[ANN] Spyder 6.2.0a2 is released!

[Daniel Althviz Moré]

Hi all,

On behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, I'm pleased to announce the second alpha of our next minor version: Spyder 6.2.

We've been working on this version for more than nine months and we encourage all people who like the bleeding edge to give it a try.

Spyder 6.2 comes with the following interesting new features and fixes:

• New features
  • Add a new set of interface themes for the entire application, including popular ones from other IDEs such as Dracula, Miami Nights and Grubvox. They can be set in Preferences > Appearance.
  • Add a button to export Pandas dataframes to Excel, CSV or Json to the dataframe viewer.
  • Support Polars series in the Variable Explorer.
  • Add submenu File > Export to export the current file in the Editor to HTML or RTF.
  • Make copy/paste text in the Editor to Microsoft Word or similar programs grab the syntax highlighting theme too.
  • Add button to close all open viewers to the Variable Explorer and its viewers.
  • Add shortcuts and menu entries to expand/collapse all foldable regions in the Editor to the Source menu.
  • Add support to introduce inline (or ghost) completions to the Editor.

• Important fixes
  • Base the standalone installers in Python 3.13.
  • Sign the Windows standalone installer so it's not flagged as untrusted.
  • Add support for PySide6 6.9+.
  • Automatically disable plugins when users disable the ones they depend on (e.g. the Variable Explorer, Debugger and Plots will be auto-disabled if the IPython Console is disabled because they can't do anything without it).
  • Drop support for Python 3.9 and 3.10.

• API changes
  • Editor
    • Add add_extension, add_panel and add_shortcut methods to register extensions, panels and shortcuts.

For a more complete list of changes, please see our changelog

You can easily install this release candidate if you use conda by running:

conda install -c conda-forge/label/spyder_dev -c conda-forge/label/spyder_kernels_dev -c conda-forge spyder=6.2.0a2

Or you can use pip with this command:

pip install --pre -U spyder

Enjoy!

Daniel