0.3.0 Release Plan

[jtpio]

This is an issue for the 0.3.0 release planning.

Features

Contents via custom drives

Users have been asking for ways to integrate JupyterLite with extra sources of content, potentially hosted remotely:

• Allow for remote content storage #545
• Support Python server extension #1149
• Is there a way to export (import) variables from a jupyterlab extension to the pyodide kernel ? #1210
• Remote storage driver #575
• Is it possible to display files on cloud storage #1045
• https://github.com/davidbrochart/jupyterlab-remote-contents

As part of the 0.3.0 release, we should consider making the necessary changes to allow for better integration with custom drives. This could likely require breaking changes, since kernels expect to know information about drives at the moment:

Pyodide

https://github.com/jupyterlite/pyodide-kernel/blob/143526c9e11589b03c8d6844be5471d527b76255/packages/pyodide-kernel/src/worker.ts#L23-L30

https://github.com/jupyterlite/pyodide-kernel/blob/143526c9e11589b03c8d6844be5471d527b76255/packages/pyodide-kernel/src/worker.ts#L117-L124

Xeus Python

https://github.com/jupyter-xeus/xeus-lite/blob/07df211bc73c1002558017b86499d63806d133d6/share/xeus-lite/web_worker_kernel.ts#L164-L171

https://github.com/jupyter-xeus/xeus-lite/blob/07df211bc73c1002558017b86499d63806d133d6/share/xeus-lite/worker.ts#L119-L126

Related issues:

• Switch to Contents.IDrive for the JupyterLite in-browser contents manager #1041
• Support copying files between drives jupyterlab/jupyterlab#7755
• Accessing files of a custom drive from a kernel jupyterlab/jupyterlab#15289
• Support for using a different IDrive jupyter/notebook#6665

RTC

Related to the section above about custom drives, we should look into bringing back support for RTC.

Ideally an improved support of drives would be enough to develop the RTC extension separately from this repo, in its own drive.

[stonebig]

Is there a rough idea for 0.3.0 ETA, now that jupyterlab-4.1rc1 is out ?
April 2024 ?

[jtpio]

Just created the 0.2.x branch: https://github.com/jupyterlite/jupyterlite/tree/0.2.x

[jtpio]

Is there a rough idea for 0.3.0 ETA, now that jupyterlab-4.1rc1 is out ? April 2024 ?

Yes, we had listed a couple of items above that would have been nice to have in 0.3.0, not sure how much time they will take though.

So since #1263 now seems to be ready to go, we could also make a 0.3.0 release sooner, with the main change being the update to JupyterLab 4.1 and Notebook 7.1.

[jtpio]

0.3.0 has been released: https://github.com/jupyterlite/jupyterlite/releases/tag/v0.3.0