Requires wildcard DNS and wildcard SSL to be feasible. Enable subdomains by setting JupyterHub.subdomain_host = 'https://jupyterhub.domain.tld[:port]'.
• Use 127.0.0.1 for local communication instead of localhost, avoiding issues with DNS on some systems.
• Fix race that could add users to proxy prematurely if spawning is slow.

0.4

0.4.1 - 2016-02-03

Fix removal of /login page in 0.4.0, breaking some OAuth providers.

0.4.0 - 2016-02-01

• Add Spawner.user_options_form for specifying an HTML form to present to users, allowing users to influence the spawning of their own servers.
• Add Authenticator.pre_spawn_start and Authenticator.post_spawn_stop hooks, so that Authenticators can do setup or teardown (e.g. passing credentials to Spawner, mounting data sources, etc.). These methods are typically used with custom Authenticator+Spawner pairs.
• 0.4 will be the last JupyterHub release where single-user servers running IPython 3 is supported instead of Notebook ≥ 4.0.

0.3 - 2015-11-04

• No longer make the user starting the Hub an admin
• start PAM sessions on login
• hooks for Authenticators to fire before spawners start and after they stop, allowing deeper interaction between Spawner/Authenticator pairs.
• login redirect fixes

0.2 - 2015-07-12

• Based on standalone traitlets instead of IPython.utils.traitlets
• multiple users in admin panel
• Fixes for usernames that require escaping

0.1 - 2015-03-07

First preview release