News
24 January 2023
eric 23.2 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- Human Machine Interfaces
- Changed code to use the default tab bar icon size.
- Debug Client - Python
- Removed the internal copy of the 'coverage' package and made it a dependency.
- pip Interface
- Added code to show the full text of security advisories in the package details dialog.
- Added a tab to show the defined project URLs to the package details dialog.
- Changed the package details dialog to show just those tabs, that contain some data.
- Help Viewer
- Added a configuration option to disable the search for new QtHelp documents on startup.
- Web Browser
- Updated the included 'jquery.js' and 'jquery-ui.js' needed by the Speeddial page and adapted this page to the new/changed functions.
03 January 2023
eric 23.1.1 has been released. This fixes a few bugs discovered shortly after yesterdays release.
02 January 2023
eric 23.1 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- Class Browsers
- Removed the IDL and Protobuf class browsers to include them in their respective plugin.
- Code Formatting
- Added an option to configure the 'known first party' packages to the isort configuration dialog.
- Editor
- Changed the handling of files whose type cannot be determined by the Python mimetypes module to check against a list of known text file patterns and ultimately asking the user, if the file in question is a text file (see `Mimetypes` configuration page.
- Added a configuration option to disable the source navigator (selector boxes above the editor or code outline right of the editor). This is useful e.g. on very small screens.
- Added support for multiple cursor paste.
- Find In Files
- Added context menu entries in Replace mode to select/deselect all entries (e.g. useful for checking big replacement lists for validity).
- MicroPython
- Updated the list of known CircuitPython boards.
- Updated the list of known UF2 capable boards.
- Project
- Extended the list of default file type associations.
- Added the capability to edit the file type associations from within the project properties dialog.
- Project Viewer
- Removed the CORBA and Protobuf viewers to make them available as plugins.
- Added a `Collapse all files` entry to the Project Sources viewer.
- Version Control Systems - git
- Changed git interface code to work with `git worktrees`.
- Added a dialog to manage worktrees ( `git worktree` commands).
- Third Party packages
- Upgraded pipdeptree to version 2.3.3.
- Upgraded pip-licenses to version 4.0.2.
- Upgraded pycodestyle to version 2.10.0.
- Upgraded pyflakes to version 3.0.1.
01 January 2023
The eric team wishes everybody a 'Happy New Year'.
