Weekly Team Meetings: Jul–Dec 2025

[jtpio]

Here is a record of the agenda/minutes for our weekly meeting. Everyone is welcome to join.

Let's avoid using this thread for discussion. If you'd like to discuss something in the minutes, open a separate issue and reference this thread.

Here are the meeting notes for the 6 previous months (Jan–Jun 2025)

Meeting Notes

• Dec 17, 2025
• Dec 10, 2025
• Dec 03, 2025
• Nov 26, 2025
• Nov 19, 2025
• Nov 12, 2025
• Oct 29, 2025
• Oct 22, 2025
• Oct 15, 2025
• Oct 08, 2025
• Oct 01, 2025
• Sep 24, 2025
• Sep 17, 2025
• Sep 10, 2025
• Sep 03, 2025
• Aug 27, 2025
• Aug 20, 2025
• Aug 13, 2025
• Aug 06, 2025
• Jul 30, 2025
• Jul 23, 2025
• Jul 16, 2025
• Jul 09, 2025
• Jul 02, 2025

[danyeaw]

Wednesday, July 2

Name	Affiliation	GitHub
Jason Grout	Independent	@jasongrout
Mike Krassowski	Quansight/OpenTeams	@krassowski
Dan Yeaw	Anaconda	@danyeaw
Nicholas Bollweg		@bollwyvl
William Stein	CoCalc	@williamstein
Rosio Reyes	Anaconda	@RRosio
R Ely	Bloomberg	@ohrely

Agenda - Monthly Accessibility Focus

Accessibility Topics

Accessibility Triage / Needs Discussion

• Dan: Search highlights - Colors for search in notebook and jupyter lab are difficult to use jupyter/notebook#7644
  • Team agrees current highlighting colors (yellow current, black with white text for others) aren't great, however, not sure if there is another search problem here
  • Dan to ask about the problem to clarify, what browser, OS, and what the real problem is
  • Need to investigate if we can use browser default colors

Other Topics

• Dan: Cell execution number references - Need cell execution_number while calling dumpCell jupyterlab#17661
  • This is for the debugger component, which may not currently provide a cell ID.
  • Drawback to using a hash function is two identical cells could have the same hash
  • Recommendation is to add a cell ID, which would technically change the kernel message protocol and would require a JEP
  • First create an experimental PR
• Mike: per cell button Per-cell run button jupyterlab#16602
  • Adds a run button on top of the cell number if it hasn't been run
  • Concerns with accessibility and touchscreen manipulation for this hover design
  • CoCalc and Collab have a play button, may need to benchmark what is available
  • Add screenshots to Per cell UI for running cells jupyterlab#2109
• Dan: Gator v6.0.0 is now out

Offline Topics

• None

Recording

[RRosio]

Wednesday, July 9

Name	Affiliation	GitHub
Jason Grout	Independent	@jasongrout
Mike Krassowski	Quansight/OpenTeams	@krassowski
Rosio Reyes	Anaconda	@RRosio
Jeremy Tuloup	QuantStack	@jtpio
Bhavana Rajan Nair	AWS	@bhavana-nair
Samsara Durvasula	Independent	@samsara-durvasula
Nicolas Brichet	QuantStack	@brichet

Agenda

• Mike:

  • security email changed: quick PR review Update email for reporting vulnerabilities .github#15
  • some alignment with jupyter protocol and interrupt support
    • {%preview Add types for interrupt messages, and move them from shell to control channel jupyterlab#17684 %}
    • {%preview IExecuteReplyMsg requires execution_count for abort replies jupyterlab#17686 %}
    • {%preview The interface for execute_reply does not accept status: aborted (only status: abort) jupyterlab#17685 %}
    • {%preview Is "aborted" deprecated? jupyter/jupyter_client#1063 %}
  • {%preview Add fold/unfold commands to menu and command palette jupyterlab#17677 %}

• Jeremy

  • Document command arguments via describedBy: Describe args for all commands jupyterlab#17649
    • Should we address the typing improvement in this PR?
  • Disabling file uploads:
    • Original issue: Disable file upload jupyterlab#7451
    • Small improvement: Add a new allowFileUploads setting to the file browser jupyterlab#17676
  • JupyterLab 4.5 release timeline
    • JupyterCon? See also JupyterCon 2025 #280

Additional Discussions

• We began discussions for JupyterLab 4.5 Release plan. In the coming weeks we will allot call time to review draft PRs currently in the 4.5.0 Milestone, and either close them out or add them to the release plan.

Recording

[jtpio]

Wednesday, July 16

Name	Affiliation	GitHub
Mike Krassowski	Quansight/OpenTeams	@krassowski
Jason Grout	Independent	@jasongrout
Bhavana Rajan Nair	AWS	@bhavana-nair
William Stein	SageMath, Inc.	@williamstein
Nicolas Brichet	QuantStack	@brichet
Ian Thomas	QuantStack	@ianthomas23
Rosio Reyes	Anaconda	@RRosio

Agenda

• Mike:
  • Archiving jupyterlab-desktop? {%preview Should we archive this project? jupyterlab-desktop#890 %}
    • Future ideas: tauri. Only using the app to configure/run the server, but just pop up their own desktop browser to actually interact with jupyter? Thus addressing the security issue?
      • Nick has a prototype that almost works.
      • https://github.com/crabnebula-dev/jupyterlab-tauri
      • https://github.com/ekzhang/jute
    • https://github.com/joouha/euporie
    • Nick suggests: more generally, how do we distribute notebooks as an app? Can we have a 3gb self-contained download that runs one notebook?
  • Needs review:
    • {%preview Add more retries on the frequently failing test jupyterlab#17689 %}
    • {%preview Add types for interrupt messages, and move them from shell to control channel jupyterlab#17684 %}
    • {%preview Update @codemirror/view to v6.38.1, fixing lineWrap in defer mode jupyterlab#17698 %}
• [@jasongrout] JupyterCon CFP closes July 20. Are there people submitting talks/tutorials on JupyterLab/Notebook?
  • {%preview JupyterCon 2025 #280 %}
• [@jasongrout] Jupyter Workshops - deadline Aug 10
  • I feel like white instead of black for logo on that website would be much nicer
  • This deadline might be a bit tight because a lot of people will be on vacation between now and Aug 10
• [@jasongrout] JupyterLab 4.5. What is one feature you would love to see (and work on) to make JupyterLab 4.5 a success
  • Nick: finish LSP
  • Nick/Mike: Rock solid windowed rendering
  • Table of Contents improvements
  • Already merged: rendering image/video files
  • Already merged: Add terminal search functionality jupyterlab#17691
  • Subshell support was merged in 4.4, but ipykernel subshell will be released before JupyterCon, and Ian has submitted a talk about subshells

Recording

[jtpio]

Wednesday, July 23

Name	Affiliation	GitHub
R Ely	Bloomberg	@ohrely
Rosio Reyes	Anaconda	@RRosio

Agenda

• No items on the agenda at ~10 minutes past the hour. We decided to call the meeting, with some folks sticking around to let any latecomers know.

[jtpio]

Wednesday, July 30

Name	Affiliation	GitHub
Rosio Reyes	Anaconda	@RRosio
Nicolas Brichet	QuantStack	@brichet
Drake Aiman	Google	@wh1ter4bb1t-js
Dan Yeaw	Anaconda	@danyeaw
Jonah Jung	AWS	@jonahjung22
William Stein	SageMath, Inc.	@williamstein
Andrii Ieroshenko	AWS	@andrii-i

Agenda

• Jupyterlab-chat layout restoration error testing Error dialog when reopening JupyterLab jupyter-chat#257 (comment)

[jtpio]

Wednesday, August 6

Name	Affiliation	GitHub
Jason Grout	Independent	@jasongrout
Mike Krassowski	OpenTeams	@krassowski
Dan Yeaw	Anaconda	@danyeaw
Rosio Reyes	Anaconda	@RRosio
Jeremy Tuloup	QuantStack	@jtpio
Jonah Jung	AWS	@jonahjung22
Andrii Ieroshenko	AWS	@andrii-i
William Stein	CoCalc	@williamstein

Agenda - Monthly Accessibility Focus

• [Jason] Dialog:
  • Recently the HTML <dialog> element has gotten pretty good. Firefox just launched with some improvements, for example. JupyterLab still uses a custom dialog element. https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2023/01/26/use-the-dialog-element.html indicates that we should start exploring using the dialog element (as of 2023), and if not, perhaps explore a11y-dialog if we don't want to maintain our own dialog
  • I was going to open a JLab issue, but I don't know how much of a problem the current dialog is, both in capabilities and in code maintenance. So I don't want to attract attention to a dialog rewrite without it being a clear win. Especially since it seems browsers are still enhancing the dialog element.
  • We appear to be using the HTML dialog element. So maybe this isn't so big of a change to use the built-in dialog functionality, for example for dismissing a dialog or having a inert pane of glass behind the dialog. We likely don't use the showModal() call for dialogs.
  • Jason will open an issue with this info. Edit: Jason opened Investigate using dialog showModal() for dialogs in JupyterLab jupyterlab#17759
  • Related issues Modal dialogs are not accessible jupyterlab#6579 Implement dialog element for dialogs with accessibility jupyterlab#14560

Accessibility Topics

Accessibility Triage / Needs Discussion

• Dan - Tab order for status bar items in the right group is swapped
  • There is a PR for this at Fix tab order for status bar items jupyterlab#17700. Potentially the rendering issue on the Terminal tab may not be related to this PR.
• Dan - Scroll Up/Down Button
  • Discussed that a good solution for the pain point would be to add scrollbar width setting to allow users to make the width wider
  • Dan opened Add scrollbar width setting jupyterlab#17757 to capture this feature request

Other

• Rosio's question: Looking at Use content-visibility with contain-intrinsic-size for size caching in windowed notebooks jupyterlab#16327, are there trade-offs to using content-visibility: auto rather than content-visibility: hidden?
  • Suggestions in the call by Mike: we are probably interested in content-visibility: auto to delagate rendering to browsers, unless we run into issues which might mean we end up using content-visibility: hidden and manually handle rendering.

Recording

[RRosio]

Wednesday, August 13

Name	Affiliation	GitHub
Mike Krassowski	OpenTeams	@krassowski
Rosio Reyes	Anaconda	@RRosio
Jeremy Tuloup	QuantStack	@jtpio
Jonah Jung	AWS	@jonahjung22
Andrii Ieroshenko	AWS	@andrii-i
R Ely	Bloomberg	@ohrely
Dan Yeaw	Anaconda	@danyeaw

Agenda

• Rosio

  • Jupyter Workshops CFP deadline September 7th
  • Community Call September 4th
  • Zulip Events Channel

• Mike

  • shout out to Chiara (@cmarmo) for getting the extension-examples CI back to green in Update the extension examples repo to use the latest extension template extension-examples#284
  • JupyterLab v4.5.0a2 is available for testing, you can test it on Binder here: https://gist.github.com/krassowski/9119f0a99aceb29c33be31e4b81bb558
  • Make RenderMimeRegistry.UrlResolver extensible/extension point jupyterlab#17770

• Jeremy

  • JupyterLite 0.7 pre-releases based on the latest JupyterLab 4.5 and Notebook 7.5 pre-releases
  • Nightly: https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_static/lab/index.html
  • Workspace support
  • Basic interrupt (thanks Mike)

Additional Discussions

Off record

• Mike
  • Add a warning about the current state of the app jupyterlab-desktop#897
  • Should we archive this project? jupyterlab-desktop#890

Recording

[RRosio]

Wednesday, August 20

Name	Affiliation	GitHub
Mike Krassowski	OpenTeams	@krassowski
Rosio Reyes	Anaconda	@RRosio
Jeremy Tuloup	QuantStack	@jtpio
William Stein	CoCalc	@williamstein
Andrii Ieroshenko	AWS	@andrii-i
Bhavana Rajan Nair	Student	@bhavana-nair

Agenda

• {%preview https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jupyterlab-extension-es-module-generation-problems/37581/2 %}

• Mike

  • JupyterLab 4.4.6 is released
  • looking for feedback on {%preview Allow to tailor resolveUrl result to the context jupyterlab#17795 %}

• Rosio

  • Community Call September 4th

Additional Discussions - Off the record

• Nick

  • Update to mermaid 11.10, marked 16.2 jupyterlab#17800

• Andrii

  • Pre-release promotions on social media and blog posts
  • Changelog update process