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01 November 2025

eric 25.11 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these changes.

• Code Formatting
  • Added an option to configure the 'known local folder' packages to the isort configuration dialog.
• Code Style Checker
  • Extended the configuration on the 'Imports' page to allow to specify known 'First Party' package and module names.
  • Added a configuration option to allow local imports of first party packages.
• Help Viewer
  • Added support for printing page headers and footers.
  • Added support for the back/forward cache to speed up navigation.
• Web Browser
  • Added support for printing page headers and footers.
  • Added support for the back/forward cache to speed up navigation.

29 September 2025

eric 25.10 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these changes.

• Code Formatting
  • Added support for formatting the selected lines of an editor using the Black utility.
• Project
  • Added the capability to configure the type of an embedded virtual environment.
• Shell
  • Added the familiar Ctrl+U shortcut to clear the current line.
  • Added the capability to complete 'import' and 'from ... import' statements like in Python 3.14.

01 September 2025

eric 25.9 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these changes.

• General
  • Made the code compatible with Python 3.14.
• Code Style Checker
  • Updated these checkers.
    • Security to bandit v1.8.6.
  • Added these new checkers.
  • Checker based on flake8_no_nested_comprehensions v1.0.0 to detect comprehensions with multiple generators.
• Editor
  • Added an information pane informing the user when an editor file is changed externally. It gives the option to activate the editor automatic reload capability, to reload the modified file, to ignore the current external modification and all further ones and to show a dialog with the differences between the externally modified file and the current editor text.
• MicroPython
  • Added the capability to clear the graph and delete the recorded raw data to the graph view.
  • Migrated the graph widget to the QtGraphs package because the QtCharts package is deprecated. The wheel will therefore install PyQt6 ≥ 6.8.0. Using the provided install script, eric-ide can be used with older PyQt6 versions as well.
  • Added an action button to stop the running script.
  • Extended the file manager widget to deal with multi selection of files.
  • Updated the list of known CircuitPython boards.
  • Updated the list of known UF2 capable boards.
• Third Party packages
  • Upgraded eradicate to version 3.0.0.
  • Upgraded pycodestyle to version 2.14.0.
  • Upgraded pyflakes to version 3.4.0.

31 July 2025

eric 25.8 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these changes.

• Editor
  • Changed mouse button actions for undo/redo to Ctrl-XButton1/Ctrl-XButton2 to allow history movement with XButton1/XButton2.
  • Added the 'soft keywords' to the list of default keywords for Python3.
  • Added configuration capability to disable auto-completions in comment and/or string areas (default True).
• Project
  • Added the capability to load the data of a 'pyproject.toml' file into the project properties dialog.
• Toolbar Manager
  • Added a button to the dialog to insert a separator item.
• View Manager
  • Added capability to move within the navigation history with mouse buttons XButton1 and XButton2 ('Back' and 'Forward' mouse buttons).

28 June 2025

eric 25.7 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these changes.

• Editor and File Browser
  • Added capability to detect and show the Python metadata entries of a Python script.
• View Manager
  • Added capability to navigate to previously visited editor locations via backward and forward movements like in web browsers.

31 May 2025

eric 25.6 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these changes.

• Code Style Checker
  • Updated these checkers.
    • Annotations to flake8-annotations-complexity v0.1.0
    • Security to bandit v1.8.3
  • Added these new checkers.
    • Checker based on flake8-constants v0.0.3 to detect modifications of constants.
• conda Manager
  • Removed the conda interface and changed it to a plug-in available via the plug-in repository.
• Cooperation
  • Removed the Cooperation interface and changed it to a plug-in available via the plug-in repository.
• CycloneDX Interface
  • Changed the interface to work with newer CycloneDX releases.
• MicroPython
  • Added support for IPv6 for WiFi and Ethernet enabled devices (MPy ≥ 1.24.0).
  • Updated the list of known CircuitPython boards.
  • Updated the list of known UF2 capable boards.
• Virtual Environments
  • Added the capability to set an environment to unavailable.
• Third Party Packages
  • Upgraded pycodestyle to version 2.13.0.
  • Upgraded pyflakes to version 3.3.2.

01 May 2025

eric 25.5 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these changes.

• General
  • Modified the display of the crash session dialog to show the time stamp of the found crash session file and the path of the project file (if a project was open) (see issue584).
  • Modified the display of the crash session dialog to allow the removal of crash session files.
• IRC
  • Removed the IRC interface and changed it to a plug-in available via the plug-in repository.
• Project
  • Removed support for pyqt5 project type.
  • Removed support for pyside2 project type.
• Virtual Environments
  • Prepared the virtual environments support for being expanded via plugins.

02 April 2025

eric 25.4 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these changes.

• MicroPython
  • Added the capability to show the sha256 hash of a device file.

01 March 2025

eric 25.3 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these changes.

• Code Style Checker
  • Updated these checkers.
    • Imports to flake8-tidy-imports v4.11.0
    • Logging to flake8-logging v1.7.0
    • Miscellaneous to flake8-bugbear v24.12.12
    • Miscellaneous to flake8-comprehensions v3.16.0
    • Security to bandit v1.8.2
  • Added these checkers to support more case.
    • 'Structural Pattern Matching' based on flake8-spm v0.0.1
    • Nested f-strings based on flake8-nested-fstrings v1.1.0
    • pydantic and dataclass related topics based on flake8-pydantic v0.4.0
• pip Interface
  • Added a field to search for packages in the dependencies list.

09 February 2025

eric 25.2 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these changes.

• MicroPython
  • Updated the list of known CircuitPython boards for CPy 9.2.3.
  • Updated the list of known UF2 capable boards.

14 January 2025

eric 25.1 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these changes.

• General
  • Made the code compatible with Qt/PyQt 6.8.
• Mercurial Interface
  • Removed support for the strip extension (does not exist anymore).
  • Moved purge and shelve extensions to the Other Functions menu because they are builtin functions.
  • Added support for the fastexport extension.
  • Added support for the uncommit extension.
• pip Interface
  • Added an action button to clean up the site-packages directory of the selected environment.
  • Changed the package search function to open an external web browser with the package search term (PyPI does not support programmatic search anymore).
• Plugin Repository
  • Added a status label for 'Upgrade Available' that includes a copy of the the upgradable plugin entries.

01 January 2025

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

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