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+++ b/changelog Sat Jul 05 15:02:45 2014 +0200
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Change Log
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-Version 5.5-snapshot-20140628:
+Version 6.0.x:
- bug fixes
- General
-- changed the eric mascot to be a Python (i.e. the snake). New icons
@@ -61,523 +61,3 @@
--- added support for various 'resolve' subcommands
- Third Party packages
-- updated CharDet to 2.2.1
-
-Version 5.4.0:
-- bug fixes
-
-Version 5.4.0-RC1:
-- bug fixes
-- 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
-- Checkers
- -- Coding Style (previously PEP-8)
- --- extended the coding style checker and its fixer
- --- added a checker for naming conventions
- --- added a checker for docstring conventions
- --- extended the fixer for docstring issues
-- Editor
- -- added the capability to preview HTML, Markdown 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
-- 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
-- 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
-
-Version 5.3-snapshot-20130106:
-- bug fixes
-- General
- -- added support for Qt5 (experimental)
-- Debugger
- -- added the capability to trace function calls and returns to the
- Python 2 and Python 3 debuggers
-- Debug Viewer
- -- added a viewer for call trace logs
-- Editor
- -- added actions to search for the next/previous occurence of the current
- word (default shortcuts Ctrl+. and Ctrl+,)
- -- added some icons to the "Languages" and "End-of-Line Type" context menus
-- IRC
- -- added a simple IRC client
-- Spell Checker
- -- added a dialog to edit the various spell checking dictionaries
-- Syntax Checker
- -- added capability to the syntax checker dialog to show all errors/warnings
- in an editor when the file entry is double activated
-- User Interface
- -- changed the layout of the right side widgets and added a sub menu
- for the switching between the 'inner' windows.
- -- added a notification system
-- View Manager
- -- added actions to open the find in files and replace in files dialogs in a
- mode that searches open files only
- -- change the status labels for programming language and end-of-line type to
- show an icon
-
-Version 5.3-snapshot-20121101:
-- bug fixes
-- General
- -- introduced a "workspace" directory that is used as the default for opening
- or saving new files or projects (configurable on Multiproject config page)
-- Code Coverage
- -- enhanced the code coverage dialog functionality
-- Configuration Dialog
- -- added a filter edit to filter the configuration tree
-- Debug Viewer
- -- added the configurable capability to automatically show the source,
- when the call frame is changed in the callstack viewer of the local
- variables viewer
-- Editor
- -- added capability to mark changed lines and to navigate between them
-- Graphics Dialogs
- -- added capability to store and load diagrams to/from disk
- -- improved the package diagram to include subpackages and their module names
- -- added the capability to rebuild a diagram without losing the current item
- positions
-- Plug-ins
- -- added the 'addSideWidget()' and 'removeSideWidget()' methods to the
- UserInterface class to allow plug-in developers to add a plug-in widget
- to the left or bottom side containers
-- Project
- -- made the selectable project types of the project properties dialog
- dependent upon the selected programming language
-- Version Control System Interfaces
- -- Mercurial
- --- added support for --log and --dry-run to the hg graft operation as of
- Mercurial 2.3.0
- --- added code to disable the (deprecated) transplant menu for
- Mercurial 2.3.0
-- Web Browser
- -- added context menu entries for HTML5 media elements
- -- added a personal information manager to assist in completing form fields
- through field context menu entries or by pressing Ctrl+Return or
- Ctrl+Enter
- -- added support for GreaseMonkey scripts
- -- added an icon to the status bar to give direct access to AdBlock
- -- rewrote huge part of AdBlock to speed up
- -- added support for dependent AdBlock subscriptions
- -- added support for AdBlock exceptions
- -- added support for AdBlock checksum checking when downloading a
- subscription
- -- added support for variable AdBlock update periods (given in subscription)
- -- changed FTP support to use Python's ftplib instead of QFtp because the
- later is not supported in Qt5 anymore
- -- added a handler for file: schemes to allow directory listings
-
-Version 5.3-snapshot-20120624:
-- bug fixes
-- General
- -- removed the user interface layout types "Floating Windows" and
- "Dock Windows"
-- Log Viewer
- -- added the capability to search in the recorded log
-- Shell
- -- added the capability to search in the output of the shell window
-- Terminal
- -- added the capability to search in the output of the terminal window
-- Version Control System Interfaces
- -- All
- --- added code to ensure, that some eric specific files and directories
- get ignored
- --- improved the copy/move operation a bit
- -- Mercurial
- --- added support for amending commits as of Mercurial 2.2
- --- added support for sub-repositories
- -- Subversion
- --- added capability to select from existing change lists and added a
- dialog to browse the change lists
-- Web Browser
- -- extended the "Clear Private Data" dialog to clear flash cookies and
- to select a browsing history period to clear
- -- made the AdBlock update period configurable between 1 and 14 days
-
-Version 5.3-snapshot-20120430:
-- bug fixes
-- Editor
- -- added capability to change the colours of the edit area independant from
- the colours of the system style
-- Project
- -- added capability to save project tasks automatically (configurable on
- project configuration page of configuration dialog)
-- Tasks
- -- changed the tasks handling to allow for more fine grained task
- designations
-- Tools
- -- added a tool to take screenshots (fullscreen, selected screen, rectangular
- selection, elliptical selection or freehand selection)
-- Version Control System Interfaces
- -- Mercurial
- --- added support for the graft command as of Mercurial 2.0
- --- added support for Phases as of Mercurial 2.1
- -- Subversion
- --- changed code to make the subversion plug-ins compatible with the new
- generation working copy meta-data format
-- Web Browser
- -- extended the check for acceptable SSL certificates for indication via the
- URL entry field
- -- extended the web page context menu by several entries to send links or
- the selected text, handling the clicked frame, translate the selected
- text with Google Translate and search it in Wictionary
- -- extended the User Agent handling to be able to set the string on a host
- basis (next to the global user agent string)
- -- added code to save the current page as a screen shot
- -- added capability to synchronize bookmarks, history, passwords and user
- agent settings via an FTP server or a shared directory
- -- added the ClickToFlash plug-in to (temporarily) block Flash and related
- content
- -- added capability to suppress Referer Headers (configurable via eric4 Web
- Browser configuration page)
- -- added capability to select the first nine tabs by pressing Alt+1 to Alt+9
- and to switch to the last tab by pressing Alt+0
- -- added a Speed Dial to the web browser including the capability to select
- the first ten pages by pressing Meta+1 to Meta+0
- -- added a history sub-menu showing the most visited sites
- -- added the capability to restore closed tabs
- -- added a bookmarks importer to get them directly from other browsers files
- -- extended bookmarks to hold a description and various timestamps
- -- added capability to manage the QtHelp filter attributes
- -- added a page to the site info dialog to show web databases of the site
-- Wizards
- -- QRegExp
- --- added support for the various pattern syntaxes
-- Third Party packages
- -- updated to Pygments 1.5
-
-Version 5.2.0:
-- bug fixes
-- Cooperation Functions
- -- added code to the cooperation functions to support IPv6
-- Debugger
- -- extended debugger to show class variables
- -- extended debugger to ignore exceptions occuring in lines having a
- '__IGNORE_EXCEPTION__' line flag set
-- Editor
- -- added an action to preview the file in the eric web browser. File name
- extension to support this feature can be configured on the
- Editor->Filehandling page
- -- added an action to the editor context menu and to the tabview and listview
- view managers to open an associated 'rejections' file (i.e. same file name
- with '.rej' appended)
- -- added an action to toggle block comments
- -- added a syntax check while typing function
- -- added source navigation function for Python 2, Python 3 and Ruby sources
- -- added support for QScintilla 2.6 (and newer)
- -- added capability to zoom by Ctrl + Mouse Wheel (same for the shell and
- terminal)
- -- added capability to zoom by a pinch gesture (same for the shell and
- terminal)
- -- added capability to go to method and class definitions by Shift + Mouse
- Wheel
- -- added the capability to replace just the selected occurence of the search
- text
-- Plug-in Manager Tools
- -- added code to download and install plug-ins
-- Source Browser
- -- show class attributes, class methods and static methods with different
- icons
- -- added context menu for attributes
-- Source Documentor
- -- introduced separate sections for class methods and static methods
-- Tasks Manager
- -- made tasks manager forget about global file tasks when file is closed
- (configurable via configuration dialog)
-- Tools
- -- API files generator
- --- added code to write base class information to be used by the
- eric assistant plug-in
-- Unit Test
- -- extended the unit test module to allow to rerun only failed tests of the
- last
-- Version Control System Interfaces
- -- all
- --- made "Show Log" behave like "Show Limited Log" and removed the later
- --- added context menu actions to select/deselect all commitable items
- of the status dialogs
- --- added a file selector to the top of the diff dialogs to quickly jump
- to the diff for the selected file
- -- Mercurial
- --- added interface for the Mercurial command server (as of Mercurial 1.9)
- --- added code to support multiple revisions where appropriate
- --- modified pull such, that it will try to apply an existing changegroups
- file first (created by an hg incoming)
- --- added support for importing patches
- --- added support for exporting patches
- --- added configuration option to create backup files when reverting
- changes
-- View Manager
- -- added an action to reset the zoom factor
-- Web Browser
- -- added the "Do Not Track" feature
- -- added code to indicate invalid SSL certificates in the URL entry and the
- SSL info dialog
- -- added a dialog to show RSS feeds
- -- added a dialog to show some information about the current site
- -- added the capability to go through the history via Shift + Mouse Wheel
- -- added capability to zoom by a pinch gesture
-- other enhancements
- -- added an action to launch another instantiation of eric5
- -- added capability to zoom by Ctrl + Mouse Wheel to various graphics
- related windows
- -- added capability to zoom by a pinch gesture to various graphics
- related windows
-
-Version 5.2-snapshot-20110724:
-- bug fixes
-- enhancements of the Mercurial interface
- -- added support for the Mercurial bookmarks extension
- -- added support for the Mercurial queues extension
- -- added support for the Mercurial fetch extension
- -- added support for the Mercurial purge extension
- -- added support for the Mercurial gpg extension
- -- added support for the Mercurial transplant extension
- -- added support for the Mercurial rebase extension
- -- enhanced the Mercurial log browser dialog
-- enhancements of the web browser
- -- added a pause button to the web browser download
- -- added some more user agent strings to the web browser
- -- added some more search engines to the web browser
- -- added capability to encrypt saved passwords with a master password
- and rearranged some configuration parameters related to security
- -- improved the handling of mouse XButton1 and XButton2 handling in the
- web browser
-- enhancements of the configuration dialog
- -- added function to test the login data to the Email config page
-- enhancements of the Unit Test module
- -- extended the unit test interface to support skipped tests, expected
- failures and unexpected successes and to better cope with Python2
- scripts when run from the eric IDE
-- enhancements of the editor
- -- added editor actions to go to the last edit location and to the previous
- or next Python or Ruby class or method definition
-
-Version 5.2-snapshot-20110501:
-- bug fixes
-- added menu entry for the icon editor to the tray starter
-- added capability to filter out unwanted items in the file browsers
- (s. config dialog, interface page)
-- changed syntax check to report error position within the line
-- added functionality to the VCS status dialogs to make them more
- general commit dialogs
-- extended the Mercurial log browser to indicate closed branches
-- changed the configuration dialog to remember the last show page name
-- added configuration options for visible whitespace (as of QScintilla 2.5)
-- added capability to configure the alpha channel for some colors
- (as of QScintilla 2.5)
-- added support for new lexer properties (as of QScintilla 2.5)
-- added support for access keys and drag & drop to the web browser
-- added support for search schemes ("s:" or "search:") and "about:home" to
- the web browser
-- added capability to the tasks viewer to ignore files based on a wildcard
- during a project tasks scan
-- added an action to push a new named branch to the Mercurial plug-in
-- added an interface to VirusTotal to the web browser
-- changed algorithm to determine the debugger backend type to be used by
- analysing a first line starting with '#!'
-- added support for the Matlab and Octave lexers for QScintilla >= 2.5.1
-- enhanced the autocompletion of templates to observe the language of the
- current file
-- added support for "hg rollback" to the Mercurial interface
-
-Version 5.1-snapshot-20110123:
-- bug fixes
-- made the toolbars of the initial layout more minimalistic
-- merged "Save to Project" into "Save" and "Save As...".
-- added a checker for PEP 8 compliance (including a fixer for
- most issues)
-
-Version 5.1-snapshot-20110106:
-- bug fixes
-- added support for the display of inline annotations (used to show
- syntax errors and warnings)
-- added support for additional configurable file filters
-- added a certificate manager to the eric web browser
-- added display of suppressed client termination messages
-- changed the Mercurial log browser to show incoming/outgoing changesets
- with the current log (by pressing the next button)
-- added a feature where flags can be given at the end of a source file.
- The only flag supported is 'FileType' to overwrite the filetype detection
- mechanism.
-- added a syntax checker function for Python 2 files
-- added a pyflakes checker function for Python 2 files
-- added a tabnanny checker function for Python 2 files
-- updated Pygments to version 1.4.0
-
-Version 5.1-snapshot-20101029:
-- bug fixes
-- added configuration options for the web browser cache policy
-- added tab previews to the web browser
-- added a line widget with embeddable buttons
-- changed the web browser to give it a more modern look
-- added code to show certificate info for https URLs
-- added a download manager to the web browser
-- added a check to the find and replace dialog to make sure,
- that no external changes were done between the find run and
- the replace run
-- added an option to configure the icon of the tray starter application
-- updated Pygments to version 1.3.1
-
-Version 5.1-snapshot-20100918:
-- bug fixes
-- converted all signal/slot code to use the new API
-- added action to copy the editor path to the clipboard to the tab context menu
-- added code to adjust the cursor flash time of the editor to the global
- settings
-- added code to show hidden files in the various browsers
-- added an editor action to join the current line with the next one
-- added code to cope with Linux distributor's usage of KDE wrapper dialogs
- for the Qt file dialogs
-- added a source code exporter for the Open Document Text (ODT) format
-- changed all calls to QMessageBox to some eric5 replacements and convenience
- functions
-- added a wizard for the eric5 message box (E5MessageBox)
-- added filename filters to the code metrics, syntax checker and tabnanny
- dialogs
-- changed XML handling code to use QXmlStreamReader and QXmlStreamWriter
-- added use of compositing modes to the icon editor
-- modified install script such, that it allows an installation from source as
- well. The situation will be determined automatically.
-
-Version 5.1-snapshot-20100718:
-- bug fixes
-- added an action to perform a 'hg push -f' to the Mercurial plug-in
-- added a handler for ftp: URLs to the web browser
-- added action to start a Mercurial server to the Mercurial plug-in
-- added action to print to PDF to the web browser
-- added a branch filter to the Mercurial log browser
-- added additional fold styles
-- added capability to configure the colors of the foldmarkers
-- added option to use DNS prefetching to the web browser (needs Qt >= 4.6)
-- added support for Web SQL Databases to the web browser
-- added support for Web application caches and local web storage to the
- web browser (needs Qt >= 4.6)
-- added a symbols viewer with capability to insert the selected symbol
- by double-clicking it
-- added a numbers viewer to convert numbers into various formats
-- extended the Ad-Blocker of the web browser (needs Qt >= 4.6)
-- added capability to configure the text encoding of the web browser
- (needs Qt >= 4.6)
-- added capability to select the user agent string for the web browser
-
-Version 5.0-snapshot-20100523:
-- bug fixes
-- added code to save the editor zoom factor in the session file
-- added code to configure the zoom factor a file is opened with
-- added code to update the file browser window (mostly) automatically
-- added code to update the Others tab of the project browser (mostly)
- automatically
-- added a menu to the highlighting styles config page to change individual
- aspects of a font only
-- changed code to improve development on multiple platforms
-- added code to show the keyboard shortcut to the tooltip of an action
-- changed the Find in Files dialog to remember the history of the search
- string, replace string and the search directory
-- added code to enhance the proxy configuration and removed the usage of QHttp
-
-Version 5.0-snapshot-20100508:
-- bug fixes
-- added administration actions to the Mercurial plug-in
-- added changegroup related actions to the Mercurial plug-in
-- added bisect commands to the Mercurial plug-in
-
-Version 5.0-snapshot-20100418:
-- bug fixes
-- added plugin for Mercurial version control system
-
-Version 5.0-snapshot-20100401:
-- bug fixes
-- added installation of a .desktop file for Linux systems
-- added shared editor functions and a simple chat system
-
-Version 5.0-snapshot-20100306:
-- bug fixes
-- added code to indicate directories and files being symbolic links
-- extendend the predefined template variables by "project_path",
- "clipboard", "cur_select", "insertion", "select_start" and
- "select_end"
-- added the auto fork options to the run dialog
-- added capability to change the keywords of a syntax highlighter
-
-Version 5.0-snapshot-20100206:
-- bug fixes
-- added code to use the PYTHONPATH environment setting in the debuggers
-- added my own Python3 port of pyflakes
-- integrated py3flakes into syntax checker dialog and editor
-
-Version 5.0-snapshot-20100116:
-- first snapshot of eric5
