Hi everyone,

We'd like to announce a beta of the new version of the Sage cell server. We've set it up at:

aleph2.sagemath.org

It uses websockets (via SockJS, so it falls back to older techniques if the browser doesn't support websockets) and has been pretty much completely rewritten to use much more of the new IPython framework. While hopefully the only changes from aleph you'll notice are that it is more responsive (something like 25-50% faster for updates on interacts, it feels like), it also lays the groundwork for interactive javascript controls and other features we've wanted for a long time.

So please, test it out: aleph2.sagemath.org (if you've embedded aleph in any webpages, you should be able to just change the address to aleph2.sagemath.org). Sometime soon, we'll switch aleph.sagemath.org over to the new version. If you find an issue with aleph2, please let us know.

Volker and Ivan (and others interested in clients other than our provided web client): are there libraries on Android and iOS that let you use websockets naturally, instead of the polling model in aleph version 1? I found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4501121/websockets-client-for-objective-c-preferrably-ios-compatible and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6347499/websocket-library-for-android-ios-and-flash that seem to indicate that you can incorporate websockets into an app:

SocketRocket for iOS: http://corner.squareup.com/2012/02/socketrocket-websockets.html

Autobahn for Android: http://autobahn.ws/android

A huge thanks to Ira Hanson, Steven Johnson, and Alex Kramer who worked tirelessly on this during the summer. And also a huge shoutout to the IPython team for the great foundation we were able to build on.

We aren't quite ready for a final release. I'll be packaging things up better over the next month or two.

Thanks,

Jason

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