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CHAPTER 2
What’s new in IPython
This section documents the changes that have been made in various versions of IPython. Users should
consult these pages to learn about new features, bug fixes and backwards incompatibilities. Developers
should summarize the development work they do here in a user friendly format.
2.1 Development version
This document describes in-flight development work.
2.1.1 Backwards incompatible changes
2.2 1.0 Series
2.2.1 Release 1.0.0: An Afternoon Hack
IPython 1.0 requires Python 2.6.5 or 3.2.1. It does not support Python 3.0, 3.1, or 2.5.
This is a big release. The principal milestone is the addition of IPython.nbconvert, but there has been
a great deal of work improving all parts of IPython as well.
The previous version (0.13) was released on June 30, 2012, and in this development cycle we had:
• ~12 months of work.
• ~700 pull requests merged.
• ~600 issues closed (non-pull requests).
• contributions from ~150 authors.
• ~4000 commits.
The amount of work included in this release is so large that we can only cover here the main highlights;
please see our detailed release statistics for links to every issue and pull request closed on GitHub as well
as a full list of individual contributors. It includes
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