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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'!