Release 6.0.0 [ci skip]

Announcements.md

@@ -38,38 +38,81 @@ Daniel
 
 # Major release to list
 
-**Subject**: [ANN] Spyder 5.0 is released!
+**Subject**: [ANN] Spyder 6.0 is released!
 
 
 Hi all,
 
 On the behalf of the [Spyder Project Contributors](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/graphs/contributors),
-I'm pleased to announce that Spyder **5.0** has been released and is available for
+I'm pleased to announce that Spyder **6.0** has been released and is available for
 Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/releases
 
-This release represents more than one year of development since version 4.0 was
+This release represents more than three years of development since version 5.0 was
 released, and it introduces major enhancements and new features. The most important ones
 are:
 
-* Improved dark theme based on QDarkstyle 3.0.
-* New light theme based on QDarkstyle 3.0.
-* New look and feel for toolbars.
-* New icon set based on Material Design.
-* New API to extend core plugins, with the exception of the Editor, IPython
-  console and Projects.
-* New plugins to manage menus, toolbars, layouts, shortcuts, preferences and
-  status bar.
-* New architecture to access and write configuration options.
-* New API to declare code completion providers.
-* New registries to access actions, tool buttons, toolbars and menus by their
-  identifiers.
+* New installers for Windows, Linux and macOS based on Conda and Conda-forge.
+  They come up with a more robust update process and are based on Python 3.11.
+* Add a Debugger pane to explore the stack frame of the current debugging
+  session.
+* Add a button to the Debugger pane to pause the current code execution and
+  enter the debugger afterwards.
+* Add submenu to the `Consoles` menu to start a new console for a specific
+  Conda or Pyenv environment.
+* Add ability to refresh the open Variable Explorer viewers to reflect the current
+  variable value.
+* Add initial support to automatically connect to remote servers through SSH
+  and run code in them. This functionality can be found in the menu
+  `Consoles > New console in remote server`.
+* Show plots generated in the Variable Explorer or its viewers in the Plots pane.
+* Show Matplotlib backend and Python environment information in the status bar.
+* Make kernel restarts be much faster for the current interpreter.
+* Add experimental support for Qt 6 and increase minimal required version to
+  Qt 5.15.
+* Turn `runfile`, `debugfile`, `runcell` and related commands into IPython magics.
+ Environment variables declared in `~/.bashrc` or `~/.zhrc` are detected and
+  passed to the IPython console.
+* Support all real number dtypes in the dataframe viewer.
+* Respect Matplotlib user settings configured outside Spyder.
+* Increase DPI of Matplotlib plots so they look better in high resolution screens.
+* Allow to copy the absolute and relative paths of the current file to the tabs'
+  context menu of the Editor.
+* Restore ability to load Hdf5 and Dicom files through the Variable Explorer
+  (this was working in Spyder 4 and before).
+* Add ability to disable external plugins in `Preferences > Plugins`.
+* Use a simpler filesystem watcher in Projects to improve performance.
+* Make Spyder accept Chinese, Korean or Japanese input on Linux by adding
+  `fcitx-qt5` as a new dependency (in conda environments only).
+* The file switcher can browse and open files present in the current project (
+  in conda environments or if the `fzf` package is installed).
+* Improve how options are displayed and handled in several Variable Explorer
+  viewers.
+* The interface font used by the entire application can be configured in
+  `Preferences > Appearance`.
+* Files can be opened in the editor by pasting their path in the Working
+  Directory toolbar.
+* Add a new button to the Variable Explorer to indicate when variables are being
+  filtered.
+* Show intro message for panes that don't display content at startup.
+* Add a Switcher plugin for the files and symbols switcher.
+* Add a Debugger plugin to centralize all functionality related to debugging.
+* Add an External Terminal plugin to execute Python and Bash/Batch/PS1 files on
+  a system terminal.
+* Generalize the Run plugin to support generic inputs and executors. This allows
+  plugins to declare what kind of inputs (i.e. file, cell or selection) they
+  can execute and how they will display the result.
+* Declare a proper API for the Projects plugin.
+* The Editor now uses the API introduced in Spyder 5. That was the last built-in
+  plugin that needed to be migrated to it.
+* The Breakpoints plugin was removed and its functionality moved to the Debugger
+  one.
 
 For a complete list of changes, please see our
-[changelog](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/blob/5.x/CHANGELOG.md)
+[changelog](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/blob/6.x/CHANGELOG.md)
 
-Spyder 4.0 has been a huge success and we hope 5.0 will be as successful. For that we
-fixed 54 bugs, merged 142 pull requests from about 16 authors and added more than
-830 commits between these two releases.
+Spyder 5.0 has been a huge success and we hope 6.0 will be as successful. For that we
+fixed 123 bugs, merged 292 pull requests from about 22 authors and added more than
+3098 commits between these two releases.
 
 Don't forget to follow Spyder updates/news on the project's
 [website](https://www.spyder-ide.org).
@@ -79,7 +122,7 @@ efficient scientific development/computing environment. Join us to help creating
 your favorite environment!
 
 Enjoy!
--Carlos
+-Daniel
 
 
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CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@
 
 ## Current version
 
-* [Spyder 5 changes](./changelogs/Spyder-5.md)
+* [Spyder 6 changes](./changelogs/Spyder-6.md)
 
 ## Older versions
 
+* [Spyder 5 changes](./changelogs/Spyder-5.md)
 * [Spyder 4 changes](./changelogs/Spyder-4.md)
 * [Spyder 3 changes](./changelogs/Spyder-3.md)
 * [Spyder 2 changes](./changelogs/Spyder-2.md)

changelogs/Spyder-6.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # History of changes for Spyder 6
 
-## Version 6.0.0 (unreleased)
+## Version 6.0.0 (2024-09-03)
 
 ### New features
 
@@ -94,6 +94,31 @@
 * `ShellConnectStatusBarWidget` was added to `spyder.api.shellconnect.status`
   to create status bar widgets connected to the current console.
 
+### Issues Closed
+
+* [Issue 22378](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/22378) - Spyder 6.0.0 release ([PR 22401](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/22401) by [@dalthviz](https://github.com/dalthviz))
+* [Issue 22374](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/22374) - Check reason why Sphinx upper constraint is needed to make the splash screen work on Windows ([PR 22404](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/22404) by [@mrclary](https://github.com/mrclary))
+
+In this release 2 issues were closed.
+
+### Pull Requests Merged
+
+* [PR 22404](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/22404) - PR: Resolve issue where splash screen was incorrectly rendered if conda environment is not activated (Installers), by [@mrclary](https://github.com/mrclary) ([22374](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/22374))
+* [PR 22403](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/22403) - PR: Minor fixes to Spyder 6 Changelog, by [@ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
+* [PR 22401](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/22401) - PR: Update core dependencies for 6.0.0, by [@dalthviz](https://github.com/dalthviz) ([22378](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/22378))
+* [PR 22399](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/22399) - PR: Fix issue where single-instance mode was not enforced (Installers), by [@mrclary](https://github.com/mrclary)
+* [PR 22397](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/22397) - PR: Update user-facing Changelog for Spyder 6.0, by [@ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
+* [PR 22395](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/22395) - PR: Some last minute fixes before releasing Spyder 6, by [@ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
+* [PR 22394](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/22394) - PR: Restore `TMPDIR` in the kernel if it's available in the system, by [@ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
+* [PR 22387](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/22387) - PR: Add in-app appeal message for donations (Application), by [@ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
+* [PR 22382](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/22382) - PR: Pass `TMPDIR` env var to kernels (IPython console), by [@ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
+* [PR 22380](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/22380) - PR: Fix listing envs in the Consoles' environment menu (IPython console), by [@ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
+* [PR 22379](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/22379) - PR: Update Qtconsole subrepo, by [@ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
+* [PR 22377](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/22377) - PR: Don't expose `SpyderPlugin` and `SpyderPluginWidget` as part of the public API, by [@ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
+* [PR 22334](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/22334) - PR: Update translations from Crowdin, by [@spyder-bot](https://github.com/spyder-bot)
+
+In this release 13 pull requests were closed.
+
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 ## Version 6.0rc2 (2024-08-22)