News
01 June 2022
eric 22.6 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- Dataview Coverage
- added support to write coverage reports as HTML, JSON or LCOV files
- removed the support for writing annotated sources (deprecated in coverage.py)
- Mercurial Interface
- added configuration option to override the automatic search for the hg executable
- MicroPython
- updated the list of known CircuitPython boards
- updated the list of known UF2 capable boards
- pip Interface
- added a filter to the package licenses dialog
- Syntax Checker
- changed the TOML syntax checker to use 'tomlkit' because 'toml' is no longer maintained
- Testing
- reworked the former unittest interface to allow to support testing frameworks other than 'unittest'
- implemented support for the 'unittest' and 'pytest' frameworks
- Wizards
- extended the QInputDialog wizard to support the 'getMultiLineText()' function
- Third Party packages
- upgraded pip-licenses to version 3.5.4
- upgraded coverage to version 6.4.0
02 May 2022
eric 22.5 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- General
- added configuration options to disable the embedded "Find/Replace In Files" and "Find File" tools and use dialog based variants instead
- Mercurial Interface
- added capability to enter a revset expression when defining a revision to operate on
- pip Interface
- added the capability to save the licenses overview as a CSV file
02 April 2022
eric 22.4 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- General
- added capability to upgrade PyQt packages eric depends on from within eric
- added capability to upgrade eric from within eric
- pip Interface
- added a vulnerability check for installed packages based on "Safety DB"
- added a widget to show a package dependency tree
- added a button to search for more packages (i.e. one more page of results)
- Third Party packages
- upgraded coverage to 6.3.2
- upgraded mccabe to version 0.7.0
05 March 2022
eric 22.3 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- General
- performance improvements
- added a '__main__.py' script to allow starting eric7 with 'python3 -m eric7'
- MicroPython
- enhanced support for ESP32 devices
- updated the list of known UF2 capable boards
09 February 2022
eric 22.2 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- General
- dropped support for Python 3.6 because that is end-of-life
- File Browser
- added capability to open SVG files in the text editor
- Help Viewer
- added bookmarks to the internal help viewer
- MicroPython
- updated the list of known CircuitPython boards
- updated the list of known UF2 capable boards
- added support for ESP32-C3, ESP32-S2 and ESP32-S3 chips
- added a dialog to show information for a connected board
- Project Browser
- added capability to open SVG files in the text editor to the Project Others Browser
- Styles and Themes
- added a dark blueish style (QSS and Highlighters) and an associated theme (dark_blue.ethj and dark_blue_with_stylesheet.ethj)
- Third Party packages
- upgraded coverage to 6.2.0
01 January 2022
eric 22.1 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and introduces these new features.
- Code Style Checker
- added a checker for various import statement topics
- Color Themes
- added capability to import and export ALL colors
- Mini Editor
- added configuration capability
- QSS Previewer
- added disabled widgets in order to show their colors as well
- Styles and Themes:
- added a dark greenish style (QSS and Highlighters) and an associated theme (dark_green.ethj and dark_green_with_stylesheet.ethj)
01 January 2022
The eric team wishes everybody a 'Happy New Year'.
