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+Change Log
+----------
+Version 19.05:
+- bug fixes
+- Python AST Viewer
+ -- added a tool to visualize the AST for a Python source file
+- Snapshot Tool
+ -- added code to support screenshots on Wayland desktops (KDE and Gnome)
+
+Version 19.04:
+- bug fixes
+- Code Style Checker
+ -- added a checker for advised forms of the return statement
+- Editor
+ -- added extended regular expression support (C++11) as of QScintilla 2.11.0
+ -- added capability to configure the subline indentation for wrapped lines
+ -- added capability to frame the line containing the cursor instead of
+ coloring it
+ -- added support for the "reverse selected lines" command (Meta+Alt+R)
+ -- added support for sub-styling (user definable words and their style)
+ (see Editor->Highlighters->Styles configuration page)
+ (only C++ and Python2/3 lexers support this feature)
+ -- extended the support for keyword sets (see Editor->Highlighters->Keywords
+ configuration page)
+- Email
+ -- changed the Google Mail interface to not use obsoleted packages anymore
+- Multi Project
+ -- added capability to the multi project browser to copy a project
+- Unit Test
+ -- added the capability to select the virtual environment for the unittest
+ run
+ -- removed the 'local' selection because it is obsolete
+ -- added capability to auto-discover tests
+ -- added capability to show auto-discovered tests and select from this list
+ -- added capability to stop the test on the first error or failure
+ -- added capability to run test with debugger support
+- Web Browser (NG)
+ -- added these search engines to the default list:
+ --- MetaGer
+ --- StartPage (German)
+ --- searx.me
+ -- added support to go one page back by pressing the backspace key
+
+Version 19.03:
+- bug fixes
+- Conda Interface
+ -- added an interface to the conda environment and package management
+ (part of the Anaconda Python distribution)
+- Editor
+ -- suppress auto-completions in various circumstances
+- pip Interface
+ -- changed the interface from being menu based to a widget in the right
+ side toolbox
+- VirtualEnv Manager
+ -- extended the environment definition by a flag indicating a remotely
+ accessed environment
+- Web Browser (NG)
+ -- added a site info widget that is show when the site icon in the URL entry
+ is clicked
+ -- added code to register custom protocol handlers (upon request of the user
+ via the site info widget)
+- Third Party packages
+ -- updated pycodestyle to 2.5.0
+ --- added option to set the documentation line length
+ -- upgraded pyflakes to 2.1.0
+
+Version 19.02.1:
+- bug fixes
+- fixes for some incompatibilities with PyQt 5.12 and QScintilla 2.11.0
+
+Version 19.02:
+- bug fixes
+- Debugger
+ -- show / stop at correct line number if an exception happens in a with
+ statement or specific try-except clauses where no breakpoints are set
+- Editor
+ -- added capability to suppress some markers in the marker map
+- Multi Project
+ -- added capability to the multi project browser to delete a project
+ from disk
+- Web Browser (NG):
+ -- added support to select a client SSL certificate (as of Qt 5.12)
+- Third Party packages
+ -- updated coverage.py to 4.5.2
+ -- updated jasy to 1.5-beta6 (latest release available)
+ -- updated Pygments to 2.3.1
+
+Version 19.01:
+- bug fixes
+- 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
+
+Version 18.12:
+- bug fixes
+- Editor
+ -- changed the 'Regexp' search option to use QScintilla's POSIX mode, where
+ ( and ) are used for tagging (instead of \( and \))
+- LogViewer
+ -- added the capability to search for a regular expression (Qt >= 5.3.0
+ is required for this)
+- Project Forms Browser
+ -- added support for the --resource-suffix= and --import-from= options of
+ pyuic (the PyQt forms compiler)
+- Shell, ShellWindow
+ -- added the capability to search for a regular expression with QScintilla's
+ POSIX mode
+ -- changed the start menu to give a list of defined environments
+ -- added capability to start the shell for the environment defined by the
+ open project
+- Translator
+ -- added a button to open the Translator configuration page
+- VirtualEnv Manager
+ -- extended the environment definition by a flag indicating an Anaconda
+ environment and a string to be prepended to the PATH environment variable
+
+Version 18.11:
+- bug fixes
+- IRC
+ -- added support for some of the "/" commands to the user list context menu
+- Translator
+ -- changed DeepL support to DeepL Pro
+- VCS
+ -- added capability to show some VCS info in the status bar of the main
+ window (next to the VCS status LED)
+
+Version 18.10:
+- bug fixes
+- General
+ -- changed the extension of the generated script files for Windows from
+ '.bat' to '.cmd'
+- Debugger
+ -- added code to use the default virtual environment, if none has been
+ configured yet
+- IRC
+ -- added support for the /query, /notice, /ping, /ignore, /unignore, /away,
+ /join, /part and /partall commands
+- Tasks
+ -- added code to mark a line as not containing a task with '__NO-TASK__'
+
+Version 18.09:
+- bug fixes
+- Mercurial Interface
+ -- added support for Mercurial 4.7 extended commands 'graft', 'rebase' and
+ 'export'
+
+Version 18.08:
+- bug fixes
+- General
+ -- made the activation of these internal tools configurable
+ * Template-Viewer
+ * File-Browser
+ * Symbols
+ * Code Documentation Viewer
+ * Cooperation
+ * IRC
+ * Numbers
+- File-Browser
+ -- changed code so file-browser is always a standalone window
+- Project Interfaces Browser
+ -- added actions to configure some IDL compiler options (-I, -D, -U)
+- Shell
+ -- changed code so shell is always a standalone window
+- Translator
+ -- added a translation engine for the IBM Watson Language Translator
+- Web Browser (NG)
+ -- added default search engine definitions for
+ * Qwant
+ * StartPage
+
+Version 18.07:
+- bug fixes
+- Checkers
+ -- upgraded pyflakes to version 2.0.0
+- Debugger
+ -- added support of breakpoint() builtin of Python 3.7
+ -- added code to try to open the source file if an exception occurred in
+ a cython .pyd file
+- Git Interface
+ -- added capability to change the URL and/or user credentials for a
+ remote repository
+- pip Interface
+ -- added support for the '--user' option of install and list commands
+ -- changed to use the new VirtualEnv Manager
+- Unit Test
+ -- extended the standalone unit test tool to be able to open source in an
+ editor window
+- VirtualEnv Manager
+ -- added a manager for virtual environments
+ -- changed a few places to use the newly introduced virtual environments
+ (Note: a new session file format and debug properties file format
+ has been introduced)
+
+**Upgrade note**: It may be neccessary to configure the Python environments,
+the environments to be used for the debugger. Once that is done, the eric6
+IDE should be restarted.
+
+Version 18.06:
+- bug fixes
+- 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
+
+Version 18.05:
+- bug fixes
+- General
+ -- added the '--disable-plugin=' option to disable plug-ins via the command
+ line
+- Code Style Checker
+ -- added support for '# noqa' and '# NOQA' comments to suppress warnings
+ -- extended the dialog to be able to define the number of blank lines
+ before class and function/method definitions
+- Project
+ -- added support for 'make' to the Project menu and run it automatically
+ before the main script is started (configuration option)
+- Syntax Checker
+ -- added support for '# noqa' and '# NOQA' comments to suppress warnings
+- Translator
+ -- updated the translator URL for DeepL
+- Web Browser (NG)
+ -- improvement of the download manager
+ -- added support for the Google Safe Browsing Lookup API (v4)
+- Third Party packages
+ -- updated coverage.py to 4.5.1
+ -- updated pycodestyle to 2.4.0
+ -- updated send2trash to version 1.5.0
+
+Version 18.04:
+- bug fixes
+- General
+ -- added config option to disable the use of the global menu bar on Linux
+- Code Style Checker
+ -- added checks for default docstring in functions and modules
+ -- added check for dictionaries with sorted keys
+ -- added checks for logging statements
+ -- added check for the 'gettext' import statement
+ -- added some checks of the bugbear checker
+
+Version 18.03:
+- bug fixes
+- Editor
+ -- added support for EditorConfig
+ -- added VCS conflict markers to the types shown on the marker map
+
+Version 18.02:
+- bug fixes
+- General
+ -- extended the session to store/retrieve the split views and the order of
+ the editors (**Note**: The new session file format is not backward
+ compatible and cannot be read by eric releases prior to 18.02)
+ -- added basic support for Cython
+- Editor
+ -- added a context menu entry to "Execute Selection In Console"
+- Web Browser (NG)
+ -- added support for HTML5 "Desktop Video Capture" and "Desktop Audio and
+ Video Capture" as of Qt 5.10.0/PyQt 5.10.0
+ -- added the capability to pause/resume download (Qt 5.10.0/PyQt 5.10.0)
+ -- added support for attributes introduced by Qt 5.9 and Qt 5.10
+
+Version 18.01:
+- bug fixes
+- Debugger / Breakpoint Viewer
+ -- added the capability to remember the most recently used file names and
+ conditions
+- Editor
+ -- added an action to the view menu to clear all folds of the current editor
+ -- added an entry to delete all change markers to the marker margin context
+ menu
+- Project
+ -- If a project does not contain protobuf files, the old project file format
+ (5.1) is generated to make the file backward compatible.
+- Plug-ins
+ -- added the pip interface plug-in to the core plug-ins
+ -- added the virtualenv/pyvenv interface plug-in to the core plug-ins
+ -- added the setup.py wizard plug-in to the core plug-ins
+ -- added the eric plug-in wizard plug-in to the core plug-ins
+ -- added the .desktop wizard plug-in to the core plug-ins
+ -- added the translator plug-in to the core plug-ins
+ -- added the git plug-in to the core plug-ins
+
+**Note**: These plug-ins should be deinstalled via the plug-in uninstallation
+dialog of eric before upgrading eric. A reconfiguration of these plug-ins may
+be neccessary.
+ - PluginToolPip
+ - PluginWizardVirtualenv
+
+Version 17.12:
+- bug fixes
+- General
+ -- added support for Google protobuf protocol files
+- Code Documentation Viewer
+ -- added possibility to show the type of the object info is shown for
+ -- modified the top row and the search part in order to allow smaller sizes
+- Debugger / Variables Viewer
+ -- introduced a configuration option to limit the variables shown by the
+ variables viewers depending on their size (in order to avoid overload
+ situations on low power or low memory machines)
+- Styles
+ -- added a dark style (*.qss and Python lexers) provided by Giuseppe Corbelli
+- Third Party packages
+ -- updated send2trash to version 1.4.2
+
+**NOTE**: This release introduces a new project file format that will be
+rejected by previous releases. The new format is needed for the Google protobuf
+support.
+
+Version 17.11:
+- bug fixes
+- Debugger
+ -- added capability to enter an interpreter in the Start... dialog
+- Editor
+ -- added support for auto-completion lists being provided asynchronously
+ -- added a viewer for source code documentation extracted by providers to
+ be implemented by plug-ins (like rope and jedi)
+- Web Browser (old style)
+ -- changed logic in order to put new downloads at the top of the list of
+ downloads and added the download date and time to the shown info
+- Web Browser (NG)
+ -- changed logic in order to put new downloads at the top of the list of
+ downloads and added the download date and time to the shown info
+
+Version 17.10:
+- bug fixes
+- Web Browser (NG)
+ -- added a downloader and installer/uninstaller dialog for spell check
+ dictionaries
+
+Version 17.09:
+- bug fixes
+- Debugger
+ -- unified the Python2 and Python3 debugger interfaces
+- Exporter
+ -- extended the HTML exporter to convert Markdown and ReST files to HTML
+- Plugin Manager
+ -- added a bar with counts for new/local updates/remote updates to the
+ plug-in repository dialog
+- Previewers
+ -- added capability to configure the output format for the markdown and
+ docutils (ReST) previewers
+- Web Browser (NG)
+ -- added support for Google Safe Browsing
+- Third Party packages
+ -- updated jasy to 1.5-beta5 (latest release available)
+
+Version 17.08:
+- bug fixes
+- Shell
+ -- added support for different history navigation styles (disabled, Linux,
+ Windows)
+ -- improved shell history dialog
+- Templates
+ -- added some new predefined template variables (time, path_name_rel,
+ dir_name_rel)
+- Web Browser (NG)
+ -- added support for sessions
+
+Version 17.07:
+- bug fixes
+- Background Services
+ -- added functionality to limit the number of processes used for background
+ services
+- Bug Reporting / Feature Request (Email)
+ -- added the capability to send these emails via Google Mail using OAuth2
+ authentication
+- Configuration
+ -- made the colors of the diff dialogs configurable
+- Third Party packages
+ -- updated chardet to 3.0.4
+
+Version 17.06:
+- bug fixes
+- Checkers
+ -- extended the source documentation checker to check for raised/documented
+ exceptions and defined/documented signals
+- Editor
+ -- reintroduced the highlighting of current instruction line and the error
+ line using colored background. It is configurable whether to use these
+ backgrounds or the arrows.
+ -- added capability to perform the various replace methods via keyboard
+ shortcuts
+- Plugin Manager
+ -- added an option to cleanup the plug-ins download area during startup
+- Qt Tools
+ -- added code to auto-discover the presence of the new 'pyqt5-tools' wheel
+ (Windows only) (thanks to Kyle Altendorf for providing this wheel)
+- Web Browser (NG)
+ -- united the stop and reload buttons of the navigation bar
+ -- added a super menu to modernize the look & feel
+ -- added Ctrl-Click and middle click actions to the navigation buttons
+ to perform the action in a new tab
+
+Version 17.05:
+- bug fixes
+- Editor
+ -- changed the indication of the current instruction line and the error line
+ to use a green or red arrow instead of a colored background
+- PyQt Tools
+ -- added a configuration option for the path of the PyQt tools
+- Shell
+ -- added a standalone shell window
+- Web Browser (NG)
+ -- added the last visited time and date to the bookmark properties dialog
+ -- added a visit count to the history entries (shown in the history dialog)
+ -- made full screen mode really full screen
+- Third Party packages
+ -- updated Pygments to 2.2.0
+ -- updated chardet to 3.0.2
+
+Version 17.04.1:
+- bug fixes
+
+Version 17.04:
+- bug fixes
+- General
+ -- increased minimum required Python versions to prevent usage
+ with very old versions (i.e. eric was never tested with)
+ min. versions: Python 2 - 2.7.10; Python 3 - 3.4.0
+- Checkers
+ -- added checks for shadowed Python builtins and unneccessary comprehensions
+ and generators to the code style checker
+ -- added a checker to check for lines of code of too high complexity
+ -- added capability to place line flags (e.g. __IGNORE...) on the line
+ following the one to be ignored
+- Debugger
+ -- shell autocompleter takes the right global variables into account now
+ -- move the instruction pointer within the current function (Hotkey: F12)
+ -- report syntax and indentation errors raised by an application or module
+ in the correct manner
+ -- avoid crashes on using greenlets
+- Mercurial Interface
+ -- extended the user configuration dialog
+ -- added support for the 'zstd' compression for bundles (as of 4.1.0)
+
+Version 17.03.1:
+- bug fixes
+
+Version 17.03:
+- bug fixes
+- Checkers
+ -- upgraded pycodestyle to version 2.3.1
+ -- upgraded pyflakes to version 1.5.0
+- Debugger
+ -- prevent stepping into print statements if checkbox for debugging into
+ interpreter libraries is checked
+ -- catch unhandled exceptions again
+ -- support for PySide2 added
+ -- atexit handling works as specified in any condition
+ -- prevent ordinary breakpoints to steal the focus from an exception
+- Mercurial Interface
+ -- improved the log browser in several ways
+ -- improved the status dialog
+- Project
+ -- added capability to remember previously used entries in the project
+ debugger properties dialog
+- Web Browser (NG)
+ - added support for new options provided by Qt 5.8.0
+ - added support for spell checking as of Qt 5.8.0
+
+Version 17.02.1:
+- bug fixes
+
+Version 17.02:
+- bug fixes
+- Checkers
+ -- upgraded pycodestyle to version 2.2.0+
+- Debugger
+ -- changed the variables filter dialog to be more user friendly
+- Editor
+ -- added a bar with formatting options for HTML, Markdown and reStructured
+ Text files
+ -- added support for the new QScintilla JSON lexer
+ -- added support for the new QScintilla Markdown lexer
+- Email
+ -- added capability to use the SSL encryption method (next to StartTLS) in
+ the built in Email dialog
+- Mercurial Interface
+ -- added clickable links to the log browser details pane
+ -- added up and down buttons to move the current entry to the log browser
+ -- added the capability to configure the length of the log message shown
+ in the message column of the log browser list
+- Subversion interface
+ -- added up and down buttons to move the current entry to the log browser
+- Web Browser
+ -- added functionality to manage the plug-in provided documentation sets
+
+Version 17.01:
+- bug fixes
+- General
+ -- added capability to save a global session to disk and restore it
+ -- added capability to save a crash session in order to restore the
+ current state in case of a crash
+ -- added option to configure the crash session startup behavior and
+ added the '--no-crash' option to suppress looking for a crash session
+ -- added the '--disable-crash' option to temporarily disable the crash
+ session support through the command line
+ -- changed some options: --noopen to --no-open, --nosplash to --no-splash
+- Debugger
+ -- added capability to edit the history lists of the start dialogs of the
+ debugger
+- Editor
+ -- added support for project type specific auto-completion and calltips
+ including the respective configuration (Editor->APIs page)
+
+Version 16.12:
+- bug fixes
+- Mercurial Interface
+ -- added context menu actions to the tags/branches list dialog
+ -- added bookmark actions to the Log Browser tools menu
+ -- added context menu actions to the bookmark list dialog
+ -- added possibility to enter a commit author and commit date/time
+ -- added capability to enforce a tagging operation
+- Third Party packages
+ -- updated chardet to 2.3.0
+
+Version 16.11.1:
+- fixed a PyQt5 compatibility issue on Windows platforms
+
+Version 16.11:
+- bug fixes
+- 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_<code>__, 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
+ -- 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 (NG)
+ -- 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+
+
+Version 6.1.0:
+- bug fixes
+- 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 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
+ -- 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)
+- Debugger
+ -- added signal handlers for the Python debug clients
+- Editor
+ -- added capability to configure the indentation guides colors
+ -- added capability to ask multiple completion list and call-tip
+ providers
+ -- added support for mouse click handlers to be provided by plug-ins
+ -- added the search markers to the marker map
+ -- added capability to save a copy of the editor contents
+ -- Lexers
+ --- added support for the new C++ lexer properties (as of
+ QScintilla V. 2.9.0)
+- File Browser
+ -- added capability to show imports of a Python script
+- Log Viewer
+ -- added a message filter including a configuration page
+- Mini Editor
+ -- added capability to save a copy of the editor contents
+- 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
+
+Version 6.0.0:
+- bug fixes
+- Debugger
+ -- added capability to show exceptions in the shell window
+
+Version 6.0.0-RC1:
+- bug fixes
+- General
+ -- added Portugese translations provided by Candido Fontes
+ -- extended the code base to be usable with PyQt4 as well
+- Multi Project
+ -- changed multi project file format to contain relative paths to
+ the contained project files
+- Project Forms Browser
+ -- added functionality to modify some form code creation options (see
+ Qt configuration page)
+- Web Browser
+ -- added DuckDuckGo to the list of default search engines
+
+Version 6.0-snapshot-20140720:
+- bug fixes
+- General
+ -- ported from eric5 to be used with PyQt5
+ -- changed the eric mascot to be a Python (i.e. the snake). New icons
+ and pixmaps provided by Thimo Kraemer.
+ -- changed the code to be executed with Python 2 as well (thanks to
+ Tobias Rzepka)
+ -- implemented a background service which execute Python2 and Python3 scripts
+ in the background independent of the current interpreter
+- 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
+- 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
+- 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
+- Third Party packages
+ -- updated CharDet to 2.2.1
