News
28 December 2014
eric6 6.0.0 has been released. It replaces eric 5.5.x line of development.It has basically the same functionality and is usable with any combinationof Python2 or Python3, Qt5 or Qt4 and PyQt5 or PyQt4. All these on Linux,Windows and Mac OS X platforms.
07 December 2014
eric5 5.5.2 has been released.
30 November 2014
eric5 5.5.1 has been released.
29 November 2014
eric6 6.0.0-RC1 has been released. It is the first release candidate forthe upcoming eric6 release. It contains mostly the same code base as eric5but is optimized for PyQt5. Please note that it can be used with PyQt4 aswell due to a compatibility layer. It is available viaSourceforge.
27 October 2014
eric5 5.5.0 has been released. It replaces both eric 5.4.x and eric 4.5.xand is usable with both Python3 and Python2. The Python2 support was done byTobias Rzepka. The most prominent new features are these.
- 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
- All
- Web Browser
- added DuckDuckGo to the list of default search engines
- Third Party packages
- updated CharDet to 2.2.1
04 October 2014
eric5 5.4.7 has been released.
04 October 2014
eric4 4.5.25 has been released.
09 August 2014
eric5 5.4.6 has been released.
09 August 2014
eric4 4.5.24 has been released.
20 July 2014
snapshot-6.0-20140720 of eric6 released. This is the first snapshot of thePyQt5 port of eric. It has all the same features as the most recent eric5snapshot. Please give this snapshot release a try and report all issues foundto the bug email address, via the eric issue tracker or the eric mailing list.
28 June 2014
snapshot-5.5-20140628 of eric5 released. It fixes some bugs and includes alot of new features. The most prominent one is, that is possible to executeit with Python2. Thanks to Tobias Rzepka for all his work to make thispossible.
eric 5.5 will eventually replace both eric 5.4 and eric 4.5. Please givethis snapshot release a try and report all issues found to the bug emailaddress, via the eric issue tracker or the eric mailing list.
28 June 2014
eric5 5.4.5 has been released.
28 June 2014
eric4 4.5.23 has been released.
11 May 2014
eric5 5.4.4 has been released. This release includes Python 3.4.x compatibility fixes.
11 May 2014
eric4 4.5.22 has been released.
05 April 2014
eric5 5.4.3 has been released.
05 April 2014
eric4 4.5.21 has been released.
09 March 2014
eric5 5.4.2 has been released.
09 March 2014
eric4 4.5.20 has been released.
09 February 2014
eric5 5.4.1 has been released.
09 February 2014
eric4 4.5.19 has been released.
07 January 2014
eric5 5.4.0 has been released. The most prominent new features are these.
- General
- introduced a zoom widget in the status bar of several windows
- centralized the SSL error handling in E5SslErrorHandler
- moved the SSL widgets to the E5Network package
- changed the 'import' statements to improve startup behavior
- removed the QtHelp dependancy; support is only available, if the QtHelp module could be imported
- changed code to be compatible with latest PyQt4 Windows installers
- introduced a configurable delay timer to get smoother sidebars behavior
- added a specialized error message handler allowing to filter messages
- added commandline options '--start-file', '--start-multi' and '--start-project' to start with the most recently opened file, multi project or project
- added a dialog to show the most recent error log
- Debugger
- Debug Viewer
- added a viewer for the call stack leading to the current line
- Variables Viewer
- changed the way multi line strings are shown in the value column
- Debug Viewer
- Checkers
- Coding Style (previously PEP-8)
- extended the coding style checker and its fixer
- added a checker for naming conventions
- dded a checker for docstring conventions
- extended the fixer for docstring issues
- Coding Style (previously PEP-8)
- Editor
- added the capability to preview HTML, Mardown and ReST files
- added the capability to sort lines spanned by a rectangular selection based on the selected text
- added entires to convert the selection to upper/lower case to the edit menu
- changed the line numbers margin to adjust themselves to the size needed
- added support for virtual space
- added support to show the current class/method name in the combo boxes at the top of the editor
- File Browser
- added a JavaScript parser in order to show the structure of JavaScript files
- Mini Editor
- changed the line numbers margin to adjust themselves to the size needed
- added support for virtual space
- Multi Project
- extended the context menus of the multi project browser to be able to add projects this way
- Project
- added support for PyQt5 projects
- Project Viewer
- All
- added a context menu entry to delete the selected directory
- Forms Viewer
- added support for more widgets in the code creation dialog
- added a plug-in hook for the 'open' action
- Sources Viewer
- added support to highlight the current class/method name of the current editor
- added a JavaScript parser in order to show the structure of JavaScript files
- Translations Viewer
- added a plug-in hook for the 'open' action
- All
- Shell
- changed the line numbers margin to adjust themselves to the size needed
- Symbols Viewer
- extended the list of supported unicode code blocks
- Template Viewer
- added a context menu entry to reload the templates
- changed logic such, that the templates are only written, if they contain some changes
- User Interface
- made the search and replace widgets scrollable (customisation for smaller screens)
- Version Control System Interfaces
- All
- added a confirmation dialog to the 'revert' actions
- Mercurial
- added a 'Copy Changesets' button to the log browser dialog
- editing the config file will generate a minimal one if none exists
- added support for the 'summary' command
- added capability to compare files side-by-side
- Subversion
- added capability to compare files side-by-side
- added cabaility to upgrade the working copy format
- All
- Web Browser
- reworked the various SSL info widgets to show more info
- added a dialog to configure hosts to be exempted from caching
- added the capability to save the visible part of the current page as a screen shot
- Wizards
- added a wizard for the Qt5 QRegularExpression class (requires PyQt5)
- added support for PyQt5 to the QFileDialog wizard
- Third Party packages
- updated to Pygments 1.6
07 January 2014
eric4 4.5.18 has been released.
01 January 2014
The eric5 team wishes everybody a 'Happy New Year'.
