Merge pull request #650 from minrk/81

Changelog for 8.1.0

Author: minrk

docs/source/changelog.md

@@ -4,6 +4,22 @@
 
 Changes in IPython Parallel
 
+## 8.1
+
+8.1.0 is a small release, adding a few new features and bugfixes.
+
+New features:
+
+- relay KeyboardInterrupt to engines in blocking `%px` magics
+- add `Cluster.start_and_connect(activate=True)` to include activation of `%px` magics in one-liner startup.
+- initial support for Clusters tab in RetroLab
+
+Fixes:
+
+- ensure profile config is always loaded for `Cluster(profile="xyz")`
+- build lab extension in production mode, apply trove classifiers
+- pass through keyword arguments to constructor in `Client.broadcast_view`
+
 ## 8.0
 
 This is marked as a major revision because of the change to pass connection information via environment variables.

ipyparallel/tests/clienttest.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import signal
 import sys
 import time
+import warnings
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 
 import pytest
@@ -83,6 +84,9 @@ def skip_without_names(f, *args, **kwargs):
                 __import__(name)
             except ImportError:
                 pytest.skip("Test requires %s" % name)
+            except Exception as e:
+                warnings.warn(f"Unexpected exception importing {name}: {e}")
+                pytest.skip("Test requires %s" % name)
         return f(*args, **kwargs)
 
     return skip_without_names