Release Notes

0.57.0 (July 18, 2014)

  • Display images and untrusted HTML across SSH boundary
  • Full screen and separate web origin for untrusted HTML
  • gipynb command to open IPython Notebook window inline
  • Disable terminal colors using pref
  • Bypass JSON protocol for transmitting large files

0.56.1 (July 3, 2014)

  • Toolchain now works both Python2 and Python3; many fixes

0.55.0 (June 26, 2014)

  • Progressively fillable notebooks for scaffolding
  • MathJax implemented for TeX formulas
  • gncplot for 2-D visualization of netCDF data
  • Login authentication type implemented
  • Tooltips for forms
  • Leaflet zoomable demo

0.54.3 (May 8, 2014)

  • Major docs update
  • Image display from unauthenticated (cookie-less) terminals
  • Introduced shortcut commands: gpython and gipython
  • Cleaned up inline plotting
  • Cleaned up gterm_setup

0.53.0 (May 5, 2014)

  • Improved remote machine access
  • Implemented gdownload
  • Added colors to terminal
  • Enabled multiuser mode with existing users (user_setup=manual)
  • Renames –auto_users to –user_setup=auto
  • Renamed auth_type=local to auth_type=singleuser

0.52.0 (April 28, 2014)

  • Fixes for user permissions; indentation handling in notebook cells; autosave; killing terminals

0.51.1 (April 22, 2014)

  • Bug fix release

0.51.0 (April 21, 2014)

  • Added support for Google Authentication
  • Added support for dark theme and saving prefs
  • Improved terminal resizing

0.50.1 (April 17, 2014)

  • Fix to better handle blank lines in notebook code cells

0.50.0 (April 15, 2014)

  • Cosmetic changes (notebook CSS margins, font size)

0.49.0 (April 14, 2014)

  • Full implementation of multiuser authentication type to create virtual computer lab, with automatic creation of new users
  • Implemented gadmin command to monitor and administer multiple users
  • Implemented user groups for collaboration
  • Implemented notebook cell modification tracking
  • Improved chat capability, with terminal alert option
  • Implemented gnbserver command to run public IPython notebook servers on a per-user basis
  • Implemented notebook autosave
  • Implemented gls --download option
  • Tested https options with self-signed certificate
  • Improved support for iOS and Android touch devices (tablets and phones)
  • Introduced command menu for useful actions
  • Improved browser support (especially Windows browsers)
  • Cleaned up authentication types
  • Improved gterm command to launch terminals
  • Fixed cross-domain embedding
  • Fixed wildcard access to osh terminals
  • Improved EC2 instance launching
  • Improved logging

0.40.2 (February 3, 2014)

  • Updated EC2 launching

0.40.1 (June 26, 2013)

  • Fix for XSS vulnerability (Issue#5)
  • Added mypres1.md for reveal.js demo

0.40.0 (June 25, 2013)

  • Implemented config file to specify default options for gtermserver
  • auth_type=user changed to auth_type=multiuser

0.39.0 (June 21, 2013)

  • Support for auto user creation
  • Support for inline HTML display for pandas.DataFrame objects
  • Support for server and user authentication via the gterm command
  • Added ystock command
  • Renamed auth_code option to auth_type
  • Renamed gtermapi.py to gterm.py

0.38.1 (June 3, 2013)

  • Fix for symlinks being ignored in the egg file

0.38.0 (June 2, 2013)

  • Follow-up release to 0.37.0
  • Mostly bug fixes; menu and documentation updates

0.37.0 (May 29, 2013)

  • Follow-up release to 0.36.0
  • Mostly bug fixes and cleanup of notebook mode
  • gload to load new terminal in current window

0.36.0 (May 26, 2013)

  • Follow-up release to 0.35.0
  • Many fixes to notebook mode
  • Now notebooks/graphics work with R
  • Introduced metro.sh to demo/test multiple terminals simultaneously
  • Introduced gsh to execute commands remotely on any accessible terminal
  • Renamed environment variables GRAPHTERM_* to GTERM_*

0.35.0 (May 20, 2013)

  • New generic notebook mode with code/markdown cell and paging/slide options, interoperable with IPython notebook
  • New menu bar that can float or be anchored; with Ctrl-J for keyboard shortcuts
  • Improved access control options for session sharing
  • Scrollable pagelets to work with session sharing
  • Improved platform compatibility (Android, IE10)
  • Locale export hack to work across SSH logins
  • Form authentication to disallow CSRF
  • Further streamlined copy/paste to work seamlessly on Chrome/Firefix on Mac/Linux
  • New logo and fancier splash screen
  • Toolchain updates:
  • Introduced d3cloud command for inline word clouds using d3.js
  • Renamed giframe command to gframe, with expanded capabilities for creating split frames and embedded terminals.
  • Updated gls from bash to Python for opening notebooks etc.
  • Introduced gjs to execute Javscript in client browser
  • Introduced gmenu for command-line access to the new menu bar
  • Introduced gprofile for appending to the user’s .bash_profile
  • Introduced gpylab.py for the monkey-patched pylab mode
  • Introduced gqrcode for inline display of QR codes
  • Introduced greveal command for inline presentations of Markdown files using reveal.js
  • Example script gshow.ncl for inline graphics with NCL
  • Example script gshow.pro for inline graphics with IDL
  • Updated gtermapi.py for scrollable pagelets and stderr output option
  • Introduced gupload for drag-and-drop file upload

0.34.0 (Jan. 6, 2013)

  • Added gtutor command, command line version of the pythontutor.com
  • Added gsnowflake.py, inline SVG demo
  • Added helloworld.sh demo program
  • Streamlined copy/paste
  • Bug fixes: UTF-8 paste handling (for Japanese etc.)
  • Moved documentation from Google sites (info.mindmeldr.com) to Github Pages (code.mitotic.org)

0.33.0 (Sep. 30, 2012)

  • Added references to GraphTerm mailing list/Twitter account
  • Added Troubleshooting FAQ
  • Added sample slideshows using glandslide
  • Implemented glandslide, GraphTerm-aware version of landslide slideshow presenter.
  • Factored out ace/ckeditor, to be loaded on demand. This significantly speeds up initial load, and allows any editor to be easily embedded using the editor API. Also implemented presenter API using inter-frame communication.
  • Implemented /osh/web/user JS console for GraphTerm
  • gvi can explicitly choose between ace/ckeditor (for WYSIWYG HTML editing)
  • Improved gls column handling
  • Implemented gscript for saving/running scripted commands
  • Added ec2launch option to copy and install source tarball

0.32.0 (Sep. 15, 2012)

  • Now works on Raspberry Pi out-of-the-box!
  • Added CKEditor (doubled size of package)
  • Much improved iPad experience (bottom menu on by default; CKEditor for gvi editing; bold theme)
  • Updated screenshots
  • Revamped ec2launch and ec2list for EC2 cluster management
  • Clicking on image in gls output now displays image inline
  • Popup help display for forms
  • --key_secret option for HMAC digest server-host authentication

0.31.0 (Sep. 9, 2012)

  • Updated screenshots and documentation
  • Replaced broken gweather with yweather (for inline forecasts)
  • Better popups/alerts
  • Added Control A-E-K to Bottom menu
  • Improved Unicode output
  • Version checks for API
  • Improved ec2launch to autostart gtermserver and install PyLab

0.30.9 (Aug 26, 2012):

  • Updated documentation
  • Syntax for gtermhost command has changed slightly
  • Action->Export Environment to use GraphTerm across SSH logins
  • gmatplot.py to demo inline plotting using matplotlib
  • Wildcard session names for multiplexed stdin and stdout (oshell-only)
  • gotrace command to use otrace with any python program (including those reading from stdin)
  • Clear terminal option
  • giframe command to display files, URLs and HTML from stdin
  • Transient blob storage for images and inline matplotlib output
  • Capture interactive feedback using GRAPHTERM_SOCKET
  • Modified command recall handling
  • Fixed invisible widget overlay bug

0.30.8 (Aug 15, 2012):

First public release + many quick fixes