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eric 17.08 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.

Shell
- added support for different history navigation styles (disabled, Linux, Windows)
- improved shell history dialog
Templates
- added some new predefined template variables (time, path_name_rel, dir_name_rel)
Web Browser (NG)
- added support for sessions

eric 17.07 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.

Background Services
- added functionality to limit the number of processes used for background services
Bug Reporting / Feature Request (Email)
- added the capability to send these emails via Google Mail using OAuth2 authentication
Diff Dialogs
- made the colors of the diff dialogs configurable
Third Party packages
- updated chardet to 3.0.4

eric 17.06 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.

Checkers
- extended the source documentation checker to check for raised/documented exceptions and defined/documented signals
Editor
- re-introduced the highlighting of current instruction line and the error line using colored background. It is configurable whether to use these backgrounds or the arrows.
- added capability to perform the various replace methods via keyboard shortcuts
Plugin Manager
- added an option to cleanup the plug-ins download area during startup
Qt Tools
- added code to auto-discover the presence of the new 'pyqt5-tools' wheel (Windows only) (thanks to Kyle Altendorf for providing this wheel)
Web Browser (NG)
- united the stop and reload buttons of the navigation bar
- added a super menu to modernize the look & feel
- added Ctrl-Click and middle click actions to the navigation buttons to perform the action in a new tab

eric 17.05 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.

Editor
- changed the indication of the current instruction line and the error line to use a green or red arrow instead of a colored background
PyQt Tools
- added a configuration option for the path of the PyQt tools
Shell
- added a standalone shell window
Web Browser (NG)
- added the last visited time and date to the bookmark properties dialog
- added a visit count to the history entries (shown in the history dialog)
- made full screen mode really full screen
Third Party packages

eric 17.04.1 has been released. It fixes a few serious regressions of the latest release. Everybody is asked to upgrade.

eric 17.04 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.

General
- increased minimum required Python versions to prevent usage with very old versions (i.e. eric was never tested with)
  min. versions: Python 2 - 2.7.10; Python 3 - 3.4.0
Checkers
- added checks for shadowed Python builtins and unneccessary comprehensions and generators to the code style checker
- added a checker to check for lines of code of too high complexity
- added capability to place line flags (e.g. __IGNORE...) on the line following the one to be ignored
Debugger
- shell autocompleter takes the right global variables into account now
- move the instruction pointer within the current function (Hotkey: F12)
- report syntax and indentation errors raised by an application or module in the correct manner
- avoid crashes on using greenlets
Mercurial Interface
- extended the user configuration dialog
- added support for the 'zstd' compression for bundles (as of v4.1.0)

eric 17.03.1 has been released. It fixes a few bugs discovered after the last release.

eric 17.03 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.

Checkers
- upgraded pycodestyle to version 2.3.1
- upgraded pyflakes to version 1.5.0
Debugger
- prevent stepping into print statements if checkbox for debugging into interpreter libraries is checked
- catch unhandled exceptions again
- support for PySide2 added
- atexit handling works as specified in any condition
- prevent ordinary breakpoints to steal the focus from an exception
Mercurial Interface
- improved the log browser in several ways
- improved the status dialog
Project
- added capability to remember previously used entries in the project debugger properties dialog
Web Browser (NG)
- added support for new options provided by Qt 5.8.0
- added support for spell checking as of Qt 5.8.0

eric 17.02.1 has been released. It fixes a regression detected shortly after the recent release and related to using eric with Qt 4.8.

eric 17.02 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.

Checkers
- upgraded pycodestyle to version 2.2.0+
Debugger
- changed the variables filter dialog to be more user friendly
Editor
- added a bar with formatting options for HTML, Markdown and reStructured Text files
- added support for the new QScintilla JSON lexer
- added support for the new QScintilla Markdown lexer
Email
- added capability to use the SSL encryption method (next to StartTLS) in the built in Email dialog
Mercurial Interface
- added clickable links to the log browser details pane
- added up and down buttons to move the current entry to the log browser
- added the capability to configure the length of the log message shown in the message column of the log browser list
Subversion interface
- added up and down buttons to move the current entry to the log browser
Web Browser
- added functionality to manage the plug-in provided documentation sets

eric 17.01 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.

General
- added capability to save a global session to disk and restore it
- added capability to save a crash session in order to restore the current state in case of a crash
- added option to configure the crash session startup behavior and added the '--no-crash' option to suppress looking for a crash session
- added the '--disable-crash' option to temporarily disable the crash session support through the command line
- changed some options: --noopen to --no-open, --nosplash to --no-splash
Debugger
- added capability to edit the history lists of the start dialogs of the debugger
Editor
- added support for project type specific auto-completion and calltips including the respective configuration (Editor->APIs page)

The eric team wishes everybody a 'Happy New Year'.