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import numpy as np
#from numpy iport linalg
2024-11-11
Users can now import Gemini API keys
A=np.random.randint(10,size=(10,10)) from AI Studio into their user secrets, all
A in Colab (tweet).
Increased limit to 1000 characters for
array([[6, 0, 3, 2, 2, 4, 5, 1, 6, 1], requests to Gemini in Chat and Generate
[1, 4, 6, 2, 0, 5, 4, 5, 4, 0], windows.
[1, 0, 1, 4, 2, 6, 1, 2, 5, 6], Improved saving notebook to GitHub
[5, 5, 8, 0, 6, 9, 0, 3, 7, 7], flow.
[6, 7, 2, 6, 2, 4, 2, 3, 4, 1], Updated Gemini spark icon to be colorful
[1, 2, 5, 3, 2, 8, 3, 3, 5, 8], uv is pre-installed on the PATH for faster
[1, 6, 4, 7, 9, 5, 8, 0, 3, 7], package installs.
[7, 3, 8, 4, 1, 6, 2, 8, 2, 9], Fixed bugs
[2, 4, 7, 3, 8, 4, 5, 0, 1, 8], Dropdown text for GitHub
[6, 5, 4, 4, 8, 4, 4, 7, 6, 6]]) repository not visible #4901.
Pre-installed California housing
dataset README not correct
Ainv=np.linalg.inv(A) #4862.
Ainv Backend execution error for
scheduled notebook #4850.
array([[ 9.75198545e-02, -1.18583816e-01, -1.06972649e-01, Drive File Stream issues #3441.
1.39304846e-01, -6.69310121e-02, -1.24573464e-01, Linking to the signup page does
2.35472569e-01, 1.73539033e-01, -2.66214214e-01, not preserve the authuser
-7.46241219e-02], parameter.
[-6.96838003e-02, -8.77089640e-02, -2.94795387e-01, Error messages in Gemini chat are
-8.82098315e-02, 2.10598794e-01, 4.20607839e-01, not polished.
-1.57807782e-01, -1.53875494e-01, 9.62675691e-02, Clicking in Gemini chat feedback
9.99761347e-02], causes jitters the UI.
[-1.92717919e-02, 1.97750564e-01, 2.50022687e-01, Hovering over a table of contents
-2.58097455e-01, 2.32659301e-01, 4.42036545e-02, entry would show the menu icons
-6.25877830e-01, -2.41260131e-01, 7.43188541e-01, for all entries.
5.77511633e-02], Surveys display over open dialogs.
[-4.10105952e-02, 1.52941529e-01, 4.09874298e-01, Playground mode banner not
-1.91150113e-01, 1.78392689e-01, -1.97180002e-01, shown on mobile.
-3.12912583e-01, -9.86560795e-02, 4.37971400e-01, Python package upgrades
-1.77692478e-02],
[-9.73402234e-03, 4.26552695e-02, 1.57122151e-01, accelerate 0.34.2 -> 1.1.1
2.64790229e-01, -2.65591221e-01, -5.07401734e-01, arviz 0.19.0 -> 0.20.0
4.25645091e-01, 1.95879426e-01, -3.40496570e-01, bigframes 1.18.0 -> 1.25.0
-8.00305513e-02], bigquery-magics 0.2.0 -> 0.4.0
[ 4.38478333e-02, -4.44772420e-02, -4.85825124e-02, bokeh 3.4.3 -> 3.6.1
6.61297174e-01, -5.66989101e-01, -6.95367244e-01, blosc 2.0.0 -> 2.7.1
1.22041050e+00, 6.04419088e-01, -1.23393264e+00, cloudpickle 2.2.1 -> 3.1.0
-3.93781685e-01], cudf-cu12 24.4.1 -> 24.10.1
[ 9.33594700e-02, -7.27915932e-02, -2.87879357e-01, dask 2024.8.0 -> 24.10.0
3.20251913e-02, -1.28937158e-01, 1.53502876e-01, debugpy 1.6.6 -> 1.8.0
2.88601906e-01, 9.07482871e-02, -3.10493629e-01, earthengine-api 1.0.0 -> 1.2.0
-7.05740240e-03], folium 0.17.0 -> 0.18.0
[-4.31709507e-02, 5.04145162e-02, -2.04336201e-03, gscfs 2024.6.1 -> 2024.10.0
1.27769731e-01, -2.06815577e-01, -2.07504474e-01, geemap 0.34.3 -> 0.35.1
3.01428440e-01, 1.89691368e-01, -3.63377139e-01, holidays 0.57 -> 0.60
1.96150156e-02], huggingface-hub 0.24.7 -> 0.26.2
[ 5.11248756e-04, 5.96283083e-02, 9.27290699e-02, kagglehub 0.3.0 -> 0.3.3
-4.82253964e-01, 4.64141668e-01, 6.17906817e-01, lightgbm 4.4.0 -> 4.5.0
-9.96687906e-01, -5.61677386e-01, 9.43648326e-01, lxml 4.9.4 -> 5.3.0
3.15703514e-01], matplotlib 3.7.1 -> 3.8.0
[-2.78997416e-02, -1.39259822e-01, -1.62829288e-01, mizani 0.11.4 -> 0.13.0
-2.48377546e-01, 2.12612996e-01, 5.38011456e-01, networkx 3.3 -> 3.4.2
-4.06619476e-01, -2.02945343e-01, 3.62455888e-01, nltk 3.8.1 -> 3.9.1
1.66668494e-01]]) pandas 2.1.4 -> 2.2.2
pillow 10.4.0 -> 11.0.0
plotnine 0.13.6 -> 0.14.1
polars 1.6.0 -> 1.9.0

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A_tr=np.transpose(A) protobuf 3.20.3 -> 4.25.5
A_tr pyarrow 14.0.2 -> 17.0.0
pydrive2 1.20.0 -> 1.21.1
array([[6, 1, 1, 5, 6, 1, 1, 7, 2, 6], pymc 5.16.2 -> 5.18.0
[0, 4, 0, 5, 7, 2, 6, 3, 4, 5], torch 2.4.1 -> 2.5.0
[3, 6, 1, 8, 2, 5, 4, 8, 7, 4], torchaudio 2.4.1 -> 2.5.0
[2, 2, 4, 0, 6, 3, 7, 4, 3, 4], torchvision 0.19.1 -> 0.20.0
[2, 0, 2, 6, 2, 2, 9, 1, 8, 8], transformers 4.44.2 -> 4.46.2
[4, 5, 6, 9, 4, 8, 5, 6, 4, 4], xarray 2024.9.0 -> 2024.10.0
[5, 4, 1, 0, 2, 3, 8, 2, 5, 4], Python package inclusions
[1, 5, 2, 3, 3, 3, 0, 8, 0, 7],
diffusers 0.31.0
[6, 4, 5, 7, 4, 5, 3, 2, 1, 6],
gitpython 3.1.43
[1, 0, 6, 7, 1, 8, 7, 9, 8, 6]])
langchain 0.3.7
openai 1.54.3
pygit2 1.16.0
print(type(A))
pyspark 3.5.3
sentence-transformers 3.2.1
<class 'numpy.ndarray'>
timm 1.0.11
wandb 0.18.6
A=np.array([[1,2,3],[4,3,7],[7,2,6]]) Library and driver upgrades
A drivefs upgraded from 89.0.2 to 98.0.0

array([[1, 2, 3], 2024-09-23

[4, 3, 7],
Improved code snippet search
[7, 2, 6]])
Updated Marketplace image and public
local runtime container
Start coding or generate with AI. Improved the look-and-feel of interactive
form dropdowns and checkboxes
Fixed bugs
activating the skip link caused the
notebook to scroll out of view
toggling a checkbox too much
caused the page to crash
lightning fast drags could cause
orphaned tabs
custom widgets snippet would
show for local runtimes
Python package upgrades
accelerate 0.32.1 -> 0.34.2
arviz 0.18.0 -> 0.19
autograd 1.6.2 -> 1.7.0
bigframes 1.14.0 -> 1.18.0
dask 2024.7.1 -> 2024.8.0
distributed 2024.7.1 -> 2024.8.0
duckdb 0.10.3 -> 1.1.0
earthengine-api 0.1.416 -> 1.0.0
flax 0.8.4 -> 0.8.5
gdown 5.1.0 -> 5.2.0
geemap 0.33.1 -> 0.34.3
geopandas 0.14.4 -> 1.0.1
google-cloud-aiplatform 1.59.0 -> 1.67.1
google-cloud-bigquery-storage 2.25.0 ->
2.26.0
holidays 0.54 -> 0.57
huggingface-hub 0.23.5 -> 0.24.7
ibis-framework 8.0.0 -> 9.2.0
jax 0.4.26 -> 0.4.33
jaxlib 0.4.26 -> 0.4.33
kagglehub 0.2.9 -> 0.3.0
lightgbm 4.4.0 -> 4.5.0
matplotlib-venn 0.11.10 -> 1.1.1
mizani 0.9.3 -> 0.11.4
Pillow 9.4.0 -> 10.4.0
plotly 5.15.0 -> 5.24.1
plotnine 0.12.4 -> 0.13.6
polars 0.20.2 -> 1.6.0
progressbar2 4.2.0 -> 4.5.0
PyDrive2 1.6.3 -> 1.20.0
pymc 5.10.4 -> 5.16.2

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pytensor 2.18.6 -> 2.25.4
scikit-image 0.23.2 -> 0.24.0
scikit-learn 1.3.2 -> 1.5.2
torch 2.3.1 -> 2.4.1
torchaudio 2.3.1 -> 2.4.1
torchvision 0.18.1 -> 0.19.1
transformers 4.42.4 -> 4.44.2
urllib3 2.0.7 -> 2.2.3
xarray 2024.6.0 -> 2024.9.0
Python package inclusions
bigquery-magics 0.2.0

2024-08-20
TPU memory usage and utilization can
now be checked with !tpu-info
Gemini Chat responses are now
grounded in relevant sources
Added a new "Create Gemini API key" link
in the user secrets panel
Added a new "Gemini: Creating a prompt"
snippet and touched up the existing
"Gemini: Connecting to Gemini" snippet
Added the ability to specify custom
placeholder text for various interactive
form params (see examples)
Keyboard navigation a11y improvements
to comments UI
Various minor rendering improvements
to interactive forms UI
A11y improvements for the run button
and header
Updated tooltip styling
A11y improvements for the file browser’s
disk usage bar
On mobile, tooltips now trigger on long
press
On mobile, release notes updates will no
longer display automatically
Python package upgrades
astropy 5.3.4 -> 6.1.2
bigframes 1.11.1 -> 1.14.0
bokeh 3.3.4 -> 3.4.3
dask 2023.8.1 -> 2024.7.1
earthengine-api 0.1.412 -> 0.1.416
geopandas 0.13.2 -> 0.14.4
kagglehub 0.2.8 -> 0.2.9
keras 2.15.0 -> 3.4.1
lightgbm 4.1.0 -> 4.4.0
malloy 2023.1067 -> 2024.1067
numba 0.58.1 -> 0.60.0
numpy 1.25.2 -> 1.26.4
opencv-python 4.8.0.76 ->
4.10.0.84
pandas 2.0.3 -> 2.1.4
pandas-gbq 0.19.2 -> 0.23.1
panel 1.3.8 -> 1.4.5
requests 2.31.0 -> 2.32.3
scikit-learn 1.2.2. -> 1.3.2
scipy 1.11.4 -> 1.13.1
tensorboard 2.15.2 -> 2.17.0
tensorflow 2.15.0 -> 2.17.0
tf-keras 2.15.1 -> 2.17.0
xarray 2023.7.0 -> 2024.6.0
xgboost 2.0.3 -> 2.1.1
Python package inclusions

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einops 0.8.0

2024-07-22
You can now embed Google sheets
directly into Colab to streamline
interactions with data with
InteractiveSheet.
Example:
from google.colab import sheets
sh = sheets.InteractiveSheet()
df = sh.as_df()
Fixed multiple rendering bugs in cell
editors with wide text content (i.e. text is
no longer hidden or clipped)
Fixed multiple accessibility issues in
Colab's comments feature (e.g. proper
keyboard focus management, added
accessibility landmarks, etc)
Fixed bug where AI code generation
would fail for extremely long broken code
snippets
Fixed multiple scrollbar bugs in the user
secrets panel
Added the ability for workspace admin to
purchase Colab Pro and Pro+
Subscriptions for users
Fixed bug where user secrets couldn’t be
moved to a tab
Fixed several focus management
accessibility issues in tabs, the table of
contents, the left toolbar, and the run
button
Fixed bug where overflowing cells may
be omitted when pasting from Google
Sheets
Fixed bug where the generate code
button did not activate on touch
Python package upgrades
bigframes 1.9.0 -> 1.11.1
cvxpy 1.3.4 -> 1.5.2
earthengine-api 0.1.408 -> 0.1.412
google-api-core 2.11.1 -> 2.19.1
google-api-python-client 2.84.0 ->
2.137.0
google-cloud-aiplatform 1.56.0 ->
1.59.0
google-cloud-bigquery 3.21.0 ->
3.25.0
google-cloud-core 2.3.3 -> 2.4.1
google-cloud-datastore 2.15.2 ->
2.19.0
google-cloud-firestore 2.11.1 ->
2.16.1
google-cloud-functions 1.13.3 ->
1.16.4
google-generativeai 0.5.4 -> 0.7.2
kagglehub 0.2.5 -> 0.2.8
pip 23.1.2 -> 24.1.2
setuptools 67.7.2 -> 71.0.4
sympy 1.12.1 -> 1.13.1
torch 2.3.0 -> 2.3.1
transformers 4.41.2 -> 4.42.4
Python package inclusions
accelerate 0.32.1

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Inline AI completions are now available
to users on the free-of-charge tier
Reduced latency for LSP and terminal
connections
Improved quality of inline completions
Visual improvements to switch controls
across Colab
Various bug fixes, performance and a11y
improvements to the user secrets panel
Improved tooltip UX behavior
Improved behavior when copying data
from Google Sheets and pasting in Colab
Scroll to cell fixes for single tabbed view
and jump to cell command
Improved tab header behavior
A11y improvements for notebook-
focused cells
Python package upgrades
torch 2.2.1 -> 2.3.0
torchaudio 2.2.1 -> 2.3.0
torchvision 0.17.1 -> 0.18.0
torchtext 0.17.1 -> 0.18.0
google-cloud-aiplatform 1.51.0 ->
1.56.0
bigframes 1.5.0 -> 1.8.0
regex 2023.12.25 -> 2024.5.15

2024-05-13
Code actions are now supported to
automatically improve and refactor code.
Code actions can be triggered by the
keyboard shortcut "Ctrl/⌘ + ."
Python package upgrades
bigframes 1.0.0 -> 1.5.0
google-cloud-aiplatform 1.47.0 ->
1.51.0
jax[tpu] 0.4.23 -> 0.4.26
Python package inclusions
cudf 24.4.1

2024-04-15
TPU v2 runtime is now available
L4 runtime is now available for paid
users
New distributed fine-tuning Gemma
tutorial on TPUs (GitHub)
Symbol rename is now supported with
keyboard shortcut F2
Fixed bug causing inability to re-upload
deleted files
Fixed breaking bug in colabtools
%upload_files_async
Added syntax highlighting to %%writefile
cells
Cuda dependencies that come with Torch
are cached for faster downloads for
packages that require Torch and its
dependencies (GitHub issue)
Python package upgrades
bigframes 0.24.0 -> 1.0.0
duckdb 0.9.2 -> 0.10.1
google-cloud-aiplatform 1.43.0 ->
1.47.0
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jax 0.4.23 -> 0.4.26

2024-03-13
Fixed bug that sometimes caused
UserSecrets to move / disappear
Improved messaging for mounting drive
in an unsupported environment (GitHub
issue)
Python package upgrades
torch 2.1.0 -> 2.2.1
torchaudio 2.1.0 -> 2.2.1
torchvision 0.16.0 -> 0.17.1
torchtext 0.16.0 -> 0.17.1
PyMC 5.7.2 -> 5.10.4
BigFrames 0.21.0 -> 0.24.0
google-cloud-aiplatform 1.42.1 ->
1.43.0
tornado 6.3.2 -> 6.3.3

2024-02-21
Try out Gemma on Colab!
Allow unicode in form text inputs
Display documentation and link to source
when displaying functions
Display image-like ndarrays as images
Improved UX around quick charts and
execution error suggestions
Released Marketplace image for the
month of February (GitHub issue)
Python package upgrades
bigframes 0.19.2 -> 0.21.0
regex 2023.6.3 -> 2023.12.25
spacy 3.6.1 -> 3.7.4
beautifulsoup4 4.11.2 -> 4.12.3
tensorflow-probability 0.22.0 ->
0.23.0
google-cloud-language 2.9.1 ->
2.13.1
google-cloud-aiplatform 1.39.0 ->
1.42.1
transformers 4.35.2 -> 4..37.2
pyarrow 10.0.1 -> 14.0.2

2024-01-29
New Kaggle Notebooks <> Colab
updates! Now you can:
Import directly from Colab without
having to download/re-upload
Upload via link, by pasting Google
Drive or Colab URLs
Export & run Kaggle Notebooks on
Colab with 1 click
Try these notebooks that talk to Gemini:
Gemini and Stable Diffusion
Learning with Gemini and ChatGPT
Talk to Gemini with Google's
Speech to Text API
Sell lemonade with Gemini and
Sheets
Generate images with Gemini and
Vertex
Python package upgrades
google-cloud-aiplatform 1.38.1 ->
1.39.0
bigframes 0.18.0 -> 0.19.2

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polars 0.17.3 -> 0.20.2
gdown 4.6.6 -> 4.7.3 (GitHub
issue)
tensorflow-hub 0.15.0 -> 0.16.0
flax 0.7.5 -> 0.8.0
Python package inclusions
sentencepiece 0.1.99

2024-01-08
Avoid nested scrollbars for large outputs
by using
google.colab.output.no_vertical_s
Example notebook
Fix bug where downloading models from
Hugging Face could freeze
Python package upgrades
huggingface-hub 0.19.4 -> 0.20.2
bigframes 0.17.0 -> 0.18.0

2023-12-18
Expanded access to AI coding has
arrived in Colab across 175 locales for al
tiers of Colab users
Improvements to display of ML-based
inline completions (for eligible Pro/Pro+
users)
Started a series of notebooks
highlighting Gemini API capabilities
Enable ⌘/Ctrl+L to select the full line in
an editor
Fixed bug where we weren't correctly
formatting output from multiple
execution results
Python package upgrades
CUDA 11.8 to CUDA 12.2
tensorflow 2.14.0 -> 2.15.0
tensorboard 2.14.0 -> 2.15.0
keras 2.14.0 -> 2.15.0
Nvidia drivers 525.105.17 ->
535.104.05
tensorflow-gcs-config 2.14.0 ->
2.15.0
bigframes 0.13.0 -> 0.17.0
geemap 0.28.2 -> 0.29.6
pyarrow 9.0.0 -> 10.0.1
google-generativeai 0.2.2 -> 0.3.1
jax 0.4.20 —> 0.4.23
jaxlib 0.4.20 —> 0.4.23
Python package inclusions
kagglehub 0.1.4
google-cloud-aiplatform 1.38.1

2023-11-27
Removed warning when calling await to
make it render as code
Added "Run selection" to the cell context
menu
Added highlighting for the %%python cell
magic
Launched AI coding features for
Pro/Pro+ users in more locales
Python package upgrades
bigframes 0.12.0 -> 0.13.0
Python package inclusions
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transformers 4.35.2
google-generativeai 0.2.2

2023-11-08
Launched Secrets, for safe storage of
private keys on Colab (tweet)
Fixed issue where TensorBoard would
not load (#3990)
Python package upgrades
lightgbm 4.0.0 -> 4.1.0
bigframes 0.10.0 -> 0.12.0
bokeh 3.2.2 -> 3.3.0
duckdb 0.8.1 -> 0.9.1
numba 0.56.4 -> 0.58.1
tweepy 4.13.0 -> 4.14.0
jax 0.4.16 -> 0.4.20
jaxlib 0.4.16 -> 0.4.20

2023-10-23
Updated the Open notebook dialog for
better usability and support for smaller
screen sizes
Added smart paste support for data from
Google Sheets for R notebooks
Enabled showing release notes in a tab
Launched AI coding features for
Pro/Pro+ users in Australia 🇦🇺 Canada 🇨🇦
India 🇮🇳 and Japan 🇯🇵 (tweet)
Python package upgrades
earthengine-api 0.1.357 -> 0.1.375
flax 0.7.2 -> 0.7.4
geemap 0.27.4 -> 0.28.2
jax 0.4.14 -> 0.4.16
jaxlib 0.4.14 -> 0.4.16
keras 2.13.1 -> 2.14.0
tensorboard 2.13.0 -> 2.14.1
tensorflow 2.13.0 -> 2.14.0
tensorflow-gcs-config 2.13.0 ->
2.14.0
tensorflow-hub 0.14.0 -> 0.15.0
tensorflow-probability 0.20.1 ->
0.22.0
torch 2.0.1 -> 2.1.0
torchaudio 2.0.2 -> 2.1.0
torchtext 0.15.2 -> 0.16.0
torchvision 0.15.2 -> 0.16.0
xgboost 1.7.6 -> 2.0.0
Python package inclusions
bigframes 0.10.0
malloy 2023.1056

2023-09-22
Added the ability to scope an AI
generated suggestion to a specific
Pandas dataframe (tweet)
Added Colab link previews to Docs
(tweet)
Added smart paste support for data from
Google Sheets
Increased font size of dropdowns in
interactive forms
Improved rendering of the notebook
when printing
Python package upgrades
tensorflow 2.12.0 -> 2.13.0
tensorboard 2.12.3 -> 2.13.0
keras 2.12.0 -> 2.13.1
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tensorflow-gcs-config 2.12.0 ->
2.13.
scipy 1.10.1-> 1.11.2
cython 0.29.6 -> 3.0.2
Python package inclusions
geemap 0.26.0

2023-08-18
Added "Change runtime type" to the
menu in the connection button
Improved auto-reconnection to an
already running notebook (#3764)
Increased the specs of our highmem
machines for Pro users
Fixed add-apt-repository command
on Ubuntu 22.04 runtime (#3867)
Python package upgrades
bokeh 2.4.3 -> 3.2.2
cmake 3.25.2 -> 3.27.2
cryptography 3.4.8 -> 41.0.3
dask 2022.12.1 -> 2023.8.0
distributed 2022.12.1 -> 2023.8.0
earthengine-api 0.1.358 -> 0.1.364
flax 0.7.0 -> 0.7.2
ipython-sql 0.4.0 -> 0.5.0
jax 0.4.13 -> 0.4.14
jaxlib 0.4.13 -> 0.4.14
lightgbm 3.3.5 -> 4.0.0
mkl 2019.0 -> 2023.2.0
notebook 6.4.8 -> 6.5.5
numpy 1.22.4 -> 1.23.5
opencv-python 4.7.0.72 -> 4.8.0.76
pillow 8.4.0 -> 9.4.0
plotly 5.13.1 -> 5.15.0
prettytable 0.7.2 -> 3.8.0
pytensor 2.10.1 -> 2.14.2
spacy 3.5.4 -> 3.6.1
statsmodels 0.13.5 -> 0.14.0
xarray 2022.12.0 -> 2023.7.0
Python package inclusions
PyDrive2 1.6.3

2023-07-21
Launched auto-plotting for dataframes,
available using the chart button that
shows up alongside datatables (post)

Added a menu to the table of contents to

support running a section or
collapsing/expanding sections (post)

Added an option to automatically run the

first cell or section, available under Edit ->
Notebook settings (post)

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Launched Pro/Pro+ to Algeria, Argentina,

Chile, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya,
Malaysia, Nepal, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda,
Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sri Lanka,
Tunisia, and Ukraine (tweet)
Added a command, "Toggle tab moves
focus" for toggling tab trapping in the
editor (Tools -> Command palette,
"Toggle tab moves focus")
Fixed issue where files.upload() was
sometimes returning an incorrect
filename (#1550)
Fixed f-string syntax highlighting bug
(#3802)
Disabled ambiguous characters
highlighting for commonly used LaTeX
characters (#3648)
Upgraded Ubuntu from 20.04 LTS to
22.04 LTS
Updated the Colab Marketplace VM
image
Python package upgrades:
autograd 1.6.1 -> 1.6.2
drivefs 76.0 -> 77.0
flax 0.6.11 -> 0.7.0
earthengine-api 0.1.357 -> 0.1.358
GDAL 3.3.2->3.4.3
google-cloud-bigquery-storage
2.20.0 -> 2.22.2
gspread-dataframe 3.0.8 -> 3.3.1
holidays 0.27.1 -> 0.29
jax 0.4.10 -> jax 0.4.13
jaxlib 0.4.10 -> jax 0.4.13
jupyterlab-widgets 3.0.7 -> 3.0.8
nbformat 5.9.0 -> 5.9.1
opencv-python-headless 4.7.0.72 -
> 4.8.0.74
pygame 2.4.0 -> 2.5.0
spacy 3.5.3 -> 3.5.4
SQLAlchemy 2.0.16 -> 2.0.19
tabulate 0.8.10 -> 0.9.0
tensorflow-hub 0.13.0 -> 0.14.0

2023-06-23
Launched AI coding features to
subscribed users starting with Pro+
users in the US (tweet, post)
Added the Kernel Selector in the
Notebook Settings (tweet)
Fixed double space trimming issue in
markdown #3766
Fixed run button indicator not always
centered #3609
Fixed inconsistencies for automatic
indentation on multi-line #3697
Upgraded Python from 3.10.11 to 3.10.12
Python package updates:
duckdb 0.7.1 -> 0.8.1
earthengine-api 0.1.350 -> 0.1.357
flax 0.6.9 -> 0.6.11
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google-cloud-bigquery 3.9.0 ->
3.10.0
google-cloud-bigquery-storage
2.19.1 -> 2.20.0
grpcio 1.54.0 -> 1.56.0
holidays 0.25 -> 0.27.1
nbformat 5.8.0 -> 5.9.0
prophet 1.1.3 -> 1.1.4
pydata-google-auth 1.7.0 -> 1.8.0
spacy 3.5.2 -> 3.5.3
tensorboard 2.12.2 -> 2.12.3
xgboost 1.7.5 -> 1.7.6
Python package inclusions:
gcsfs 2023.6.0
geopandas 0.13.2
google-cloud-bigquery-connection
1.12.0
google-cloud-functions 1.13.0
grpc-google-iam-v1 0.12.6
multidict 6.0.4
tensorboard-data-server 0.7.1

2023-06-02
Released the new site colab.google
Published Colab's Docker runtime image
to us-docker.pkg.dev/colab-
images/public/runtime (tweet,
instructions)
Launched support for Google children
accounts (tweet)
Launched DagsHub integration (tweet,
post)
Upgraded to Monaco Editor Version
0.37.1
Fixed various Vim keybinding bugs
Fixed issue where the N and P letters
sometimes couldn't be typed (#3664)
Fixed rendering support for
compositional inputs (#3660, #3679)
Fixed lag in notebooks with lots of cells
(#3676)
Improved support for R by adding a
Runtime type notebook setting (Edit ->
Notebook settings)
Improved documentation for connecting
to a local runtime (Connect -> Connect to
a local runtime)
Python package updates:
holidays 0.23 -> 0.25
jax 0.4.8 -> 0.4.10
jaxlib 0.4.8 -> 0.4.10
pip 23.0.1 -> 23.1.2
tensorflow-probability 0.19.0 ->
0.20.1
torch 2.0.0 -> 2.0.1
torchaudio 2.0.1 -> 2.0.2
torchdata 0.6.0 -> 0.6.1
torchtext 0.15.1 -> 0.15.2
torchvision 0.15.1 -> 0.15.2
tornado 6.2 -> 6.3.1

2023-05-05
Released GPU type selection for paid
users, allowing them to choose a
preferred NVidia GPU
Upgraded R from 4.2.3 to 4.3.0
Upgraded Python from 3.9.16 to 3.10.11
Python package updates:
attrs 22.2.0 -> attrs 23.1.0

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earthengine-api 0.1.349 ->
earthengine-api 0.1.350
flax 0.6.8 -> 0.6.9
grpcio 1.53.0 -> 1.54.0
nbclient 0.7.3 -> 0.7.4
tensorflow-datasets 4.8.3 -> 4.9.2
termcolor 2.2.0 -> 2.3.0
zict 2.2.0 -> 3.0.0

2023-04-14
Python package updates:
google-api-python-client 2.70.0 ->
2.84.0
google-auth-oauthlib 0.4.6 -> 1.0.0
google-cloud-bigquery 3.4.2 ->
3.9.0
google-cloud-datastore 2.11.1 ->
2.15.1
google-cloud-firestore 2.7.3 ->
2.11.0
google-cloud-language 2.6.1 ->
2.9.1
google-cloud-storage 2.7.0 -> 2.8.0
google-cloud-translate 3.8.4 ->
3.11.1
networkx 3.0 -> 3.1
notebook 6.3.0 -> 6.4.8
jax 0.4.7 -> 0.4.8
pandas 1.4.4 -> 1.5.3
spacy 3.5.1 -> 3.5.2
SQLAlchemy 1.4.47 -> 2.0.9
xgboost 1.7.4 -> 1.7.5

2023-03-31
Improve bash ! syntax highlighting
(GitHub issue)
Fix bug where VIM keybindings weren't
working in the file editor
Upgraded R from 4.2.2 to 4.2.3
Python package updates:
arviz 0.12.1 --> 0.15.1
astropy 4.3.1 --> 5.2.2
dopamine-rl 1.0.5 --> 4.0.6
gensim 3.6.0 --> 4.3.1
ipykernel 5.3.4 -> 5.5.6
ipython 7.9.0 -> 7.34.0
jax 0.4.4 -> 0.4.7
jaxlib 0.4.4 -> 0.4.7
jupyter_core 5.2.0 -> 5.3.0
keras 2.11.0 -> 2.12.0
lightgbm 2.2.3 -> 3.3.5
matplotlib 3.5.3 -> 3.7.1
nltk 3.7 -> 3.8.1
opencv-python 4.6.0.66 -> 4.7.0.72
plotly 5.5.0 -> 5.13.1
pymc 4.1.4 -> 5.1.2
seaborn 0.11.2 -> 0.12.2
spacy 3.4.4 -> 3.5.1
sympy 1.7.1 -> 1.11.1
tensorboard 2.11.2 -> 2.12.0
tensorflow 2.11.0 -> 2.12.0
tensorflow-estimator 2.11.0 ->
2.12.0
tensorflow-hub 0.12.0 -> 0.13.0
torch 1.13.1 -> 2.0.0
torchaudio 0.13.1 -> 2.0.1
torchtext 0.14.1 -> 0.15.1
torchvision 0.14.1 -> 0.15.1

2023-03-10
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Added the Colab editor shortcuts
example notebook
Fixed triggering of @-mention and email
autocomplete for large comments
(GitHub issue)
Added View Resources to the Runtime
menu
Made file viewer images fit the view by
default, resizing to original size on click
When in VIM mode, enable copy as well
as allowing propagation to monaco-vim
to escape visual mode (GitHub issue)
Upgraded CUDA 11.6.2 -> 11.8.0 and
cuDNN 8.4.0.27 -> 8.7.0.84
Upgraded Nvidia drivers 525.78.01 ->
530.30.02
Upgraded Python 3.8.10 -> 3.9.16
Python package updates:
beautifulsoup4 4.6.3 -> 4.9.3
bokeh 2.3.3 -> 2.4.3
debugpy 1.0.0 -> 1.6.6
Flask 1.1.4 -> 2.2.3
jax 0.3.25 -> 0.4.4
jaxlib 0.3.25 -> 0.4.4
Jinja2 2.11.3 -> 3.1.2
matplotlib 3.2.2 -> 3.5.3
nbconvert 5.6.1 -> 6.5.4
pandas 1.3.5 -> 1.4.4
pandas-datareader 0.9.0 -> 0.10.0
pandas-profiling 1.4.1 -> 3.2.0
Pillow 7.1.2 -> 8.4.0
plotnine 0.8.0 -> 0.10.1
scikit-image 0.18.3 -> 0.19.3
scikit-learn 1.0.2 -> 1.2.2
scipy 1.7.3 -> 1.10.1
setuptools 57.4.0 -> 63.4.3
sklearn-pandas 1.8.0 -> 2.2.0
statsmodels 0.12.2 -> 0.13.5
urllib3 1.24.3 -> 1.26.14
Werkzeug 1.0.1 -> 2.2.3
wrapt 1.14.1 -> 1.15.0
xgboost 0.90 -> 1.7.4
xlrd 1.2.0 -> 2.0.1

2023-02-17
Show graphs of RAM and disk usage in
notebook toolbar
Copy cell links directly to the clipboard
instead of showing a dialog when
clicking on the link icon in the cell toolbar
Updated the Colab Marketplace VM
image
Upgraded CUDA to 11.6.2 and cuDNN to
8.4.0.27
Python package updates:
tensorflow 2.9.2 -> 2.11.0
tensorboard 2.9.1 -> 2.11.2
keras 2.9.0 -> 2.11.0
tensorflow-estimator 2.9.0 ->
2.11.0
tensorflow-probability 0.17.0 ->
0.19.0
tensorflow-gcs-config 2.9.0 ->
2.11.0
earthengine-api 0.1.339 -> 0.1.341
flatbuffers 1.12 -> 23.1.21
platformdirs 2.6.2 -> 3.0.0
pydata-google-auth 1.6.0 -> 1.7.0
python-utils 3.4.5 -> 3.5.2
tenacity 8.1.0 -> 8.2.1
tifffile 2023.1.23.1 -> 2023.2.3
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notebook 5.7.16 -> 6.3.0
tornado 6.0.4 -> 6.2
aiohttp 3.8.3 -> 3.8.4
charset-normalizer 2.1.1 -> 3.0.1
fastai 2.7.0 -> 2.7.1
soundfile 0.11.0 -> 0.12.1
typing-extensions 4.4.0 -> 4.5.0
widgetsnbextension 3.6.1 -> 3.6.2
pydantic 1.10.4 -> 1.10.5
zipp 3.12.0 -> 3.13.0
numpy 1.21.6 -> 1.22.4
drivefs 66.0 -> 69.0
gdal 3.0.4 -> 3.3.2 GitHub issue
Added libudunits2-dev for smoother R
package installs GitHub issue

2023-02-03
Improved tooltips for pandas series to
show common statistics about the series
object
Made the forms dropdown behave like an
autocomplete box when it allows input
Updated the nvidia driver from 460.32.03
to 510.47.03
Python package updates:
absl-py 1.3.0 -> 1.4.0
bleach 5.0.1 -> 6.0.0
cachetools 5.2.1 -> 5.3.0
cmdstanpy 1.0.8 -> 1.1.0
dnspython 2.2.1 -> 2.3.0
fsspec 2022.11.0 -> 2023.1.0
google-cloud-bigquery-storage
2.17.0 -> 2.18.1
holidays 0.18 -> 0.19
jupyter-core 5.1.3 -> 5.2.0
packaging 21.3 -> 23.0
prometheus-client 0.15.0 -> 0.16.0
pyct 0.4.8 -> 0.5.0
pydata-google-auth 1.5.0 -> 1.6.0
python-slugify 7.0.0 -> 8.0.0
sqlalchemy 1.4.46 -> 2.0.0
tensorflow-io-gcs-filesystem
0.29.0 -> 0.30.0
tifffile 2022.10.10 -> 2023.1.23.1
zipp 3.11.0 -> 3.12.0
Pinned sqlalchemy to version
1.4.46

2023-01-12
Added support for @-mention and email
autocomplete in comments
Improved errors when GitHub notebooks
can't be loaded
Increased color contrast for colors used
for syntax highlighting in the code editor
Added terminal access for custom GCE
VM runtimes
Upgraded Ubuntu from 18.04 LTS to
20.04 LTS (GitHub issue)
Python package updates:
GDAL 2.2.2 -> 2.2.3.
NumPy from 1.21.5 to 1.21.6.
attrs 22.1.0 -> 22.2.0
chardet 3.0.4 -> 4.0.0
cloudpickle 1.6.0 -> 2.2.0
filelock 3.8.2 -> 3.9.0
google-api-core 2.8.2 -> 2.11.0
google-api-python-client 1.12.11 ->
2.70.0
google-auth-httplib2 0.0.3 -> 0.1.0

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google-cloud-bigquery 3.3.5 ->
3.4.1
google-cloud-datastore 2.9.0 ->
2.11.0
google-cloud-firestore 2.7.2 ->
2.7.3
google-cloud-storage 2.5.0 -> 2.7.0
holidays 0.17.2 -> holidays 0.18
importlib-metadata 5.2.0 -> 6.0.0
networkx 2.8.8 -> 3.0
opencv-python-headless 4.6.0.66 -
> 4.7.0.68
pip 21.1.3 -> 22.04
pip-tools 6.2.0 -> 6.6.2
prettytable 3.5.0 -> 3.6.0
requests 2.23.0 -> 2.25.1
termcolor 2.1.1 -> 2.2.0
torch 1.13.0 -> 1.13.1
torchaudio 0.13.0 -> 0.13.1
torchtext 0.14.0-> 0.14.1
torchvision 0.14.0 -> 0.14.1

2022-12-06
Made fallback runtime version available
until mid-December (GitHub issue)
Upgraded to Python 3.8 (GitHub issue)
Python package updates:
jax from 0.3.23 to 0.3.25, jaxlib
from 0.3.22 to 0.3.25
pyarrow from 6.0.1 to 9.0.0
torch from 1.12.1 to 1.13.0
torchaudio from 0.12.1 to 0.13.0
torchvision from 0.13.1 to 0.14.0
torchtext from 0.13.1 to 0.14.0
xlrd from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0
DriveFS from 62.0.1 to 66.0.3
Made styling of markdown tables in
outputs match markdown tables in text
cells
Improved formatting for empty
interactive table rows
Fixed syntax highlighting for variables
with names that contain Python
keywords (GitHub issue)

2022-11-11
Added more dark editor themes for
Monaco (when in dark mode, "Editor
colorization" appears as an option in the
Editor tab of the Tools → Settings dialog)
Fixed bug where collapsed forms were
deleted on mobile GitHub issue
Python package updates:
rpy2 from 3.4.0 to 3.5.5 (GitHub
issue)
notebook from 5.5.0 to 5.7.16
tornado from 5.1.1 to 6.0.4
tensorflow_probability from 0.16.0
to 0.17.0
pandas-gbq from 0.13.3 to 0.17.9
protobuf from 3.17.3 to 3.19.6
google-api-core[grpc] from 1.31.5
to 2.8.2
google-cloud-bigquery from 1.21.0
to 3.3.5
google-cloud-core from 1.0.1 to
2.3.2
google-cloud-datastore from 1.8.0
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google-cloud-firestore from 1.7.0
to 2.7.2
google-cloud-language from 1.2.0
to 2.6.1
google-cloud-storage from 1.18.0
to 2.5.0
google-cloud-translate from 1.5.0
to 3.8.4

2022-10-21
Launched a single-click way to get from
BigQuery to Colab to further explore
query results (announcement)
Launched Pro, Pro+, and Pay As You Go
to 19 additional countries: Austria,
Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus,
Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,
Slovenia, and Sweden (tweet)
Updated jax from 0.3.17 to 0.3.23, jaxlib
from 0.3.15 to 0.3.22, TensorFlow from
2.8.2 to 2.9.2, CUDA from 11.1 to 11.2,
and cuDNN from 8.0 to 8.1 (backend-
info)
Added a readonly option to
drive.mount
Fixed bug where Xarray was not working
(GitHub issue)
Modified Markdown parsing to ignore
block quote symbol within MathJax
(GitHub issue)

2022-09-30
Launched Pay As You Go, allowing
premium GPU access without requiring a
subscription
Added vim and tcllib to our runtime
image
Fixed bug where open files were closed
on kernel disconnect (GitHub issue)
Fixed bug where the play
button/execution indicator was not
clickable when scrolled into the cell
output (GitHub issue)
Updated the styling for form titles so that
they avoid obscuring the code editor
Created a GitHub repo, backend-info, with
the latest apt-list.txt and pip-freeze.txt
files for the Colab runtime (GitHub issue)
Added files.upload_file(filename)
to upload a file from the browser to the
runtime with a specified filename

2022-09-16
Upgraded pymc from 3.11.0 to 4.1.4, jax
from 0.3.14 to 0.3.17, jaxlib from 0.3.14
to 0.3.15, fsspec from 2022.8.1 to
2022.8.2
Modified our save flow to avoid
persisting Drive filenames as titles in
notebook JSON
Updated our Terms of Service
Modified the Jump to Cell command to
locate the cursor at the end of the
command palette input (Jump to cell
in Tools → Command palette in a
notebook with section headings)
Updated the styling of the Drive notebook
comment UI

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Added support for terminating your
runtime from code: python from
google.colab import runtime
runtime.unassign()
Added regex filter support to the Recent
notebooks dialog
Inline google.colab.files.upload JS to fix
files.upload() not working (GitHub
issue)

2022-08-26
Upgraded PyYAML from 3.13 to 6.0
(GitHub issue), drivefs from 61.0.3 to
62.0.1
Upgraded TensorFlow from 2.8.2 to 2.9.1
and ipywidgets from 7.7.1 to 8.0.1 but
rolled both back due to a number of user
reports (GitHub issue, GitHub issue)
Stop persisting inferred titles in notebook
JSON (GitHub issue)
Fix bug in background execution which
affected some Pro+ users (GitHub issue)
Fix bug where Download as .py
incorrectly handled text cells ending in a
double quote
Fix bug for Pro and Pro+ users where we
weren't honoring the preference (Tools →
Settings) to use a temporary scratch
notebook as the default landing page
Provide undo/redo for scratch cells
When writing ipynb files, serialize empty
multiline strings as [] for better
consistency with JupyterLab

2022-08-11
Upgraded ipython from 5.5.0 to 7.9.0,
fbprophet 0.7 to prophet 1.1, tensorflow-
datasets from 4.0.1 to 4.6.0, drivefs from
60.0.2 to 61.0.3, pytorch from 1.12.0 to
1.12.1, numba from 0.51 to 0.56, and
lxml from 4.2.0 to 4.9.1
Loosened our requests version
requirement (GitHub issue)
Removed support for TensorFlow 1
Added Help → Report Drive abuse for
Drive notebooks
Fixed indentation for Python lines ending
in [
Modified styling of tables in Markdown to
left-align them rather than centering
them
Fixed special character replacement
when copying interactive tables as
Markdown
Fixed ansi 8-bit color parsing (GitHub
issue)
Configured logging to preempt transitive
imports and other loading from implicitly
configuring the root logger
Modified forms to use a value of None
instead of causing a parse error when
clearing raw and numeric-typed form
fields

2022-07-22
Update scipy from 1.4.1 to 1.7.3, drivefs
from 59.0.3 to 60.0.2, pytorch from 1.11
to 1.12, jax & jaxlib from 0.3.8 to 0.3.14,
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spaCy from 3.3.1 to 3.4.0, and dlib from
19.18.0 to 19.24.0
Fix Open in tab doc link which was
rendering incorrectly (GitHub issue)
Add a preference for the default tab
orientation to the Site section of the
settings menu under Tools → Settings
Show a warning for USE_AUTH_EPHEM
usage when running authenticate_user
on a TPU runtime (code)

2022-07-01
Add a preference for code font to the
settings menu under Tools → Settings
Update drivefs from 58.0.3 to 59.0.3 and
spacy from 2.2.4 to 3.3.1
Allow display_data and execute_result
text outputs to wrap, matching behavior
of JupyterLab (does not affect stream
outputs/print statements).
Improve LSP handling of some magics,
esp. %%writefile (GitHub issue).
Add a FAQ entry about the mount Drive
button behavior and include link buttons
for each FAQ entry.
Fix bug where the notebook was
sometimes hidden behind other tabs on
load when in single pane view.
Fix issue with inconsistent scrolling when
an editor is in multi-select mode.
Fix bug where clicking on a link in a form
would navigate away from the notebook
Show a confirmation dialog before
performing Replace all from the Find and
replace pane.

2022-06-10
Update drivefs from 57.0.5 to 58.0.3 and
tensorflow from 2.8.0 to 2.8.2
Support more than 100 repos in the
GitHub repo selector shown in the open
dialog and the clone to GitHub dialog
Show full notebook names on hover in
the open dialog
Improve the color contrast for links,
buttons, and the
ipywidgets.Accordion widget in dark
mode

2022-05-20
Support URL params for linking to some
common pref settings:
force_theme=dark, force_corgi_mode=1,
force_font_size=14. Params forced by
URL are not persisted unless saved using
Tools → Settings.
Add a class markdown-google-sans to
allow Markdown to render in Google
Sans
Update monaco-vim from 0.1.19 to 0.3.4
Update drivefs from 55.0.3 to 57.0.5, jax
from 0.3.4 to 0.3.8, and jaxlib from 0.3.2
to 0.3.7

2022-04-29
Added 🦀 mode (under Miscellaneous in
Tools → Settings)
Added "Disconnect and delete runtime"
option to the menu next to the Connect
button

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Improved rendering of filter options in an
interactive table
Added git-lfs to the base image
Updated torch from 1.10.0 to 1.11.0,
jupyter-core from 4.9.2 to 4.10.0, and
cmake from 3.12.0 to 3.22.3
Added more details to our FAQ about
unsupported uses (using proxies,
downloading torrents, etc.)
Fixed issue with apt-get dependencies

2022-04-15
Add an option in the file browser to show
hidden files.
Upgrade gdown from 4.2.0 to 4.4.0,
google-api-core[grpc] from 1.26.0 to
1.31.5, and pytz from 2018.4 to 2022.1

2022-03-25
Launched Pro/Pro+ to 12 additional
countries: Australia, Bangladesh,
Colombia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mexico
New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines,
Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam
Added
google.colab.auth.authenticate_se
to support using Service Account keys
Update jax from 0.3.1 to 0.3.4 & jaxlib
from 0.3.0 to 0.3.2
Fixed an issue with Twitter previews of
notebooks shared as GitHub Gists

2022-03-10
Launched Pro/Pro+ to 10 new countries:
Ireland, Israel, Italy, Morocco, the
Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland,
Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates
Launched support for scheduling
notebooks for Pro+ users
Fixed bug in interactive datatables where
filtering by number did not work
Finished removing the python2
kernelspec

2022-02-25
Made various accessibility improvements
to the header
Fix bug with forms run:auto where a form
field change would trigger multiple runs
Minor updates to the bigquery example
notebook and snippet
Include background execution setting in
the sessions dialog for Pro+ users
Update tensorflow-probability from 0.15
to 0.16
Update jax from 0.2.25 to 0.3.1 & jaxlib
from 0.1.71 to 0.3.0

2022-02-11
Improve keyboard navigation for the
open dialog
Fix issue where nvidia-smi stopped
reporting resource utilization for some
users who were modifying the version of
nvidia used
Update tensorflow from 2.7 to 2.8, keras
from 2.7 to 2.8, numpy from 1.19.5 to
1.21.5, tables from 3.4.4 to 3.7.0

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2022-02-04
Improve UX for opening content
alongside your notebook, such as files
opened from the file browser. This
includes a multi-pane view and drag-drop
support
Better Twitter previews when sharing
example Colab notebooks and
notebooks opened from GitHub Gists
Update pandas from 1.1.5 to 1.3.5
Update openpyxl from 2.5.9 to 3.0.0 and
pyarrow from 3.0.0 to 6.0.0
Link to the release notes from the Help
menu

2022-01-28
Add a copy button to data tables
Python LSP support for better
completions and code diagnostics. This
can be configured in the Editor Settings
(Tools → Settings)
Update gspread examples in our
documentation
Update gdown from 3.6 to 4.2

2022-01-21
New documentation for the
google.colab package
Show GPU RAM in the resource usage
tab
Improved security for mounting Google
Drive which disallows mounting Drive
from accounts other than the one

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