This is a major version update to add support for Python 3.11, PySide 6.4+, and TraitsUI 8. As part of this update, a number of backwards-incompatible changes were made. Perhaps the most significant of these was the removal of the partially implemented and buggy OpenGL Kiva backend, but it also included removing support for legacy Numeric APIs, changing modules with "qt4" in their name to use "qt" instead, some changes to make the various Kiva APIs more consistent, and some changes to the mapping of font families to bring them in line with documentation and other libraries.
Building Enable, with its complex dependencies has sometimes been challenging for users, so this release includes Github actions that use cibuildwheel to automatically build binary wheels across a wide variety of Python versions, operating systems and architectures and upload them to PyPI. This should make pip-based installs of Enable significantly easier.
Finally, as is usual for a release, there are a number of smaller bugfixes and minor improvements, such as bringing the PyCairo and Quartz backends back into a working state.
Thanks to:
- Mark Dickinson
- Chengyu Liu
- Didrik Pinte
- Corran Webster
- John Wiggins
Enhancements
- Move
kiva.imagetokiva.oldaggand makekiva.imagea stub (#1054) - Map
MODERNfonts to monospace andTELETYPEto typewriter (#977) - Normalize setting of colors across backends (#1052)
- Support for PySide 6.4+ (#1045, #1053)
- Remove support for old Numeric APIs (#1011)
- Python 3.11 support (#1042)
- Remove OpenGL backend (#1029)
- Code modernization (#933, #1015)
Fixes
- Fix
draw_path_at_pointsfor the Quartz Kiva backend (#1051) - Do explicit type conversions for PyQt5 on Python 3.10+ (#1041)
- Handle namespace changes for Pyface 8 and TraitsUI 8 (#1025, #1028, #1033, #1043)
- Better feedback for constraints examples if kiwisolver unavailable (#1019)