[ANN] Spyder 5.1.0 is released!

[Carlos Córdoba]

Hi all,

On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, I’m pleased to announce that Spyder 5.1.0 has been released and is available for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases

This release comes five weeks after version 5.0.5 and it contains the following new features and important fixes:

• New features

  • New logo, splash screen and design for the “About Spyder” dialog.
  • Support Rich and Colorama in the IPython console.
  • Pasting code in the Editor and IPython console preserves indentation.

• New API features

  • Add a new registration mechanism for plugins that allow bidirectional dependencies among them. See this page for instructions on how to migrate to it.

• Important fixes

  • Fix several critical bugs in the Outline pane.
  • Restore ability to ignore linting messages with inline comments in the Editor. Supported comments include # noqa and # analysis:ignore.
  • Improve code completion performance in the Editor.
  • Fix Code analysis pane in the Windows and macOS installers.
  • Decrease startup time.
  • Support Jedi 0.18 and Parso 0.8

In this release we fixed 32 issues and merged 57 pull requests that amount to more than 410 commits. For a full list of fixes, please see our Changelog.

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Last, but not least, we welcome any contribution that helps making Spyder an efficient scientific development and computing environment. Join us to help creating your favorite environment!

Enjoy!
Carlos