Version 1.26.0

[mathcatsand]

Highlights

• Introducing st.status to display output from long-running processes and external API calls. Works great with st.chat_message! See our documentation and demo app for how to use this feature.
• Introducing st.toggle — an alternative to st.checkbox when you need an on/off switch.

Notable Changes

• Simple chart elements have a color parameter to set the color of your data points or series (#7022).
• Markdown supports rainbow and gray colors (#7106, #7179).
• st.header and st.subheader have optional, colored dividers (#7133).
• Deploying to Community Cloud is even easier—locally running apps have a deploy button in their toolbars (#7085, #6935).
• st.download_button has a new parameter type for theming (#7056, #7038).
• st.chat_message has ai and human presets for messages (#7094).
• st.radio options support markdown and have captions (#7018, #7105, #6085).
• Assorted visual tweaks (#7050, #894).
• Replaced deprecated imghdr dependency with pillow (#7081, #7027).
• st.number_input’s step buttons (+/-) are ignored during tabbing navigation (#7154). Thanks @denck007!

Other Changes

• Bug fix: Toast messages are no longer blocked by st.chat_input (#7204, #7115).
• Bug fix: Widget IDs are now stable to prevent inconsistent statefulness (#7003).
• Bug fix: Browser autofill is correctly recognized within forms now (#7150, #7101, #7084).
• Bug fix: st.file_uploader no longer causes session state to reset when a websocket connection is dropped and reconnected (#7149, #7025).
• Bug fix: Pydeck JSON data is cached for improved performance (#7113, #5532).
• Bug fix: st.chat_input no longer submits prematurely while typing with an input method editor (#6993).
• Bug fix: Label backgrounds for st.tabs are now transparent (#7070, #5707).
• Bug fix: Page width is no longer ignored when using the help parameter in st.button (#7033, #6161).
• Bug fix: Tweaked Altair color specification for improved visibility in dark mode (#7061, #3343).
• Bug fix: st.chat_message can correctly use local images as avatars (#7130).
• Bug fix: Specified that MD5 is not used for security (#7122, #7120).
• Bug fix: Async function docstrings are ignored by Streamlit magic (#7143, #7137).

Release demo app

[Mortafix]

Really love the new st.status component!
Looking forward to also use st.toggle.

Another super update

[Uranium]

We lost the button to hide/close the sidebar in 1.26.0

[Goyo]

The button is still there for me.

[vickyraghuwanshi]

noice updates in 1.26.0​:+1:
finally st.file_uploader is fixed:)