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Subject: [ANN] Spyder 3.3.6 is released!

Hi all,

On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, I'm pleased to announce that Spyder 3.3.6 has been released and is available for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases

This release comes two weeks after version 3.3.5 and it doesn't add new features.

In this release we fixed 2 issues and merged 3 pull requests that amount to 11 commits. For a full list of fixes, please see our Changelog.

Don't forget to follow Spyder updates/news on the project's website.

Last, but not least, we welcome any contribution that helps making Spyder an efficient scientific development and computing environment. Join us to help creating your favorite environment!

Enjoy! Carlos

Major release to list

Subject: [ANN] Spyder 3.0 is released!

Hi all,

On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, I'm pleased to announce that Spyder 3.0 has been released and is available for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases

This release represents more than two years of development since version 2.3.0 was released, and it introduces major enhancements and new features. The most important ones are:

  • Third-party plugins: External developers can now create plugins that extend Spyder in novel and interesting ways. For example, we already have plugins for the line-profiler and memory-profiler projects, and also a graphical frontend for the conda package manager. These plugins can be distributed as pip and/or conda packages for authors convenience.
  • Improved projects support: Projects have been revamped and improved significantly in Spyder 3.0. With our new projects support, people will have the possibility of easily working on different coding efforts at the same time. That's because projects save the state of open files in the Editor and allow Python packages created as part of the project to be imported in our consoles.
  • Support for much more programming languages: Spyder relies now on the excellent Pygments library to provide syntax highlight and suggest code completions in the Editor, for all programming languages supported by it.
  • A new file switcher: Spyder 3.0 comes with a fancy file switcher, very similar in spirit to the one present in Sublime Text. This is a dialog to select among the open files in the Editor, by doing a fuzzy search through their names. It also lets users to view the list of classes, methods and functions defined in the current file, and select one of them. This dialog is activated with Ctrl+P.
  • A Numpy array graphical builder: Users who need to create NumPy arrays in Spyder for matrices and vectors can do it now in a graphical way by pressing Ctrl+M in the Editor or the Consoles. This will open an empty 2D table widget to be filled with the data required by the user.
  • A new icon theme based on FontAwesome.
  • A new set of default pane layouts for those coming from Rstudio or Matlab (under View > Window layouts).
  • A simpler and more intuitive way to introduce keyboard shortcuts.
  • Support for PyQt5, which fixes problems in MacOS X and in high definition screens.

For a complete list of changes, please see our changelog

Spyder 2.3 has been a huge success (being downloaded almost 550,000 times!) and we hope 3.0 will be as successful as it. For that we fixed 203 important bugs, merged 218 pull requests from about 40 authors and added almost 2850 commits between these two releases.

Don't forget to follow Spyder updates/news on the project Github website: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder

Last, but not least, we welcome any contribution that helps making Spyder an efficient scientific development/computing environment. Join us to help creating your favorite environment!

Enjoy! -Carlos

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Subject: [ANN] Spyder 3.0 is released!

Hi all,

On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors (https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/graphs/contributors), I'm pleased to announce that Spyder 3.0 has been released and is available for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases

Spyder is a free, open-source (MIT license) interactive development environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive testing, debugging and introspection features. It was designed to provide MATLAB-like features (integrated help, interactive console, variable explorer with GUI-based editors for NumPy arrays and Pandas dataframes), it is strongly oriented towards scientific computing and software development.

Beta release

Subject: [ANN] Spyder 4.0 fourth public beta release

Hi all,

On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, I'm pleased to announce the fourth beta of our next major version: Spyder 4.0.

We've been working on this version for almost three years now and as far as we know it's working very well. There are still several bugs to squash but we encourage all people who like the bleeding edge to give it a try. This beta version is released 5 weeks after Spyder 4.0 beta3 and it includes more than 400 commits.

Spyder 4.0 comes with several interesting and exciting new features. The most important ones are:

  • Main Window

    • Dark theme for the entire application.
    • A new Plots pane to browse all inline figures generated by the IPython console.
    • Rename the following panes:
      • Static code analysis to Code Analysis
      • File explorer to Files
      • Find in files to Find
      • History log to History
      • Project explorer to Project
    • Create a separate window when undocking all panes.
    • Show current conda environment (if any) in the status bar.

  • Editor

    • Code folding.
    • Indent guides.
    • Code completion on the fly.
    • A class/method/function lookup panel. This can be shown in the menu Source > Show selector for classes and functions.
    • Autosave functionality to recover unsaved files after a crash.
    • Code completion and linting are provided by the Python Language Server.

  • IPython Console

    • Add menu options to start consoles in Pylab, Sympy and Cython modes.
    • Cells are run through a new function called runcell.

  • Variable Explorer

    • Add a new viewer to inspect any Python object in a tree-like view.
    • Add the ability to filter variables by name or type.
    • Add MultiIndex display support to the Dataframe viewer.
    • Add support for all Pandas indexes.
    • Add support for sets.
    • Add support for Numpy object arrays.

  • Files

    • Add the possibility to associate different external applications to open specific file extensions.
    • Add a context menu action called Open externally to all files to open them with the default program associated with the file type.
    • Add multi-select functionality (Ctrl/Shift+click).
    • Add the ability to copy/paste files and their absolute or relative paths.
    • Use special icons for different file types.
    • Add an option to open files and directories with a single click.

  • Outline

    • Show cells grouped in sections.
    • Add a default name to all cells.

For a more complete list of changes, please see our changelog

You can easily install this beta if you use Anaconda by running:

conda update qt pyqt
conda install -c spyder-ide spyder=4.0.0b3

Or you can use pip with this command:

pip install --pre -U spyder

Enjoy! Carlos