Q4-2024 Release

To provide significant security and usability improvements—such as real-time collaboration features and a step-through debugger—several important updates were made to enhance AI Workbench: 

• Upgrade to support Jupyter Notebook 7

• Upgrade from Python 3.9 to Python 3.11

• Updates to supported Python library packages

Existing AI Workbench notebooks that have run in the 2024 calendar year will function as they did before but with an improved notebook user interface and enhanced security and usability. Python developers will benefit from better error highlighting and enhanced code navigation features.

Understanding Jupyter Notebook 7 improvements

Jupyter Notebook 7 brings the following enhancements for Python developers:

• Simplified and more intuitive user interface

• Improved support for keyboard navigation and screen readers

• New menu options for editing, viewing, and running Python code in AI Workbench notebooks

• Additional Markdown rendering options available in the Markdown menu, including better rendering of tables, code blocks, and LaTeX

Updating AI Workbench notebooks

This release of AI Workbench may require changes to your notebook code to upgrade the Python library packages called in your notebooks, if the notebook in question has not been run in the 2024 calendar year. Review the article Updating AI Workbench notebooks for details on code library dependencies and steps you may need to take, particularly these sections:

• How to check for required Python library package updates

• List of required Python package version updates

• Notes on removing the ipywidgets and python-dateutil library packages from the pip install

• Updating your standard and custom AI notebooks

• FAQ on updating Python library packages for this release