[ANN] Spyder 6.1.4 is released!

[Daniel Althviz Moré]

Hi all,

On behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, I'm pleased to announce that Spyder 6.1.4 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 6.1.3 and with the following interesting new features, fixes and API changes:

• New features
  • Add option to disable Enter for accepting code completions in the Editor. The option is available in Preferences > Completion and linting > General.
  • Support SSH config files to create connections in Tools > Manage remote connections.
  • Add support to delete, upload and download multiple files when working with remote filesystems in Files.
  • Add button to Files to go to the directory of the current file in the Editor.
• Important fixes
  • Docstring generation has been massively overhauled to:
    • Parse and incorporate the sections of the function's existing docstring.
    • Support generating return types from the function body for Sphinxdoc.
    • Fix dozens of bugs and limitations with the existing docstring generation.
    • Resolve numerous formatting issues and follow the relevant specifications.
  • Default shortcut for docstring generation was changed to Ctrl/Cmd+Alt+Shift+D to avoid a conflict on macOS.
  • Allow macOS standalone app to access the microphone and camera.
  • Include pyarrow in the standalone installers to allow viewing dataframes created with Pandas 3.0+.
  • Remove the deprecated atomicwrites package as a dependency.
  • Constraint chardet version for licensing reasons in the standalone installers and fix compatibility with its latest versions.
  • Several fixes for remote connections:
    • Fix errors when stopping SSH connections.
    • Fix some misspelling in error messages.
    • Handle keyring backend load failures on Linux.
    • Fix connections to JupyterHub servers.
• API changes
  • Add remove_item_from_menu method to SpyderMenuMixin.

For a more complete list of changes, 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