Python runtimes upgraded to Python 3.12. GitHub

Julia runtimes upgraded to Julia 1.11. GitHub

Launched Interactive Slideshow Mode for lectures. It provides a better viewing experience for presentations making lessons more dynamic.

Launched AI toggle per notebook. As requested by instructors, Colab now supports a toggle for disabling AI features at a notebook level to allow instructors and students to focus on learning without assistance.

Python package upgrades

• accelerate 1.9.0 -> 1.10.1
• aiohttp 3.11.15 -> 3.12.15
• anyio 4.9.0 -> 4.10.0
• bigframes 2.11.0 -> 2.17.0
• bigquery-magics 0.10.1 -> 0.10.3
• blosc2 3.6.1 -> 3.7.2
• datasets 2.14.4 -> 4.0.0
• diffusers 0.34.0 -> 0.35.1
• fastai 2.7.19 -> 2.8.4
• gcsfs 2025.3.0 -> 2025.7.0
• google-genai 1.26.0 -> 1.31.0
• gradio 5.38.0 -> 5.43.1
• h2 4.2.0 -> 4.3.0
• huggingface-hub 0.33.4 -> 0.34.4
• imbalanced-learn 0.13.0 -> 0.14.0
• jax 0.5.2 -> 0.5.3
• jaxlib 0.5.1 -> 0.5.3
• keras 3.8.0 -> 3.10.0
• ml-dtypes 0.4.1 -> 0.5.3
• openai 1.97.0 -> 1.101.0
• peft 0.16.0 -> 0.17.1
• polars 1.25.0 -> 1.25.2
• pymc 5.24.1 -> 5.25.1
• pyzmq 24.0.1 -> 26.2.1
• requests 2.32.3 -> 2.32.4
• scipy 1.16.0 -> 1.16.1
• sentence-transformers 4.1.0 -> 5.1.0
• tensorboard 2.18.0 -> 2.19.0
• tensorflow 2.18.0 -> 2.19.0
• tf_keras 2.18.0 -> 2.19.0
• timm 1.0.17 -> 1.0.19
• torch 2.6.0 -> 2.8.0
• torchaudio 2.6.0 -> 2.8.0
• torchvision 0.19.0 -> 0.23.0
• transformers 4.53.2 -> 4.55.4
• triton 3.2.0 -> 3.4.0
• wandb 0.21.0 -> 0.21.1
• xarray 2025.7.1 -> 2025.8.0
• xgboost 3.0.2 -> 3.0.4

Python package inclusions

• anywidget 0.9.18
• google-adk 1.12.0
• mcp 1.13.1

Python package removals

• PyDrive 1.3.1

Terminal is now available to all users, free of charge! (X, Colab Notebook)

The new Colab AI experience is now available to all users. This version has an agentic collaborator run with Gemini 2.5 Flash and enhances productivity with features like iterative querying, a next-gen data science agent, code transformation, and more to significantly improve coding workflows for developers. (Blog, X)

Introducing our new google.colab.ai library! Pro & Pro+ subscribers can access powerful Gemini and Gemma models with just a few lines of code- no set up or API key required! Try it out! (X, Colab Notebook)

Big news for data science in higher ed! 🚀 Colab now offers 1-year Pro subscriptions free of charge for verified US students/faculty, interactive Slideshow Mode for lectures, & an AI toggle per notebook. Enhance teaching & learning in the upcoming academic year! Read all about it X, here. (X)

Gemini CLI installed on runtimes. Try it out in the Terminal! (github, npm)

Python package upgrades

• accelerate 1.7.0 -> 1.9.0
• bigframes 2.6.0 -> 2.11.0
• bigquery-magics 0.9.0 -> 0.10.1
• cudf-cu12 25.2.1 -> 25.6.0
• cuml-cu12 25.2.1 -> 25.6.0
• dask 2024.12.1 -> 25.5.0
• dask-cuda 25.2.0 -> 25.6.0
• dask-cudf 25.2.2 -> 25.6.0
• dataproc-spark-connect 0.7.5 -> 0.8.3
• debugpy 1.8.0 -> 1.8.15
• diffusers 0.33.1 -> 0.34.0
• distributed 2024.12.1 -> 25.5.0
• duckdb 1.2.2 -> 1.3.2
• earthengine-api 1.5.19 -> 1.5.24
• gcsfs 2025.3.2 -> 25.7.0
• geopandas 1.0.1 -> 1.1.1
• google-genai 1.20.0 -> 1.26.0
• gradio 5.31.0 -> 5.38.0
• narwhals 1.42.0 -> 1.48.0
• numba-cuda 0.2.0 -> 0.11.0
• openai 1.86.0 -> 1.97.0
• opencv-python 4.11.0.86 -> 4.12.0.88
• pillow 11.2.1 -> 11.3.0
• polars 1.21.0 -> 1.25.0
• pymc 5.23.0 -> 5.24.1
• scipy 1.15.3 -> 1.16.0
• shap 0.47.2 -> 0.48.0
• timm 1.0.15 -> 1.0.17
• transformers 4.52.4 -> 4.53.2
• urllib3 2.4.0 -> 2.5.0
• wandb 0.20.1 -> 0.21.0
• xarray 2025.3.1 -> 25.7.1
• xgboost 2.1.4 -> 3.0.2

At Google I/O Colab announced a new, reimagined AI-first Colab, bringing a powerful agentic collaborator into the notebook. Learn more here.

Huggingface integration: We've partnered with Hugging Face to add "Open in Colab" support for all models on the Hugging Face Hub. Now you can directly launch a Colab notebook from any model card, making it easier than ever to experiment with and evaluate models. View the announcement blog to learn more.

Python package upgrades

• accelerate 1.6.0 -> 1.7.0
• bigframes 2.3.0 -> 2.6.0
• earthengine-api 1.5.14 -> 1.5.19
• gdal 3.6.4 -> 3.8.4
• google-genai 1.14.0 -> 1.20.0
• grpcio 1.71.0 -> 1.73.0
• highspy 1.10.0 -> 1.11.0
• huggingface-hub 0.31.1 -> 0.33.0
• narwhals 1.38.2 -> 1.42.0
• networkx 3.4.2 -> 3.5
• openai 1.78.0 -> 1.86.0
• pandas-gbq 0.28.0 -> 0.29.1
• panel 1.6.3 -> 1.7.1
• pymc 5.22.0 -> 5.23.0
• pytensor 2.30.3 -> 2.31.3
• spacy 3.8.5 -> 3.8.7
• wandb 0.19.11 -> 0.20.1
• zipp 3.21 -> 3.23

Python package inclusions

• gradio 5.31.0

Pro+ Subscriptions give 600 CCUs now: https://x.com/GoogleColab/status/1913312272967209357

Launched Colab's fastest deep learning accelerator: v6e-1 (Trillium) TPUs!! 2x the high bandwidth memory as v5e-1 (32GB) and a whopping peak rating of 918 BF16 TFLOPS (nearly 3x A100)!️ Try them out with JAX & Flax in our example notebook

Enabled UTF-8 mode by default for Python

Added CUDA.jl and Pluto.jl for Julia

Enabled OpenCL for LightGBM

Python package upgrades

• accelerate 1.5.2 -> 1.6.0
• bigframes 1.42.0 -> 2.3.0
• bokeh 3.6.3 -> 3.7.2
• cudf-cu12 24.12.0 -> 25.2.1
• google-genai 1.9.0 -> 1.14.0
• highspy 1.9.0 -> 1.10.0
• holidays 0.69 -> 0.72
• huggingface-hub 0.30.1 -> 0.31.1
• lxml 5.3.1 -> 5.4.0
• nx_cugraph_cu12 24.12.0 -> 25.2.1
• openai 1.70.0 -> 1.78.0
• peft 0.14.0 -> 0.15.2
• polars 1.14.0 -> 1.21.0
• pyomo 6.8.2 -> 6.9.2
• scipy 1.14.1 -> 1.15.3
• sentence-transformers 3.4.1 -> 4.1.0
• transformers 4.50.3 -> 4.51.3
• urllib3 2.3.0 -> 2.4.0
• xarray 2025.1.2 -> 2025.3.1

Python package inclusions

• dataproc-spark-connect 0.7.3
• libpysal 4.13.0
• lightgbm
• stumpy 1.13.0
• torchao 0.10.0
• torchtune 0.6.1
• tsfresh 0.21.0

Colab Data Science Agent launched!

Julia language runtimes available with GPU and TPU support GitHub.

Now your popular Kaggle datasets are cached for quick retrieval.

Upgraded Colab runtimes to Python 3.11.

Python package upgrades

• bigframes 1.29.0 -> 1.42.0
• TensorFlow 2.17.1 -> 2.18.0
• tensorboard 2.17.1 -> 2.18.0
• keras 3.5.0 -> 3.8.0
• torch 2.5.1 -> 2.6.0
• torchaudio 2.5.1 -> 2.6.0
• torchvision 0.20.1 -> 0.21.0
• fastai 2.7.18 -> 2.7.19
• ipykernel 5.5.6 -> 6.17.1
• google-genai 0.3.0 -> 1.9.0
• google-auth 2.27.0 -> 2.38.0
• Tornado 6.3.3 -> 6.4.2
• jax 0.4.33 -> 0.5.2
• accelerate 1.2.1 -> 1.5.2
• transformers 4.47.1 -> 4.50.3
• openai 1.57.4 -> 1.70.0
• kagglehub 0.3.6 -> 0.3.11
• earthengine-api 1.4.3 -> 1.5.9
• google-cloud-bigquery 3.29.0 -> 3.31.0
• bigquery-magics 0.8.1 -> 0.9.0
• NumPy 1.26.4 -> 2.0.2

Python package inclusions

• cuml-cu12 24.12.0

Released version 1.2.0 of the (Open in Colab Chrome Extension).

Released minimizable comments with indicators next to cell.

TPU v5e-1 Runtimes are now available for selection (tweet).

GPU prices were decreased (tweet).

Python package upgrades

• accelerate 1.1.1 -> 1.2.1
• aiohttp 3.10.10 -> 3.11.11
• altair 4.2.2 -> 5.5.0
• bigframes 1.25.0 -> 1.29.0
• cmake 3.30.5 -> 3.31.2
• cvxpy 1.5.3 -> 3.6.0
• earthengine-api 1.2.0 -> 1.4.3
• folium 0.18.0 -> 0.19.3
• holidays 0.60 -> 0.63
• huggingface-hub 0.26.2 -> 0.27.0
• jsonpickle 3.4.2 -> 4.0.1
• kagglehub 0.3.3 -> 0.3.6
• keras 3.4.1 -> 3.5.0
• matplotlib 3.8.0 -> 3.10.0
• openai 1.54.3 -> 1.57.4
• pymc 5.18.0 -> 5.19.1
• safetensors 0.4.5 -> 0.5.0
• scikit-image 0.24.0 -> 0.25.0
• scikit-learn 1.5.2 -> 1.6.0
• sentence-transformers 3.2.1 -> 3.3.1
• tensorflow 2.17.0 -> 2.17.1
• torch 2.5.0 -> 2.5.1
• torchaudio 2.5.0 -> 2.5.1
• torchvision 0.20.0 -> 0.20.1
• transformers 4.46.2 -> 4.47.1
• wandb 0.18.6 -> 0.19.1
• xarray 2024.10.0 -> 2024.11.0

Python package inclusions

• google-genai 0.3.0

Users can now import Gemini API keys from AI Studio into their user secrets, all in Colab (tweet).

Increased limit to 1000 characters for requests to Gemini in Chat and Generate windows.

Improved saving notebook to GitHub flow.

Updated Gemini spark icon to be colorful.

uV is pre-installed on the PATH for faster package installs.

Fixed bugs

• Dropdown text for GitHub repository not visible #4901.
• Pre-installed California housing dataset README not correct #4862.
• Backend execution error for scheduled notebook #4850.
• Drive File Stream issues #3441.
• Linking to the signup page does not preserve the authuser parameter.
• Error messages in Gemini chat are not polished.
• Clicking in Gemini chat feedback causes jitters the UI.
• Hovering over a table of contents entry would show the menu icons for all entries.
• Surveys display over open dialogs.
• Playground mode banner not shown on mobile.

Python package upgrades

• accelerate 0.34.2 -> 1.1.1
• arviz 0.19.0 -> 0.20.0
• bigframes 1.18.0 -> 1.25.0
• bigquery-magics 0.2.0 -> 0.4.0
• bokeh 3.4.3 -> 3.6.1
• blosc 2.0.0 -> 2.7.1
• cloudpickle 2.2.1 -> 3.1.0
• cudf-cu12 24.4.1 -> 24.10.1
• dask 2024.8.0 -> 24.10.0
• debugpy 1.6.6 -> 1.8.0
• earthengine-api 1.0.0 -> 1.2.0
• folium 0.17.0 -> 0.18.0
• gscfs 2024.6.1 -> 2024.10.0
• geemap 0.34.3 -> 0.35.1
• holidays 0.57 -> 0.60
• huggingface-hub 0.24.7 -> 0.26.2
• kagglehub 0.3.0 -> 0.3.3
• lightgbm 4.4.0 -> 4.5.0
• lxml 4.9.4 -> 5.3.0
• matplotlib 3.7.1 -> 3.8.0
• mizani 0.11.4 -> 0.13.0
• networkx 3.3 -> 3.4.2
• nltk 3.8.1 -> 3.9.1
• 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
• protobuf 3.20.3 -> 4.25.5
• pyarrow 14.0.2 -> 17.0.0
• pydrive2 1.20.0 -> 1.21.1
• pymc 5.16.2 -> 5.18.0
• torch 2.4.1 -> 2.5.0
• torchaudio 2.4.1 -> 2.5.0
• torchvision 0.19.1 -> 0.20.0
• transformers 4.44.2 -> 4.46.2
• xarray 2024.9.0 -> 2024.10.0

Python package inclusions

• diffusers 0.31.0
• gitpython 3.1.43
• langchain 0.3.7
• openai 1.54.3
• pygit2 1.16.0
• pyspark 3.5.3
• sentence-transformers 3.2.1
• timm 1.0.11
• wandb 0.18.6

Library and driver upgrades

• drivefs upgraded from 89.0.2 to 98.0.0

Improved code snippet search

Updated Marketplace image and public local runtime container

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
• 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

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

• einops 0.8.0

You can now embed Google sheets directly into Colab to streamline interactions with data with InteractiveSheet.

Example:

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

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 behavio

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

Code actions are now supported to automatically improve and refactor code. Code actions can be triggered by "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

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
• jax 0.4.23 -> 0.4.26

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

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

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
• 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

Avoid nested scrollbars for large outputs by using google.colab.output.no_vertical_scroll() 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

Expanded access to AI coding has arrived in Colab across 175 locales for all 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

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

• transformers 4.35.2
• google-generativeai 0.2.2

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

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

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
• 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

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

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)

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

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
• 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

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

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
• 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

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

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

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

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
• 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

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

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 1.21.5 -> 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
• 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 -> 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

Made fallback runtime version available until mid-December (GitHub issue)

Upgraded to Python 3.8 (GitHub issue)

Python package updates:

• jax 0.3.23 -> 0.3.25, jaxlib 0.3.22 -> 0.3.25
• pyarrow 6.0.1 -> 9.0.0
• torch 1.12.1 -> 1.13.0
• torchaudio 0.12.1 -> 0.13.0
• torchvision 0.13.1 -> 0.14.0
• torchtext 0.13.1 -> 0.14.0
• xlrd 1.1.0 -> 1.2.0
• DriveFS 62.0.1 -> 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)

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 3.4.0 -> 3.5.5 (GitHub issue)
• notebook 5.5.0 -> 5.7.16
• tornado 5.1.1 -> 6.0.4
• tensorflow_probability 0.16.0 -> 0.17.0
• pandas-gbq 0.13.3 -> 0.17.9
• protobuf 3.17.3 -> 3.19.6
• google-api-core[grpc] 1.31.5 -> 2.8.2
• google-cloud-bigquery 1.21.0 -> 3.3.5
• google-cloud-core 1.0.1 -> 2.3.2
• google-cloud-datastore 1.8.0 -> 2.9.0
• google-cloud-firestore 1.7.0 -> 2.7.2
• google-cloud-language 1.2.0 -> 2.6.1
• google-cloud-storage 1.18.0 -> 2.5.0
• google-cloud-translate 1.5.0 -> 3.8.4

Launched a single-click way to get from BigQuery to Colab to further explore query results (announcement)

Launched Pro, Pro+, and Pay As You Goto 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)

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

Upgraded pymc 3.11.0 -> 4.1.4, jax 0.3.14 -> 0.3.17, jaxlib 0.3.14 -> 0.3.15, fsspec 2022.8.1 -> 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

Added support for terminating your runtime from code: 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)

Upgraded PyYAML 3.13 -> 6.0 (GitHub issue), DriveFS 61.0.3 -> 62.0.1

Upgraded TensorFlow 2.8.2 -> 2.9.1 and ipywidgets 7.7.1 -> 8.0.1 but rolled both back due to 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 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

Upgraded ipython 5.5.0 -> 7.9.0, fbprophet 0.7 -> prophet 1.1, tensorflow-datasets 4.0.1 -> 4.6.0, DriveFS 60.0.2 -> 61.0.3, pytorch 1.12.0 -> 1.12.1, numba 0.51 -> 0.56, and lxml 4.2.0 -> 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 from 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

Update scipy 1.4.1 -> 1.7.3, DriveFS 59.0.3 -> 60.0.2, pytorch 1.11 -> 1.12, jax & jaxlib 0.3.8 -> 0.3.14, opencv-python 4.1.2.30 -> 4.6.0.66, spaCy 3.3.1 -> 3.4.0, and dlib 19.18.0 -> 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)

Add a preference for code font to the settings menu under Tools → Settings

Update DriveFS 58.0.3 -> 59.0.3 and spaCy 2.2.4 -> 3.3.1

Allow display_data and execute_result text outputs to wrap, matching JupyterLab

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 notebook sometimes hidden behind other tabs on load in single pane view

Fix inconsistent scrolling when an editor is in multi-select mode

Fix bug where clicking a link in a form would navigate away from the notebook

Show a confirmation dialog before performing Replace all in Find and replace

Update DriveFS 57.0.5 -> 58.0.3 and TensorFlow 2.8.0 -> 2.8.2

Support more than 100 repos in the GitHub repo selector in Open/Clone dialogs

Show full notebook names on hover in the open dialog

Improve color contrast for links, buttons, and ipywidgets.Accordion in dark mode

Support URL params for linking to common pref settings: force_theme=dark, force_corgi_mode=1, force_font_size=14

Add class markdown-google-sans to allow Markdown to render in Google Sans

Update monaco-vim 0.1.19 -> 0.3.4

Update DriveFS 55.0.3 -> 57.0.5, jax 0.3.4 -> 0.3.8, jaxlib 0.3.2 -> 0.3.7

Added 🦀 mode (under Miscellaneous in Tools → Settings)

Added "Disconnect and delete runtime" option in the Connect menu

Improved rendering of filter options in an interactive table

Added git-lfs to the base image

Updated torch 1.10.0 -> 1.11.0, jupyter-core 4.9.2 -> 4.10.0, cmake 3.12.0 -> 3.22.3

Added more details to our FAQ about unsupported uses (using proxies, downloading torrents, etc.)

Fixed issue with apt-get dependencies

Add an option in the file browser to show hidden files

Upgrade gdown 4.2.0 -> 4.4.0, google-api-core[grpc] 1.26.0 -> 1.31.5, pytz 2018.4 -> 2022.1

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_service_account() to support using Service Account keys

Update jax 0.3.1 -> 0.3.4 & jaxlib 0.3.0 -> 0.3.2

Fixed issue with Twitter previews of notebooks shared as GitHub Gists

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

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 0.15 -> 0.16

Update jax 0.2.25 -> 0.3.1 & jaxlib 0.1.71 -> 0.3.0

Improve keyboard navigation for the open dialog

Fix issue where nvidia-smi stopped reporting resource utilization for some users who modified the nvidia version

Update tensorflow 2.7 -> 2.8, keras 2.7 -> 2.8, numpy 1.19.5 -> 1.21.5, tables 3.4.4 -> 3.7.0

Improve UX for opening content alongside your notebook, including multi-pane view and drag-drop support

Better Twitter previews when sharing example Colab notebooks and GitHub Gists

Update pandas 1.1.5 -> 1.3.5

Update openpyxl 2.5.9 -> 3.0.0 and pyarrow 3.0.0 -> 6.0.0

Link to the release notes from the Help menu

Add a copy button to data tables

Python LSP support for better completions and diagnostics (configurable in Tools → Settings)

Update gspread examples in documentation

Update gdown 3.6 -> 4.2

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 currently executing the notebook

Add a preference (Tools → Settings) to use a temporary scratch notebook as the default landing page

Fix bug where / and : weren't working in VIM mode

Update gspread 3.0 -> 3.4

Update the Colab Marketplace VM image