[ANN] Spyder 5.5.0 is released!

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Daniel Althviz Moré

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Nov 9, 2023, 5:27:21 PM11/9/23

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Hi all,

On the behalf of the Spyder Project Contributors, I'm pleased to announce that Spyder 5.5.0 has been released and is available for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases

This release comes ten weeks after version 5.4.5 and it contains the following new features and important fixes:

• Drop support for Python 3.7
• Drop support for PyQt < 5.10
• Improvements to the logic that checks available updates and the update messages
• Improvements to the syntax highlighting for match/case keywords
• Improved compatibility for the standalone installer with Windows Server 2016
• Additional information about Spyder available through spyder.appdata.xml
• Fix Outline Explorer Display variables and attributes option
• Fix disabling completion and linting providers
• Fix errors when removing language servers configurations
• Fix Editor replace all occurences when using backslashes
• Fix errors when restarting external kernels
• Fix error when using the Online help with Python 3.11
• Fix debugging after errors via the %debug magic
• Fix compatibility with Python 2 environments/custom interpreters
• Fix application window disappearing when changing monitors
• Fix PYTHONPATH manager logic to get user environment variables and detect possible site-packages directories

In this release we fixed 26 issues and merged 42 pull requests that amount to more than 151 commits. For a full list of fixes, please see our Changelog.

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