News
02 June 2018
eric 18.06 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- Editor
- added a configuration option (Editor->Style page) to show the marker map on the left or right of the editor
- added a context menu for the "fold" margin
- improved handling of folded lines when using "go to" functions
- resize auto complete list box to fit with contents
- added a configuration option (Editor->autocomplete to set up maximum width and height of the auto complete list box
- Shell
- resize auto complete list box to fit with contents
- pip Interface
- added an action to install a locally available package/wheel
- Web Browser (NG)
- improved the sending of the "Referer" header like it is done by Firefox
01 May 2018
eric 18.05 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- General
- added the '--disable-plugin=' option to disable plug-ins via the command line
- Code Style Checker
- added support for '# noqa' and '# NOQA' comments to suppress warnings
- extended the dialog to be able to define the number of blank lines before class and function/method definitions
- Project
- added support for 'make' to the Project menu and run it automatically before the main script is started (configuration option)
- Syntax Checker
- added support for '# noqa' and '# NOQA' comments to suppress warnings
- Translator
- updated the translator URL for DeepL
- Web Browser (NG)
- improvement of the download manager
- added support for the Google Safe Browsing Lookup API (v4)
- Third Party packages
- updated coverage.py to 4.5.1
- updated pycodestyle to 2.4.0
- updated send2trash to version 1.5.0
02 April 2018
eric 18.04 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- General
- added config option to disable the use of the global menu bar on Linux
- Code Style Checker
- added checks for default docstring in functions and modules
- added check for dictionaries with sorted keys
- added checks for logging statements
- added check for the 'gettext' import statement
- added some checks of the bugbear checker
04 March 2018
eric 18.03 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- Editor
- added support for EditorConfig
- added VCS conflict markers to the types shown on the marker map
03 February 2018
eric 18.02 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- General
- extended the session to store/retrieve the split views and the order of
the editors
NOTE: The new session file format is not backward compatible and cannot be read by eric releases prior to 18.02 - added basic support for Cython
- extended the session to store/retrieve the split views and the order of
the editors
- Editor
- added a context menu entry to "Execute Selection In Console"
- Web Browser (NG)
- added support for HTML5 "Desktop Video Capture" and "Desktop Audio and Video Capture" as of Qt 5.10.0/PyQt 5.10.0
- added the capability to pause/resume download (Qt 5.10.0/PyQt 5.10.0)
- added support for attributes introduced by Qt 5.9 and Qt 5.10
06 January 2018
eric 18.01 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- Debugger / Breakpoint Viewer
- added the capability to remember the most recently used file names and conditions
- Editor
- added an action to the view menu to clear all folds of the current editor
- added an entry to delete all change markers to the marker margin context menu
- Project
- If a project does not contain protobuf files, the old project file format (5.1) is generated to make the file backward compatible.
- Plug-ins
Added thes plug-ins as core plug-ins:
- pip interface plug-in
- virtualenv/pyvenv interface plug-in
- setup.py wizard plug-in
- eric plug-in wizard plug-in
- .desktop wizard plug-in
- translator plug-in
- git plug-in
NOTE: These plug-ins should be deinstalled via the plug-in uninstallation dialog of eric before upgrading eric. A reconfiguration of these plug-ins may be neccessary.
- PluginToolPip
- PluginWizardVirtualenv
01 January 2018
The eric team wishes everybody a 'Happy New Year'.
