Running list of Notebook PRs to port.

[Zsailer]

Running list of notebook PRs that we'll port in real-time to keep things in sync.

• Fix for the terminal shutdown issue jupyter/notebook#4180
• Launch the browser with a redirect file jupyter/notebook#4260
• Fix for recursive symlink issue #4669 jupyter/notebook#4670
• added --autoreload flag to NotebookApp jupyter/notebook#4795
• Make FilesHandler.get() a decorated coroutine. Closes #4869 jupyter/notebook#4891
• Add some minimal support for increasing the soft limit on open file handles, default to at least 4096 jupyter/notebook#4893
• Setting to disable redirect file browser launch jupyter/notebook#4999
• workaround tornado py38 compatibility issue jupyter/notebook#5047
• Fix packages of exceptions catched by gateway manager jupyter/notebook#5055
• Allow contents manager get to return future jupyter/notebook#5077
• Fix running tests with nbconvert 6 prerelease jupyter/notebook#5111
• Culling: ensure last_activity attr exists before use jupyter/notebook#5355
• Improve login shell heuristics jupyter/notebook#5588 (includes 5565)

Updated

• Implement password hashing with argon2-cffi jupyter/notebook#3793
• Add UNIX socket support to notebook server. jupyter/notebook#4835 (includes Prevent inclusion of requests_unixsocket on Windows jupyter/notebook#5650, Remove unnecessary import of requests_unixsocket jupyter/notebook#5451, Move requests_unixsocket import outside of UNIXSocketNotebookTestBase.fetch_url() jupyter/notebook#5769)
• Fixes #5002 jupyter/notebook#5021
• Making default value for min_open_files_limit dynamic jupyter/notebook#5075 (depends on 4893)
• Ensure jupyter config dir exist jupyter/notebook#5078
• Add support for JSON formatted logs jupyter/notebook#5799
• descriptive log for port unavailable and port-retries=0 jupyter/notebook#5136
• Add env variable support for port options jupyter/notebook#5221
• Added support for JUPYTER_TOKEN_FILE jupyter/notebook#5587
• Remove unnecessary future imports jupyter/notebook#5805
• Add support for creating terminals via GET jupyter/notebook#5813
• Fix race condition with async kernel management jupyter/notebook#5875
• handle allow_origin='*' in check_referer jupyter/notebook#5898
• Re-enable support for answer_yes flag jupyter/notebook#5941
• HTTP 404: Not Found - Kernel does not exist jupyter/notebook#6206
• Fix to remove potential memory leak on Jupyter Notebooks ZMQChannelHandler code jupyter/notebook#6251

[jtpio]

This one too would be nice to port: jupyter/notebook#4795

[Carreau]

I can likely modify my bot to try to do port across repo if the differences are not too major.

[Zsailer]

Updated (today, Mar 11, 2021) the comment above with items that still need porting.

[blink1073]

Closing this tracking issue, the last item is tracked in #1166