Panel 0.14.0 release

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Date: 2022-09-30

Blog post: https://blog.holoviz.org/panel_0.14.html

This release focuses on three main themes:

  • Support for running Panel apps entirely in the browser using WebAssembly (via Pyodide and PyScript)
  • Improvements in the app-user experience by making it easier to build responsive and performant applications
  • Improvements in the developer experience through static typing and docstrings.

Many, many thanks to everyone who filed issues or contributed to this release. In particular we would like to thank @janimo, @xavArtley, @thuydotm, @jmosbacher, @dmarx, @2WoLpH, @ipopa144, @sdc50 for contributions and @philippjfr, @Hoxbro, @maximlt, and @MarcSkovMadsen for ongoing maintenance and development.

Features

  • Add support for converting Panel apps to pyscript/pyodide (#3817, #3830, #3851, #3856, #3857, #3858, #3860, #3861, #3863, #3864, #3868, #3878)
  • Manage our own CDN to improve performance and reliability for delivering JS payloads (#3867, #3870)
  • Add ability to defer_load of components (#3882)
  • Add pn.widget helper function (#1826, #3589)
  • Add config.exception_handler to easily capture, log and notify users about errors (#3893)
  • Implement pn.cache function for memoization support (#2411)
  • Rewrite server extension to run Panel applications in kernels so that previews run in the same environment as the deployed app (#3763)
  • Add ability to define authorization callback (#3777)
  • Support memray profiler (#3509)
  • Add liveness endpoint (#3832)
  • Add ability to configure exception handler (#3896)

Enhancements

  • Ensure OAuth redirects to requested app and retains query arguments (#3555)
  • Add extension entry point (#3738)
  • Update Admin Logs page to use Tabulator (#3694)
  • Ensure location.unsync unsets query params (#3806)
  • Allow None value on numeric sliders and LiteralInput (#3174)
  • Allow serving admin panel with pn.serve (#3798)
  • Improve ReactiveHTML loop support and validation (#3813)
  • Support declaring Perspective.plugin_config pane (#3814)
  • Do not flicker busy indicator during --autoreload check (#3804)
  • Improve robustness of state.curdoc in threaded and async contexts (#3776, #3810, #3834)
  • Support datetime bounds for DatetimePicker and DatetimeRangePicker (#3788)
  • Allow setting the Oauth provider using environment variables (#3698)
  • Implement Player.value_throttled (#3756)
  • Ensure that URL query parameters are preserved during OAuth (#3656)
  • Improve Markdown code syntax highlighting (#3758)
  • Ensure components do not re-render if background or loading parameters change (#3599)
  • Add ability to define admin dashboard plugins (#3668)
  • Do not calculate embed state for disabled widgets (#3757)
  • Add hard bounds to editable sliders (#3739)
  • Add bundling of shared resources (#3894)
  • Add Tabulator as default param.DataFrame widget (#3912)

Documentation

Compatibility & Version updates

  • Support ipywidgets>=8.0 (#3782)
  • Bump jsoneditor package (#3838)
  • Upgrade to Tabulator 5.3.2 (#3784)
  • Improve Django compatibility (#3843, #3835)
  • Remove all usage of deprecated Pane

Bugs

Server

  • Ensure closed websocket does not cause errors
  • Handle session and websocket close cleanly (#3769)
  • Fix prefix handling for admin page (#3809)
  • Support admin dashboard in multi-process deployments (#3812)
  • Improve document cleanup when not invoked using server_destroy (#3842)
  • Ensure pn.state.execute dispatches immediately if possible (#3859)
  • Ensure autoload.js resources are appropriately prefixed (#3873)

Notebook

  • Fix support for copying cells and creating new views in JupyterLab (#3652)
  • Ensure output renders in VSCode notebook with latest ipywidgets (#3765)
  • Resolve issues with Jupyter slowdown due to event_loop patching on Windows (#3770)
    • Ensure old comm managers do not raise errors in notebook (#3853)
    • Simplify rendering of ipywidget (#3937)

Tabulator

  • Do not re-render Tabulator on css_classes or background change (#3598)
  • Ensure expand icon updates on Tabulator.expanded change (#3703)
  • Update page Parameter when pagination is ‘local’ (#3704)
  • Do not apply sorters on Tabulator cell edits (#3744)
  • Ensure Tabulator.controls renders (#3768)
  • Ensure correctness of event row and selection indices in Tabulator (#3771, #3841)
  • Fix issues with frontend and backend sorters being out of sync in Tabulator (#3825, #3839)
  • Fix default values of a list header filter in Tabulator (#3826)
  • Fix the edit event with a python filter in Tabulator (#3829)
  • Disable client-side date filtering on Tabulator (#3849)
  • Support editing of pandas masked array dtypes in Tabulator (#3850)
  • Fix issues editing a cell when client-side filtering applied (#3852)
  • Do not recompute data when local pagination is enabled (#3854)
  • Don’t skip filtering when the column name is undefined (#3862)

Misc

  • Fix FileInput.save (#3579)
  • Fix issues with Matplotlib.high_dpi option (#3591, #3594)
  • Ensure layout recomputes on HTML/Markdown re-rerender (#3616)
  • Allow overriding all widget parameters on Param pane (#3754)
  • Ensure DatePicker start/end are transformed when jslinked (#3759)
  • Ensure notifications can be enabled without a template (#3820)
  • Ensure ReactiveHTML inline callbacks on loop variables return correct node (#3840)
  • Ensure that Perspective does not take precedence on empty dict (#3936)
  • Improve sizing_mode behavior when width/height are specified (#3955)
  • Do not load notyf resources unless notifications are enabled (#3958)
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Congrats on the release @philippjfr. When I created awesome-panel.org it was in the anticipation of Panel becoming really awesome. I think we made it.

Below a well known streaming application is shown. Before I shouldn’t really deploy it with update times below 1s. It would not perform for real use cases. Now it can run with an update frequency of 25ms and below!

panel-streaming

All it takes is panel convert app.py. It’s crazy.

And then you can deploy on your github pages. No server required. And Philipp made the loading experience awesome.

You can even add a flag to make it a progressive web app that installs on your computer like a desktop app!

You can try the app here.

We should not stop here; we can make it even more awesome.

Call to action: Help us help you! Complete the HoloViz user survey today! and help me spread the word about Panel by commenting on LinkedIn.

Thanks.

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Nice work, holoViz team. The convert Function is absolutely amazing. :+1::+1::+1::+1:

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