[Eric] ANN: eric 5.3.0 released

[Detlev Offenbach]

Hi,

I just uploaded eric 5.3.0. It is a new major release fixing some bugs and 
adding these new features.

- General
  -- introduced a "workspace" directory that is used as the default for 
     opening or saving new files or projects (configurable on Multiproject
     config page)
  -- added support for Qt5 (experimental)
- Configuration Dialog
  -- added a filter edit to filter the configuration tree
- Debugger
  -- added the capability to trace function calls and returns to the
     Python 2 and Python 3 debuggers
- Debug Viewer
  -- added the configurable capability to automatically show the source,
     when the call frame is changed in the callstack viewer of the local
     variables viewer
  -- added a viewer for call trace logs
- Editor
  -- added capability to change the colours of the edit area independant from
     the colours of the system style
  -- added capability to mark changed lines and to navigate between them
  -- added actions to search for the next/previous occurence of the current 
word
     (default shortcuts Ctrl+. and Ctrl+,)
- Graphics Dialogs
  -- added capability to store and load diagrams to/from disk
  -- improved the package diagram to include subpackages and their module 
     names
  -- added the capability to rebuild a diagram without losing the current item
     positions
- IRC
  -- added a simple IRC client
- Log Viewer
  -- added the capability to search in the recorded log
- Project
  -- added capability to save project tasks automatically (configurable on
     project configuration page of configuration dialog)
  -- made the selectable project types of the project properties dialog 
     dependent upon the selected programming language
- Snapshot
  -- added a tool to take screenshots (fullscreen, selected screen, 
     rectangular selection, elliptical selection or freehand selection)
- Spell Checker
  -- added a dialog to edit the various spell checking dictionaries
- Syntax Checker
  -- added capability to the syntax checker dialog to show all errors/warnings
     in an editor when the file entry is double activated
- Tasks
  -- changed the tasks handling to allow for more fine grained task 
     designations
- User Interface
  -- added a notification system
- Version Control System Interfaces
  -- All
     --- added code to ensure, that some eric specific files and directories
         get ignored
     --- improved the copy/move operation a bit
  -- Mercurial
     --- added support for the graft command as of Mercurial 2.0
     --- added support for Phases as of Mercurial 2.1
     --- added support for amending commits as of Mercurial 2.2
     --- added support for sub-repositories
     --- added support for --log and --dry-run to the hg graft operation as of
         Mercurial 2.3.0
     --- added code to disable the (deprecated) transplant menu for
         Mercurial 2.3.0
  -- Subversion
     --- changed code to make the subversion plug-ins compatible with the new
         generation working copy meta-data format
     --- added capability to select from existing change lists and added a
         dialog to browse the change lists
- View Manager
  -- added actions to open the find in files and replace in files dialogs in a 
     mode that searches open files only
- Web Browser
  -- too many extensions to list here (see changelog for details)

It is available via the eric web site.

http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/index.html

Regards,
Detlev
-- 
Detlev Offenbach
detlev at die-offenbachs.de
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