Version 1.7.0

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)
• Add Date(Time)Picker.allowInput option (#7886)
• Add Markdown.disable_anchors option (#7902)
• Add config.cache_path variable to configure default location for diskcache (#7903)
• Support custom cookie path (#7911)
• Allow customizing index page titles with --index-titles CLI option (#7916)
• Add Image.target option to configure where to open link_url (#7924)

Enhancements

• Display parameter name in error messages (#7879)
• Improve Material design styling (#7891, #7917)
• Improve logic for computing Tabulator page size automatically (#7915)

Versions and Compatibility

• Bump Ace CodeEditor version 1.40.1 and add themes (#7874)
• Bump pyodide version to 0.27.5 (#7905)
• Bump ECharts version to 5.6.0 (#7905)
• Bump JSONEditor version to 10.2.0 (#7905)
• Bump Perspective version to 3.6.1 (#7919)

Bug fixes

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

Documentation

• Document caching of dependencies by combining cache with depends (#7876)
• Remove deprecated keyword in doc for DateRangeSlider and DateTimeRangSlider (#7893)
• Add guidance on troubleshooting OAuth issues (#7921)