4.x Series

Released August, 2015

IPython 4.0 is the first major release after the Big Split. IPython no longer contains the notebook, qtconsole, etc. which have moved to jupyter. IPython subprojects, such as IPython.parallel and widgets have moved to their own repos as well.

The following subpackages are deprecated:

• IPython.kernel (now jupyter_client and ipykernel)
• IPython.consoleapp (now jupyter_client.consoleapp)
• IPython.nbformat (now nbformat)
• IPython.nbconvert (now nbconvert)
• IPython.html (now notebook)
• IPython.parallel (now ipyparallel)
• IPython.utils.traitlets (now traitlets)
• IPython.config (now traitlets.config)
• IPython.qt (now qtconsole)
• IPython.terminal.console (now jupyter_console)

and a few other utilities.

Shims for the deprecated subpackages have been added, so existing code should continue to work with a warning about the new home.

There are few changes to the code beyond the reorganization and some bugfixes.

IPython highlights:

• Public APIs for discovering IPython paths is moved from :mod:`IPython.utils.path` to :mod:`IPython.paths`. The old function locations continue to work with deprecation warnings.
• Code raising DeprecationWarning entered by the user in an interactive session will now display the warning by default. See :ghpull:`8480` an :ghissue:`8478`.
• The --deep-reload flag and the corresponding options to inject dreload or reload into the interactive namespace have been deprecated, and will be removed in future versions. You should now explicitly import reload from IPython.lib.deepreload to use it.