# Panel 1.7.0 Released

**URL:** <https://discourse.holoviz.org/t/panel-1-7-0-released/8761>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** panel\
**Created:** [May 16, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://discourse.holoviz.org/t/panel-1-7-0-released/8761 "2025-05-16T12:41:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![philippjfr](https://discourse.holoviz.org/user_avatar/discourse.holoviz.org/philippjfr/32/7_2.png) [@philippjfr](https://discourse.holoviz.org/u/philippjfr)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://discourse.holoviz.org/t/panel-1-7-0-released/8761/1 "2025-05-16T12:41:39Z")

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This minor release is not as jam-packed as previous minor releases but adds a number of quality of life improvements, bug fixes and features along with version and compatibility updates for a number of JS dependencies. Many thanks to some of our more frequent contributors @dalthviz, @etihwo, our new contributor @emmanuel-ferdman and our maintainers @Hoxbro, @MarcSkovMadsen and @philippjfr.

### Features

- Add a secondary (right) sidebar to the `FastListTemplate` ([#7774](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7774))
- Add `Date(Time)Picker.allowInput` option ([#7886](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7886))
- Add `Markdown.disable_anchors` option ([#7902](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7902))
- Add `config.cache_path` variable to configure default location for diskcache ([#7903](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7903))
- Support custom cookie path ([#7911](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7911))
- Allow customizing index page titles with `--index-titles` CLI option ([#7916](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7916))
- Add `Image.target` option to configure where to open `link_url` ([#7924](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7924))

### Enhancements

- Display parameter name in error messages ([#7879](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7879))
- Improve Material design styling ([#7891](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7891), [#7917](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7917))
- Improve logic for computing Tabulator page size automatically ([#7915](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7915))

### Versions and Compatibility

- Bump Ace `CodeEditor` version 1.40.1 and add themes ([#7874](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7874))
- Bump pyodide version to 0.27.5 ([#7905](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7905))
- Bump `ECharts` version to 5.6.0 ([#7905](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7905))
- Bump `JSONEditor` version to 10.2.0 ([#7905](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7905))
- Bump `Perspective` version to 3.6.1 ([#7919](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7919))

### Bug fixes

- Deduplicate components before compiling ([#7887](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7887))
- Avoid boomeranging of events after `hold` is applied ([#7892](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7892))
- Handle .ico image base64 mime-type correctly ([#7894](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7894))
- Ensure `FileDropper` height is not limited ([#7898](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7898))
- Ensure correct stylesheet cache is used by theme hooks when component is shared between sessions ([#7896](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7896))
- Reset `BaseTemplate._documents` correctly on autoreload ([#7897](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7897))
- Ensure widget CSS is loaded correctly when server path is prefixed ([#7900](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7900))
- Correct display `Tabulator` with multi index and multi index column ([#7907](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7907))
- Ensure stretch and scale sizing\_mode does not cause overflow in container ([#7928](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7928))

### Documentation

- Document caching of dependencies by combining `cache` with `depends` ([#7876](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7876))
- Remove deprecated keyword in doc for `DateRangeSlider` and `DateTimeRangSlider` ([#7893](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7893))
- Add guidance on troubleshooting OAuth issues ([#7921](https://github.com/holoviz/panel/pull/7921))