Self Hosted Release Notes

gitnotebooks/self-hosted:1.2.3

  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed an issue with reply comments. If someone replied to a comment within GitNotebooks on a file that's not a Jupyter Notebook, the parent comment's text would be used for the comment body rather than the comment typed out by the user.

gitnotebooks/self-hosted:1.2.2

  • Features
    • Added a new environment variable USE_INITIALS_FOR_AVATARS. When set to true, the app will not use GitHub avatars. Instead, it will create initials using the GitHub username and assign a randomized background color. This feature was added to address a much discussed shortcoming of the GitHub Enterprise Server API which breaks user avatar links. Screenshot of user initials used as avatars
  • Security
    • Upgraded Next.js to 15.2.3 to patch a middleware bypass vulnerability. GitNotebooks was not affected by this vulnerability, but we may use middleware in the future.

gitnotebooks/self-hosted:1.2.1

  • Features

    • Bi-directional comment syncing between GitHub and GitNotebooks. If a comment is posted in GitNotebooks, it will be cross-posted to the corresponding JSON line in GitHub. If a comment is posted in GitHub, it will be shown in the corresponding rendered notebook line. Syncs comment edit and delete as well
    • Ability to "Add suggestion" to a notebook or code file and then apply the change within GitHub
    • Added a repo file explorer similar to a repo's home page in GitHub to allow notebook reviewers to quickly check python modules referenced from a notebook
    • Log more events and improved readability of server logs: INFO, WARN, ERROR, instead of 30, 40, 50
    • View self hosted license information from the app home page: number of seats, expiration, license type

  • Bug Fixes

    • File renames are now handled better. Comments used to disappear if they were posted to a renamed file and then a subsequent change was pushed to that notebook. This, and other edge cases related to rename behavior, has been fixed

Required Changes: In order to upgrade to version 1.2.1 there are four requirements

  1. Set a new environment variables LICENSE_KEY
  2. Allow egress from the GitNotebooks service to https://license.gitnotebooks.com
  3. Set the GITHUB_BASE_URL to the url of the GitHub API e.g. https://api.github.com for GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For GitHub Enterprise Server use https://${CUSTOM_GITHUB_DOMAIN}/api/v3
  4. Modify the GitNotebooks GitHub App to subcribe to the following events
    • Pull request review
    • Pull request review comment
    • Pull request review threadPull request thread comment