[ANN] Spyder 5.0 is released!

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Carlos Córdoba

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Apr 16, 2021, 1:46:15 PM4/16/21

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Hi all,

On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, I’m pleased to announce that Spyder 5.0 has been released and is available for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases

This release represents more than one year of development since version 4.0 was released, and it introduces major enhancements and new features. The most important ones are:

Improved dark theme based on QDarkstyle 3.0.
New light theme based on QDarkstyle 3.0.
New look and feel for toolbars.
New icon set based on Material Design.
New API to extend core plugins, with the exception of the Editor, IPython
console and Projects.
New plugins to manage menus, toolbars, layouts, shortcuts, preferences and
status bar.
New architecture to access and write configuration options.
New API to declare code completion providers.
New registries to access actions, tool buttons, toolbars and menus by their
identifiers.

For a complete list of changes, please see our changelog

Spyder 4.0 has been a huge success and we hope 5.0 will be as successful. For that we fixed 54 bugs, merged 142 pull requests from about 16 authors and added more than 830 commits between these two releases.

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