Version 1.4.5

This release addresses includes a wide range of bug fixes and some minor enhancements primarily aimed at performance. Many thanks to @Coderambling as a returning contributor, and the core developer team including @hoxbro, @MarcSkovMadsen, @maximlt and @philippjfr for contributing to this release.

Enhancements

• Ensure Design is applied globally when using global templates (#6992)
• Do not re-render all children when expanding Tabulator row (#7008)
• Allow providing DataFrame as part of vega(-lite) spec (#6979, #7024)
• Make autoreload robust to syntax errors and empty apps (#7028)

Bug fixes

• Clear selection if value change from pagination=remote (#6008, #6968)
• Ensure user cookie can be unencoded (#6937)
• Do not trigger ScrollButton event unless clicked (#6938)
• Do not error on autoreload shutdown (#6940)
• Ensure hooks such as plot linking are applied across roots in a template (#6975)
• Ensure Feed maintains scroll position (#6984)
• Ensure correct Document is set after liveness session cleanup (#6988)
• Fix issue detecting PyScript worker (#6998)
• Fix FileDownload icon alignment (#6981)
• Ensure redraw does not error out if Tabulator is undefined (#6930)
• Guard auth against user being removed (#6908)
• Fix empty Vega pane with sizing_mode exception (#7020)
• Ensure Gauge is responsively sized (#7034)
• Ensure Tabulator sorters are correctly synced (#7036)
• Improve font-size and alignment in Bootstrap Card header (#7037)
• Do not sync StaticText.value with the frontend (#7038)

Documentation

• Add crossfiltering dashboard tutorial (#6630)
• Add server video stream tutorial (#6727)
• Improve Param pane docstring (#6989)
• Fix streamz reference notebook (#6980)
• Document that Image pane is a wrapper around PNG, JPEG, PDF etc. panes (#7004)
• Fix missing scrollbar in Fast template docs (#7026
• Improve server video tutorial (#7027)