Jupyter Book Releases

Release notes for Jupyter Book.

v2.1.2¶

2026-02-01 | View release

2.1.2

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Maintenance and upkeep improvements

• Bump the actions group across 1 directory with 2 updates #2571 (bsipocz)

• fix: specify files in package.json #2568 (agoose77, bsipocz, choldgraf)

• Bump actions/create-github-app-token from 1 to 2 #2555 (bsipocz)

Documentation improvements

• Move content to jupyterbook.org repo #2575 (choldgraf)

• doc: fix the stated math engine to be KaTeX #2570 (akhmerov, bsipocz, rowanc1)

• Update release instructions #2562 (choldgraf, agoose77, bsipocz)

v2.1.1¶

2026-01-22 | View release

Jupyter Book’s functionality primarily comes from the core tools and plugins in the MyST ecosystem. See the release notes for new releases below for the latest enhancements and bugfixes.

New releases in the MyST Ecosystem

This brings in:

• The latest mystmd release, 1.8.0: https://github.com/jupyter-book/mystmd/releases/tag/mystmd%401.8.0

• The latest myst-theme release, 1.1.0: https://github.com/jupyter-book/myst-theme/releases/tag/myst-to-react%401.1.0

Bugs fixed

• Remove description from dynamic #2518 (choldgraf, agoose77)

Maintenance and upkeep improvements

• Update latest myst cli #2563 (choldgraf, agoose77)

• MAINT: adding more dependabot config to ensure less noise and passing PRs #2560 (bsipocz)

• Bump actions/upload-pages-artifact from 3 to 4 #2558 (bsipocz)

• Bump actions/checkout from 2 to 6 #2557 (bsipocz)

• Bump actions/setup-node from 4 to 6 #2556 (bsipocz)

• Bump actions/configure-pages from 3 to 5 #2554 (bsipocz)

• update GitHub Actions via Dependabot #2535 (afeld, bsipocz, choldgraf)

• MAINT: adding description metadata #2516 (bsipocz, choldgraf, rowanc1)

Documentation improvements

• include custom css #2551 (FreekPols)

• Surface JB v1 docs more prominently, and reorganize General FAQs #2545 (emiliom, bsipocz, choldgraf, rowanc1)

• document breaking changes in web page path behavior #2536 (afeld, choldgraf)

• Add Protein–Peptide Molecular Mimicry Study entry #2532 (singh-sanju, FreekPols)

• DOC: rewrite Fornax gallery entries #2531 (bsipocz, choldgraf)

• Un-comment blog in nav #2529 (choldgraf)

• Update gallery.yml #2527 (snowch, bsipocz)

• DOC: update IRSA title to have astronomy mentioned somewhere #2524 (bsipocz, rowanc1)

• :book: Add RELEASE #2521 (agoose77)

• update myst tables plugin #2519 (choldgraf, bsipocz)

• randomized gallery #2512 (FreekPols, bsipocz)

Other merged PRs

• Fix image mechanics book #2550 (FreekPols)

• Add dolfiny to gallery #2548 (schnellerhase, FreekPols)

v2.1.0¶

2025-12-05 | View release

Enhancements made

• Gallery of Jupyter Books (with the myst stack) #2461 (FreekPols)

Maintenance and upkeep improvements

• MAINT: exclude non-third-party packages from dependabot cooldown #2488 (bsipocz)

• MAINT: adding cooldown for dependabot #2470 (bsipocz)

• MAINT: dependabot PRs should auto pass label linting CI #2466 (bsipocz)

Documentation improvements

• 📖 adding fornax documentation to the gallery #2510 (bsipocz)

• 📖 Adding NASA-Fornax demo notebooks to the gallery #2509 (bsipocz)

• 📖 adding numpy tutorials to the gallery #2507 (bsipocz)

• Fix formatting in init.md for clarity #2501 (FreekPols)

• DOC: there are more emojis in the calculation #2499 (bsipocz)

• docs: fix conda-forge warning #2497 (agoose77)

• 📖 Remove references “Jupyter Book 2” #2496 (JimMadge)

• Remove warning about conda-forge #2492 (rgaiacs)

• Add a table for our team priorities roadmap and use the github-issue-tables plugin #2490 (choldgraf)

• Add pointer in README to v1 source #2471 (stefanv)

• Gallery of Jupyter Books (with the myst stack) #2461 (FreekPols)

• Fix link to v1 docs #2457 (matthew-brett)

• Fix typo in project frontmatter description #2451 (surodeep26)

• Update installation instructions for Jupyter Book #2449 (FreekPols)

• Add small comment to nav #2447 (choldgraf)

Other merged PRs

• Update dependencies to pull in MyST #2513 (agoose77)

• Add gallery entry for Topology in Condensed Matter course #2482 (akhmerov)

v2.0.2¶

2025-11-03 | View release

2.0.2

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Bugs fixed

• fix: bump cli #2448 (agoose77)

Maintenance and upkeep improvements

• 🤖 Use grouping in dependabot #2440 (agoose77)

Documentation improvements

• Update DOI badge and governance section in README #2445 (rowanc1)

Other merged PRs

• Fix broken link to jupyterbook 1 documentation #2441 (Tom-van-Woudenberg)

v2.0.0¶

2025-11-03 | View release

2.0.0

This is a major re-write for Jupyter Book. The back-end of Jupyter Book now uses the MyST Document Engine.

Here are a few helpful links if you’d like to learn more:

• jupyterbook.org

• Frequently Asked Questions

• Upgrade from 1.0

• Known limitations

We’ll start regular releases now that this switch has been made, but this one was a branch re-write so we’ll keep these notes short and recommend you check out https://jupyterbook.org for more information.

v2.0.0b3¶

2025-08-20 | View release

2.0.0b3

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Bugs fixed

• ✳️ Bump NODEENV_VERSION #2401 (alanmlewis)