Announcements

Your consent is required to get Jupyter news (this is an opt-in feature). Once you have answered the request, you can change your decision in the Notification settings.

Configuration

The frontend plugin requesting the news and checking for the update is @jupyterlab/apputils-extension:announcements. It can be disabled as any plugin by executing in a terminal prior to start JupyterLab:

jupyter labextension disable "@jupyterlab/apputils-extension:announcements"

Check for updates

You can also control whether to check for updates or not at two levels:

• on the server side through a command-line option --LabApp.check_for_updates_class="jupyterlab.NeverCheckForUpdate"

• on the frontend through the setting checkForUpdates in the Notification section.

You can also provide your own class to check for updates. The abstract class to implement is jupyterlab.handlers.announcements.CheckForUpdateABC.

Jupyter news

The news are fetched from a news feed. The URL can be customized to point to any Atom feed using the command line option --LabApp.news_url="<URL_TO_FEED_XML_FILE>".

Note

An entry in a custom feed is required to have the following tags: title, id, and updated. The following tags are also used but not required: published, summary, and at least one link.

Binder

You will find how to deactivate those features on Binder at JupyterLab on Binder.