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04 December 2021
eric 21.12 has been released. This is the first release of eric7, which is the PyQt6 port of the eric6 IDE. It fixes all bugs discovered in eric6 and introduces these new features.
- General
- rearranged the interface and modernized the sidebars layout
- integrated some dialogs into the sidebars
- Debugger
- added code to remember the list of recently used breakpoint conditions in the editor and the breakpoint viewer
- added code to enter the script to be run/debugged/... in the start dialog
- Editor
- added the capability to suppress syntax highlighting by associating the file type 'Text'
- added code to move a breakpoint to a line actually creating some byte code (Python only)
- added mouse button capability to perform undo/redo actions (Extra Buttons 1 and 2)
- added support for 'multi cursor editing' (additional cursors with Meta+Alt+Left Click, Esc to end it)
- Find In Files
- integrated the dialog into the right sidebar
- Help Viewer
- added an internal help viewer based on QTextBrowser or QWebEngine
- Jedi
- integrated the Assistant Jedi plugin as a fixed part of eric
- added code to jump to references when clicked on a definition
- added support for mouse hover help
- added support for simple refactorings to the editor context menu
- Plugin Repository
- added an integrated plugin repository viewer (right side)
- Plugin Uninstall Dialog
- added capability to uninstall several plugins with one invocation of the dialog
- Project
- added a 'Start' context sub menu to the project sources browser
- Shell
- added capability to save the contents of the shell window into a file
- Unit Test
- added capability to remember the most recently used test data
- Viewmanager
- added a 'Start' sub menu to the tabview and listspace view managers context menu
- Virtual Environments
- integrated the Virtual Environments Manager window into the right side bar
- added a standalone variant of the Virtual Environments Manager
- Third Party packages
- upgraded coverage to 6.1.2
- upgraded pycodestyle to version 2.8.0
- upgraded mccabe to version 0.6.1
- upgraded pyflakes to version 2.4.0
30 October 2021
eric 21.11 has been released. It fixes just a few bugs. This will be the last release of the 'eric6' line of development (i.e. the one requiring PyQt5/Qt5 as its execution environment).
04 September 2021
eric 21.9 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- MicroPython
- extended the list of known CircuitPython and UF2 capable devices
- Unit Test
- added support for sub-tests
03 July 2021
eric 21.7 has been released. It fixes just a few bugs.
03 June 2021
eric 21.6 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- Tasks
- made the task properties dialog adapt to the task kind
- added code to get typed manual tasks
- UML Diagrams
- extended the class items to show class attributes
- added code to load a saved UML diagram via the file browser or the project others browser
- improved the diagram layout of the Import Diagram and the Application Diagram
- added code to save and load diagrams as JSON files
- changed code to print diagrams
01 May 2021
eric 21.5 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- Code Style Checker
- added a checker to find code that could be simplified
- added capability to the results page to filter the messages based on message code
- improved the statistics handling
- updated pycodestyle to version 2.7.0
- MicroPython
- added option to select the baud rate for flashing ESP32 and ESP8266 boards
- updated the BBC micro:bit API file to support micro:bit V2
- Python Lexer
- updated the substyle contents
- Syntax Checker
- updated pyflakes to version 2.3.1
- Third Party packages
- removed most of the bundled Third Party packages in favour of pip installed packages
02 April 2021
eric 21.4 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- Code Style Checker
- added a checker to help porting to the 'pathlib' module
- Debugger
- extended the Start... dialogs to allow to override some global configuration settings (redirect stdin/stdout/stderr)
- Editor
- added capability to delete the matching brace if the cursor is in between them (e.g. {}) and backspace is pressed
- Pip Interface
- added support for a re-installation of selected packages
- Shell
- changed the shell special commands to start with a '%' (e.g. %start)
06 March 2021
eric 21.3 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- General
- changed the default file format for several generated files to be based on JSON
- added support for Cython
- Debugger
- added capability to delete environment variables for the debugged script by adding a '-' to the variable name in the start dialog
- Debug Viewer
- changed code to show project relative paths in the breakpoint viewer
- Editor
- integrated the "Quick Search" functionality into the editor search widget
- added support for Cython to the code outline/navigation lists
- added support for Cython to the Typing Completers
- File Browser
- added capability to show/hide hidden files (i.e. those starting with '.')
- added capability to create new files/directories and delete them
- added Cython support to show the file structure of these files
- Mercurial Interface
- added support for Mercurial 5.7
- MicroPython
- added support for "Raspberry Pi Pico" (i.e. RP2040 based boards)
- extended the list of supported (recognized) CircuitPython boards
- added capability to manually configure devices not yet known by eric6
- added a generic dialog for flashing UF2 capable devices (with device detection)
- added code to support 'middle button paste'
- pip Interface
- changed code for the search function to work with the PyPI search page because the XML-RPC search interface of PyPI is still disabled
- extended the Package Details dialog to include buttons to install, upgrade or uninstall the package
01 February 2021
eric 21.2 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- General
- added support for PyQt6
- added support for PySide6
- Code Style Checker
- added a commented code whitelist patterns to the Miscellaneous Checker
- added support for the '@yield' and '@ytype' tags
- Debugger
- added support for debugging multiprocess scripts using these methods
- QProcess.start(), QProcess.startDetached()
- subprocess.Popen()
- multiprocessing.Process()
- os.spawnl...(), os.spawnv...(), os.posix_spawn...(), os.fork(), os.fork_exec()
- _winapi.CreateProcess(), _subprocess.CreateProcess()
- added support for debugging code strings (-c, --code) or script modules (-m, --module)
- added support for the "Continue Until" action execution code until the current cursor line (if it is greater than the current line) or until returning from the current frame
- added support for debugging multiprocess scripts using these methods
- Documentation Generator
- added support for the '@yield' and '@ytype' tags to document generators
- Editor
- added code to enclose the current selection by entering ", ' or a bracket ( (, ), [, ], {, }, <, > ) characters
- extended the exporters to support sub-styles
- added functionality to insert docstring templates via the context menu (cursor placed on first line of function definition), after entering the docstring start string (e.g. """ for Python) or via a keyboard shortcut (default: Ctrl+Alt+D) when cursor is either placed on the function definition line or after the end of the function definition
- Find File Dialog
- added option to exclude hidden files and directories
- changed directory tree search logic to derive the file patterns from the project file type associations, if the directory to be searched is a sub-directory of the project
- User Interface
- added capability to show Qt6 documentation (configurable)
- VirtualEnv Manager
- improved the handling of virtual environments slightly
- Web-Browser
- added an error page for not supported eric: URLs
- Third Party packages
- updated eradicate.py to 2.0.0
- updated chardet to 4.0.0
- updated coverage.py to 5.3.1
- updated editorconfig to 0.12.3
- updated Pygments to 2.7.4
02 January 2021
eric 21.1 has been released. It fixes just a few bugs.
01 January 2021
The eric team wishes everybody a 'Happy New Year'.
