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Subject: [ANN] Spyder 3.3.5 is released!

Hi all,

On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, I'm pleased to announce that Spyder 3.3.5 has been released and is available for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases

This release comes almost three months version 3.3.4 and it adds the following new features:

  • Add option to allow users showing/hiding CMD windows created by the subprocess module on Windows. The option can be found in Preferences > IPython Console > Advanced settings > Windows adjustments.

In this release we fixed 10 issues and merged 12 pull requests that amount to 46 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 second public beta release

Hi all,

On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, I'm pleased to announce the second 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 10 months after Spyder 4.0 beta1 and it includes 2150 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.
    • Create a separate window when undocking all panes.
    • Add translations for Simplified Chinese and German.

  • Editor

    • Code folding.
    • Indent guides.
    • A class/method/function lookup “context panel”.
    • Autosave functionality to recover unsaved files after a crash.
    • Code completion and linting are provided by the Language Server Protocol.

  • IPython Console

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

  • Variable Explorer

    • Add MultiIndex display support to the Dataframe viewer.
    • Add support for all Pandas indexes.
    • Add support for sets.

  • File Explorer

    • Add Open With OS context menu action to all files, to open any file or directory externally.
    • 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 Explorer

    • Show cells grouped in sections.

For a 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=4.0.0b2

Or you can use pip with this command:

pip install --pre -U spyder

Enjoy! Carlos