Spyder v5.1.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2021-08-02 // over 2 years ago-
🆕 New features
- 🆕 New logo, splash screen and design for the "About Spyder" dialog.
- 👌 Support Rich and Colorama in the IPython console.
- Pasting code in the Editor and IPython console preserves indentation.
🆕 New API features
- ➕ Add a new registration mechanism for plugins that allow bidirectional dependencies among them. See this page for instructions on how to migrate to it.
🛠 Important fixes
- 🛠 Fix several critical bugs in the Outline pane.
- 👕 Restore ability to ignore linting messages with inline comments in the
Editor. Supported comments include
# noqaand# analysis:ignore. - 👌 Improve code completion performance in the Editor.
- 🛠 Fix Code analysis pane in the Windows and macOS installers.
- ⬇ Decrease startup time.
- 👌 Support Jedi 0.18 and Parso 0.8
Issues Closed
- Issue 16105 - Error when copying and pasting into SimpleImputer.fit_transform() (PR 16112 by @ccordoba12)
- 📄 Issue 16079 - Don't display hovers on strings, comments or objects without docstrings (PR 16084 by @ccordoba12)
- Issue 16064 - Spyder 5.0.5 hangs when trying to establish a connection to kite.com (PR 16109 by @ccordoba12)
- Issue 16006 - Splash screen can take a lot of space in low resolution screens (PR 16020 by @juanis2112)
- Issue 15962 - Allow more recent Parso versions (PR 15878 by @ccordoba12)
- Issue 15960 - AttributeError in snippets extension (PR 16009 by @ccordoba12)
- Issue 15904 - Switching to light/dark themes is not working as expected (PR 15983 by @ccordoba12)
- Issue 15900 - Response of LSP Requests results in wrong position in editor (PR 15903 by @hlouzada)
- 👕 Issue 15885 - Pylint package not found with the Syder 5.0.4 Mac installer (PR 15905 by @mrclary)
- Issue 15847 - FileNotFoundError in Online help (PR 15864 by @Virinas-code)
- Issue 15839 - Pop-up window "New Spyder version" blocks loading the main window (PR 15988 by @ccordoba12)
- Issue 15780 - %run -d [filename] doesn't stop on breakpoints (PR 15947 by @ccordoba12)
- Issue 15705 - Spyder switches to plot tab when debugging in console (PR 16052 by @ccordoba12)
- Issue 15698 - Fix buttons layout in Numpy and dataframe viewers (PR 16091 by @ccordoba12)
- ⚡️ Issue 15667 - Improve message for "available update" dialog to include link with installers (PR 16106 by @juanis2112)
- Issue 15648 - Selector for classes and functions not working when file is part of a project (PR 16111 by @ccordoba12)
- Issue 15638 - Error when deleting UTF character (PR 15805 by @impact27)
- 💅 Issue 15618 - Double pydocstyle errors (PR 15926 by @ccordoba12)
- 0️⃣ Issue 15459 - Filter settings are empty by default (PR 16103 by @ccordoba12)
- Issue 15458 - Commit from files pane is not working. (PR 15895 by @ccordoba12)
- 🏁 Issue 15452 - ModuleNotFoundError when running code analysis on Windows installer (PR 16053 by @dalthviz)
- 📦 Issue 15400 - Help pane not connected to Editor for local packages (PR 16099 by @ccordoba12)
- Issue 15320 - Dataframe viewer cannot show "_" in column names (PR 16091 by @ccordoba12)
- Issue 15042 - Completions extremely slow (PR 16057 by @andfoy)
- 🍎 Issue 14917 - Buggy Menubar Behavior on macOS (PR 16114 by @ccordoba12)
- Issue 14871 - Outline GUI not working in
__init__.pyof a module (PR 16111 by @ccordoba12) - Issue 14787 - Editor extraneously reloads files when switching projects (PR 15681 by @mrclary)
- 📦 Issue 13358 - Go to definition not working on local packages (PR 16099 by @ccordoba12)
- Issue 13181 - Improve Spyder logo for Spyder 5 (PR 15829 by @isabela-pf)
- Issue 11701 - Align indented lines after pasting (PR 14467 by @impact27)
- Issue 11033 - How to suppress errors found by pyflakes in Spyder 4 (PR 15927 by @ccordoba12)
- Issue 1917 - Make Colorama and Rich work in Spyder's console (PR 16095 by @ccordoba12)
🚀 In this release 32 issues were closed.
🔀 Pull Requests Merged
- 🍎 PR 16114 - PR: Pre-render menus when main window is visible on macOS, by @ccordoba12 (14917)
- ⚡️ PR 16113 - PR: Update dependencies for 5.1.0, by @ccordoba12
- PR 16112 - PR: Catch another error with snippets (Editor), by @ccordoba12 (16105)
- PR 16111 - PR: Fix several issues with the Outline, by @ccordoba12 (15648, 14871)
- ⏱ PR 16109 - PR: Add a timeout when doing a request to Kite url installers, by @ccordoba12 (16064)
- ⚡️ PR 16108 - PR: Update translations from Crowdin, by @spyder-bot
- ⚡️ PR 16107 - PR: Update translation strings for 5.1.0, by @ccordoba12
- ⚡️ PR 16106 - PR: Add link to download new installer update in dialog, by @juanis2112 (15667)
- PR 16103 - PR: Fix setting filters in Files, by @ccordoba12 (15459)
- 📦 PR 16102 - PR: Make plugins.py a package (API), by @ccordoba12
- 💅 PR 16101 - PR: Revert changes that avoided to compute stylesheets when importing the stylesheet module, by @ccordoba12
- PR 16099 - PR: Make go-to-defintion and hover work for files when no project is active or outside of it (Completions), by @ccordoba12 (15400, 13358)
- 👍 PR 16095 - PR: Support Rich and Colorama in the IPython console, by @ccordoba12 (1917)
- 💅 PR 16091 - PR: Improve style of editors (Variable Explorer), by @ccordoba12 (15698, 15320)
- PR 16084 - PR: Don't try to display hovers when there's no content to display (Editor), by @ccordoba12 (16079)
- PR 16078 - PR: Exclude files in branding from check-manifest, by @ccordoba12
- PR 16066 - PR: Fix layout and missing entries in main menus, by @ccordoba12
- 🐎 PR 16057 - PR: Use completionItem/resolve to improve completion performance, by @andfoy (15042)
- PR 16054 - PR: Fix small error in Parso required version (Dependencies), by @ccordoba12
- 👕 PR 16053 - PR: Add modified Pylint init file to prevent modifications to sys.path (Windows installers), by @dalthviz (15452)
- 🔌 PR 16052 - PR: Only switch to Plots plugin once per session, by @ccordoba12 (15705)
- PR 16041 - PR: Move create_application and create_window to utils (Main window), by @ccordoba12
- PR 16040 - PR: Fix getting text with end-of-lines (Editor), by @ccordoba12
- 🍎 PR 16026 - PR: Fix failures when building macOS installers, by @ccordoba12
- PR 16020 - PR: Change size of splash screen, by @juanis2112 (16006)
- PR 16014 - PR: Fix resetting variables after clicking on the reset button (IPython console), by @ccordoba12
- ✅ PR 16011 - PR: Fix compatibility with pytest-qt >= 4, by @bnavigator
- PR 16009 - PR: Catch error in snippets extension (Editor), by @ccordoba12 (15960)
- ⚡️ PR 16007 - PR: Fix updated Spyder logos, by @isabela-pf
- ⚡️ PR 15988 - PR: Move check for possible updates after the main window is visible (Application), by @ccordoba12 (15839)
- PR 15983 - PR: Fix asking for restart when changing interface theme options (Appearance), by @ccordoba12 (15904)
- PR 15980 - PR: Add logos and guidelines outside the application, by @isabela-pf
- PR 15964 - PR: Adjust icon colors for increased contrast, by @isabela-pf
- ✅ PR 15958 - PR: Fix tests for IPykernel 6, by @ccordoba12
- ⚡️ PR 15956 - PR: Update splash screen with new logo, by @isabela-pf
- PR 15947 - PR: Fix %debug magic, by @ccordoba12 (15780)
- 👕 PR 15927 - PR: Restore ability to ignore linting messages with inline comments (Editor), by @ccordoba12 (11033)
- 👕 PR 15926 - PR: Don't add linting messages to block data for cloned editors (Editor), by @ccordoba12 (15618)
- 👕 PR 15905 - PR: Add pylint to packages option for py2app (macOS installer), by @mrclary (15885)
- PR 15903 - PR: Fix wrong EOL in LSP requests text, by @hlouzada (15900)
- PR 15895 - PR: Fix VCS browse and commit functionality (Files), by @ccordoba12 (15458)
- PR 15887 - PR: Make IPython Console widgets and other elements to use the SpyderConfigurationAccessor, by @dalthviz
- PR 15886 - PR: Bump minimum setuptools version to 49.6.0 , by @dalthviz
- 🚚 PR 15880 - PR: Bump CONF_VERSION after move to pylsp server (Completions), by @ccordoba12
- ⚡️ PR 15878 - PR: Update Jedi and Parso requirements, by @ccordoba12 (15962)
- PR 15864 - PR: Fix error in link to css files (Online Help), by @Virinas-code (15847)
- PR 15857 - PR: Improve startup time in several ways, by @ccordoba12
- ⚡️ PR 15829 - PR: Update Spyder's logo, by @isabela-pf (13181)
- PR 15805 - PR: Find next character correctly (Editor), by @impact27 (15638)
- PR 15762 - PR: Change design of about dialog, by @juanis2112 (40)
- 🚦 PR 15760 - PR: Initial signal names standardization (IPython Console), by @dalthviz
- PR 15681 - PR: Fix extraneous reloading documents on project switching, by @mrclary (14787)
- PR 15657 - PR: Use community-based python-lsp-server instead of Palantir's python-language-server, by @andfoy
- 🔌 PR 15582 - PR: Use a notification-based manager to load and manage plugins during startup, by @andfoy
- 🔌 PR 15488 - PR: Make tour a plugin in the new API, by @juanis2112
- PR 15000 - PR: Migrate projects to the new API, by @steff456
- PR 14467 - PR: Fix indentation on paste, by @impact27 (11701)
🚀 In this release 57 pull requests were closed.