Hi all,
On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors <https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/graphs/contributors>, I'm pleased to announce the second release candidate of our next major version: Spyder *6.0*. We've been working on this version for more than one year now and it's working relatively well. We encourage all people who like the bleeding edge to give it a try. This release candidate version includes more than 74 commits over our latest release candidate (6.0.0rc1). Spyder 6.0 comes with the following interesting new features and fixes: - New features - New installers for Windows, Linux and macOS based on Conda and Conda-forge. - Add a Debugger pane to explore the stack frame of the current debugging session. - Add a button to the Debugger pane to pause the current code execution and enter the debugger afterwards. - Add submenu to the Consoles menu to start a new console for a specific Conda or Pyenv environment. - Add ability to refresh the open Variable Explorer viewers to reflect the current variable state. - Show plots generated in the Variable Explorer or its viewers in the Plots pane. - Show Matplotlib backend state in status bar. - Make kernel restarts be much faster for the current interpreter. - Turn runfile, debugfile, runcell and related commands into IPython magics. - Add a new way to manage and establish connections with remote servers/kernels - Important fixes - Environment variables declared in ~/.bashrc or ~/.zhrc are detected and passed to the IPython console. - Support all real number dtypes in the dataframe viewer. - Restore ability to load Hdf5 and Dicom files through the Variable Explorer (this was working in Spyder 4 and before). - New API features - SpyderPluginV2.get_description must be a static method now and SpyderPluginV2.get_icon a class or static method. This is necessary to display the list of available plugins in Preferences in a more user-friendly way (see PR #21101 <https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/21101>). - Generalize the Run plugin to support generic inputs and executors. This allows plugins to declare what kind of inputs (i.e. file, cell or selection) they can execute and how they will display the result. - Add a new plugin called Switcher for the files and symbols switcher. - Declare a proper API for the Projects plugin. - Remove the Breakpoints plugin and add its functionality to the Debugger one. For a more complete list of changes, please see our changelog <https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/blob/master/changelogs/Spyder-6.md> You can easily install this release candidate if you use conda by running: conda install -c conda-forge/label/spyder_dev -c conda-forge/label/spyder_kernels_rc -c conda-forge spyder=6.0.0rc2 Or you can use pip with this command: pip install --pre -U spyder Enjoy! Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to spyderlib+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/spyderlib/b4f68607-08e6-41f0-b0b7-e60d7c281f05n%40googlegroups.com.
