History of changes

Version 3.1.4 (2017-04-24)

Bugs fixed

Issues

Issue 4372 - Update translations for 3.1.4
Issue 4284 - The message about the removal of the Python console is also shown on the Internal console
Issue 4233 - Python console is stealing focus at startup because of message about its removal
Issue 4217 - "Unable to connect to the internet" problem
Issue 4191 - Kernel dies and can't report errors because of failure to read stderr file
Issue 4174 - Add our required packages for testing to setup.py
Issue 4173 - Add a message in the update dialog about not using pip if Spyder is running under Anaconda/Miniconda
Issue 4172 - Add a message to the Python console about its removal in Spyder 3.2
Issue 4170 - IPython console fails to start (Ipython >=6.x)
Issue 4161 - Create a test for finding print statements in the code
Issue 4141 - Code completion breaks with Spyder 3 for modules added through the Python path manager
Issue 4003 - Debugging seems to break with recent versions of Spyder and tqdm
Issue 4002 - %matplolib magic command in IPython terminal needs to be executed twice
Issue 3985 - Add CI testing with Python 3.6
Issue 3967 - Hide calltip when a matching ) is written up to the starting point where it's shown
Issue 3926 - File switcher doesn't leave focus in its last selected file when it looses focus
Issue 3823 - sig_new_file error when converting notebook to script
Issue 3195 - Test stand alone widgets in application
Issue 1855 - can't run doctest - unexpected keyword argument 'nosigint'

In this release 19 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 4389 - PR: Update Spanish translation
PR 4387 - PR: Update Japanese translation
PR 4375 - PR: Update Russian translations
PR 4369 - PR: Add encoding handling to stderr files in the IPython Console
PR 4361 - PR: Fix some inline backend issues
PR 4353 - PR: Test conversion of notebooks to Python files from the Project Explorer
PR 4345 - PR: Simplify Appveyor installation
PR 4342 - PR: Decrease test times by moving Qt4 tests to Travis
PR 4341 - PR: Make jedi_patch.py to work with Jedi 0.10.x versions
PR 4321 - PR: Add all tests to the distributed package
PR 4311 - PR: More robust username query
PR 4293 - PR: Skip and re-run some tests that fail too much
PR 4292 - PR: Backport PR #4286
PR 4290 - PR: Add support for other plugins in File Switcher
PR 4283 - PR: Don't fail while running tests if coveralls fails for whatever reason
PR 4263 - PR: Add Spyder PYTHONPATH to PluginClient
PR 4256 - PR: Some test fixes
PR 4251 - PR: Add pytest-xvfb to our test dependencies
PR 4249 - PR: Run our tests with PyQt5 wheels on CircleCI
PR 4248 - PR: Change how to add removal message for the Python console to not make it steal focus
PR 4247 - PR: Added sigint argument to SpyderPdb constructor
PR 4246 - PR: Make %matplotlib magic to really change backends
PR 4237 - PR: Don't show internet conection errors on startup when trying to check for new releases
PR 4230 - PR: Run tests for PyQt4 and Python 3.6 on CircleCI
PR 4226 - PR: Generalice previous is_instance test to search other avoided patterns
PR 4224 - PR: Add warning message about updating Spyder if installed with Anaconda
PR 4208 - PR: Surround deprecated IPython quick_quide import by try/except block
PR 4199 - PR: Move all tests to be pytest's
PR 4189 - PR: Fixup MANIFEST.in to include the changelog
PR 4185 - PR: Add testing requirements to setup.py
PR 4177 - PR: Add a message informing the removal of the Python console
PR 4123 - PR: Add AppStream metainfo file
PR 4121 - PR: Monkey patch Jedi 0.10.0 for numpydoc
PR 4019 - PR: Handle errors while debugging code when importing tqdm
PR 3984 - PR: Correctly hide calltip when matching closing parenthesis
PR 3956 - PR: Add missing signal to convert notebooks from the project explorer
PR 3952 - PR: Make File Switcher leave focus on its last selected file when it loses focus

In this release 37 pull requests were merged

Version 3.1.3 (2017-02-20)

Bugs fixed

Issues

Issue 4139 - Nan value in dataframe editor crash Spyder
Issue 4128 - Add the version of PyQt in the report of the issue
Issue 4127 - UnboundLocalError: local variable 'img_path' referenced before assignment
Issue 4122 - Spyder closes after completing Run settings dialog for a first run.
Issue 4096 - More issues with autoindentation
Issue 4088 - Crash when saving an image in the IPython console
Issue 4086 - Error when launching a new Editor window from the options in the menu.
Issue 4085 - Crash in "New window" when opening new file.
Issue 4076 - Add tests to verify that importing .mat files is working
Issue 4074 - Identation broken after statements with closing parenthesis followed by more code
Issue 4072 - Case sensitive replace does not respect case
Issue 4066 - Spyder core dumps if an opened variable in variable explorer gets deleted
Issue 4063 - Spyder crashes when killing the current process to start a new one
Issue 4053 - Spyder 3.1.2 cannot connect to kernel as 3.0.2
Issue 4052 - Maximising current pane fails and hangs Spyder 3.1.x
Issue 4050 - Wrong binary in Python 3 wheels
Issue 4041 - Create a way to add tests for the whole app
Issue 4037 - Tabs as indentation - characters being removed in editor
Issue 4030 - Inconsistent icon for "Find symbols in file..."
Issue 4005 - Find in Files not working after 3.1.0 update
Issue 3992 - Remove unnecessary newlines in run cell
Issue 3972 - Remove file path from Editor's plugin title
Issue 3970 - Error when editing markdown
Issue 3917 - Failed to import data in Variable Explorer on Windows
Issue 3476 - New breakpoints can't be created in the IPython console

In this release 25 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 4175 - PR: Set new breakpoints in the IPython console while on a debugging session
PR 4171 - PR: Re-run flaky tests several times
PR 4165 - PR: Loading spydata files now uncompress them inside a temp folder
PR 4152 - PR: Skip matlab import test if SciPy is not installed.
PR 4151 - PR: Make tests more reliable
PR 4148 - PR: Use an older Miniconda version for Python 3
PR 4144 - PR: Some fixes for Find in files
PR 4142 - PR: Gracefully handle ValueError in DataFrameModel
PR 4140 - PR: Disable some tests on Windows because they are timing out recurrently
PR 4133 - PR: Add an initialization value to img_path
PR 4130 - PR: Correctly stop pytest's on failure
PR 4129 - PR: Add Qt and PyQt version in the report of the issue
PR 4125 - PR: Make loading IPython kernels by using their ids to work again
PR 4113 - PR: Add a validation for the PyQt version used to show a message in the Python console
PR 4110 - PR: Add more tests for the main window
PR 4109 - PR: Fix maximize button
PR 4106 - PR: Prevent some crashes and errors when editing objects in the Variable Explorer
PR 4105 - PR: Fix hard crash when trying to open files in a new editor window
PR 4104 - PR: Pin Jedi to 0.9.0
PR 4102 - PR: Added Matlab files import tests
PR 4097 - PR: Add a validation for editorstack existence
PR 4082 - PR: More autoindentation fixes
PR 4079 - PR: Add a flag to use case sensitive search/replace
PR 4069 - PR: Fix executable name in Python 3 wheels
PR 4043 - PR: Use the "at" symbol to represent the symbol finder everywhere
PR 4042 - PR: Unindent with tabs was deleting some text.
PR 4034 - PR: Fix error when using TextSH (default highligher)
PR 4006 - PR: Remove unnecessary new lines when running cells
PR 3975 - PR: Remove file path from the Editor's plugin title.

In this release 29 pull requests were merged

Version 3.1.2 (2017-01-24)

Bugs fixed

Issues

Issue 4025 - Error when running cell for the first time in the Editor
Issue 4021 - Spyder fails to import numpy on first line of a file

In this release 2 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 4031 - PR: Fix error when running cells because previous_focused_widget is not initialized in main window
PR 4029 - PR: Fix fix_indent() when editor cursor is on the first line

In this release 2 pull requests were merged

Version 3.1.1 (2017-01-22)

Bugs fixed

Issues

Issue 4012 - Edit menu items greyed out after update to Spyder 3.1.0
Issue 3989 - Spyder won't start after upgrade to 3.1.0 due to an error with QRegularExpression
Issue 3987 - Errors running or importing code because sys.argv is empty

In this release 3 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 4022 - PR: Edit menu disable error
PR 3997 - PR: Enclosing quotes of sys.argv clearing instruction are now consistent
PR 3994 - PR: Use QRegularExpression only for Qt 5.5+

In this release 3 pull requests were merged

Version 3.1 (2017-01-18)

New features

Main Window

Add Introduction interactive tour to explain the main Spyder components (in Help > Interactive tours). This tour was announced in Spyder 3.0 but deactivated due to an error.

Editor

Add the Solarized Light and Dark color schemes.
Add support for greedy regular expressions in the find/replace widget (only available with PyQt5).
Improve the use of tabs instead of spaces for indentation.
Add Ctrl+Shift+T shortcut to reopen the last closed file.
Show completions for Numpy and Matplotlib compiled objects (e.g. np.array and plt.figure)
Disambiguate tabs in case users open several files with the same name.
Add the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+P to open a switcher to select among the symbols (functions, methods or classes) present in a file. Also add an entry in the File menu and toolbar button to show this switcher.

Variable Explorer

Add support for the most important numeric types of Numpy (32 and 64 bits int, float and complex numbers).
Save format for floats in DataFrame editor.
Make the index column of DataFrame editor always visible when scrolling to right and left.
Add support for Pandas DatetimeIndex objects.
Show empty Numpy arrays.

IPython Console

Be able to load kernel json files anywhere in the file system when connecting to external kernels.
Add an option (under Preferences > Run and Run > Configure) to clear all variables present in a console before running a file (it runs %reset -f in the associated kernel).

Profiler

Show time units (in seconds) spent by each function or method.

Settings

Make all keyboard shortcuts configurable

Under the hood

Add the --project <path-to-dir> command line option to load projects at startup.
Add the chardet and numpydoc libraries as new dependencies.

Bugs fixed

Issues

Issue 3968 - Update translations for 3.1
Issue 3962 - Update Appveyor Badge for new username spyder-ide
Issue 3961 - Add devs to the Appveyor account
Issue 3949 - F9 broken in latest git master
Issue 3943 - Qtpy 1.2.0 breaks Spyder with Qt4
Issue 3932 - Add verification for 'text/plain' key in all evaluations of the IPython console
Issue 3925 - Go-to-line dialog shows a question mark button that does nothing
Issue 3901 - Incorrect use of "it's" in tutorial
Issue 3896 - Spyder Variable explorer crashes when double clicking a 2 line DataFrame
Issue 3883 - Error when executing argparse in IPython console
Issue 3875 - async and await keywords highlight
Issue 3874 - Spyder freezes on new project creation
Issue 3859 - Extra selections should be ordered
Issue 3855 - Add fuzzy function/class search shortcut
Issue 3848 - 'self' not defined in DataFrameView.update_section_height()
Issue 3843 - Spyder shows blank screen because of errors in QtAwesome
Issue 3830 - Add a command line option to load projects
Issue 3818 - F1 shortcut is hard-coded
Issue 3809 - No call tips when 'Automatic insertion of parentheses, braces and brackets' is unchecked
Issue 3807 - Directory with non-ascii characters throws an error when it's made the working directory on the IPython console
Issue 3800 - Auto indentation of line following indented block
Issue 3794 - Create menu separator instead of None
Issue 3788 - runfile with path containing apostrophe will not work
Issue 3772 - Configparser error leads to crash of Spyder 3 under Python(x,y)
Issue 3764 - Problems with default extension in save_as
Issue 3763 - Replace contents of Find widget with current selection
Issue 3759 - KeyError: 'execution_count' in IPython console
Issue 3756 - Verify that the interpreter selected in Main Interpreter is really a Python interpreter
Issue 3755 - Redefined hotkeys are not displayed in menu
Issue 3753 - Saving a file is not respecting the encoding detected with chardet
Issue 3748 - Bad window size in spyder.ini prevents Spyder from showing
Issue 3746 - Menu view/toolbar has empty contents
Issue 3738 - Spyder crashes at startup because of errors when importing Sympy
Issue 3737 - Fast switch between files gives error for unicode files
Issue 3731 - Correctly report the encoding of files in the Editor using the chardet library
Issue 3729 - Define tabulation width in term of spaces instead of pixels
Issue 3706 - Spyder fails to create kernel.json files if jupyter_runtime_dir is not writable
Issue 3704 - Create a get_words method in introspection utils
Issue 3703 - Don't replace text in the find widget if there's text there
Issue 3700 - Wrong autoindentation with lists that contains strings with parenthesis
Issue 3680 - Autoindentation not working in first line
Issue 3678 - Weird behaviour of Save as...
Issue 3672 - Profiler is not showing time units
Issue 3670 - Dragging and dropping files in the Editor is failing
Issue 3651 - Improve indentation tests
Issue 3648 - Edit menu shortcuts are invisible
Issue 3638 - Variable explorer should display the value of numpy.int64 variables
Issue 3631 - Edit context menu appears only for utf-8 files in project explorer
Issue 3630 - Load external kernel json files from anywhere in the file system
Issue 3627 - Spyder won't start because of "ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8" in macOS
Issue 3608 - Syntax highlighting of decorators
Issue 3535 - Run ciocheck as part of our tests to test code style
Issue 3508 - Indentation issue using Tabs
Issue 3480 - Editor doesn't support hanging indentation
Issue 3473 - Incorrect auto-indentation
Issue 3461 - Click on outisde of tour should exit tour
Issue 3459 - Auto-adjust rows height in the Variable Explorer
Issue 3458 - Feature Request: Clear Console After Kernel Restart
Issue 3452 - Interactive tour freezes Spyder on Windows
Issue 3415 - Can't change Run Selection keyboard shortcut from F9 to Cmd + Shift + Enter
Issue 3408 - Find and replace: Greedy regular expressions
Issue 3407 - Sitecustomize fails when current directory has non-ascii chars
Issue 3395 - Don't hard code the Ctrl+Enter shortcut
Issue 3380 - DatetimeIndex types are not visible in the Variable Explorer
Issue 3322 - Spyder crashes with Unicode symbols in editor
Issue 3249 - Regex is not fully functional when using to find&replace
Issue 3160 - Disambiguate Editor tabs
Issue 3141 - Search for backslash () sign
Issue 3026 - File save as: file is unavailable
Issue 3005 - Getting "Spyder already running" warning when it's not
Issue 2927 - Editor: "move line up/down" commands broken when moving past a blank line
Issue 2907 - Modified file flag ('*') disappears from tab in the Editor
Issue 2728 - Add the default format in dataframe editor to user preferences
Issue 2644 - Editor: Popup showing function arguments only displayed for 3 seconds
Issue 2563 - Enhancement: add option to "clear all" variables before running script
Issue 2512 - Index column of Pandas DataFrame should be visible all the time
Issue 2415 - Add shortcut to open last closed tab
Issue 2392 - Current EOL status is displayed incorrectly after changing it
Issue 1165 - Console tabs are too big because they display the full filename

In this release 79 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 3983 - Update Spanish translations
PR 3982 - PR: More fixes for Appveyor
PR 3979 - Update Brazilian Portuguese translation
PR 3971 - PR: Don't run pytest tests when running modules_test.bat in Appveyor
PR 3963 - PR: Update AppVeyor badge in Readme because of move to org account
PR 3960 - PR: Ping conda-build to 2.1.0 for compatibility with conda 4.3 in Travis and AppVeyor
PR 3951 - PR: Add default value to clear_variables=False in execute code method
PR 3944 - PR: Change setResizeMode to setSectionResizeMode
PR 3936 - PR: Backport PR #3577 - Use inspect.getfullargspec to support annotated functions in the Help pane
PR 3935 - PR: Add validation for 'text/plain' key in all if clauses of handle_exec_method
PR 3933 - PR: Catch LookupError when encoding in encode() function
PR 3931 - PR: Add some tests for indentation with brackets
PR 3930 - PR: Use encoding.encode function in run_code_analysis.
PR 3929 - PR: Save file with original encoding if possible
PR 3927 - PR: Remove question mark button on the 'Go to line' dialog.
PR 3920 - PR: Incorrect use of "it's" in tutorial
PR 3918 - PR: Clean sys.argv in our IPython kernels
PR 3898 - PR: Get the proper encoding for the header text of Dataframe editor
PR 3893 - PR: Show calltips when 'Automatic insertion of parentheses, braces and brackets' is unchecked
PR 3886 - PR: Add a way to handle font errors in QtAwesome
PR 3885 - PR: Add async and await as keywords for syntax highlighting
PR 3884 - PR: Hide tour tips dialog when Spyder looses focus
PR 3879 - PR: Make Spyder not to freeze on new project creation
PR 3878 - PR: Add function/class search shortcut, menu and toolbar entries
PR 3871 - PR: Add option to "clear all" variables before running file
PR 3866 - PR: Add code to cancel active Appveyor builds in a branch
PR 3864 - PR: Extra selections is now an ordered dictionary
PR 3861 - PR: Show kernel initialization errors in the IPython console
PR 3854 - PR: Add disambiguation functionality to the Python console
PR 3853 - PR: Move rope_patch.py to utils/introspection
PR 3852 - PR: Add missing 'self' to DataFrameView.update_section_height
PR 3849 - PR: Support DatetimeIndex in Variable Explorer
PR 3847 - PR: Make regex fully functional when using find & replace
PR 3845 - PR: Install ciocheck from the spyder-ide Anaconda channel
PR 3842 - PR: Validate that Main Interpreter is really a Python interpreter
PR 3840 - PR: Make conda respect channel priority in CircleCI
PR 3837 - PR: Catch UnicodeDecodeError when trying to import matplotlib in sitecustomize.py.
PR 3836 - PR: Ignore some superflous errors reported by ciocheck
PR 3834 - PR: Add a command line option to load projects
PR 3827 - PR: Don't run Pylint with ciocheck
PR 3826 - PR: Improve auto indentation of line following indented block
PR 3822 - PR: Make Spyder documentation keyboard shortcut configurable
PR 3817 - PR: Fix "move line down" behavior in the presence of blank lines
PR 3813 - PR: Fixed encoding issue when changing cwd in the IPython console
PR 3811 - PR: Make index column of DataFrame editor always visible
PR 3808 - Patch Jedi to get completions for compiled objects in Numpy and Matplotlib
PR 3806 - PR: Added management for toolbars in new Editor windows instances.
PR 3805 - PR: Backport #3803 - Use CircleCI for testing
PR 3802 - PR: Add missing menus to show shortcuts for in macOS
PR 3796 - PR: Make running a file with single quotes on its path not to throw an error on Windows
PR 3795 - PR: Use a menu separator constant instead of None
PR 3793 - PR: Closing tour does not freeze Spyder on windows
PR 3791 - PR: Catch error raised in isbinaryornot when trying to open a directory
PR 3787 - PR: Redefinition of upper/lower shortcuts was not updated in Edit menu
PR 3785 - PR: Change file switcher entries to unicode
PR 3781 - PR: Backport #3574 - Improve style of scientific startup script
PR 3776 - Improve highlighter decorator regexp
PR 3774 - PR: Delete references to the 'xy' module.
PR 3770 - PR: Modified behavior for the Find widget to replace contents with current selection
PR 3765 - PR: Set Python as default file extension for the "Save As" dialog
PR 3760 - PR: Define tabulation width in term of spaces instead of pixels
PR 3757 - PR: Add get_words function to introspection/utils
PR 3754 - PR: Added validation to window/position config value saved in spyder.ini
PR 3752 - Backport pull request #3534 (Solarized themes)
PR 3749 - PR: Fix View/Toolbars menu
PR 3742 - PR: Use chardet as a fallback for encoding detection
PR 3741 - PR: Show time units in Profiler
PR 3739 - Utils: Make is_module_installed to catch all errors when importing a module
PR 3733 - PR: Fix EOL status after changing it
PR 3719 - PR: Spyder wont crash if it can not acces jupyter runtime dir
PR 3717 - PR: Load kernel json files anywhere in the filesystem
PR 3715 - PR: Add disambiguation functionality for Editor tabs
PR 3709 - PR: Don't replace text in the find widget if there's text there
PR 3707 - PR: Disable languages whose translations are outdated
PR 3699 - PR: Remove logic to delete last dir separator (, /) in find and replace widget
PR 3696 - PR: Use QRegularExpression for find and replace (only for PyQt5)
PR 3695 - PR: Set English as default language if getdefaultlocale gives errors
PR 3685 - PR: Fixed weird behavior of "Save as"
PR 3675 - PR: Several fixes for the Variable Explorer
PR 3663 - PR: Fix some errors of Indentation with tabs
PR 3659 - PR: Improve spyder.lock pid verfication
PR 3654 - PR: Add regex to highlight decorators
PR 3653 - PR: Added support to the principal numeric Numpy types in the Variable Explorer
PR 3640 - PR: Check if files are text files using the binaryornot package
PR 3620 - PR: Add Ctrl+Shift+T shortcut to reopen the last closed Editor tab
PR 3611 - PR: Remember format for floats in DataFrame editor
PR 3604 - PR: Add ciocheck linter formater tester
PR 3498 - PR: Change fixed shortcuts for configurable ones
PR 3487 - PR: Add hanging Indentation to the Editor
PR 3296 - PR: Don't hide calltip widget with a timer

In this release 91 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0.2 (2016/11/20)

New features

Add an option under Preferences > General to enable/disable high DPI scaling (disabled by default).
Add a menu entry in the Projects menu to cleanly delete projects.
Add the shortcuts Ctrl+U and Ctrl+Shift+U to turn text into lower/uppercase respectively.

Bugs fixed

Issues

Issue 3647 - "%reset -s" is giving an error in the IPython console
Issue 3618 - Removing a project deletes also the files on the disk
Issue 3609 - New release dialog is un-clickable
Issue 3588 - Files are opened twice at startup if a project is active
Issue 3583 - Error when connecting to external kernels
Issue 3575 - Cannot press Enter after underscore in File Switcher
Issue 3564 - Error when reloading modules in the IPython Console in Python 2
Issue 3561 - Working Directory toolbar is not working for IPython Consoles
Issue 3553 - Spyder fails to launch because of Unicode errors in create_kernel_spec
Issue 3522 - Dependencies diaog not updating correctly when installing dependencies while spyder is running
Issue 3519 - Cannot set Maximum Number of Recent Files
Issue 3513 - Spyder does not free up memory after closing windows with datasets in the Variable explorer
Issue 3489 - Display problems on systems that use 'display scaling'
Issue 3444 - Reports of Kernel Death are greatly exagerated
Issue 3436 - Default file extension should be .py instead of empty
Issue 3430 - Update translations
Issue 3214 - Indentation after a line with [] and {} is reset
Issue 3127 - Spyder fails to launch because of errors in spyder.ini
Issue 2159 - Built-in 'print' statement is displayed as two different colors depending on indentation
Issue 1669 - Menu item and shortcut to toggle UPPER and lower case of selected text
Issue 1665 - sympy shadows matplotlib in ipython console
Issue 1373 - Editor autoindentation fails after list, dict

In this release 22 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 3702 - PR: Update French translation
PR 3694 - Restore icons in the code completion widget
PR 3687 - Increase time to detect if an IPython kernel is alive
PR 3681 - Update Spanish translation
PR 3679 - Update Russian translations
PR 3664 - Free memory when closing a Variable Explorer editor
PR 3661 - IPython Console: Fix error when running "%reset -s"
PR 3660 - IPython Console: Simple fix after PR #3641
PR 3642 - PR: Fix unclickable update message box
PR 3641 - PR: Fix error when trying to add a non-ascii module in Python 2 to the UMR blacklist
PR 3629 - PR: Add shortcut for Upper/Lower functionality
PR 3626 - PR: Added management for delete operation of a project
PR 3622 - Fix connection between the IPython Console and the Working Directory toolbar
PR 3621 - Some corrections after pull request #3580
PR 3619 - Fix another error when connecting to external kernels
PR 3615 - PR: Allow underscore to be valid for Enter in File Switcher
PR 3599 - Load default settings if there is any error in spyder.ini
PR 3596 - PR: New warning message in IPython console when both pylab and sympy are enabled
PR 3590 - Fix builtin and keywords highlighting depending on indentation
PR 3589 - Don't open files saved as part of a project twice at startup
PR 3582 - PR: Added a verification for the existence of the 'text/plain' key
PR 3581 - PR: remove spyder/widgets/tests/init.py because of error in execution of pytest -rxs
PR 3580 - PR: Set default file extension in save dialog
PR 3576 - Fix autoindentation after data structures.
PR 3572 - PR: Change deprecated funtion QInputDialog.getInteger for QInputDialog.getInt
PR 3551 - Add option to set/unset dpi scaling for screens that are not high resolution
PR 3543 - PR: Change of the label in the dependencies dialog

In this release 27 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0.1 (2016-10-19)

Bugfixes

Issues

Issue 3528 - Cannot see numpy datatypes in variable explorer
Issue 3518 - Spyder hangs with big numpy structured arrays
Issue 3484 - Fix menus in macOS
Issue 3475 - Cannot type left parenthesis in ipdb when automatic Help is turned on
Issue 3472 - Cannot connect to existing ipython kernel after upgrading to 3.0
Issue 3471 - "Local variable 'reply' referenced before assignment" on debugger exit
Issue 3454 - ImportError with create_app.py
Issue 3453 - Update docs for Projects
Issue 3317 - Console/Editor lose focus when auto-connected to help
Issue 2284 - Very slow boot time on Mac app

In this release 10 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 3560 - Update documentation
PR 3550 - Prevent WebEngine to steal focus when setting html on the page
PR 3548 - Fix some ipdb issues
PR 3546 - Truncate all values shown in the Variable Explorer
PR 3544 - Don't try to get shape and ndim for objects that are not ndarrays
PR 3541 - Update create_app.py for Spyder 3.0
PR 3540 - Fix problems when connecting to external kernels
PR 3501 - PR: Handle Mac menubar icon bug
PR 3499 - Testing: Pin conda-build to 2.0.0

In this release 9 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0 (2016-09-24)

New features

Main Window

The Object Inspector pane was renamed to Help.
Add a new icon theme based on FontAwesome.
Add an Introduction interactive tutorial (under the Help menu).
Add new default layouts (Horizontal, Vertical, Matlab and Rstudio), and also the possibility to name custom layouts.
Panes that are tabbed next to each other can now be rearranged by dragging and dropping their tabs.
Check for Spyder updates at startup, and also if you go to the menu entry Help > Check for updates.
Add the shortcut Shift+Alt+R to restart the application.
Add an option to warn when exiting the application, under Preferences > General > Interface > Prompt when exiting.
Add Portuguese, Russian and Japanese translations.
Remove light mode

Editor

Add highlighting and code completion to all file types supported by Pygments (a syntax highlighting library)
Use Ctrl+M and Ctrl+Alt+M to visually create matrices and vectors. It also works on the Python and IPython consoles.
Add a new file switcher inspired by the Sublime Text one, which can be called with the Ctrl+P shortcut. It can also be used to look for classes, functions and methods inside a file, using the @my_function syntax.

Projects

A new menu entry called Projects was added to the main window with all actions related to projects.
A project now saves the state of open files in the Editor, so that people can easily work on different coding efforts at the same time.
The project's path is added to PYTHONPATH, so that Python packages developed as part of a project can be easily imported in Spyder consoles.
The project explorer now shows a file tree view of the current project, as other editors and IDEs do (e.g. Sublime Text and VSCode).
Projects are completely optional and not imposed on users, i.e. users can work without creating any project.

Settings

Keyboard shortcuts can now be entered in an easier and more intuitive way.
Add a menu entry to reset to default settings, under Tools > Reset Spyder to factory defaults.
The language used in the main interface can now be changed. The option to do it is present in General > Advanced Settings.
Syntax coloring now has a preview of the selected theme and it's able to change the current theme for all plugins.
Plain and Rich text fonts for all plugins are now changed in General > Appearance.
Add a new entry called Python interpreter to allow people to select the interpreter used for all Python and IPython consoles (this was before in Console > Advanced settings).
Rename the Console entry to Python console.

IPython console

Drop support for IPython 3.0 and older versions.
Support the new qtconsole package instead.
Communicate directly with IPython kernels instead of doing it through the Python console.

Debugging

Enter debugging mode if running a file generates errors. This is not activated by default but you can do it by going to Run > Configure > General settings.

Profiler

Add the ability to save and restore profiler data to compare speed improvements.

Working directory toolbar

Get directory completions by pressing the Tab key twice on it.

API Changes

Major changes

The spyderlib module was renamed to spyder
spyderplugins has been removed and its plugins have been assigned to different different modules (spyder_profiler, spyder_breakpoints, etc) still distributed with the Spyder package.

Minor changes

spyderlib.widgets.dicteditor.DictEditor has been renamed to spyder.widgets.variableexplorer.collectionseditor.CollectionsEditor.
spyderlib/widgets/dicteditorutils.py has been renamed to spyder/widgets/variableexplorer/utils.py.
spyderlib/widgets/externalshell/namespacebrowser.py has been moved to spyder/widgets/variableexplorer.
spyderlib/widgets/externalshell/syntaxhighlighters.py has been moved to spyder/utils/.
Variable Explorer editor widgets were moved from spyderlib.widgets to spyder.widgets.variableexplorer:
- spyder.widgets.variableexplorer.arrayeditor
- spyder.widgets.variableexplorer.collectionseditor
- spyder.widgets.variableexplorer.objecteditor
- spyder.widgets.variableexplorer.texteditor
- spyder.widgets.variableexplorer.dataframeeditor
Modules used for configuration options (e.g. spyderlib.config, spyderlib.baseconfig, etc) were moved to a new namespace called spyder.config.
Modules and files related to the application have been moved to spyder.app.
spyderlib/plugins/projectexplorer.py has been renamed to spyder/plugins/projects.py
spyderlib/widgets/projectexplorer.py has been renamed to spyder/widgets/projects/explorer.py
spyderlib/plugins/inspector.py was renamed to spyder/plugins/help.py.
spyderlib/utils/inspector was renamed to spyder/utils/help.
spyderlib.qt was removed.
spyderlib/widgets/ipython.py was broken in several files inside spyder/widgets/ipythonconsole.
spyder/widgets/externalshell/{sitecustomize.py, osx_app_site.py} were moved to spyder/utils/site
spyder/widgets/externalshell/start_ipython_kernel.py was moved to spyder/utils/ipython

Under the hood

Drop support for Python 2.6 and 3.2.
Support PyQt5.
Drop official support for PySide. Support for it will have to come from the community.
Move our settings directory to HOME/.spyder{-py3}. Previous location was HOME/.spyder2{-py3}
On Linux we now follow the XDG specification to save our settings, i.e. they are saved in ~/.config/spyder{-py3} or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/spyder{-py3} if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is defined.
Use the new (pythonic) style for signals and slots.
Test Spyder with the help of Travis and AppVeyor.
Code completions and help retrieval on the Editor are done asynchronously using a client/server architecture based on PyZMQ.
Spyder now uses the qtpy package to be able to work with PyQt4 and PyQt5 seamlessly.

Bugfixes

Issues

Issue 3428 - runfile is not defined ?
Issue 3427 - Spyder is opening black DOS windows now

In this release 2 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 3451 - Update Brazilian Portuguese translation
PR 3450 - Update Spanish translation
PR 3446 - Some fixes for Appveyor and Travis
PR 3442 - Avoid showing cmd consoles when starting IPython kernels on Windows
PR 3441 - Update Russian translation
PR 3439 - Fix profiler
PR 3438 - Add an init file to utils/site so it can be added to our tarballs

In this release 7 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0beta7 (2016-09-16)

Bugfixes

Issues

Issue 3419 - IPython console: help window hijacks ? keypress
Issue 3403 - Error when opening project and cancelling
Issue 3354 - IPython console run code lines not being saved in preferences
Issue 3109 - Auto select the only IPython or Python console after startup
Issue 3011 - Cannot connect to existing kernel with full path specified
Issue 2945 - Cannot locate kernel json file when connecting to remote ipython kernel
Issue 2918 - Spyder always switches back to IPython kernel from IPyhton console
Issue 2846 - Import runfile() produces errors when using a virtualenv
Issue 2844 - Spyder won't connect to kernel / IPython console after switching to an external interpreter
Issue 2790 - Make "Ask for confirmation before closing tabs" in IPython console work for all consoles
Issue 2696 - Enter in the IPython console inserts new line instead of executing current line after kernel restart
Issue 1860 - Don't show IPython kernels in the Python console by default

In this release 12 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 3423 - Try to fix plotting on Windows for the Python Console
PR 3422 - Don't try to use "?" to automatically get help in the IPython console
PR 3421 - Don't show a message when users press cancel in the "Open project" dialog
PR 3420 - Skip testing the Spyder kernel for IPython consoles
PR 3386 - Allow plugins with no dockwidgets
PR 3368 - Avoid eval() when reading config file
PR 2878 - PR: Remove IPython kernels from the Python console and connect directly to them

In this release 7 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0beta6 (2016-08-30)

Bugfixes

Issues

Issue 3363 - Spyder wont start unless file ".spyderproject" is deleted. UnpicklingError
Issue 3274 - Text not visible in new file switcher in KDE
Issue 3211 - Edited syntax coloring preferences are not applied or saved
Issue 3128 - Project Explorer filename filter (minor)
Issue 3099 - Can existing files be added to a Spyder project?
Issue 2887 - Make .spyderproject a textfile
Issue 2636 - Problems with filename extension for saved sessions
Issue 2595 - Spyder project renames/creates folders by removing first letter of imported directories
Issue 2460 - Design for Projects in 3.0
Issue 1964 - Project explorer doesn't refresh its contents
Issue 1947 - New Project not getting created
Issue 1642 - Files excluded by the filter list are displayed in the project explorer after start of spyder
Issue 1554 - Add project's path to our PYTHONPATH so that it can be imported in the console
Issue 1320 - Reorganize Spyder repository
Issue 1317 - Make Project Explorer remember state of open files when reopening

In this release 15 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 3377 - Completely rewrite our support for Projects
PR 3370 - Some improvements to our CI services
PR 3369 - Remove some old files and directories
PR 3356 - Remove icons from tabs for the Editor and IPython Console
PR 3355 - Some improvements to our file switcher
PR 3277 - Finish reorganization of the Spyder repo

In this release 6 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0beta5 (2016-08-22)

Bugfixes

Issues

Issue 3351 - Spyder not opening because of problems with spyder.lock
Issue 3327 - Drag and drop from OS file explorer is not working
Issue 3308 - Variable Explorer fails to display DataFrame with categories
Issue 3306 - Spyder unresponsive, requires forced quit (OS X)
Issue 3297 - Pressing Ctrl+P twice opens file switcher twice
Issue 3293 - F9 does not auto advance when it's at the last line
Issue 3288 - "Quit Spyder" menu entry doesn't work in 3.0.0b4 (OS X 10.11)
Issue 3287 - Spyder can't open a console because of problems with Beautiful Soup
Issue 3282 - QApplication is used from QtGui instead of QtWidgets in app/spyder.py
Issue 2940 - Variable explorer can't show Pandas objects containing timezone aware columns
Issue 2629 - Use XDG_CONFIG_HOME for config directory on Linux
Issue 2465 - Images are not rendered by the Help pane on Windows
Issue 2119 - Spyder doesn't render well on HighDpi screens

In this release 13 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 3366 - Fix "Quit Spyder" action on OS X
PR 3357 - Remove lock file as part of --reset
PR 3353 - Rewrite computation of max and min in dataframe editor
PR 3352 - Use XDG_CONFIG_HOME to save our settings on Linux
PR 3339 - Fix dragging and dropping files to the Editor
PR 3338 - Testing: Use Qt/PyQt 5.6 packages in Travis
PR 3336 - PR: Update readme and organize badges
PR 3333 - Enable high DPI scaling on Qt >= 5.6
PR 3325 - Fix further freezes because of pyzmq
PR 3324 - Make 'run line' add a blank line if on last line.
PR 3319 - Test Spyder with Qt 5.6 in AppVeyor
PR 3315 - Fix showing images in the Help plugin for Windows
PR 3313 - Toggle file switcher when pressing its keyboard shortcut
PR 3312 - Fix monkey-patching of QApplication
PR 3310 - Fix error when Beautiful Soup is installed incorrectly
PR 3300 - Re-include plugins in setup.py packages
PR 3295 - PR: Fix/Find in files
PR 3294 - Add keyboard shortcuts to context menu in editor
PR 3285 - Japanese translation
PR 3273 - Testing: Don't use particular tags when installing local conda packages

In this release 20 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0beta4 (2016-07-01)

Bugfixes

Issues

Issue 3267 - Spyder 3.0 Beta3 fails to start in OS X
Issue 3237 - Unable to see Float16 in Spyder Variable Explorer
Issue 3231 - Deprecation warning from IPython 5.0.0b4
Issue 3230 - Spyder is failing because of wrong qtpy version
Issue 3223 - Spyder 3.0 Beta 3 crashing or freezing because of zmq problems
Issue 3219 - Pylint report not jumping to line
Issue 3206 - Local variable 'backends' referenced before assignment when starting IPython kernel
Issue 3188 - Spyder crashes after creating a new file from Project/File Explorer
Issue 3187 - Spyder crashes after deleting a folder in File explorer
Issue 3186 - "New -> Module..." menu not saving the new module file to the disk
Issue 3159 - Cannot search text in Help pane
Issue 3155 - Exception raised when running script in external terminal
Issue 3150 - Fix external plugins import
Issue 3116 - Console panel resizing itself as new console tabs are opened
Issue 3020 - DataFrame editor should first sort up, then down
Issue 3010 - DataFrame editor should do a stable sort
Issue 2995 - Variable explorer - Sequence break with wrong mapping
Issue 2976 - Profiling hangs/freezes Spyder
Issue 2915 - Problems with changing keyboard shortcuts on Mac
Issue 2914 - Change keybinding for Replace text (⌘H) in the Editor on Mac
Issue 1462 - Repeatable segfault while editing HTML file
Issue 872 - Quotes and colons autocompletion

In this release 22 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 3271 - Fix introspection plugin server restart and timeout
PR 3266 - Fix searching text in our Web widgets
PR 3264 - Support float16 values in array editor
PR 3261 - Fix timeouts in AppVeyor
PR 3260 - Fix handling of unmatched end-of-HTML-comment.
PR 3253 - Update minimal required version of several of our dependencies
PR 3252 - Change Replace shortcut from Ctrl/Cmd+H to Ctrl/Cmd+R
PR 3251 - Fix problems in AppVeyor because of update in conda-build
PR 3248 - Fix heartbeat in introspection client/server
PR 3240 - Improve sorting in dataframe editor
PR 3235 - Fix several problems with our shortcuts system
PR 3234 - Create only one instance of IntrospectionManager for the application
PR 3233 - Fixes for qtpy 1.1.0
PR 3228 - Fix a bug preventing Spyder to open external file In Mac application
PR 3227 - Fix keyboard interrupt handling in plugin_server.py
PR 3222 - Variable explorer: Disregard list1 when sorting list1 against list2
PR 3218 - PR: Allow empty wdir option to run_python_script_in_terminal
PR 3217 - Fix icon name in conda windows build script.
PR 3210 - PR: Follow the Flask plugin model instead of namespace packages
PR 3209 - Fix undefined backends when starting IPython kernel
PR 3190 - Fix small Explorer bugs about file operations
PR 3177 - PR: Fix automatic insertion of colon
PR 3174 - PR: Fix tutorial images on Windows
PR 3095 - Add some indentation tests
PR 3024 - Added QMutex protection to write_output in Python consoles to avoid crashes when writing long outputs

In this release 25 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0beta3 (2016-06-06)

Bugfixes

Issues

Issue 3145 - Spyder doesn't work with Qt 5.6
Issue 3129 - Is there a way to modify the main window title?
Issue 3122 - Test array builder widget
Issue 3115 - Automatically advance to the next line after pressing F9
Issue 3113 - Cannot change font or font size
Issue 3112 - Cannot open preferences dialog because of missing PYQT5 constant
Issue 3101 - Migrate to qtpy
Issue 3100 - Migrate to qtpy: Remove internal Qt shim used by Spyder.
Issue 3084 - Variable Explorer generates an error while editing a DataFrame
Issue 3078 - (I)Python consoles are not setting PyQt API to #2
Issue 3073 - Spyder doesn't work with QtWebEngine
Issue 3061 - Different output for internal and external console on Windows
Issue 3053 - Ctrl+I doesn't seem to work on the editor on current tree on Windows
Issue 3041 - Spyder crash with "too many files open" message
Issue 3033 - Create a Remote Procedure Call helper
Issue 3022 - Turn off module completion fallback
Issue 3021 - Ghost completions
Issue 3013 - "Goto definition" stopped working (3.0.0b2 Mac)
Issue 3009 - Spyder crashes with Python 3.5 and pyqt4 if there are no existing configuration files
Issue 3000 - Shortcuts: reset console / empty namespace
Issue 2986 - Add context menu option for %reset
Issue 2968 - Variable explorer gives an error when copying values
Issue 2912 - Change keybinding for re-running last script
Issue 2910 - Automatically set working directory in console
Issue 2900 - 'Commit' command in File explorer not working in Spyder 3.0.0b2
Issue 2877 - path module not available in 3.0.0b2
Issue 2853 - Set all fonts to be one and only one for all plugins in spyder
Issue 2835 - Control+C should not copy if it has nothing selected on the editor
Issue 2724 - Editor very slow on Mac Yosemite and El Capitan
Issue 2703 - File in Project Explorer is being executed(?) on dbl-click
Issue 2619 - Spyder fails to start on light mode because of check_updates code
Issue 2438 - Use a single font for all panes
Issue 2407 - very slow auto completion with pandas
Issue 2376 - Rename Object Inspector plug-in
Issue 2354 - Context menu for tabs in editor should allow "close all but this" and "close all to the right"
Issue 2268 - Start testing with pytest/pytest-qt and coverage for Spyder
Issue 1996 - Unable to change the interface colors despite saving them in the preferences.
Issue 1750 - Fail to do automatic indentation after comments
Issue 1730 - 2 or 4 spaces, not 3
Issue 820 - Move all color-related options into Preferences -> Color scheme

In this release 40 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 3204 - Make "Spyder 3" the default icon theme
PR 3201 - Fix AppVeyor failures
PR 3198 - Support PyQt 5.6
PR 3151 - More robust plugin initialization in layout
PR 3146 - Editor: Move to next line in run_selection() if nothing selected
PR 3133 - Add an option to set window title to the command line
PR 3120 - PR: Add pytests for array builder, code coverage and quantified code
PR 3119 - PR: fix Russian translation
PR 3105 - Remove our internal Qt shim in favor of QtPy
PR 3098 - PR: Migrate to qtpy
PR 3086 - Fix interrupt handling on Windows
PR 3072 - Added Russian translation. Updated POT file
PR 3062 - Fix consoles encoding in Python 3
PR 3060 - Start testing with Qt5 on Windows
PR 3049 - Implement a new Async Server approach based on pyzmq to get completions on the Editor
PR 3043 - Copying when nothing is selected no longer affects the clipboard.
PR 3036 - PR: Improve Syntax Coloring preferences page and set color scheme for all plugins there
PR 3035 - PR: Remove font groups from plugins and move to general preferences
PR 3034 - Report missing hard dependencies after startup
PR 3032 - Fix errant completions
PR 3029 - Add shebang line to default template.py
PR 3023 - Fix bug in get encoding from "coding" comment line
PR 3018 - PR: Remove Jedi special code in tests and other minor fixes
PR 3015 - Editor: Fix code completions when working with bootstrap
PR 2997 - Added context menu option to reset IPython namespace
PR 2974 - Center cell icon
PR 2973 - PR: Show all supported text files when opening files with "File > Open"
PR 2971 - Make run-cell icons pixel-perfect
PR 2957 - PR: Select the word under cursor if nothing is selected in Find/Replace
PR 2955 - PR: Make backspace move to parent directory in file explorer
PR 2952 - PR: Enable 'Save All' if there are files to be saved
PR 2939 - PR: More accurate test for text-like files
PR 2935 - PR: Improving Spyder 3 icon theme
PR 2932 - PR: Asynchronous introspection for the Editor
PR 2930 - PR: fix not decorated slots connected to 'triggered' and 'clicked' signals
PR 2929 - Hide Help plugin if Sphinx is not installed
PR 2919 - PR: Synchronize entry in Working Directory toolbar with console's current working directory
PR 2917 - PR: Create a new module called app and move there all modules related to our application
PR 2913 - Move to use Jupyter imports and remove support for IPython 3
PR 2897 - Fixed typos (thanks to Benjamin Weis)
PR 2890 - Added .idea folder to .gitignore for PyCharm users
PR 2888 - Add 3,5,6,7,8 spaces as options in indentation of the Editor
PR 2886 - Remove official support for PySide
PR 2881 - PR: Crashing on shortcut assignment with PyQt5
PR 2879 - Use PyQt5 as default API
PR 2874 - Remove light mode
PR 2873 - Rename Object Inspector plugin to Help
PR 2669 - PR: Use pygments in introspection
PR 2519 - Add "close all but this" and "close all to the right" entries to the Editor context menu
PR 2184 - Prevent cmd.exe shell windows popping up in the background when calling subprocess

In this release 50 pull requests were merged

Version 3.0beta1/beta2 (2015-12-11)

Bugfixes

Issues

Issue 2852 - Create conda.recipe folder at repo level
Issue 2836 - Dicom plugin error in bootstrap.py
Issue 2795 - Option 'Automatic insertion of parentheses, braces and brackets' has issues when un-checked
Issue 2792 - Changing IPython graphics backend to "Qt" will result in error when using Qt5
Issue 2788 - Plots are requiring a Ctrl+C in the Python console when using the Qt4 backend on Windows
Issue 2779 - Bundled rope version is causing Spyder to crash
Issue 2766 - fix ArrayEditor under PyQt5
Issue 2763 - Release 3.0 with PyQt5 as default
Issue 2756 - fallback_plugin tests are failing
Issue 2748 - Spyder freezes when large MaskedArrays are in memory
Issue 2737 - UI issues with collapse/expand in the profiler
Issue 2736 - Profiler config does not carry command line arguments correctly
Issue 2685 - "unable to connect to the internet" nag screen in 3.0.0b1
Issue 2677 - Autocomplete for working directory widget
Issue 2674 - Add run cell (and run cell advance) to right click prompt
Issue 2672 - Autocomplete does not insert correct word when requested with Ctrl+Space
Issue 2612 - Fix version detection on the Dependencies dialog
Issue 2598 - Cannot change between UI tabs on OSX
Issue 2597 - new icon theme broken on OSX
Issue 2581 - Autoparens appear when autocompleting in the import section
Issue 2574 - Create wheels for Spyder
Issue 2573 - Spyder is crashing with PyQt5.5.0 on Windows / Python 3.4
Issue 2569 - Spyper cannot read yahoo stock price
Issue 2555 - Main window is bigger than screen size, after a first start in Mac and KDE
Issue 2527 - More suggestions for the "Spyder 3" icon theme
Issue 2481 - Align boxes for different lines in preferences dialog
Issue 2471 - Matplotlib Gtk backend is broken in Python consoles
Issue 2439 - Rope not autocompleting when *args or **kwargs are present in function definition
Issue 2436 - Background coloring in array view (variable explorer) doesn't work if array contains nans
Issue 2433 - Argument cannot work in Spyder 2.3.4
Issue 2427 - can't find pylint installed as python3-pylint
Issue 2422 - Selecting line numbers from the side areas with pointer potentially buggy?
Issue 2420 - Zoom should not be associated with a file
Issue 2408 - Exception on autocomplete in the internal console
Issue 2404 - Code completion raise exception when the editor widget is floating
Issue 2401 - Unable to reset settings from the Main Window
Issue 2395 - Can not show exception information correctly in IPython Console
Issue 2390 - Code completion is failing on Python consoles
Issue 2389 - Move helper widgets to helperwidgets.py
Issue 2386 - Error in Python console on startup
Issue 2385 - Can't report issue on master with PyQt5
Issue 2381 - Disable post-crash popup in dev mode
Issue 2379 - Spyder can't switch lines of code when those two lines are the last two in the file
Issue 2352 - Some issues with code completion in the Editor
Issue 2348 - Combobox to choose Matplotlib backend
Issue 2347 - Add shortcuts to move to next/previous line in the Editor
Issue 2340 - SublimeText-like file switching widget
Issue 2317 - Object Inspector Text on Mac OS X is Misleading
Issue 2313 - 'NoneType' is not iterable in introspection/fallback_plugin.py
Issue 2308 - Python console stops running after first execution
Issue 2307 - Enhancement: Add check for updates and allow for autoupdating inside spyder
Issue 2306 - Enhancement: Add restart functionality to spyder.
Issue 2305 - Profiling error
Issue 2300 - Unable to start my Spyder
Issue 2289 - Disable icons in menus on Mac OS X
Issue 2282 - Incorrect setting of Qt API n°2
Issue 2277 - "TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported" when debugging
Issue 2275 - Can not report issue from dev version
Issue 2274 - Can not start spyder under python2 because guidata doesn't support PyQt5
Issue 2267 - Move Conda Package Manager to its own repo
Issue 2251 - Spyder crashing on very long output
Issue 2250 - IPython 3.0 is showing a deprecation warning in the Internal Console
Issue 2249 - TypeError: 'method' object is not connected: self.timer.timeout.disconnect(self.show_time)
Issue 2248 - ImportError: No module named 'conda_api_q'
Issue 2235 - Error when running Spyder with Python 2 and PyQt5
Issue 2231 - Master has issues when plotting graphs through matplotlib in Python consoles
Issue 2213 - Show absolute and relative (to the current file in Editor) images in Object inspector
Issue 2210 - Icons as vector graphics to support retina displays
Issue 2204 - Windows: something is preventing "File" and "Edit" menus being clicked
Issue 2141 - File list management broken in master
Issue 2125 - Removal of keyboard shortcut causes errors to be thrown
Issue 2117 - Add missing methods to SpyderPluginMixin
Issue 2096 - Feature Request: Add option to lock window/pane layout
Issue 2083 - Spyder stopped working with Qt4.6
Issue 2061 - Spyder cannot load matplotlib if the latter tries to use PyQt5
Issue 2047 - Provide Keyboard Shortcut for Save As
Issue 2024 - Add folders with subfolders with path manager
Issue 2010 - runfile arguments with spaces
Issue 2001 - inserting line break in code line does not align well on next line
Issue 1966 - Add fallback syntax highlighter using Pygments autodetection
Issue 1940 - Add search functionality for keyboard shortcuts
Issue 1924 - Add interactive tutorials
Issue 1923 - Bug when changing output and input prompts in the IPython console
Issue 1876 - Editor: Move suggested completion item to top of window
Issue 1850 - Calltip traceback while using Jedi
Issue 1761 - F5 (run) saves editor file, but F10 (profile) does not
Issue 1749 - Cycle tabs via Ctrl-PageUp/PageDown
Issue 1394 - Let the user select his/her own localization settings
Issue 1387 - Integrate post mortem debugging (like IEP)
Issue 1335 - Add option for naming the custom layouts
Issue 1239 - Include a package manager
Issue 1221 - Spyder doesn't use Native OS X fullscreen
Issue 1212 - Add keyboard shortcuts for beginning of line and end of line
Issue 1001 - How to change UI language
Issue 729 - Enable assigning shortcuts for cursor navigation on the Editor
Issue 494 - Need to hit Enter to change a keyboard shortcut (unintuitive)
Issue 478 - Slash does not work as keyboard shortcut key
Issue 404 - Spyder becomes unresponsive while loading a large source file
Issue 195 - Backspace (\b) and carriage return (\r) characters are not printed correctly in the console

In this release 99 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 2847 - Use High dpi pixmaps
PR 2838 - Import spyplugins only if there's a valid spec/module
PR 2831 - Remove external dependencies
PR 2826 - Remove imports from widgets/init because they are making Spyder crash
PR 2825 - Fix tests in Travis after a recent update of conda-build
PR 2813 - Test spyplugins widgets on AppVeyor and other minor fixes
PR 2810 - Restore the insertion of the "(" character when parameter close_parentheses_enabled is False
PR 2808 - Make F10 (profile) save the current file before running
PR 2800 - Fix problems in AppVeyor and Travis
PR 2786 - Move the spyder script to the right place if it isn't present in the site Scripts directory
PR 2784 - Fix runfile argument parsing error by using shlex
PR 2778 - Use Appveyor to test on Windows
PR 2777 - Fix important errors in Travis
PR 2776 - Rename spyderlib.widgets.editors to spyderlib.widgets.variableexplorer
PR 2774 - Add dependencies to pip
PR 2767 - Fix arrayeditor import error in PyQt5
PR 2762 - Start testing with PyQt5
PR 2761 - Test Spyder with Python 3.5
PR 2758 - Fix failing fallback_plugin tests and add to modules_test
PR 2752 - Test widgets in Travis
PR 2750 - Improved copying and selection behaviour of array editor
PR 2747 - Don't use bootstrap on Travis
PR 2746 - Move Variable Explorer widgets and utility libraries to its own namespace: widgets/varexp
PR 2741 - Get rid of the last shim warning with IPython/Jupyter 4
PR 2740 - Read correctly the run config for profiling
PR 2739 - Fix collapse/expand buttons in profiler widget
PR 2718 - Fix issue with qtawesome fonts not rendering on OS X
PR 2702 - Fix tabbar issue in OSX
PR 2692 - Add tab completions for PathCombobox
PR 2691 - Fixed PyQt5 detection without QT_API env var
PR 2687 - Opt out of certificate verification on check for updates
PR 2673 - Fix single item completion
PR 2671 - Test module importing on Travis
PR 2602 - Revert auto open parens on completion
PR 2594 - Import HelperToolButton from helperwidgets.py in arraybuilder
PR 2590 - Redesign file switcher (a la Sublime Text)
PR 2587 - Homogenize History Pane UI
PR 2585 - Homogenize Object inspector UI
PR 2584 - Homogenize variable explorer UI
PR 2583 - Homogenize file explorer UI
PR 2582 - Move MessageCheckBox widget from workers to helperwidgets.py
PR 2577 - Make "copy" work better with numpy arrays
PR 2576 - Fix issues in Python3/PyQt5.5
PR 2575 - Reorganize repo: grouped config files inside spyderlib/config
PR 2565 - Change plugins directory to spyplugins and make it a namespace package
PR 2559 - Fix default layout dockwidget on first Spyder start
PR 2547 - Fix resetting IPython custom exception hook
PR 2537 - fix misspelled extension
PR 2533 - Spyder 3 icon theme changes
PR 2523 - Keyboard shortcut editor enhancements
PR 2511 - New Spyder 3 icons for run-cell and run-cell inplace
PR 2504 - Update Spyder 3 icon theme: vertical alignment of maximize/unmaximize
PR 2501 - Make blank space less apparent.
PR 2492 - proof read tutorial.rst and removed several typos
PR 2489 - Remove warning message associated to language on Linux
PR 2488 - Improve appearance of options inside the preferences dialog
PR 2480 - Enable standard icons
PR 2457 - Return default language in case no locale is found
PR 2445 - Fix handling of jedi completions for jedi 0.9
PR 2426 - Add option to toggle toolbars visibility
PR 2425 - Add option in preferences to show/hide status bar
PR 2423 - Reset spyder and restart from within running application
PR 2412 - Open preferences dialog even if a plugin raises errors
PR 2410 - Print git revision and branch in bootstrap.py instead of mercurial
PR 2409 - Fix error when trying an empty complete in internal console
PR 2405 - Avoid exception when the Editor is floating and users are trying to get completions
PR 2391 - Fix #2390, completions in python console
PR 2382 - Allow the last two lines in a file to be switched
PR 2371 - Automatically add parens for function completions
PR 2369 - Add drag support for dockwidgets sharing same position
PR 2367 - New KeySequence Editor for Keyboard Shortcut Preferences
PR 2366 - Update Path.py to version 7.3
PR 2357 - Fix some completion issues on the Editor (issue #2352)
PR 2349 - Add support for language selection in preferences
PR 2345 - Add lock/unlock option for panes
PR 2337 - Add Icons to Completions
PR 2331 - Finish Introduction tour
PR 2328 - README.md running from source is a killer feature
PR 2322 - Make completions scroll to top of list
PR 2321 - Add a check for updates method
PR 2319 - Handle a connection abort error on shutdown
PR 2318 - Fix Object inspector message for OSX
PR 2316 - Use empty string instead of None for fallback. Fixes #2313.
PR 2312 - Fixes #2306: Add a restart method
PR 2309 - Replace obsolete setTextColor method by setForeground in qtreewidgetitem
PR 2301 - Run selection enabled even with empty selection
PR 2295 - Update CHANGELOG.md
PR 2291 - Add "func" to enaml highlighter
PR 2286 - Setting Qt API n°2 for all supported objects
PR 2281 - Add travis support for basic start of spyder
PR 2260 - New set of icons based on FontAwesome
PR 2253 - Try to avoid crashes on long output into Python console in a short time
PR 2243 - Don't add invalid paths to IMG_PATH
PR 2237 - Changed the IPython completion option from a checkbox to a combobox
PR 2226 - Add PyQt5 to Qt binding choices for Python consoles
PR 2222 - Update pep8 version shipped with spyder from 1.4.6 to 1.6.2
PR 2218 - Update AUTHORS
PR 2217 - Keybinding Enhancements
PR 2208 - Fix issue 2204 in tour - blocking file and edit menu
PR 2205 - Added Brazilian Portuguese translation
PR 2202 - Allow tab cycling with ctrl+pageup/down
PR 2198 - Fill in missing global run config options
PR 2189 - Provide a base implementation for closing_plugin

In this release 103 pull requests were merged

Version 2.3.9

New features

Preferences
- Fix a crash when using certain versions of colorama (which is a Jedi dependency)
Python and IPython consoles
- Filter a RuntimeWarning generated for DataFrames with nan values
Variable Explorer
- Fix a freeze when binary strings can't be converted to unicode in Python 2
- Fix a freeze with Numpy arrays containing strings

Bug fixes

Issues

Issue 3067 - File left open in sitecustomize when executing it in Python 3
Issue 3031 - Variable Explorer freezes when certain binary data is loaded
Issue 2991 - RuntimeWarning with pandas.dataframes that contain np.nan values
Issue 2984 - Can't access Preferences in spyder
Issue 2983 - Freeze while assigning data from numpy array when the data is a string

In this release 5 issues were closed

Version 2.3.8

New features

Python and IPython consoles
- Fix a sitecustomize error when using Matplotlib 1.5 with Python 2 on Linux
Variable Explorer
- Add support for Pandas Series when using Pandas 0.17+
- Fix a freeze when creating empty DataFrames in Python 2
- Fix a freeze when working with big Numpy recarray's
Under the hood
- Avoid startup crashes when there are errors importing Numpy, SciPy or Pillow

Bug fixes

Issues

Issue 2819 - Spyder fails to start because of an error with scipy
Issue 2815 - Variable explorer is not recognizing Pandas Series objects
Issue 2793 - Connecting to kernel fails because of update to Matplotlib 1.5
Issue 2791 - DataFrame with no rows gives error when trying to view it
Issue 2783 - Spyder freezes on assigning a fits table data
Issue 2744 - Spyder hangs when creating an empty DataFrame on Python 2

In this release 6 issues were closed

Version 2.3.7

New features

Editor
- Remove support for Jedi 0.9 because it was causing crashes
Variable Explorer
- Fix crashes and freezes when working with DataFrames on Python 2
Under the hodd
- Restore support for PySide

Bug fixes

Issues

Issue 2709 - IPython console error when trying to use SymPy
Issue 2693 - README should link to manual
Issue 2689 - "Resize" button in variable explorer chops off the array
Issue 2684 - Applications directory link is broken in Spyder 2.3.6 dmg's
Issue 2680 - "Close all files" hangs Spyder
Issue 2661 - Conda package manager is packed in 2.3.6 win32 distribution leading to errors
Issue 2659 - Crash while getting completions of DataFrames on the Editor because of Jedi 0.9
Issue 2654 - Creating DataFrames in Python or IPython consoles make Spyder 2.3.6 to hang
Issue 2649 - PySide can not be used on 2.3.6
Issue 2296 - Line numbers misaligned when zooming and scrolling in Mac
Issue 2036 - Code analysis and tooltips are not displayed in Ubuntu

In this release 11 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 2650 - Failed sip import blocks fallback to PySide

In this release 1 pull requests were merged

Version 2.3.6

New features

IPython Console
- Make it fully compatible with IPython/Jupyter 4.0
Variable Explorer
- Don't refresh it when focused to avoid slow downs when working with big data
- Add variable name to DataFrame editor
- Fix several crashes and freezes when working with DataFrames
Under the hood
- Use PyQt4 API #2 by default (API #1 is not supported anymore). This is necessary to support IPython/Jupyter 4.0

Bug fixes

Issues

Issue 2625 - Multiple untitled files generate at close
Issue 2614 - Indenting at the first position in file fails/crashes
Issue 2608 - Crash after update IPython to 4.0
Issue 2596 - Call tips and auto completion tips go out of screen on a second monitor
Issue 2593 - Having a lof of data in the Variable explorer slows down Spyder considerably
Issue 2566 - Spyder crash on launch with Babel 2.0/Python 3.4
Issue 2560 - List of pandas dataframes in variable explorer slows down Spyder
Issue 2517 - Variable explorer auto-refreshes after kernel restarts
Issue 2514 - DataFrames with headers that contain BOM utf-8 data are freezing/crashing Spyder (in Python 2)
Issue 2491 - Spyder crashes when displaying DataFrames with duplicate column names in the Variable Explorer
Issue 2413 - Don't ask to confirm exit on default untitled files
Issue 2315 - Display object name in DataFrame editor

In this release 12 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 2639 - Fix missing exception on Windows when importing data on the Variable Explorer
PR 2617 - Show call tips at right position when there are multiple screens
PR 2615 - Fix error when indenting on the first line of a file

In this release 3 pull requests were merged

Version 2.3.5.2

Note: Versions 2.3.5 and 2.3.5.1 have serious startup bugs on Windows and Mac respectively. Hence they are not listed here.

New features

Editor
- Add support for Jedi 0.9
IPython Console
- Add initial support for IPython/Jupyter 4.0
Main Window
- Improve how Spyder looks in MacOS X
- Several fixes to prevent startup crashes

Bug fixes

Issues

Issue 2468 - 'Connect to existing kernel' fails if json file not in PWD
Issue 2466 - No Notification of Running Instance
Issue 2463 - Failure to preserve Matplotlib backend when using symbolic math
Issue 2456 - Launching IPython console fails because of errors importing Pandas or Matplotlib
Issue 2452 - os.system causes TypeError in Python 3
Issue 2448 - Spyder crashes using Variable Explorer with BeautifulSoup
Issue 2446 - When importing putting two periods in a row produces an error in a Python console
Issue 2363 - Spyder fails to start because of problems with lockfile
Issue 2356 - Block comment incorporating whitespace excludes last line
Issue 2341 - IPython console: "sre_constants.error: unbalanced parenthesis" while typing
Issue 2314 - Cell highlighting not updated after closing the FindReplace widget
Issue 2302 - Closing all files in editor shouldn't leave it empty
Issue 2299 - IPython preference "Automatically load Pylab and Numpy Modules" not followed
Issue 2298 - Cannot stop executing when runing a flask app with debug=True
Issue 2285 - Copying from Spyder and pasting into LibreOffice displays strange comments
Issue 2228 - Shortcut to run cells on Mac is not working
Issue 2188 - can't run win_post_install from pip
Issue 2171 - Spyder Mac apps (for Python 2 and 3) hang on startup with OSX 10.9.5
Issue 2028 - Background color of theme is not set properly on Mac OSX
Issue 1957 - Python 3 Mac app can't start Python or IPython consoles
Issue 1844 - "Set as current console's working directory" button not working on Python 3
Issue 1615 - Mac app - Matplotlib does not work with Canopy

In this release 22 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 2486 - Stop using IPython.lib.kernel 0.13.2 shim and add initial support for Jupyter
PR 2484 - Remove unnecessary changes to detected kernel json file when connecting to external kernels
PR 2434 - Match for pylint when parsing pylint version
PR 2411 - Improve github issue template
PR 2377 - Fix the fact that spyder_win_post_install.py can't be run from pip
PR 2293 - Hide menu icons on Mac OS X
PR 2247 - Add support to run Python programs on xfce and xterm external terminals
PR 2216 - Fix broken png files: libpng 1.6.2 and newer has stricter iCCP rules

In this release 8 pull requests were merged

Version 2.3.4

New features

Debugging
- After pressing the Debug button (or Ctrl+F5) move to the first breakpoint
IPython Console
- Drop support for Sympy versions less than 0.7.3
Python Console
- Remove support to run system commands with ! (like !diff)
Editor
- Accept drops from compressed files on Windows

Bug fixes

Issues

Issue 2259 - spyder crashes if ipython installed but not pygments
Issue 2257 - Cannot plot inline in IPython console on Linux
Issue 2252 - Update French translations for 2.3.4
Issue 2245 - Importing a module with debugger causes "TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported"
Issue 2239 - SyntaxErrors with Python 3.2
Issue 2234 - Object Inspector is not showing "No documentation available" for objects without docstring
Issue 2227 - IPython does not work with brewed or virtualenv Python(s) in MacOSX
Issue 2223 - Spyder2.3.3 Code completion breaks
Issue 2207 - Spyder's WM_CLASS is empty, resulting in unexpected behavior for task managers
Issue 2203 - Code completion issue with Jedi
Issue 2197 - IPython consoles are not named correctly when connecting to existing kernels and passing the full kernel path
Issue 2158 - runfile with path containing apostrophes (quotes) will not work
Issue 2151 - Long NumPy arrays throw off errors
Issue 2146 - Special character "!" is not processed correctly when debugging in Python consoles
Issue 2081 - Spyder crashes on Windows because of non-ascii chars in working directory
Issue 2058 - Don't execute external commands (!) when running pdb in python consoles
Issue 2034 - Execute until first breakpoint when pressing the Debug button
Issue 2032 - Dragging (not dropping) file from 7zip over spyder window causes TypeError in dragEnterEvent
Issue 1952 - spyderlib.utils.external overrides modules for script execution
Issue 1948 - spyder 2.3 ipython console startup code or file not working
Issue 1856 - Running in external system terminals is not working on Windows and Python 3
Issue 1845 - Spyder crashes on launch trying to load the project config file (.spyderproject)
Issue 1568 - raw_input borks with '!'
Issue 1529 - Plot A List Of Floats In Variable Explorer Not Possible
Issue 1380 - Problems with sitecustomize because of pickleshare library
Issue 1366 - "Highlight occurrences" setting is lost after IDE restart
Issue 1359 - Mac app - Sometimes it's not possible to get the user env vars
Issue 1321 - The PYTHONPATH manager on the Mac app does not work with the EPD64 interpreter
Issue 1151 - Ctrl-C doesn't copy to clipboard in object inspector

In this release 29 issues were closed

Pull requests

PR 2255 - Update French translations
PR 2242 - Improve message for no docstring
PR 2233 - catch a reason to crash on startup
PR 2224 - Fix a bug in completion if callback value is not converted to string
PR 2219 - Open configuration file with utf-8 encoding on Windows and Python 2
PR 2214 - Fix zlib segmentation fault in Anaconda 3.4 Linux

In this release 6 pull requests were merged

Version 2.3.3

New features

Editor
- Use the Jedi library to do code completions
- Add Ctrl+= as a shortcut to do Zoom in and Ctrl+0 to reset zoom
- Add an option to show blank spaces, under the Source menu. There is also an option to make this permanent under Preferences > Editor.
IPython Console
- Don't print DataFrames as html tables because this won't be supported since IPython 3.0
- Drop support for IPython 0.13
- Support the upcoming 3.0 version
- Add Ctrl+T as shortcut to open new consoles
- Simplify how consoles are named
Variable Explorer
- More optimizations to handle big DataFrames and NumPy arrays (i.e. with more than 1e6 elements).
Main Window
- Add Ctrl+W and Ctrl+F4 to close tabs in all platforms
- Show shortcuts to move to each pane in View > Panes

Bug fixes

Issue 670 - Visual help for indentation: draw spaces and tabs
Issue 987 - Allow the file explorer to open any file into the editor as text
Issue 1213 - Augment or replace rope with Jedi
Issue 1461 - Kill button 'clicked' signal is connected but never disconnected on the python shell
Issue 1469 - Add support to get code completions for compiled modules (e.g. OpenCV)
Issue 1484 - Debug ignores breakpoints, if there's no ASCII characters in a file path
Issue 1574 - Creating file gives TypeError on Python 3
Issue 1718 - Keyboard shortcut to come back to normal zoom level
Issue 1808 - Shortcuts to create and close IPython consoles
Issue 1911 - Transition to git and github
Issue 1930 - Evaluating cell or selection in Python consoles takes ages
Issue 1946 - Spyder with GTK/GTKAgg backend on GNOME freezes
Issue 1987 - Matplotlib backend in Mac can't be changed when using PySide
Issue 1990 - exception in spyder internal console when typing 'exit(' in editor
Issue 1993 - autocomplete in the middle of a word
Issue 2006 - Your IPython frontend and kernel versions are incompatible
Issue 2019 - Winpdb (F7) doesn't work in Python 3
Issue 2022 - TkAgg backend unresponsive window on Linux and OS X
Issue 2040 - Improve inline backend options
Issue 2049 - Pandas Dataframe not opening in Variable Explorer
Issue 2064 - "About spyder" and "Report issue ..." output errors
Issue 2072 - Unable to bring up tutorial
Issue 2074 - Profiler - sorting by Total Time sorts by string order, not numeric order
Issue 2080 - Bug on Variable Explorer while viewing DataFrames, with timestamp columns
Issue 2082 - Missing py27 dmg download
Issue 2092 - PYTHON pathmanager on windows 8 does not work properly
Issue 2105 - Spyder 2.3.2 freezes when viewing big collections on the Variable Explorer
Issue 2108 - UnicodeDecodeError in the Internal console when trying to run a file with non-ascii chars and synatx errors in it
Issue 2109 - Go to definition menu item inactive with rope present.
Issue 2126 - iPython console rendering of pandas.DataFrame.repr_html() note in changelog
Issue 2139 - Small typo in Help : Plotting examples
Issue 2143 - Closing takes a long time with Python 3.4
Issue 2160 - UnicodeDecodeError when inspecting pandas DataFrame in ipython console
Issue 2190 - Update French translations for 2.3.3

Version 2.3.2

New features

Editor
- Improve cells visualization
- Add support for drag selection and improve look of line number area
- Open on it any text file present in the File Explorer
- View and edit IPython notebooks as Json files
- Syntax highlighting for Json and Yaml files
Variable Explorer:
- Import csv files as DataFrames (if Pandas is present)
- Improve browsing speed for NumPy arrays and DataFrames with more than 1e5 rows
Debugging
- Make it easier to set conditions through the Breakpoints pane
IPython Console
- Add a stop button to easily stop computations
Python Console
- Fixes various issues with unicode

Bug fixes

Issue 556 - Deal with DOS/Windows encoding
Issue 681 - Allow printing Unicode characters
Issue 875 - Add indication that console is busy
Issue 883 - Open all text files in the Editor from the File Explorer
Issue 1200 - Strings with accents and variable explorer
Issue 1546 - Spyder issues with unicode under windows
Issue 1767 - Some support for the ipynb format
Issue 1774 - can't open preferences or interpreter after changing path to intepreter
Issue 1789 - Getting warning "WARNING: Unexpected error discovering local network interfaces: 'SysOutput' object has no attribute 'flush"
Issue 1809 - Shortcut to get to file explorer
Issue 1812 - Erros when pressing Tab key in the Editor
Issue 1830 - Don't modify python default system encoding in the console
Issue 1832 - Select line via line numbers
Issue 1847 - Preferences panel don't appear
Issue 1849 - Support yaml files in editor
Issue 1859 - Latest rope breaks the Object Inspector
Issue 1874 - Wheel mouse scrolling not enabled in numberlinemarker or flag area
Issue 1877 - Cell higlighting and scrollbar
Issue 1878 - Cell highlighting on startup
Issue 1891 - Sorting Variable explorer gives a traceback
Issue 1892 - Spyder crashes because pyzmq is missing
Issue 1949 - Spyder 'support for graphics' should not require pylab
Issue 1953 - Please do not break API in minor releases
Issue 1958 - Disable Variable Explorer auto-refresh feature by default
Issue 1961 - opening bracket in editor or console: focus switches to internal console (which also display an error)
Issue 1970 - Connecting to an IPython kernel through ssh hangs if you have never connected to hostname before
Issue 1973 - Pandas DataFrame in variable explorer can crash the app if it gets out of memory
Issue 1975 - Improve confusing "UMD has deleted" message
Issue 1978 - 'Edit' context menu in Variable Explorer should work in all columns
Issue 1979 - Spyder crashes or hangs when creating some pandas DataFrame's
Issue 1982 - Middle mouse button CUTS text in editor in linux
Issue 2004 - Open sys.stdin with the right encoding in the console for Python 2
Issue 2005 - Error when running files in folders with UTF-8 in path
Issue 2008 - Wrong path to favicon.ico
Issue 2015 - Printing large pandas DataFrame clears iPython terminal
Issue 2033 - Link to new WinPython site
Issue 2042 - IPython console doens't work with Pygments 2.0rc1
Issue 2044 - Autocomplete in the editor appends the completed variable onto the preceding expression if there's a token in between

Version 2.3.1

New features

Variable Explorer
- Support for Pandas DataFrame's and TimeSerie's types
- Support for Numpy 3D arrays
- Drag and drop works for all its supported file types (e.g. images, mat files, json files, etc)
Editor
- F9 runs the current line under the cursor if nothing is selected
- Focus remains on it after evaluating cells and selections (an option was added to return to the old behavior)
IPython console
- Connect to external kernels through ssh
Object Inspector
- Add a tutorial for beginners
Main Window
- Improve style on Mac

Bug fixes

Issue 93 - Variable explorer: allow array editor to deal with arrays with more than 2 dimensions
Issue 1160 - Variable Explorer: add support for pandas objects
Issue 1305 - mayavi plot hangs when IPython graphics backend is inline (default)
Issue 1319 - Spyder is not getting its taskbar icon right in Win 7/8
Issue 1445 - Linux style middle mouse button paste not executed in console
Issue 1530 - Wrong encoding for date in pylint widget
Issue 1590 - Add numpy matrices as a supported type to the Variable Explorer
Issue 1604 - spyder 2.2.5 freezes with netCDF4-python
Issue 1627 - Run selection (F9) changes focus to Python interpreter, but ex-Matlab users expect the focus to remain on the editor
Issue 1670 - Provide a "Run current line" feature
Issue 1690 - Feature request: connect to existing IPython kernel over ssh
Issue 1699 - Option to disable middle button paste
Issue 1783 - The new cell delimiter when converting a notebook to python file is # In[*]
Issue 1863 - Ctrl-C doesn't work in a restarted IPython console
Issue 1893 - Matplotlib plots do not display correctly in 2.3.0 (when running in dedicated python interpreter)

Version 2.3.0

New features

Python 3 support
Editor
- Use the Tab key to do code completions
- Highlight cells, i.e. portions of a file delimited by separators of the form # %%
- First-class support for Enaml files
- Syntax highlighting for Julia files
- Use Shift+Tab to show the signature corresponding to a function/method while it's been called
- Do code completions using the tokens (or words) found in a file
- Token-based completions work for any file type supported by the Editor
- Add a new tooltip widget (borrowed from the IPython project) to better handle how to show function signatures
IPython console
- Assign the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+I to move to it
- Open a console by default at startup
- Give visual feedback when opening a console
- Show kernel error messages in the client tab
Object Inspector
- Add an intro message to explain how to use it
- New style based on the Bootswatch Cerulean theme
Main Window
- Reorganize several menus
Under the hood
- Improve startup time
- Develop a new way to update configuration defaults (that doesn't involve resetting user settings)

Bug fixes

Issue 696 - Use Tab to do code completion in the Editor
Issue 944 - Add Python 3 support
Issue 1068 - Shortcut key to switch to IPython console
Issue 1082 - IPython console: multiprocessing print output goes to kernel not client
Issue 1152 - Use the Editor/Console fonts for the code completion widget
Issue 1243 - Bootstrap fails under Python 3.2
Issue 1356 - IPython ImportError by not using absolute_import
Issue 1374 - IPython 1.0dev is giving "ImportError: No module named kernelmanager"
Issue 1402 - Execute pyflakes, pep8, ... with the Python interpreter specified in Preferences>Console
Issue 1420 - Deactivate pager by default in the iPython console (because it's perceived as a freeze)
Issue 1424 - Object inspector is broken for external console
Issue 1429 - Windows installer for Python 3.3 doesn't finish correctly
Issue 1437 - Corrupted contents when saving non-unicode .py files with non-ASCII characters
Issue 1441 - Spyder has several problems to start on Windows because pywin32 is not installed
Issue 1465 - scientific_startup is defining print_function for Python 2.X interactive consoles
Issue 1466 - unicode_literals breaks PySide
Issue 1467 - pyflakes flags print "" on python2 systems
Issue 1471 - IPython is not enabled in 2.3 (because of mismatched IPython version)
Issue 1473 - IPython kernel can't be started, complaining that 'sys' doesn't have attribute 'argv'
Issue 1475 - Plotting from the Variable Explorer is not working for IPython consoles
Issue 1479 - Opening another file in a running Spyder from the terminal fails in Python 3
Issue 1496 - Ctrl+C don't interrupt computations in either the Console or IPython console
Issue 1513 - "Replace all" crashes (not always, but regularly)
Issue 1514 - Python 3 / Spyder 2.3 : impossible to run temporary script in current interpreter
Issue 1517 - Console/IPython console reappear each time Spyder starts
Issue 1519 - Old .spyder.ini is not copied to spyder.ini
Issue 1528 - Error while shutting down Spyder
Issue 1540 - Exception instead of dialog box
Issue 1542 - Braces/Parentheses/Brackets Highlighting is broken with v2.3.0dev6 on Windows/Python 3
Issue 1545 - Win32 "Spyder Documentation" fails to open
Issue 1556 - Show cells in the outline explorer
Issue 1562 - Make Windows installers create a desktop shortcut for Spyder
Issue 1567 - Accept newer versions of pyflakes
Issue 1618 - Please provide a way to not compile the documentation during the build process
Issue 1619 - Python3 invalid syntax in figureoptions.py
Issue 1623 - Mac app: Editor slow on mac after os update to mavericks
Issue 1628 - Profiler runs but doesn't show the results
Issue 1631 - Documentation problem with numpy.concatenate
Issue 1646 - Different numerical results from "runfile" and "execfile"
Issue 1649 - Variable Explorer does not show complex number variables
Issue 1653 - 2 popup windows during lauch
Issue 1664 - Window gone transparent after splash screen
Issue 1675 - Redifing any for numpy.any in the console
Issue 1692 - Minor problem with the new Tab completion functionality
Issue 1695 - Add "psutil" to the list of optional dependancies
Issue 1696 - Check marks in display > windows menu are unchecked by moving plugins
Issue 1697 - Variable explorer freezes spyder
Issue 1701 - pip install spyder does not work any longer (pip version >=1.5)
Issue 1715 - debian lintian4py check
Issue 1716 - Add new icon and scripts for python3 in Linux
Issue 1723 - .pyx Comment and syntax color error in editor
Issue 1731 - Support Julia files (.jl) in editor
Issue 1735 - Small correction in French translations
Issue 1745 - Fix over-aggressive code completion on dot
Issue 1746 - Errors when running empty cells
Issue 1752 - Unable to read Spyder Documentation. F1 key does not work
Issue 1753 - A fix for the behavior of spyderlib\utils\system.py on Windows
Issue 1763 - Editor with auto-closing bracket enabled : unabled to type "0" before ")"
Issue 1772 - Fix download links on the main page
Issue 1786 - problem of icon with spyder 2.3.0 beta4
Issue 1793 - Highlight current cell slows down the Editor on big files
Issue 1794 - Mouse pointer on vertical line
Issue 1819 - Quick layout change unsuccessful
Issue 1828 - QAction::eventFilter: Ambiguous shortcut overload: Ctrl+W
Issue 1829 - Keyboard shortcuts, Reset to default values errors
Issue 1836 - [CTRL]+F4 does not close tabs
Issue 1879 - Can't start bootstrap.py with pyqt
Issue 1881 - Bootstrap.py won't start with python3

Version 2.2.5

Bug fixes

Issue 1322 - Problems with scientific_startup in other interpreters from the one Spyder is running on
Issue 1337 - Mac app - Update to Qt 4.8.4 for HDPI
Issue 1450 - IPython kernel cpu usage increases with time
Issue 1520 - LinuxColor for ipython plugin
Issue 1551 - /doc/installation.rst: update Arch Linux package link
Issue 1560 - spyder 2.2.3 incompatible with pylint 0.25.1 on Windows
Issue 1564 - Fix several Editor cell problems
Issue 1578 - Typo in your 'About Spyder...' dialog.
Issue 1581 - Cannot launch Spyder 2.2.4 installed from DMG on Mac OS X.
Issue 1589 - Mention what types of objects our Variable Explorer support in our docs
Issue 1595 - Fail to start an ipython console when variable explorer autorefresh is turned off in Preferences
Issue 1596 - Spelling mistake in dialog ('loose' --> 'lose')

Other Changes

Update our Mac application to the latest versions of Python, Qt and PyQt (now it's based in Homebrew).
Several important compatibility fixes for PySide.
Improve our support for IPython 1.0+.

Version 2.2.4

Bug fixes

Issue 347 - Matplotlib hangs on Mac if using PySide
Issue 1265 - Create a Debug menu to easily show how to set breakpoints
Issue 1489 - Project Explorer does not load all projects in workspace.
Issue 1516 - Make Spyder compatible with both IPython 0.13 and 1.0
Issue 1531 - Pyflakes version check is looking for 0.5.0 only
Issue 1539 - /tmp/spyder is owned by the first user on the server to launch spyder

Other Changes

Make Spyder compatible with SymPy 0.7.3+
Add shortcuts to the tooltips of all toolbars
Make IPython Console work better if Matplotlib is not installed

Version 2.2.3

Bug fixes

Issue 634 - Debugging: Lingering break points
Issue 639 - Project Explorer: horizontal size issue (added an optional horizontal scrollbar. This option may be enabled/disabled in the widget context menu)
Issue 749 - Outline Explorer: Duplicate entries
Issue 852 - Implement matlab-like cell features
Issue 1388 - Add an "About Spyder dependencies" dialog box
Issue 1438 - "runfile" doesn't work correctly if unicode_literals has been imported (replaced backslashes by slashes in paths)
Issue 1515 - Add an option to use the same interpreter Spyder is running on as "Python executable" for external consoles
Issue 1522 - licenses of the images (especially the .png)
Issue 1526 - Build script (setup.py) includes the wrong version of pyflakes/rope in Windows installer
Issue 1527 - please include the LICENSE file in the source package

Other Changes

New "Run selection" (F9), "Run cell" (Ctrl+Enter) and "Run cell and advance" (Shift+Enter) actions in "Run" menu entry, as a replacement to the old "Run selection or block" and "Run block and advance" actions.
Added "Optional Dependencies" dialog box in "?" menu.
Editor: added Monokai and Zenburn syntax coloring schemes.
Keyboard shortcuts: removing deprecated shortcuts at startup. Otherwise, when renaming the name of a registered shortcut (in the code), the old shortcut will stay in Spyder configuration file and opening the Preferences dialog will show a shortcut conflict dialog box. In other words, shortcuts were added to configuration file when registered but never removed if they were removed from the registered shortcuts in the code (or if their context or name was renamed).
External console tabs: fixed history browsing with Ctrl+Tab and added Shift+Ctrl+Tab support.
Preferences>Console>Advanced: new option to switch between the default Python executable (i.e. the one used to run Spyder itself) and the custom Python executable that the user may choose freely. This change avoid side-effects when switching from a Python distribution to another on the same OS (with the same Spyder configuration file): many users do not change the Python executable and because of the way it was written in externalconsole.py, changing from a distribution of Python to another with the same Spyder config file could lead to an unexpected configuration (Spyder is executed with the new interpreter but scripts inside Spyder are executed with the old interpreter).
Run Icons: removed deprecated images, updated other images to the new design
setup.py/Windows installers: now building CHM documentation for Windows
SPYDER_DEBUG environment variable now supports 3 levels of debug mode:
- SPYDER_DEBUG=0 or False: debug mode is off
- SPYDER_DEBUG=1 or True: debug level 1 is on (internal console is disconnected)
- SPYDER_DEBUG=2: debug level 2 is on (+ logging coms with external Python processes)
- SPYDER_DEBUG=3: debug level 3 is on (+ enabling -v option in external Python processes and debugging editor)

Version 2.2.2

Bug fixes

Issue 1497 - Spyder 2.2.1 does not work with Python < 2.7
Issue 1498 - TypeError thrown by IPython Console when the pager is off
Issue 1499 - Console (Terminal) throws NotImplementedError for Home/End keys
Issue 1509 - Add support for javascript syntax highlighting
Issue 1510 - Problems with zooming in/out

Other Changes

Add new icons to the Run, Debug and Main toolbars
Update Pylint plugin to work with pylint 1.0
Add Ctrl/Cmd+[+,-] to zoom in/out in the Editor
Disable Crtl+MouseWheel to zoom in/out in Mac (See Issue 1509)

Version 2.2.1

Bug fixes

Issue 1231 - Some strange messages are printed in the terminal when Spyder is running
Issue 1318 - Mac app - Unable to use the keyboard when completion widget is displayed and the app loses focus
Issue 1331 - Git Bash: Spyder's script has wrong shebang
Issue 1333 - Spyder is unable to detect git if installed with msysgit (Microsoft Windows PC's)
Issue 1370 - Unit tests exceptions in IPython are displayed in its kernel tab
Issue 1395 - Mac App - Importing matplotlib fails on Snow Leopard due to incompatible version of libpng
Issue 1399 - Recommend to use pip instead of easy_install
Issue 1426 - Background colour of Object Inspector (docstring) in Rich Text mode is same as the window's
Issue 1439 - Update pil_patch to be compatible with Pillow
Issue 1449 - Spyder --light is not functioning
Issue 1470 - Preferences size is not saved when using PySide
Issue 1472 - matplotlib plot's docstring is not rendered correctly in the Object Inspector

Other Changes

All scientific libraries in our Mac application were updated to their latest releases.
The Run Settings dialog has now its own icon. Before it was the same as the Preferences pane one.
Update and improve our Installation instructions for all platforms.
Add support for Google TODO comments: "TODO(username@domain.com): blabla"

Version 2.2.0

New features

Better integration with IPython.
- A dedicated preferences page from which you can set its most important options
- An easy way to manage IPython kernels inside Spyder (i.e. interrupts and restarts).
- Each console can be configured separately (which is not possible in IPython-qtconsole)
- Each console is now connected to the Object Inspector and the History log.
- Learn how to use IPython reading its documentation on the Object Inspector.
- Find text in the console and pager using our Find Widget.
A new MacOS X Application
- We now provide a DMG for simple drag and drop installation.
- The App comes with its own interpreter, which has the main Python scientific libraries preinstalled: Numpy, SciPy, Matplotlib, IPython, Pandas, Sympy, Scikit-learn and Scikit-image.
A much improved debugging experience
- A new debugger toolbar, quite similar in spirit to the one present in Matlab. It works with both Python and IPython consoles.
- A new breakpoints widget, which lists all active breakpoints set in open or closed files.
- Breakpoints are updated in the Python and IPython consoles after being added or removed from the Editor.
Several Editor improvements
- Faster and more accurate code completions for the most important scientific packages
- Zoom in and out with Ctrl + the mouse wheel
- A new dark theme
- Automatic insertion of colons
- Automatic insertion of quotes
- New syntax highlighters for Matlab, batch, ini, NSIS and IDL files.
A better looking and faster Object Inspector
- Several improvements to its style.
- It can now show mathematical equations written in Latex, using the MathJax Sphinx plugin.
- Rich text docs are now rendered in a thread to avoid UI lookup.
Single instance mode
- Users can now open Python scripts from their file explorer on the currently available instance.
- Linux users can also open their files from the terminal.
Spanish translation of the interface

Bug fixes

Issue 318 - Create a widget to list all breakpoints
Issue 349 - Add "Run selection or current block" action to Editor's context menu
Issue 448 - Editor: disable code-related features inside comments (code completion, auto-indentation, ...)
Issue 466 - Can't use Spyder to open python scripts (.py files) from the terminal or the file explorer
Issue 554 - Improved debugger integration
Issue 609 - Debugging: Unsetting a breakpoint in the editor isn't reflected until you restart debugging entirely
Issue 650 - After deleting a directory set as working directory and changing to a new working directory the script won't run
Issue 687 - Indentation error when trying to "run selection" on simple indented code
Issue 697 - Create a DMG package for Spyder
Issue 764 - Jump to the next result when pressing Enter in search field
Issue 836 - Spyder is sometimes not detecting file changes from external editors
Issue 849 - Breakpoints are ignored sometimes
Issue 853 - Problems with code completion after adding submodules to ROPE_PREFS/extension_modules
Issue 865 - Run selection (F9) in IPython console 0.11+: problem with indented blank lines
Issue 940 - open_in_spyder not defined
Issue 955 - Breakpoints in debugger do not move correctly when editing code
Issue 971 - Add "Open with Spyder" entry to Windows File Explorer's context menu
Issue 994 - mathjax does not get installed properly
Issue 997 - Some docstrings are getting truncated in the object inspector
Issue 1008 - Fail on context menu call in project explorer when project files are inside symlinked dir
Issue 1018 - Menu locations, "Run Configurations" & "Preferences"
Issue 1026 - Decide the best strategy to comment selections on the Editor
Issue 1032 - Running a script from editor does not send runfile() correctly to IPython Qt plugin
Issue 1050 - First implementation of the "IPython Console" plugin (single instance version)
Issue 1051 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): add support for the %edit magic command
Issue 1054 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): update variable explorer after new prompt
Issue 1055 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): add support for history management
Issue 1056 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): add an option to customize In/Out prompts
Issue 1057 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): Add our FindReplace widget to every console
Issue 1058 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): Add Ctrl+I keyboard shortcut to send an object the Object Inspector
Issue 1059 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): drop support for IPython in external console
Issue 1061 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): add support for "Find in files" plugin
Issue 1062 - New IPython Console (Spyder 2.2+): add a dedicated section in documentation
Issue 1064 - Editor performance issue since revision d98df4092e16
Issue 1069 - Focus goes to kernel not client with pdb in IPython client
Issue 1078 - IPython Console: Cannot interrupt started processes
Issue 1079 - Can't input Unicode in Internal Console
Issue 1081 - ipython-qtconsole not listed as optional dependency in Ubuntu
Issue 1083 - Make Ipython qtconsole widget more intuitive
Issue 1085 - IPython console: sometimes files are executed in wrong IPython
Issue 1094 - Error message when trying to save a file
Issue 1095 - Preferences Dialog doesn't remember size
Issue 1101 - Interrupt (Ctrl+C) in the console does not work in Spyder on Mac Os X
Issue 1106 - Spyder console crashes when trying to type in console after running script
Issue 1112 - Opening a file from the linux command line
Issue 1128 - please remove pyflakes and rope from the .zip files
Issue 1136 - IPython console: cannot connect to external kernels
Issue 1138 - Rich text in object inspector mishandles some scipy docstrings
Issue 1163 - Improve the spyder.desktop file fo easier integration into Linux
Issue 1169 - Saving variables does not retain uppercase letters of variable names
Issue 1179 - Pylint "go to line" does not work with the additional dot in filename
Issue 1186 - scipy.weave doesn't work in the Mac app
Issue 1191 - Inconsistent behaviour of the Editor on code completion and object introspection
Issue 1199 - spyderlib/utils/windows.py has incorrect encoding
Issue 1201 - Let the user set the default filter when opening file
Issue 1210 - Enhancement: Create sphinx rich text docstrings in QThread
Issue 1226 - MacOS X App - Can't import libraries from other Python interpreters
Issue 1227 - Auto inserted colon causes pylint error
Issue 1229 - Which version of ipython is needed for Spyder 2.2.0?
Issue 1230 - Better handle for mathjax and jquery embeded libraries on linux systems
Issue 1232 - Cmd-Space is not showing code-completion options
Issue 1233 - ERROR and WARNING when compiling the documentation
Issue 1234 - Edit .enaml files as text file
Issue 1236 - Fix Qt Network Access warning messages that appear on the terminal
Issue 1241 - 'Remove block comment' is not working
Issue 1242 - Can't start spyder2.2 on Win 7, crashes upon saving .spyder.ini
Issue 1249 - "Run block" and "Run File" are not working for external IPython kernels
Issue 1250 - Spyder crashes on launch if the project explorer is used
Issue 1252 - Expansion of nodes on tree view undoes itself
Issue 1253 - Spyder is not detecting the presence of iPython 0.13.1rc2 nor IPython 1.0dev
Issue 1258 - Focusing the "Replace with:" Text Box causes the editor to jump to the next instance of the item that's in the find box
Issue 1261 - IPython kernel/clients: error when closing an IPython console
Issue 1266 - Let the user eliminate breakpoints from the "Breakpoints widget"
Issue 1269 - Dataloss when Spyder gets confused about which file goes with which editor tab
Issue 1271 - Find and replace by empty string
Issue 1272 - Fix code completion speed issues on the Editor
Issue 1275 - Spyderlib fails to start new IPython consoles, raises socket exception
Issue 1277 - Enthought Python Distribution and Spyder DMG are not working well on Mac OS X
Issue 1281 - Mac App - Spyder swallows AssertionErrors while executing a file
Issue 1285 - Object Inspector Crashes when Reloading Page
Issue 1286 - Broken links in Help
Issue 1287 - Saving file under different file name in split-window mode lets non-focused window jump to first file
Issue 1288 - Some rope_patch improvements
Issue 1296 - Clickable tracebacks in console are not working in PySide
Issue 1298 - Mac App - matplotlib is not detecting ffmpeg to create animations
Issue 1299 - pylint keeps opening same file at startup
Issue 1309 - Clicking on filename in structure widget sets the cursor at the beginning of the file
Issue 1314 - QPainter warnings when moving/undocking widgets in main window
Issue 1315 - Project not closing files associated with after closing it
Issue 1325 - Spyder cannot be re-opened on Windows if parent console is closed
Issue 1327 - Allow global options for Run Configuration
Issue 1344 - Mac App - Spyder crashed and can't be open again
Issue 1345 - Code Review Request: Update breakpoints during pdb sessions
Issue 1347 - The spyder.desktop has an wrong line
Issue 1353 - Error messages in internal console when rope is not installed
Issue 1363 - 2.2rc installation takes a long time because of sphinx dependency
Issue 1364 - No spyder.ico after installation on Windows
Issue 1369 - Using the subprocess.check_output function breaks compatibility with Python 2.5 and 2.6
Issue 1371 - Crash when adding text to multiline comment is CSS
Issue 1372 - SphinxThread might return AttributeError

Version 2.1.13.1

Bug fixes

Spyder startup: fixed PyQt minimum version requirement test (the old poor comparison algorithm was considering that v4.10 was older than v4.4...) (See Issue 1291)
Console: Matplotlib was always imported even when the Matplotlib's Patch option was not available (i.e. the Matplotlib installed version was not compatible with the patch). As a consequence, even when disabling every console advanced option in preferences, the preloaded module list was huge
Editor:
- When closing Spyder with unsaved modified files, Spyder was asking confirmation as many times as there were editor windows. Only one confirmation is necessary because, with current editor design, all editor windows are synced.
- When creating two new files, saving one of them will lead to temporarily mask the leading '*' indicating the fact that the other untitled file was not already saved. This is simply a display issue: internally, it is clear that the file is in a non-saved state and Spyder will ask for it to be saved when trying to close the file
- Multiple windows: when saving a new untitled file, other editor windows were getting confused on file list order -- eventually leading to data loss
- Open file dialog: default file type filter now matches the current file (See Issue 1201)
Fixed "PyQt Reference Guide" link

Other changes

Editor: Ctrl+MouseWheel is now zooming in/out the editor text size (see Issue 1270)
About dialog box: changed the "This project is part of Python(x,y)" part to more general words (which are also closer to the initial meaning of this sentence) including a citation of WinPython

Version 2.1.13

Bug fixes

Fixed Issue 1158: "pip install spyder" fails on non-Windows platforms due to a bug in pip installation process (missing spyderlib_win_postinstall.py script)
File Explorer/Windows/Fixed "remove tree" feature: added an error handler in shutil.rmtree to be able to remove a non-empty folder with shutil.rmtree is not working on Windows when it contains read-only files
(See Issue 1106) Fixed "error: unpack requires a string argument of length 8" related to socket communication between Spyder and the remote Python process
Editor:
- After splitting horizontally or vertically the editor window, filenames were not synchronized when saving a file as another name (see Issue 1120)
- Fixed error when trying to "Save as..." a file with extension to a file without any extension (see Issue 1183)
- pep8 code analysis: a new line character was abusively added by Spyder to source code before analyzing it because it's necessary for pyflakes but it's not for pep8! (see Issue 1123)
- Fixed UnboundLocalError when clicking on "Search/Replace" button if both search pattern and replace pattern fields are empty (see Issue 1188)
Pylint plugin/tree widget: "go to line" was not working when filename contained additionnal dots (see Issue 1179)
Fixed critical bug when an invalid/unsupported version of pyflakes is installed (see Issue 1181)
Editor/block comments: fixed remaining PyQt API v2 compatibility issues (see Issue 905)
Variable explorer: more flexible name fixing algorithm (even if it's not a good practice to use reference names with upper case letters, we do not remove them anymore) -- See Issue 1169

Other changes

Spyder about dialog box: added Python build architecture (32 or 64 bits)
Find in files: fixed default 'exclude pattern' which was accidently excluding all files starting with 'build' instead of simply excluding 'build' folders as intended
For the sake of consistency, now using single-clicks for activating entries of all tree widgets in Spyder ("Find in files" and "Pylint" are now consistent with the "Outline" explorer) -- See Issue 1180

Version 2.1.12

Bug fixes

Spyder settings: sometimes (virus protection?) the .ini file can't be written, and removing the .ini file before writing seems to help, as suggested here (see Issue 1086)
Fixed Home/End key behaviour inconsistency on MacOS X (See Issue 495)
Internal console: new option "Pop up internal console when errors were intercepted" -- default: False, which avoids loosing focus when a traceback is shown in the internal console... but features may also fail silently! (bugs could stay hidden a while before being taken care of) -- See Issue 1016
Fixed "TypeError: file_saved(long,long).emit(): argument 1 has unexpected type 'long'" error occuring on some Linux 32-bit platforms -- See Issue 1094
Console: find/replace widget "Search next/previous occurrence" feature was broken

Other changes

Portable version of Spyder (inside WinPython):
- Spyder '?' menu: added documentation detection (.chm, .pdf) in sys.prefix\Doc (Windows-only)
- Project explorer:
  - Handling errors when opening a workspace which has been moved
  - Workspace is now configured with relative paths, so it can be moved from a location to another and still be opened in Spyder
Windows: moved the functions hiding parent console to spyderlib/utils/windows.py

Version 2.1.11

Bug fixes

Critical bugs:
- Editor (Issue 960): cannot open/save files from GUI (QFileDialog issue with PyQt4 v4.6)
General:
- Spyder menu bar: fixed menu ordering issue with Ubuntu/Unity
- All console widgets: Shell widget: fixed "Clear terminal" (Ctrl+L) shortcut
Console:
- Cleaned up widget interactions after Python script execution (before this changeset, it was possible to send data to console, which not only was not needed but was generating disturbing errors in the internal console...)
Editor:
- If user accept to fix "mixed end-of-line characters", when opening file, the current editor was set as "modified" (the tab title had a * at the end) instead of the newly created editor
- "occurrence highlighting" was highlighting previous word even if there was a whitespace between cursor and this word
- Code analysis thread manager: handling errors while executing threads
- "Replace all" was not regrouping changes into a single undo/redo step
- "Find/Replace": replacements were not done for case unsensitive searches
- Position of the 79-chars edge line is now more accurate on Linux, the older processed position was inaccurate with some font size of the classic "DejaVu Sans Mono" monospace font
IPython:
- Version detection was broken so Preferences...Console...External Modules was incorreclty hiding the command line options line edit
- Because the detection was not working correctly, it was not possible to start an IPython kernel with the just released IPython 0.13
Project explorer was sometimes producing AttributeError when loading because of the workspace was not defined at the beginning of the class constructor
pyflakes code analysis function:
- Handling files with invalid \x or null chars
- This fixes a part of Issue 1016 by handling the following pyflakes bugs:
  - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674796
  - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674797

Other changes

Installer for Windows (bdist_wininst/bdist_msi):
- added Start Menu shortcuts
- added 'pyflakes' and 'rope' (if available in the repository) to the package list (this is not conventional but Spyder really need those tools and there is not decent package manager on Windows platforms, so...)
- This change will make the Spyder building process simpler for Windows as the Python(x,y) won't be needed anymore to provide Start Menu shortcuts or to install 'rope' and 'pyflakes' at the same time. Now, there is no significative difference between the standard installers built with distutils (bdist_wininst or bdist_msi options) and the Python(x,y) plugin, except for the "package upgrade" ability (uninstall previous version) which is still not (and won't be) supported by distutils.

Version 2.1.10

Bug fixes

Critical bugs:
- Spyder crashed at startup/TypeError: _isdir() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given). Affects only Windows platforms with Python 3.2.2+ or 2.7.3+)
- Spyder was freezing when working with netCDF4 objects in the interactive console
- Console: h5py was systematically imported to avoid crashes with the HDF5 plugin (Variable Explorer's I/O plugin). These ugly workarounds introduced with revision 3affc82ce081 were removed in this changeset to avoid side effects like DLL version conflict on Windows platforms. The main risk of this change is to break the HDF5 plugin on some configurations. But this is the best compromise.
General:
- Fixed regression: when no Qt library is installed (PyQt/PySide), warning the user with a Tkinter dialog box (if possible)
- Fixed Preferences Dialog flickering issue introduced with revision a4e1565e93c5
- Run configuration dialog: fixed Tab focus order behavior
- Fixed "Run > Configure..." and "PYTHONPATH management" entry locations on MacOSX
- Updated bootstrap script and Qt library selection logic to accomodate launch of Spyder using PySide while PyQt is also installed (Issue 1013, see Issue 975 for additional background).
- Fixed several encoding problems preventing Spyder from launching when the user's home directory contains non-ASCII characters (Issue 812, Issue 1027).
- Debugging: Issue 684: Debug with winpdb will now use the command line options and working directory specified in the General Setting section of the Run Configuration dialog
Console:
- Changed "Clear shell" shortcut to "Ctrl+L" to avoid conflict with the Windows Task Manager shortcut on Windows platforms
- Preferences/Advanced options: added option to start an IPython kernel at startup
Editor:
- When multiple files were open, close-clicking 1 file was closing 2 files on 64-bits OS
- Conditional breakpoint could not be changed to regular breakpoint
- Outline Explorer: removed obsolete decorated methods icon (a decorated method is now shown exactly as a regular method)
- Top-left corner menu (file list): fixed common prefix removal feature
- "Outline" item selection opened in incorrect split panel due to a lost signal when focus changed from an editor to another
- when splitting window after changing a shortcut, old shortcut was still active
Internal console/fixed an old regression: re-added help(), raw_input() support
Profiler: tree was sometimes empty + fixed error when file path contained "&"
File/Project explorer: fixed [by shchelokovskyy] Git commit/browse support
Find in files: fixed crash due to a bug in the common prefix finder function

Other changes

Checked Spyder's rope patch compatibility with rope v0.9.4
IPython plugin (experimental):
- added support for "Execute in current interpreter"
- added support for "Execute selection or block (F9)"
- imports from local directory did not work
- when a new kernel is started in Console, tabifying the frontend to the Console (for the first created frontend) and the next frontends to the previously created frontend
- clients (frontends) may now really be closed (see context menu). The associated kernel and related clients may be closed as well (a message box dialog ask the user about this)
- added support for the "Object Inspector to/from IPython kernel" link
- improved reliability of the "Editor to/from IPython kernel" link
- fixed focus management issue (link with variable explorer and object inspector)

Version 2.1.9

Bug fixes

Run configuration/bugfix: command line options were not properly parsed
Preferences dialog was not showing up with PySide installed and without PyQt4
Editor:
- Closing additional editor window produced traceback and primary editor breakdown
- File/Open: embedded editor popped up even if there is one in a separate window
- Selecting a part of a word raises an IndexError exception
- Revert option was prompting for user input even on an unmodified buffer
- Added missing .f77 file extensions for Fortran files filter
- Occurrence highlighting was not working when cursor was at the left side of a word and if the next character was ':', ',' or '(' (or any other character not matching the "word regexp")
Console:
- Console was unusable (endless tracebacks) when monitor was disabled
- File drag'n drop was not working (should execute dropped file)
(Experimental) IPython plugin:
- Fixed compatibility issues with PyQt4 and IPython 0.12
- Fixed multiple instances issue (it was not possible to open more than one IPython frontend) and other issues
- IPython kernel connections were unpredictable (Issue 977)
Dictionary editor (Variable explorer): fixed UnboundLocalError when context menu is called on an empty table
Object inspector failed to show an error message due to unicode error
Project Explorer:
- "Show all files" option was broken after restarting Spyder
- It was impossible to create a project from an existing directory located outside the workspace

Version 2.1.8

Bug fixes

Editor/Source code toolbar:
- "Show task list" and "Go to the next task" actions: the "Show TODO/FIXME/XXX/HINT/TIP comments list" button was not working
- "Show warning/error list" and "Go to the next warning/error" actions: the "Show code analysis warnings/errors" button was not working

Version 2.1.7

Bug fixes

Main window:
- Detached dockwidgets were not painted after restarting Spyder (Issue 880)
Console:
- Enhanced Python interpreter: %clear command was broken since v2.1.5
Object inspector's rich text mode: fixed unexpected indent error
IPython plugin: fixed compatibility issue with latest v0.12dev (thanks to Boris Gorelik)

Other changes

Variable explorer/Array editor: added support for masked arrays
Showing Spyder's internal console automatically when there is a traceback
Do not crash when a 3rd party plugin failed to import
Editor:
- Automatic insertion of single, double and triple quotes
- Automatically colons insertion when pressing Enter after 'if', 'def', etc
- Don't trigger code completion on comments if text ends with a dot
- Added keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+Escape) to clear the console
- Added keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+P) to print current file (thanks to fheday at gmail dot com for the contribution)
- Code introspection features (code completion, calltips, go-to-definition) are now working even if script has syntax errors

Version 2.1.6

Bug fixes

Critical bug on certain Windows platforms (not sure yet if it's related to a particular version of PyQt or something else): all plugins (dockwidgets) were shown detached (or hidden) from the mainwindow at startup (this is related to the attempt fixing Issue 880)

Version 2.1.5

Bug fixes

Detached dockwidgets (Console, ...) were not painted after restarting Spyder
Editor/Outline-bugfix: duplicate entries were shown when the editor was synchronizing file contents with disk
File/Project explorer:
- Fixed regression regarding Issue 740 (fixed in v2.1.0, re-introduced in v2.1.2): couldn't open files with non-ascii characters in their names
- SCM support: commit/log actions were not working when right-clicking on a file instead of a folder
Console:
- Monitor/Introspection: fixed socket communication issue due to a MemoryError -- This error was mixing communication messages, causing various problems described in Issue 857 and Issue 858. This bug was reported by ruoyu0088, who also tried (and succeeded) to fix it and suggested a workaround which is implemented in this release
- Fix critical console hang on OS X when using the "Run selection or current block feature" (see Issue 502)
- Apply the right scheme color to the IPython console when there weren't any options provided by the user or when the only option was "-colors LightBG"
Windows platforms:
- "Preferences" dialog was not shown if account username contained non-ASCII characters
Object Inspector:
- Show signatures for docstrings sent from the Editor (see Issue 690)

Other changes

Debugging: when a non-empty SPYDER_DEBUG environment variable exists, Spyder switch to debug mode (log files are created in user's home directory and debug prints are available in the terminal)
Variable explorer/Dictionary editor: added option to plot histogram from a 1-D array
Console:
- standard Python interpreter is now a real Python interactive session: the older implementation was running a startup script and tried to emulate a standard Python interactive session (changing attributes like name, running the PYTHONSTARTUP script, etc.). But this implementation was not close enough to the standard Python interactive session, i.e. when you execute python outside Spyder, without any argument. A recent bug report confirmed this: the PYTHONSTARTUP script was executed but not exactly the same way as it is outside Spyder: for example, doing from __future__ import division in the startup script had no effect whereas it did outside Spyder.
- when running a standard Python interpreter, instead of running the startup script (spyderlib/widgets/externalshell/startup.py), the shell widget (ExternalPythonShell) simply runs the python executable with -u -i options, that's all. So now, the PYTHONSTARTUP script is executed as expected.
- Scientific startup script (default PYTHONSTARTUP in Spyder): added floating point division (from future import division)
- PySide support:
  - Added new "Qt (PyQt/PySide)" settings group in "External modules" tab
  - It is now possible to select the Qt-Python bindings library: default (i.e. depends on the QT_API environment variable), PyQt or PySide
  - The PyQt input hook has been adapted for PySide, so it is now possible to do interactive (non-blocking) plotting with PySide
- New options for standard Python interpreters (no effect on IPython):
  - "Merge process standard output/error channels": merging the output channels of the process means that the standard error won't be written in red anymore, but this has the effect of speeding up display
  - "Colorize standard error channel using ANSI escape codes": this method is the only way to have colorized standard error channel when the output channels have been merged
Internal console (Issue 868): output is now immediately available
"Maximize current plugin" action: now automatically shows the "Outline" plugin when maximizing the "Editor" plugin
Editor/Outline comment separators: allow space betwee hash and dash, e.g "# --- Outline Separator"

Version 2.1.4

Bug fixes

Console:
- Critical bugfix for IPython support: variable explorer link was broken (regression introduced with v2.1.3)

Other changes

Console:
- option "Open an IPython interperter at startup" is now explicitely disabled for IPython v0.11+ (these versions of IPython are not fully supported through Spyder's console plugin)

Version 2.1.3

Enhancements

Variable explorer performance were improved, especially when dealing with very long sequences -- See this discussion
Variable explorer / dictionary editor: added support for unknown objects -- this allows browsing any object attributes -- This is still experimental.

Bug fixes

General:
- Spyder preferences/bugfix: comboboxes with keys other than strings (e.g. the PyQt API selection combo box) were not initialized properly
- Fixed memory leaks (QThread objects) in the "Editor" and "Find in files" plugins. In those two plugins, QThread objects were created, then started but were never garbage-collected after they finished their execution
Editor:
- Supported file types: added missing C++ file extensions (.cc, .hh, .hxx)
Variable explorer:
- Debugging: added support for editing objects within functions
- Debugging: when debugging, variable explorer link was broken after restarting program
- handling errors when trying to enable/disable autorefresh (if one of the running console has no monitor enabled)
Project explorer:
- when the workspace has not yet been defined, creating a new project not only warns the user but also proposes to set it right away

Version 2.1.2

Bug fixes

General:
- Patched external path library to avoid a crash with a user HOME directory with non-ascii characters
- Doc/README: warning the user about the fact that the 'python setup.py install' method does not uninstall a previous version
Console:
- Fixed "AccessInit: hash collision: 3 for both 1 and 1" error (see Issue 595)
Project explorer:
- empty workspace/critical bugfix: impossible to create/import projects from context menu (this bug was introduced with a recent revision and stayed unnoticed until then because one has to test this from an empty workspace)
- it is now possible to rename projects (safely)
- now handling the I/O errors (e.g. read-only configuration files) occuring when loading/saving projects or the workspace: warning the user when an IOError exception was raised and mention the projects which could not be saved properly
File/Project explorer:
- keyboard shortcut 'F2' (rename file/directory) was broken
- the "Open" action (context menu) was failing silently for directories (expected behavior: open an external file explorer to browse the directory)
- programs.start_file/bugfix: feature was not working on Windows 7
Editor:
- Fix empty username in new file template on OS X (patch by Christoph Gohle)
Object inspector:
- Rich text mode was not showing headings when invoked from editor (Issue 690)

Enhancements

File/Project explorer:
- Added "Delete" keyboard shortcut to remove selected file(s)/folder(s)
- SCM integration: added support for TortoiseHg v2 (only v1 was supported)
Console/Matplotlib options: the backend may now be set separately from the Matplotlib patch

Other changes

Console:
- The Matplotlib patch is only applied for Matplotlib <=v1.0
- PyQt API version issues (error like "ValueError: API 'QString' has already been set to version 1"): the "ignore setapi errors" option is disabled by default, to avoid masking these errors and associated tracebacks

Version 2.1.1

Note: v2.1.1 is a minor update of v2.1.0 (licence issues and minor bug fixes)

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Compatibility/Requirements

Since version 2.1:

Spyder is now compatible with:
- PyQt's API v1 (i.e. compatible with PyQt 4.4 and 4.5), the default Python 2 API
- and PyQt's API v2 (this is the future: default Python 3 API and PySide-compatible API)
- and with PySide (PySide support is still experimental as this library is still young but its stability is evolving rapidly)
Editor/code analysis: Spyder now requires pyflakes v0.5.0 (included in Windows installers).

New features since v2.0.12

New Profiler plugin (thanks to Santiago Jaramillo)
New experimental IPython plugin embedding IPython's Qt console: see here
General:
- Main window:
  - added "Custom window layouts" management (see menu "View")/handling 3 custom layouts: default shortcuts Shift+Alt+FX to switch to/from layout #X and Ctrl+Shift+Alt+FX to set layout #X
  - "General" preferences page: added option to set the Qt windows style, depending on platform (Plastique, Cleanlooks, CDE, Windows...)
  - Menu "?": added menu entry to report Spyder issues, filling automatically informations on your configuration
  - Reorganized "Run"/"Source" menu, added "Interpreters" menu
  - Fixed application name for Gnome 3/Fedora 15
Command line options: added option "--defaults" to reset settings (stored in .spyder.ini) to defaults (a lot of settings are preserved: shortcuts, window layouts, ...) -- this is less brutal than "--reset" which reset all settings by removing all configuration files related to Spyder
Outline (function/class browser) is now a plugin in itself, embedded in its own dockwidget: Spyder's window layout is even more customizable than before
Code completion
- (Editor/Console): entries starting with an underscore character are now placed to the end of the suggested list
- (Editor/Console): Import statements are now completed correctly
Console:
- Major code cleaning: running Python applications in Spyder has never been cleaner and is very close to a simple Python interpreter
- Added built-in function open_in_spyder to open a file in Spyder's source code editor from the console
- Standard Python interpreter:
  - now refresh the variable explorer at each new prompt (even if auto-refresh is disabled -- actually, this is the typical use case)
  - added support for basic special commands (%pwd, %ls, %clear) and system commands (starting with '!', e.g. !dir or !ls)
  - added "scientific" startup script with support for numpy, scipy and matplotlib
- Preferences (External modules tab):
  - added an option to set PyQt API to v1 or v2 -- this avoids issues with Enthought Tool Suite or any other library/program using PyQt API v2 which is not the default API for Python 2
  - changed matplotlib patch to fix compatiblity issue with PyQt API v2
- Preferences (Advanced Settings tab): added option "Python executable" to customize path to Python interpreter executable binary
Variable explorer:
- New HDF5 plugin by DavidAnthonyPowell: import/export HDF5 files to/from the variable explorer
- Dictionary editor/Variable explorer:
  - Added support for more NumPy data types
  - Added action "Resize rows to contents" (partially implements feature requested with Issue 807)
Editor:
- find/replace:
  - added support for multiline regular expression search pattern
  - added support for multiline regular expression text replacement
  - added button "Highlight matches" to highlight all found results
- syntax highlighting: added support for OpenCL, gettext files, patch/diff files, CSS and HTML files
- support for "2 spaces" and "tabs" indentation characters
- new code analysis feature: added support for the pep8 style guide checker
- "Comment" and "Uncomment" actions were replaced by a single "Comment/Uncommment" toggle action
- (Fixes Issue 811 ) "Run configuration": added "Run in an external system terminal" option
File explorer and Project explorer:
- great performance improvement (using a multithreaded file system model)
- Added minimalist SCM support (Mercurial and git are currently supported)
File explorer: added an option to "Show current directory only"
Project explorer: this plugin was entirely rewritten to improve performances and usability
Pylint plugin:
- added option to save file before analyzing it
Spyder's console embedded in your application (spyderlib.widgets.internalshell):
- in traceback, a clickable link now opens the associated file in Spyder (if application was launched from Spyder with monitor enabled)
- Application sample embedding Spyder's internal shell: upgraded to guidata v1.4+ (simplified build script a lot)
Windows platforms specific changes:
- (requires pywin32) Hiding the attached console window:
  - allow running Spyder with 'python.exe' without visible console (this avoid using 'pythonw.exe' which does not attach a console to the process, hence preventing standard I/O to be redirected in a subprocess executed within Spyder, e.g. in your own program)
  - the attached console may be shown/hidden from menu entry "View > Attached console window (debugging)"
Major change for Windows/PyQt users: standard Python interpreter now supports interactive GUI manipulations thanks to a new Spyder-specific input hook (replacing PyQt's input hook which is not working within Spyder on Windows platforms) -- the input hook works even better than PyQt's builtin input hook (with a Python interpreter opened outside Spyder)
Spyder's stand-alone version building process was improved. This version is now available on project's download page.

Bug fixes (since v2.0.12)

Spyder's main window:
- QtDesigner and QtLinguist were not detected on Fedora
- Console/Editor: code completion widget was partially hidden when working on two monitors and if Spyder's window was on the right screen
- Fixed bugs due to too early/frequent calls to plugin refresh methods during startup
Console:
- IPython Interpreter: Turn off autoindent magic to avoid indentation errors with code with inline comments
Editor:
- Fortran syntax highlighter was made case insensitive
- Fixed IndentationError when running first line of a file
- Read only files allowed ".", "[", "(", etc. to be entered into the text editor
- Fixed segmentation faults occuring after using the vertical-horizontal splitting feature
- If a file name had non-ascii characters then code completion (and all other rope-based features) in the editor stopped working
- Code analysis: fixed tasks pattern (for example, previous one was matching "TIP" in "MULTIPLICATION"... now it will match only single "TIP:" or "TIP ")
- (Fixes Issue 704) Outline was showing the delimiters of block comments ('#------...-'), causing nesting inconsistencies because block comments are not indented properly with respect to the code around
- Fixed several bugs with the "Run selection or current block" feature.
Object inspector:
- Rich text mode was failing for non-ascii docstrings
Find/Replace widget:
- Combo box history was populated only when pressing Enter (now pressing F3 to find next occurrence will add the current entry to history)

Version 2.0.12

Bug fixes

(Fixes Issue 476) Editor/bugfix: print preview was not working
Completion widget/bugfix (editor/console): combo box was truncated by main window depending on its size
widgets.sourcecode.base.TextEditBaseWidget/bugfix: parenting to None was not working
Console/Text wrap mode: character wrapping was not implemented since we switched from QTextEdit to QPlainTextEdit
(Fixes Issue 649) Patch submitted by DavidAnthonyPowell - Syntax highlighter does not recognise imaginary, binary or octal numbers
Spyder's layout: fixed window position/size issues when maximized/fullscreen mode was active
Object inspector: fixed minor bug (simple traceback in the internal console) when handling a sphinx error
(Fixes Issue 667) Editor/bugfix: Shift+Enter inserted lines that did not get line numbers
(Fixes Issue 672) Editor: TODO/FIXME were not detected if not followed by ':' (HINT/TIP were properly detected)

Enhancements

(Fixes Issue 655) Editor/pyflakes-powered code analysis: warnings are now ignored for lines containing "pyflakes:ignore"

Other changes

Internal console (Spyder debugging only): turned off the multithreaded mode

Version 2.0.11

Bug fixes (since v2.0.9)

(Fixes Issue 616) Pylint plugin: tree widget header text was not updated when analyizing a new script (the last analyzed script name was still shown)
Editor/completion widget/bugfix: pressing shift was hiding the completion combo box
(Fixes Issue 630) Added missing default settings for "Spyder light" (only necessary when installing from scratch and without any remaining .spyder.ini file)
Editor/Console-bugfix: info tooltips (calltips) were hidden right after being shown (i.e. when typing any character after the left parenthesis)
(Fixes Issue 631) Drag and drop of files into editor on Linux was pasting path instead of opening the file
(Fixes Issue 640) Editor: block comment was not working correctly at end of file
Code completion widget (Editor/Console) - bugfix: parenting to the ancestor widget was necessary on Linux
(Fixes Issue 546) (Contributor: Alex Fargus) C/Cpp syntax highlighting bugfix
(Fixes Issue 646) IPython integration: fixed pyreadline monkey-patch for pyreadline v1.7

Enhancements (since v2.0.9)

File explorer widget/plugin: improved performances (widget is now populated in a separate thread)
Spyder crash dialog: warning the user about the '--reset' option (this will remove all configuration files)

Version 2.0.9

Bug fixes

Console: added option to ignore PyQt/sip errors when trying to set sip API (fixed Enthought Tool Suite 3.6.0 compatibility issue)
utils.dochelpers.getargtxt/bugfix: retrieving builtin function arguments was no longer working
(Fixes Issue 499) Editor-related keyboard shortcuts were not applied after opening files
(Fixes Issue 575) Tab scroll buttons were not shown on OS X resulting in clamped/changing window sizes
(Fixes Issue 574) Debugging: Spyder only synced at debugger breakpoints
(Fixes Issue 576) "Source / Remove trailing spaces" was removing newline at the end of file (+ added support for "undo")
(Fixes Issue 582) Console: changing font preferences was requiring a restart to be fully taken into account
(Fixes Issue 562) Spyder was unable to restore editor's outline explorer tree when mixed ' and " characters were found in tree entries
(Fixes Issue 590) Shell/"Clear line" shortcut was not correct: this is actually "Shift+Escape" (not "Escape")
(Fixes Issue 591) History log was systematically erased when updating Spyder version
Outline explorer/bugfix: when opening file, the 'show/hide all files' option was not applied (this was then applied when switching from a file to another)
(Fixes Issue 602) Backported from v2.1 a couple of bugfixes related to Editor and multiple panels
Object inspector: when raised automatically above other dockwidgets, plugin refresh was unnecessarily triggered
Editor/code completion-bugfix: some key events (e.g. Ctrl+V) were lost during code completion-related hang-up
(Fixes Issue 599) Multiline text pasting was not working in a newly opened console (i.e. first prompt)

Enhancements

Major change/Translations: moved from 'QtLinguist' to 'gettext' (localizing Spyder should now be easier)
Console: increased default maximum line count (buffer depth) up to 10,000 lines (instead of only 300 lines)
Editor's rope-based introspection features (code completion, calltips, go to definition): new rope monkey-patch providing major performance improvements
File explorer/Project explorer - opening file with associated application: now supported on all platforms
Added action "Reset window layout" in "View" menu to reset main window layout to default
Documentation: added page on debugging
Editor: added syntax highlighters for diff/patch files (.diff, .patch, .rej) and gettext files (.po, .pot)
(Fixes Issue 537) Global working directory toolbar: removed label considering the fact that the toolbar widgets are quite explicit on its role (and the combo box tooltip is explaining it in detail)
(Fixes Issue 598) Added a .desktop file in source package
(Fixes Issue 87) Editor plugin's title now show the current script filename

Version 2.0.8

Bug fixes (since v2.0.6)

Consoles/bugfix: saving history log (see context menu) was not working following a recent code cleaning/refactoring
On non-Windows platforms, the file selection dialog "All files (.)" filter was not matching files without extension
dochelpers.isdefined/bugfix: ignoring syntax errors while evaluating object
Preferences Dialog (dialog box + keyboard shortcut page): improved size/resize behavior
Editor: when cursor was on the very last line, Duplicate/Delete line features were getting stuck in an infinite loop
Editor/duplicate line feature - fixed unexpected behavior: when duplicating selected text, text selection was extended to duplicated part
Editor/bugfix with multiple editor windows: when opening file on one editor window, the top-left corner menu (file list) was not updated correctly in other editor windows
Editor/fixed unexpected behavior: when clicking on the main window's outline explorer while a separate editor window had focus, the latter was used to show the associated line of code
Project explorer: added new debugging options (profiling 'rope' calls)
Console/Advanced settings/UMD module list: removing all entries (empty module list) was not working
Editor/File list management dialog (Ctrl+E): double clicking/pressing Return on a listwidget item will switch to the associated file
Editor/Tab bar: fixed missing tooltips issue (and missing file switch menu entries)
Code completion/bugfix: list widget was not hiding as expected when pressing ':'
Editor/fixed unexpected behavior: when some text was selected, "Ctrl+Left mouse click" was trying to "go to definition" instead of doing the standard drag n'drop feature
Editor/bugfix: disabling code completion/calltips for non-Python source code (was not working -as expected- but was taking time to simply not work...)
Editor/go to line: fixed unicode error
Code editor/bugfix: cursor position was not restored when undoing an indent operation with "tab always indent" feature turned on and the cursor at the end of the line
Tab behavior when "tab always indents" is turned off: inserting 4-(len(leading_text) % 4) spaces (instead of 4)
Object inspector/bugfix: ignoring unknown objects when called automatically from editor/console, i.e. do not log, do not show 'no doc available'

Other changes (since v2.0.6)

Code editor syntax highlighting: added more keywords to Cython syntax highlighter (cpdef, inline, cimport and DEF)
Added example of application using the Spyder's internal shell as a debugging console (demonstrates also the py2exe deployment procedure)
Object inspector: added "Source" combo box (Console/Editor) -> object inspected from editor are now analyzed only with rope (if available) and then shown in object inspector
Added keyboard shortcut to open Preferences Dialog (default: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P)
Editor: added "Copy line" feature (Ctrl+Alt+Down), similar to "Duplicate line" (Ctrl+Alt+Up) but paste text before the current line/selected text (instead of after)
Array editor: added option to set row/col labels (resp. ylabels and xlabels)
Editor/rope: improved performance for calltips/doc feature

Version 2.0.6

Bug fixes

Console: menu entries "Environment variables", "Current working directory" and "Show sys.path" were not disabled when the Monitor was turned off
Preferences dialog box/Keyboard shortcuts:
- conflicts are now ignored if shortcuts have different contexts except if one of this context is '_' (i.e. global context)
- conflict warnings are now also shown when showing the preferences dialog box (not only when modifying shortcuts and applying changes)
Drag/drop Python script to console: fixed TypeError (TypeError: start() got an unexpected keyword argument 'ask_for_arguments')
Console base widget: added support for FF (Form Feed) ANSI sequence - Fixes bug in IPython console: 'cls' and 'clear' magic commands were inactive in IPython consoles
Editor: code completion was sometimes very slow when editing files within a Spyder project
Code editor: fixed "Delete line" feature (Ctrl+D) / was not working with multiline selection

Other changes

Editor/80-column vertical edge line: added options to show/hide this line and change the column number
Editor: added "Comment"/"Uncomment" actions to context menu
Source code and shell editor widgets: code refactoring/cleaning (this should help people using these widgets outside Spyder)

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Version 3.1.4 (2017-04-24)

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Version 3.1.3 (2017-02-20)

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Version 3.1.2 (2017-01-24)

Bugs fixed

Version 3.1.1 (2017-01-22)

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Version 3.1 (2017-01-18)

New features

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Editor

Variable Explorer

IPython Console

Profiler

Settings

Under the hood

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Version 3.0.2 (2016/11/20)

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Version 3.0.1 (2016-10-19)

Bugfixes

Version 3.0 (2016-09-24)

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Projects

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IPython console

Debugging

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Working directory toolbar

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Version 3.0beta7 (2016-09-16)

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Version 3.0beta6 (2016-08-30)

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Version 3.0beta5 (2016-08-22)

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Version 3.0beta4 (2016-07-01)

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Version 3.0beta3 (2016-06-06)

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Version 3.0beta1/beta2 (2015-12-11)

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Version 2.3.9

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Version 2.3.8

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Version 2.3.7

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Version 2.3.6

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Version 2.3.5.2

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Version 2.3.4

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Version 2.3.3

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Version 2.3.2

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