Shiny

New features

* `shiny run` now takes a `--launch-browser` argument that causes the default web browser to be launched after the app is successfully loaded. Also, the `--port` argument now interprets a value of `0` as "listen on a random port". (329)

Other changes

* Updated API document generation with updated paths to work with new version of Shinylive. (331)

New features

* Closed [312](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/issues/312): Matplotlib plots in a `render.plot` can now use the global figure, instead of returning a `figure` object. ([#314](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/pull/314))

* Disabled `shiny static` command, in favor of `shinylive export` from the shinylive package. ([326](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/pull/326))

New features

* Closed [269](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/issues/269): The UI for a `shiny.App` object can now be provided as a function. ([#299](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/pull/299))

* When a Shinylive deployment is made with `shiny static`, it the deployment code is now delegated to Shinylive. ([310](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/pull/310))

Bug fixes

* Fixed [279](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/issues/279): When a Shiny application is mounted to a Starlette route, reactivity did not work. ([#294](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/pull/294))

* Fixed [290](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/issues/290): `render.plot` now works as intended inside `module.server`. ([#292](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/pull/292))

* Fixed [289](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/issues/289): `input_selectize()` now resolves the input id before using for other id-like attributes ([#291](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/pull/291))

Bug fixes

* Fixed [287](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/issues/287): Running `shiny static` on Windows failed with `PermissionError`. ([#288](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/pull/288))

Bug fixes

* Fixed [281](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/issues/281): Directory creation for Shinylive assets could fail if the parent directory did not exist. ([#283](https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/pull/283))

Initial release of Shiny for Python https://shiny.posit.co/py/