IPython 9.1 enhanced the %notebook magic so that the outputs are now stored too (ipython/ipython#14780). This allows users to spawn an ipython interpreter, a jupyter kernel, or jupyter console and later save their session to an .ipynb file for reference.

However, when using ipykernel (this is jupyter kernel, jupyter console and notebook interfaces) outputs generated via display publisher such as matplotlib plots are lost.

This is because the DisplayPublisher.publish() gets overridden by ipykernel in ZMQDisplayPublisher.publish() without calling the parent method, thus the code which was added in DisplayPublisher.publish():

outputs = self.shell.history_manager.outputs
outputs[self.shell.execution_count].append(
    HistoryOutput(output_type="display_data", bundle=data)
)

does not run. The ZMQDisplayPublisher.publish implementation is in:

I think it would be useful to add this block, but I am not sure if this should be behind a feature flag (to avoid memory duplication for outputs).

Any opinions?