Roadmap

Roadmap for 2018/2019

• August 12th 2018: Spyder 4 beta 1 released, with all improvements developed while we were part of Anaconda, Inc.

• May 19th 2019: Spyder 4 beta 2 released, with:

  • Language server protocol integration, to make our Editor use the best code completion architecture available.
  • Add a dark theme for the entire interface.
  • A new Plots pane to browse all inline plots generated in the IPython console.

• June 29th 2019: Spyder 4 beta 3 released, with:

  • Improvements to calltips and tooltips and addition of hovers to the Editor.
  • URL awareness in the Editor.
  • Associate different external programs to open files in the Files pane.

• August 2nd 2019: Spyder 4 beta 4 released, with:

  • Enhanced support for viewing any Python object in the Variable Explorer.
  • Searching for variable names and types in the Variable Explorer.
  • Show code completions on the fly in the Editor.
  • Add support for Numpy object arrays to the Variable Explorer.

• September 15th 2019: Spyder 4 beta 5 released, with:

  • Code snippets.
  • Major overhaul to the way the Spyder frontend communicates with its kernels.
  • Initial integration with Kite.

• October 7th 2019: Spyder 4 beta6 to be released, with:

  • User interface to install Kite.
  • Improve code completion on the fly.

• November 3rd 2019: Spyder 4 release candidate 1, released with:

  • Several debugger improvements.

• November 2019: Spyder 4 final release.

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Tentative features for Spyder 5 (February 2020)

• Python 3 only
• New "Viewer" pane to display HTML content
• Sidebar
• Improved git support
• docrepr integration
• Multiple projects
• Improved debugger