Thonny 4.1.7 and Bluesky

[Aivar Annamaa]

Hi!

I have two news items:

• Thonny 4.1.7 is out with fixes for package search: https://github.com/thonny/thonny/releases/tag/v4.1.7
  The new search is based on a list of 5000 most downloaded PyPI packages. If your package is in this list, you are allowed to make a typo or two and still find it. If you search for a less popular package, you need to enter the exact name.
• Thonny has joined Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thonnyide.bsky.social 
  Next releases will be mentioned there. Of course, you can always watch Thonny's releases in GitHub -- that's the fastest channel.

Let me know if you meet some blockers in Thonny 4.1.7. I haven't been responsive in GitHub (because I want to focus on preparing version 5.0), but I'm still reading the issues ;)

Best regards,
Aivar

[Alexandre Villares]

Thank you so much Aivar!

Thonny 4.1.7 fixes are wonderful and timely.

You do so much for the community, I feel bad asking for more of your limited time, but here are my humble suggestions (possibly unworkable):

- Thonny could have a presence on Mastodon too, great FOSS projects like LibreOffice, FreeCAD and Numpy are on fosstodon.org, but there are other "instances", I follow Blender, and Inkscape on Mastodon too.

- I wish I could have iPython as interpreter and at the console on Thonny, I tried messing around a bit but wasn't successful, maybe someone could build a plug-in for that...

Happy New Year!

Alexandre