[ANN] Spyder 6.0.4 is released!

[Daniel Althviz Moré]

Hi all,

On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, I'm pleased to announce that Spyder 6.0.4 has been released and is available for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases

This release comes eight weeks after version 6.0.3 and it contains the following new features, important fixes and API changes:

• Add command line option to connect to an existing kernel at startup.
• Display a button to select an entire row when hovering it in the Variable Explorer.
• Fix error in debugger with Python 3.12.5+ (_pdbcmd_print_frame_status is not defined message).
• Improve messages shown when a variable can't be viewed due to a missing module.
• Add validations when doing color theme changes.
• Fix error when executing in a dedicated console with an interpreter without a valid version of spyder-kernels installed.
• Fix setting run configurations per file for multiple runners (e.g. the IPython console and Debugger).
• Fix errors related to the update logic of our standalone installers.
• Make shortcuts that control the Debugger global again.
• Show debugger buttons in the main toolbar while executing code in debugging mode.
• Restore functionality to select a custom interpreter from the statusbar.
• Fix thumbnails keyboard navigation in the Plots pane when their order changes.
• Handle keyring backend not being available.
• Add give_focus kwarg to the create_client_for_kernel method of the IPython console plugin.

In this release we fixed 24 issues and merged 38 pull requests. 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!

Daniel