Minor release to list

Subject: [ANN] Spyder 5.5.5 is released!

Hi all,

On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, I'm pleased to announce that Spyder 5.5.5 has been released and is available for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases

This release comes nine weeks after version 5.5.4 and it contains the following important fixes:

** Fix to ensure compatibility with matplotlib 3.9.0.

• Fix kernel start when connection file has spaces in its path.
• Improve compatibility with PySide2.
• Handle no output/error output when checking for updates on conda installations.
• Fix installers update validation logic to choose installer executable name to download/use.
• Update macOS installer workflow to macOS 12 and constraint installer dependencies to prevent errors (setuptools<70.0.0, zipp<3.19).

In this release we fixed 5 issues and merged 11 pull requests. For a full list of fixes, please see our Changelog.

Don't forget to follow Spyder updates/news on the project's website.

Last, but not least, we welcome any contribution that helps making Spyder an efficient scientific development and computing environment. Join us to help creating your favorite environment!

Enjoy!

Daniel

Major release to list

Subject: [ANN] Spyder 5.0 is released!

Hi all,

On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, I'm pleased to announce that Spyder 5.0 has been released and is available for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases

This release represents more than one year of development since version 4.0 was released, and it introduces major enhancements and new features. The most important ones are:

• Improved dark theme based on QDarkstyle 3.0.
• New light theme based on QDarkstyle 3.0.
• New look and feel for toolbars.
• New icon set based on Material Design.
• New API to extend core plugins, with the exception of the Editor, IPython console and Projects.
• New plugins to manage menus, toolbars, layouts, shortcuts, preferences and status bar.
• New architecture to access and write configuration options.
• New API to declare code completion providers.
• New registries to access actions, tool buttons, toolbars and menus by their identifiers.

For a complete list of changes, please see our changelog

Spyder 4.0 has been a huge success and we hope 5.0 will be as successful. For that we fixed 54 bugs, merged 142 pull requests from about 16 authors and added more than 830 commits between these two releases.

Don't forget to follow Spyder updates/news on the project's website.

Last, but not least, we welcome any contribution that helps making Spyder an efficient scientific development/computing environment. Join us to help creating your favorite environment!

Enjoy! -Carlos

Major release to others

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Subject: [ANN] Spyder 4.0 is released!

Hi all,

On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors (https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/graphs/contributors), I'm pleased to announce that Spyder 3.0 has been released and is available for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases

Spyder is a free, open-source (MIT license) interactive development environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive testing, debugging and introspection features. It was designed to provide MATLAB-like features (integrated help, interactive console, variable explorer with GUI-based editors for NumPy arrays and Pandas dataframes), it is strongly oriented towards scientific computing and software development.

Alpha/beta/rc release

Subject: [ANN] Spyder 6.0 beta2 is released!

Hi all,

On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, I'm pleased to announce the second beta of our next major version: Spyder 6.0.

We've been working on this version for more than one year now and it's working relatively well. There are still several bugs to squash but we encourage all people who like the bleeding edge to give it a try. This beta version includes more than 175 commits over our latest beta release (6.0.0b1).

Spyder 6.0 comes with the following interesting new features and fixes:

• New features

  • New installers for Windows, Linux and macOS based on Conda and Conda-forge.
  • Add a Debugger pane to explore the stack frame of the current debugging session.
  • Add a button to the Debugger pane to pause the current code execution and enter the debugger afterwards.
  • Add submenu to the Consoles menu to start a new console for a specific Conda or Pyenv environment.
  • Add ability to refresh the open Variable Explorer viewers to reflect the current variable state.
  • Show plots generated in the Variable Explorer or its viewers in the Plots pane.
  • Show Matplotlib backend state in status bar.
  • Make kernel restarts be much faster for the current interpreter.
  • Turn runfile, debugfile, runcell and related commands into IPython magics.

• Important fixes

  • Environment variables declared in ~/.bashrc or ~/.zhrc are detected and passed to the IPython console.
  • Support all real number dtypes in the dataframe viewer.
  • Restore ability to load Hdf5 and Dicom files through the Variable Explorer (this was working in Spyder 4 and before).

• New API features

  • SpyderPluginV2.get_description must be a static method now and SpyderPluginV2.get_icon a class or static method. This is necessary to display the list of available plugins in Preferences in a more user-friendly way (see PR spyder-ide/spyder#21101).
  • Generalize the Run plugin to support generic inputs and executors. This allows plugins to declare what kind of inputs (i.e. file, cell or selection) they can execute and how they will display the result.
  • Add a new plugin called Switcher for the files and symbols switcher.
  • Declare a proper API for the Projects plugin.
  • Remove the Breakpoints plugin and add its functionality to the Debugger one.

For a more complete list of changes, please see our changelog

You can easily install this beta if you use conda by running:

conda install -c conda-forge/label/spyder_dev -c conda-forge/label/spyder_kernels_rc -c conda-forge spyder=6.0.0b2

Or you can use pip with this command:

pip install --pre -U spyder

Enjoy! Daniel