What's new in Eric 19.06
Jun 14, 2019
- Code Style Checker:
- added checks for use of 'gettattr' and 'setattr', bas super() calls and 'assert False' statements
- Editor:
- Python Typing:
- added support for 'from ... import (...)'
- changed the indentation when the previous line ends with '(', '[' or '{'
- Ruby Typing:
- changed the indentation when the previous line ends with '(', '[' or '{'
- Mercurial Interface:
- extended the log browser to start with showing all incoming and the first batch of local changesets
- show different icons for incoming, outgoing and normal changesets
- added capability to search and filter based on the changeset phase
- added support for the 'closehead' extension (as of Mercurial 4.8)
- added support for the '--keep' flag of the shelve command (as of Mercurial 5.0)
- Shell:
- added capability to place the Shell window in the left or right side container
- setup.py Wizard:
- updated the Trove classifiers list
- added capability to retrieve the Trove classifiers list from PyPI
- Variables Viewer:
- reimplemented Variables Viewer using QTreeView with unlimited access to big arrays, dicts, etc. because elements are lazy loaded
- highlighting of still unloaded (default: yellow background) and last changed variable(s) (default: green background)
- colors for highlighting are configurable through Debugger ➔ General
- expand / collapse variables with children on double click on first column, in all other cases display detail window
- handling of dict views improved (can be expanded like lists)
- show tooltips on all elements which don't fit into current column width
- new options in the context menu, e.g. expand / collapse all child nodes
- Third Party packages:
- updated EditorConfig to 0.12.2
New in Eric 19.01 (Jan 13, 2019)
- pip Interface:
- added an entry to select the virtual environment of the current project if it has one defined
- Project Resources Browser:
- added support for some resource compiler options
- Web Browser (old):
- added single application mode
- change logic inside eric to use a remote controlled web browser to show help texts
- Web Browser (NG):
- added single application mode
- change logic inside eric to use a remote controlled web browser to show help texts
New in Eric 18.06 (Jun 11, 2018)
- Editor:
- added a configuration option (Editor->Style page) to show the marker map on the left or right of the editor
- added a context menu for the "fold" margin
- improved handling of folded lines when using "go to" functions
- resize auto complete list box to fit with contents
- added a configuration option (Editor->autocomplete to set up maximum width and height of the auto complete list box
- Shell:
- resize auto complete list box to fit with contents
- pip Interface:
- added an action to install a locally available package/wheel
- Web Browser (NG):
- improved the sending of the "Referer" header like it is done by Firefox
New in Eric 18.03 (Mar 19, 2018)
- Editor:
- added support for EditorConfig
- added VCS conflict markers to the types shown on the marker map
New in Eric 16.11 (Nov 14, 2016)
- General:
- added a status bar icon to show the online status to the main window
- added an action to clear the private data of the IDE
- Checkers:
- added capaibility to ignore warnings by code (use __IGNORE_WARNING___, e.g. __IGNORE_WARNING_M613__)
- Debugger:
- added a debugger interface registry to allow debuggers being implemented as plug-ins
- Python Debuggers:
- changed the protocol to a JSONRPC style protocol to be more robust
- massive speed gain of the debug client (Tobias Rzepka)
- unified the debugger clients for Python 2 and 3 (Tobias Rzepka)
- unified the standard and threaded debugger clients (Tobias Rzepka)
- added debug support for QThread threads (Tobias Rzepka)
- Ruby Debugger:
- removed the Ruby debugger (the interface doesn't work with recent Ruby versions anymore)
- Call Trace Viewer
- added capability to stop recording upon exit of the client script
- Variables Viewer
- added capability to refresh the view via the context menu
- Hex Editor:
- added a nice little hex editor tool (usable as a standalone tool as well)
- Icon Editor:
- added capability to close all other icon editor windows
- Project:
- added a dialog to quickly search for files in the list of project files (thanks to Mike C. Fletcher for contributing the majority of this)
- added an option to rescan the project for tasks upon open
- Project Browser:
- added capability to search the file tree via the keyboard (directories and files only)
- Tools:
- Tray Starter
- added an entry to show the version information
- Version Control System Interfaces:
- Mercurial
- added support for pulling and pushing the current bookmark
- added support for the strip extension
- added support for the histedit extension
- added support for the strip and fetch extensions to the log browser
- added an action to the administration menu to clean out the backup bundles
- Web Browser (QtWebKit based):
- added capability to remember the zoom values for each site (incl. a dialog to manage these)
- added a status bar icon to show the online status
- Web Browser (QtWebEngine based):
- ported the web browser to QtWebEngine as of Qt 5.6.0 because starting with this version QtWebKit is no longer (officially) supported
- Third Party packages:
- updated Pygments to 2.1.3
- updated pep8 to 2.1.0dev0 and renamed it to pycodestyle
- updated coverage.py to 4.1.0
- updated pyflakes to 1.2.3+
New in Eric 6.1.6 (Jun 10, 2016)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 6.1.5 (May 13, 2016)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 6.1.4 (Apr 10, 2016)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 6.1.3 (Mar 7, 2016)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 6.1.2 (Feb 8, 2016)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 6.1.0 (Dec 6, 2015)
- General:
- added a configuration page to edit the list of mime types to be opened in an eric editor
- added the '--settings=' command line switch to store the settings files in a non-standard directory
- Checkers:
- added a batch mode to the code style checker to make use of multiple CPUs/CPU-Cores
- added miscellaneous checks to the code style checker (coding comment, copyright, blind except, print statements, one element tuples, __future__ imports, old style string formats, string format strings)
- added a batch mode to the syntax checker to make use of multiple CPUs/CPU-Cores
- added a batch mode to the indentation checker to make use of multiple CPUs/CPU-Cores
- added a code complexity checker iaw. McCabe to the code style checker
- Editor:
- added capability to configure the indentation guides colors
- added capability to ask multiple completion list and call-tip providers
- added the search markers to the marker map
- File Browser:
- added capability to show imports of a Python script
- Log Viewer:
- added a message filter including a configuration page
- Preferences Dialog:
- changed the 'filter' function to a 'search' function disabling all entries, that don't contain the entered string
- changed the handling of the configuration page list entries to be collapsed on first show and remember the expanded ones while eric is running (but not between invocations)
- Previewers:
- added capability to use 'Sphinx' to preview ReST files
- Project
- added functionality to reorganize the files automatically, when the project type or file type associations are changed
- Project Browser:
- added capability to show imports of a Python script
- Source Code Documentor:
- added tags to describe the type of parameters (@type, @ptype) and return values (@rtype)
- Task Viewer:
- added capability to add sub-tasks (i.e. a task hierarchy) for manually generated tasks
- Tools:
- Diff Dialog
- added capability to search in the output
- Version Control System Interfaces:
- All
- added capability to search in the output of Diff dialogs
- Mercurial
- enhanced the log browser functionality by a search mode
- enhanced the log browser functionality by pull and push actions
- enhanced the status dialog functionality by a diff view
- Web Browser:
- added support for HTML5 feature permissions
- improved parsing of the content disposition header analog to the way it is done in qutebrowser
- modified and extended the VirusTotal interface for the v2 API
- added our own web inspector window to overcome a Qt weekness
- added a manager for Flash Cookies
- Third Party packages:
- updated coverage to 4.0
- updated Pygments to 2.0.2
New in Eric 6.0.11 (Nov 8, 2015)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 6.0.10 (Oct 19, 2015)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 6.0.9 (Sep 8, 2015)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 6.0.8 (Aug 3, 2015)
- This is a bug fix release and makes eric compatible to PyQt 5.5 and newer.
New in Eric 6.0.4 (Apr 7, 2015)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 6.0.3 (Mar 1, 2015)
- This is a bug fix release and makes eric compatible with PyQt5 5.4.1.
New in Eric 6.0.2 (Feb 20, 2015)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 6.0.1 (Jan 18, 2015)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 6.0.0 (Dec 28, 2014)
- Release 6.0.0 of eric includes the eric 5.5 functionality plus a few additional ones. The major difference is, that it can be used with Python3/2, PyQt5/4 and Qt5/4 on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows platforms.
New in Eric 5.5.0 (Oct 27, 2014)
- General:
- implemented a background service which execute Python2 and Python3 scripts in the background independent of the current interpreter
- added Portugese translations provided by Candido Fontes
- Checkers:
- updated pep8 to 1.5.6
- updated pyflakes to version 0.8.1 (Python 3.4.0 compatible)
- added syntax checker for JavaScript files
- added capability to check multiple files from the project sources browser
- Debugger:
- updated coverage to 3.7.1
- enabled coverage info in Python2 projects
- Editor:
- added a scrolling map like display showing all markers
- added a context menu entry to reload a file with a given encoding
- added a lexer for Qt style sheet files (when upgrading from older eric versions a change of the lexer association for *.qss files needs to be done via the configuration dialog)
- added support for the QScintilla Gettext lexer (QsciLexerPO) as of QScintilla 2.8.2
- added support for the QScintilla CoffeeScript lexer (QsciLexerCoffeeScript) as of QScintilla 2.8.3
- Multi Project:
- added support for the categorisation of projects and changed the multi project file format
- changed multi project file format to contain relative paths to the contained project files
- Plugin Manager:
- extended the plugin repository dialog to allow to hide unwanted entries and cleanup the plugin downloads area
- implemented the Python2 compatibility check for plug-ins (new boolean flag 'python2Compatible'
- Project:
- added support for JavaScript projects
- added code to move deleted files/directories to the recycle bin falling back to removing them (os.remove), if send2trash cannot be imported due to missing dependencies
- Project Forms Browser:
- added functionality to modify some form code creation options (see Qt configuration page)
- Version Control System Interfaces:
- All
- made the status LED (right lower corner) clickable (depending on overall VCS status it will show the log browser or the status dialog)
- Mercurial
- enhanced the tag dialog and extended the log browser to allow tagging of a specific revision
- added dialogs to enter the contents for initial .hgrc/mercurial.ini and .hg/hgrc files
- added a configuration option to enforce the usage of the internal merge tool
- made availablity of push/pull related actions dependent on configured remote repository (default/default-push in .hg/hgrc)
- extended the log browser by an action to switch to the selected revision
- added support for the shelve extension (as of Mercurial 2.8)
- added support for the largefiles extension (as of Mercurial 2.0)
- added support for Mercurial queues summary
- added support for various 'resolve' subcommands
- Web Browser:
- added DuckDuckGo to the list of default search engines
- Third Party packages:
- updated CharDet to 2.2.1
New in Eric 5.4.7 (Oct 4, 2014)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 5.4.6 (Aug 9, 2014)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 4.5.19 (Feb 10, 2014)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 4.5.18 (Jan 7, 2014)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 4.5.17 (Dec 9, 2013)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 4.5.15 (Sep 30, 2013)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 4.5.14 (Aug 19, 2013)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 4.5.13 (Jul 8, 2013)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 4.5.12 (Jun 10, 2013)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 4.5.11 (May 7, 2013)
- introduced a configurable delay timer to get smoother sidebars behavior
- changed the line numbers margin to adjust themselves to the size needed (Editor, Mini Editor, Shell)
New in Eric 4.5.10 (Apr 6, 2013)
- added support for the --fork-child and --fork-parent switches
- added support for more widgets in the code creation dialog
- changed the way multi line strings are shown in the value column of the variables viewer
New in Eric 4.5.9 (Mar 4, 2013)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 4.5.8 (Dec 29, 2012)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 4.5.7 (Oct 13, 2012)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 4.5.6 (Sep 3, 2012)
- This is a bug fix release with this enhancement.
New in Eric 4.5.5 (Jul 30, 2012)
- added the configurable capability to automatically show the source, when the call frame is changed in the callstack viewer of the local variables viewer
- introduced a "workspace" directory that is used as the default for opening or saving new files or projects (configurable on Multiproject config page)
New in Eric 4.5.4 (Jun 16, 2012)
New in Eric 4.5.2 (Apr 2, 2012)
- This is a bug fix release.
New in Eric 4.5.0 (Feb 5, 2012)
- Platform Support:
- Mac OS X is an officially supported platform (s. README-MacOSX.txt for setup instructions)
- Editor:
- Improved highlighter styles configuration
- Added configurable file filters
- Added configuration option for new QScintilla releases
- Enhanced template auto-completion
- Added capability to change keywords of the highlighters
- Email dialog:
- Added function to check the login data
- Project:
- Added forms generation support for PySide and Python3 Qt projects
- Subversion interfaces:
- Diff context menu entry for the status dialog
- Made status dialog more universal (you can add, remove, commit,... from it)
- Added a filter on status to the status dialog
- Tools:
- Enhanced source browser and source documentor
- Web-Browser:
- Improved proxy configuration
- Added more default search engines
- Improved handling of mouse buttons 3 and 4 (back/forward in history)
New in Eric 4.4.20 (Jan 16, 2012)
New in Eric 4.4.19 (Dec 5, 2011)
New in Eric 4.4.14 (May 9, 2011)
New in Eric 4.4.13 (Apr 4, 2011)
New in Eric 4.4.12 (Feb 7, 2011)
New in Eric 4.4.11 (Jan 2, 2011)
New in Eric 4.4.9 (Oct 11, 2010)
New in Eric 4.4.8 (Sep 6, 2010)
New in Eric 4.4.7 (Aug 2, 2010)
New in Eric 4.4.4 (May 10, 2010)
New in Eric 4.4.3 (Apr 4, 2010)
New in Eric 4.4.2 (Mar 7, 2010)
New in Eric 4.4.0 (Jan 10, 2010)
- added a Python3 compatible debugger and a respective project type
- improved debugger support
- added a thread list viewer to the debug viewer
- added support for forking to the Python debuggers (follow child or parent)
- added code for handling infinite recursions to the Python debuggers
- changed the help viewer to a full blown web browser (based on QWebkit)
- added the SQL Browser tool to inspect databases
- added a little icon editor tool
- added additional translations
- removed Qt3 support from eric4
- a lot of other changes
New in Eric 4.3.10 (Dec 13, 2009)
New in Eric 4.3.8 (Oct 10, 2009)
New in Eric 4.3.7.1 (Sep 5, 2009)
New in Eric 4.3.6 (Aug 2, 2009)
New in Eric 4.3.5 (Jul 6, 2009)
New in Eric 4.3.4 (May 31, 2009)
New in Eric 4.3.3 (May 4, 2009)
New in Eric 4.3.2 (Apr 3, 2009)
New in Eric 4.3.1 (Mar 7, 2009)
- bug fixes
- made shell to be used by the terminal configurable for non-win systems
New in Eric 4.3.0 (Feb 8, 2009)
- Major feature enhancements in many areas of the IDE.
New in Eric 4.2.5 (Jan 7, 2009)
New in Eric 4.2.4a (Dec 8, 2008)
New in Eric 4.2.4 (Dec 7, 2008)
New in Eric 4.2.3 (Nov 9, 2008)
New in Eric 4.2.2a (Oct 6, 2008)