Version 20.6 5 days ago

bug fixes

Web Browser:
- added a configurable URL entry color to indicate sites with certificate issues
- added code to ask for the title of a new bookmark folder

Version 20.5 1 month ago

bug fixes

MicroPython
- added support for Calliope mini

Third Party packages
- updated Pygments to 2.3.1

Version 20.4 2 months ago

bug fixes

General
- included a new icon set based on the Breeze icons of KDE

Version 20.3 2 months ago

bug fixes

Debugger
- added debugging support for QRunable

Mercurial Interface
- added support for the '--secure' flag of hg import as of Mercurial 5.3

Syntax Checker
- updated pyflakes to repository as of 2020-02-03

Third Party packages
- updated coverage.py to 5.0.3

Version 20.2 4 months ago

bug fixes

Version 20.1 4 months ago

bug fixes

MicroPython
- added entries to the ESP menu to show the Chip ID, Flash ID and MAC Address
- added entries to the ESP menu to backup and restore a firmware

Web Browser
- added support for viewing PDF documents inside the web browser (requires PyQt/Qt 5.13 or better)

Version 19.12 5 months ago

bug fixes

MicroPython
- added a menu entry to show the local and device time side-by-side
- added a PyBoard menu entry to flash a new firmware
- added a menu entry to open the firmware download page of a device

Syntax Checker
- added a syntax checker for JSON files
- added a syntax checker for YAML files

install script
- added the "--yes" flag to allow installation of all missing prerequisites with pip without asking

Version 19.11 7 months ago

bug fixes

Editor
- extended the spell checking functionality for all text files
- added a context menu to select spell check language
- made the preview refresh timeout configurable (see Editor -> File Handling config page)

Error Message Dialog
- added a configurable minimum severity for messages being shown in a dialog (see Application config page)

MicroPython
- added support for PyBoard

Previewers
- enhanced the Markdown previewer by using the PyMdown extensions, if they are available and have been enabled
- enhanced the Markdown previewer to support MathJax, if it has been enabled
- enhanced the Markdown previewer to support Mermaid via the md_mermaid extension, if it is available and has been enabled

Version 19.10 8 months ago

bug fixes

removed runtime support for Python2 and PyQt4

changed minimum Qt/PyQt version required to 5.9.0

Code Style Checker
- added more comprehension checks
- added checks for insecure use of sys.version and sys.version_info
- added a checker class for type annotations

Editor
- added configuration option to set the tab and indentation width for each languages separately (as an override to the global ones)
- added a typing aid for YAML

QFileDialog Wizard
- added support for the QFileDialog.get...Url() methods
- added support for E5FileDialog

Third Party packages
- updated coverage.py to 4.5.4

Version 19.09 8 months ago

bug fixes

added widgets to support development for embedded controllers with MicroPython (ESP8266/ESP32, CircuitPython and BBC micro:bit)

Main Window
- added an action to the Windows menu to activate the current editor

Mercurial Interface
- added an action to commit a merge

Web Browser (NG)
- added support for the QWebEnginePage.Notifications as Qt 5.13.0

API Files
- added API files for BBC micro:bit MicroPython and updated the PyQt5 API files

API Generator
- added the -i switch to ignore the existence of builtin modules when creating API files

Version 19.08 10 months ago

bug fixes

Third Party packages
- upgraded pyflakes to version 2.1.1 plus repository changes to fix some issues (until 2019-07-09)

Version 19.07 10 months ago

bug fixes

Code Style Checker
- added check for commented code that should be removed
- added check for line continuation methods not suggested by PEP-8
- added checks for naive uses of datetime classes

Version 19.06 1 year ago

bug fixes

Code Style Checker
- added checks for use of 'gettattr' and 'setattr', bas super() calls and 'assert False' statements

Editor
- Python Typing
-- added support for 'from ... import (...)'
-- changed the indentation when the previous line ends with a bracket
- Ruby Typing
-- changed the indentation when the previous line ends with a bracket

Mercurial Interface
- extended the log browser to start with showing all incoming and the first batch of local changesets
- show different icons for incoming, outgoing and normal changesets
- added capability to search and filter based on the changeset phase
- added support for the 'closehead' extension (as of Mercurial 4.8)
- added support for the '--keep' flag of the shelve command (as of Mercurial 5.0)

Shell
- added capability to place the Shell window in the left or right side container

setup.py Wizard
- updated the Trove classifiers list
- added capability to retrieve the Trove classifiers list from PyPI

Variables Viewer
- reimplemented Variables Viewer using QTreeView with unlimited access to big arrays, dicts, etc. because elements are lazy loaded
- highlighting of still unloaded (default: yellow background) and last changed variable(s) (default: green background)
- colors for highlighting are configurable through Debugger->General
- expand / collapse variables with children on double click on first column, in all other cases display detail window
- handling of dict views improved (can be expanded like lists)
- show tooltips on all elements which don't fit into current column width
- new options in the context menu, e.g. expand / collapse all child nodes

Third Party packages
- updated EditorConfig to 0.12.2

Version 19.05 1 year ago

bug fixes

General
- added functionality to provide eric6 via PyPI. Installation can be accomplished via 'pip install eric-ide'

Python AST Viewer
- added a tool to visualize the AST for a Python source file

Snapshot Tool
- added code to support screenshots on Wayland desktops (KDE and Gnome)

Version 19.04 1 year ago

bug fixes

Code Style Checker
- added a checker for advised forms of the return statement

Editor
- added extended regular expression support (C++11) as of QScintilla 2.11.0
- added capability to configure the subline indentation for wrapped lines
- added capability to frame the line containing the cursor instead of coloring it
- added support for the "reverse selected lines" command (Meta+Alt+R)
- added support for sub-styling (user definable words and their style) (see Editor->Highlighters->Styles configuration page) (only C++ and Python2/3 lexers support this feature)
- extended the support for keyword sets (see Editor->Highlighters->Keywords configuration page)

Email
- changed the Google Mail interface to not use obsoleted packages anymore

Multi Project
- added capability to the multi project browser to copy a project

Unit Test
- added the capability to select the virtual environment for the unittest run
- removed the 'local' selection because it is obsolete
- added capability to auto-discover tests
- added capability to show auto-discovered tests and select from this list
- added capability to stop the test on the first error or failure
- added capability to run test with debugger support

Web Browser (NG)
- added these search engines to the default list:
-- MetaGer
-- StartPage (German)
-- searx.me
- added support to go one page back by pressing the backspace key

Version 19.03 1 year ago

bug fixes

Conda Interface
- added an interface to the conda environment and package management (part of the Anaconda Python distribution)

Editor
- suppress auto-completions in various circumstances

pip Interface
- changed the interface from being menu based to a widget in the right side toolbox

VirtualEnv Manager
- extended the environment definition by a flag indicating a remotely accessed environment

Web Browser (NG):
- added a site info widget that is show when the site icon in the URL entry is clicked
- added code to register custom protocol handlers (upon request of the user via the site info widget)

Third Party packages
- updated pycodestyle to 2.5.0 and added option to set the documentation line length
- upgraded pyflakes to 2.1.0

Version 19.02.1 1 year ago

This release fixes a few bugs and gets rid of some compatibility issues related to PyQt 5.12 and QScintilla 2.11.0.

Version 19.02 1 year ago

bug fixes

Debugger
- show / stop at correct line number if an exception happens in a with statement or specific try-except clauses where no breakpoints are set

Editor
- added cpability to suppress some markers in the marker map

Multi Project
- added capability to the multi project browser to delete a project from disk

Web Browser (NG):
- added support to select a client SSL certificate (as of Qt 5.12)

Third Party packages
- updated coverage.py to 4.5.2
- updated jasy to 1.5-beta6 (latest release available)
- updated Pygments to 2.3.1

Version 19.01 1 year ago

bug fixes

pip Interface
- added an entry to select the virtual environment of the current project if it has one defined

Project Resources Browser
- added support for some resource compiler options

Web Browser (old):
- added single application mode
- change logic inside eric to use a remote controlled web browser to show help texts

Web Browser (NG):
- added single application mode
- change logic inside eric to use a remote controlled web browser to show help texts