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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).

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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