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+# Change Log
+
+### Version 22.11
+- bug fixes
+- Debugger
+ - added the capability to apply the current selection of the 'Variable Types Filter'
+ to see its effect
+ - added the capability to add a positive ('Show Only') or negative ('Don't Show')
+ variables filter to the global and local variables viewers
+- Editor
+ - added a configuration option to reject the loading of a file that exceeds the
+ configured size
+ - opening a file that is not a text file will be rejected
+- Project
+ - refined the embedded environment handling
+- Scripts
+ - renamed 'eric7.py' to 'eric7_ide.py' in order to remove the ambiguity between the
+ main script and the package
+- Styles and Themes
+ - added a style sheet for the dark gray theme
+- Third Party packages
+ - upgraded coverage to 6.5.0
+ - upgraded pycodestyle to version 2.9.1
+ - upgraded pyflakes to version 2.5.0
+
+### Version 22.10
+- bug fixes
+- API files
+ - added API files for the Adafruit CircuitPython Library Bundle
+ - updated the CircuitPython API file
+- Code Formatting
+ - added a Project menu entry to just configure the formatting parameters
+ - added the capability to format the source code after a diff or check
+ run from within the results dialog
+- Code Style Checker
+ - added some more security related checks
+ - extended the list of miscellaneous checks
+- pip Interface
+ - changed the pip licenses dialog to show the count of each individual license
+- Project
+ - added capability to use a virtual Python environment named .venv embedded
+ within the project directory
+ - added a configuration option to save the project automatically whenever it changes
+- Testing
+ - extended the testing dialog to allow test case filtering on markers (pytest only)
+ - extended the testing dialog to allow test case filtering by a list of test name
+ patterns (unittest) or test name expression (pytest)
+- Translator
+ - added support for 'Ukrainian' to the DeepL translator interface
+- install scripts
+ - modified install.py script to differentiate between optional and required
+ dependencies
+ - modified the install script such, that the qt6-applications package is only
+ installed upon request (--with-tools)
+ - extended the install-dependencies.py script to differentiate between optional and
+ required dependencies. Invoke it with
+ (`python3 install-dependencies.py --all | --optional | --required`)
+
+### Version 22.9
+- bug fixes
+- Code Style Checker
+ - extended the Naming style checker to be more PEP8 compliant
+ - updated imports checker to support banned module patterns
+ - updated the annotations checker to support more cases
+ - updated the simplifications checker to support more cases
+- Debugger
+ - added capability to suppress reporting of unhandled exceptions
+- Editor
+ - extended the Pygments based lexer to support the various comment variants
+- Interface
+ - added capability to expand or shrink the sidebar by clicking on the empty
+ part of the icon bar
+- MicroPython
+ - added capability to connect to devices for which only the serial port name
+ is available
+
+### Version 22.8
+- bug fixes
+- API Generator
+ - added capability to configure a start directory for the API generation
+ process
+- Code Documentation Generator
+ - added capability to configure a start directory for the documentation
+ generation process
+- Code Formatting
+ - added an interface to reformat Python source code with the 'Black' utility
+- Eric Widgets
+ - extended EricPathPicker to offer a pathlib.Path based interface
+ - extended EricFileDialog to offer a pathlib.Path based interface
+ - extended the EricFileDialog Wizard to create the pathlib.Path based methods
+- MicroPython
+ - updated the list of known CircuitPython boards
+ - updated the list of known UF2 capable boards
+- pip Interface
+ - included a copy of pipdeptree and patched it to work with Python 3.11+
+ - added capability to repair dependency issues
+ - added capability to generate text for a 'constraints.txt' file
+- setup Wizard
+ - added support for 'project_urls'
+ - added support for 'entry_points'
+ - added a variant to create a 'setup.cfg' file
+ - added a variant to create a 'pyproject.toml' file
+- Third Party packages
+ - upgraded coverage to 6.4.2
+ - upgraded eradicate to 2.1.0
+
+### Version 22.7
+- bug fixes
+- Code Style Checker
+ - introduced an additional documentation style type for eric and blacked
+ code (i.e. code formatted by the 'Black' tool)
+- CycloneDX Interface
+ - added capability to create a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) file in
+ CycloneDX format
+- pip Interface
+ - added SBOM capability
+- Project
+ - added SBOM capability
+ - added License to project properties
+- Styles and Themes
+ - added a style and theme with a dark gray background
+- Translator
+ - changed DeepL support to the v2 API and added support for the Free API
+ next to the Pro API
+ - removed the interface to Glosbe as they don't provide an API anymore
+ - removed the interface to PROMT as they don't provide a free API anymore
+ - upgraded the interfaces to the Google V2 and Microsoft translators
+- Virtual Environments
+ - added the capability to upgrade a virtual environment
+
+### Version 22.6
+- bug fixes
+- Dataview Coverage
+ - added support to write coverage reports as HTML, JSON or LCOV files
+ - removed the support for writing annotated sources
+ (deprecated in coverage.py)
+- Mercurial Interface
+ - added configuration option to override the automatic search for the hg
+ executable
+- MicroPython
+ - updated the list of known CircuitPython boards
+ - updated the list of known UF2 capable boards
+- pip Interface
+ - added a filter to the package licenses dialog
+- Syntax Checker
+ - changed the TOML syntax checker to use 'tomlkit' because 'toml' is no
+ longer maintained
+- Testing
+ - reworked the former unittest interface to allow to support testing
+ frameworks other than "unittest"
+ - implemented support for the "unittest" and "pytest" frameworks
+- Wizards
+ - extended the QInputDialog wizard to support the 'getMultiLineText()'
+ function
+- Third Party packages
+ - upgraded pip-licenses to version 3.5.4
+ - upgraded coverage to 6.4.0
+
+### Version 22.5
+- bug fixes
+- General
+ - added configuration options to disable the embedded "Find/Replace In
+ Files" and "Find File" tools and use dialog based variants instead
+- Mercurial Interface
+ - added capability to enter a revset expression when defining a revision
+ to operate on
+- pip Interface
+ - added the capability to save the licenses overview as a CSV file
+
+### Version 22.4
+- bug fixes
+- General
+ - added capability to upgrade PyQt packages eric depends on from within eric
+ - added capability to upgrade eric from within eric
+- pip Interface
+ - added a vulnerability check for installed packages based on "Safety DB"
+ - added a widget to show a package dependency tree
+ - added a button to search for more packages (i.e. one more page of results)
+- Third Party packages
+ - upgraded coverage to 6.3.2
+ - upgraded mccabe to version 0.7.0
+
+### Version 22.3
+- bug fixes
+- General
+ - performance improvements
+ - added a '`__main__.py`' script to allow starting eric7 with
+ '`python3 -m eric7`'
+- MicroPython
+ - enhanced support for ESP32 devices
+ - updated the list of known UF2 capable boards
+
+### Version 22.2
+- bug fixes
+- General
+ - dropped support for Python 3.6 because that is end-of-life
+- File Browser
+ - added capability to open SVG files in the text editor
+- Help Viewer
+ - added bookmarks to the internal help viewer
+- MicroPython
+ - updated the list of known CircuitPython boards
+ - updated the list of known UF2 capable boards
+ - added support for ESP32-C3, ESP32-S2 and ESP32-S3 chips
+ - added a dialog to show information for a connected board
+- Project Browser
+ - added capability to open SVG files in the text editor to the Project
+ Others Browser
+- Styles and Themes
+ - added a dark blueish style (QSS and Highlighters) and an associated theme
+ (dark_blue.ethj and dark_blue_with_stylesheet.ethj)
+- Third Party packages
+ - upgraded coverage to 6.2.0
+
+### Version 22.1.1
+- bug fix
+
+### Version 22.1
+- bug fixes
+- Code Style Checker
+ - added a checker for various import statement topics
+- Color Themes
+ - added capability to import and export ALL colors
+- Mini Editor
+ - added configuration capability
+- QSS Previewer
+ - added disabled widgets in order to show their colors as well
+- Styles and Themes
+ - added a dark greenish style (QSS and Highlighters) and an associated theme
+ (dark_green.ethj and dark_green_with_stylesheet.ethj)
+
+### Version 21.12
+- bug fixes
+- first release of eric7 (i.e. the PyQt6 port of eric6)
+- General
+ - rearranged the interface and modernized the sidebars layout
+ - integrated some dialogs into the sidebars
+- Debugger
+ - added code to remember the list of recently used breakpoint conditions
+ in the editor and the breakpoint viewer
+ - added code to enter the script to be run/debugged/... in the start dialog
+- Editor
+ - added the capability to suppress syntax highlighting by associating
+ the file type 'Text'
+ - added code to move a breakpoint to a line actually creating some byte code
+ (Python only)
+ - added mouse button capability to perform undo/redo actions (Extra
+ Buttons 1 and 2)
+ - added support for 'multi cursor editing' (additional cursors with
+ Meta+Alt+Left Click, Esc to end it)
+- Find In Files
+ - integrated the dialog into the right sidebar
+- Help Viewer
+ - added an internal help viewer based on QTextBrowser or QWebEngine
+- Jedi
+ - integrated the Assistant Jedi plugin as a fixed part of eric
+ - added code to jump to references when clicked on a definition
+ - added support for mouse hover help
+ - added support for simple refactorings to the editor context menu
+- Plugin Repository
+ - added an integrated plugin repository viewer (right side)
+- Plugin Uninstall Dialog
+ - added capability to uninstall several plugins with one invocation of the
+ dialog
+- Project
+ - added a 'Start' context sub menu to the project sources browser
+- Shell
+ - added capability to save the contents of the shell window into a file
+- Unit Test
+ - added capability to remember the most recently used test data
+- Viewmanager
+ - added a 'Start' sub menu to the tabview and listspace view managers
+ context menu
+- Virtual Environments
+ - integrated the Virtual Environments Manager window into the right side bar
+ - added a standalone variant of the Virtual Environments Manager
+- Third Party packages
+ - upgraded coverage to 6.1.2
+ - upgraded pycodestyle to version 2.8.0
+ - upgraded mccabe to version 0.6.1
+ - upgraded pyflakes to version 2.4.0
