News
04 May 2019
eric 19.05 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- General
- added functionality to provide eric6 via PyPI. Installation can be
accomplished via
pip install eric-ide
- added functionality to provide eric6 via PyPI. Installation can be
accomplished via
- Python AST Viewer
- added a tool to visualize the AST for a Python source file
- Snapshot Tool
- added code to support screenshots on Wayland desktops (KDE and Gnome)
06 April 2019
eric 19.04 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- Code Style Checker
- added a checker for advised forms of the return statement
- Editor
- added extended regular expression support (C++11) as of QScintilla 2.11.0
- added capability to configure the subline indentation for wrapped lines
- added capability to frame the line containing the cursor instead of coloring it
- added support for the "reverse selected lines" command (Meta+Alt+R)
- added support for sub-styling (user definable words and their style)
(see Editor->Highlighters->Styles configuration page)
(only C++ and Python2/3 lexers support this feature) - extended the support for keyword sets (see Editor ➔ Highlighters ➔ Keywords configuration page)
- Email
- changed the Google Mail interface to not use obsoleted packages anymore
- Multi Project
- added capability to the multi project browser to copy a project
- Unit Test
- added the capability to select the virtual environment for the unittest run
- removed the 'local' selection because it is obsolete
- added capability to auto-discover tests
- added capability to show auto-discovered tests and select from this list
- added capability to stop the test on the first error or failure
- added capability to run test with debugger support
- Web Browser (NG)
- added these search engines to the default list:
- MetaGer
- StartPage (German)
- searx.me
- added support to go one page back by pressing the backspace key
- added these search engines to the default list:
02 March 2019
eric 19.03 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- Conda Interface
- added an interface to the conda environment and package management (part of the Anaconda Python distribution)
- Editor
- suppress auto-completions in various circumstances
- pip Interface
- changed the interface from being menu based to a widget in the right side toolbox
- VirtualEnv Manager
- extended the environment definition by a flag indicating a remotely accessed environment
- Web Browser (NG):
- added a site info widget that is show when the site icon in the URL entry is clicked
- added code to register custom protocol handlers (upon request of the user via the site info widget)
- Third Party packages
- updated pycodestyle to 2.5.0 and added option to set the documentation line length
- upgraded pyflakes to 2.1.0
16 February 2019
eric 19.02.1 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and gets rid of some compatibility issues related to PyQt 5.12 and QScintilla 2.11.0.
02 February 2019
eric 19.02 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- Debugger
- show / stop at correct line number if an exception happens in a with statement or specific try-except clauses where no breakpoints are set
- Editor
- added cpability to suppress some markers in the marker map
- Multi Project
- added capability to the multi project browser to delete a project from disk
- Web Browser (NG):
- added support to select a client SSL certificate (as of Qt 5.12)
- Third Party packages
- updated coverage.py to 4.5.2
- updated jasy to 1.5-beta6 (latest release available)
- updated Pygments to 2.3.1
10 January 2019
eric 19.01 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- pip Interface
- added an entry to select the virtual environment of the current project if it has one defined
- Project Resources Browser
- added support for some resource compiler options
- Web Browser (old):
- added single application mode
- change logic inside eric to use a remote controlled web browser to show help texts
- Web Browser (NG):
- added single application mode
- change logic inside eric to use a remote controlled web browser to show help texts
01 January 2019
The eric team wishes everybody a 'Happy New Year'.
