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.

• July 31th 2019: Spyder 4 beta 4 to be 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.

• August 31th 2019: Spyder 4 beta 5 to be released, with:

  • Major enhancements to projects, including the ability to define a conda environment per project, graphical installation of packages in that environment and the use of cookiecutter templates to create projects.

• September 20th 2019: Spyder 4 release candidate to be released, with:

  • Improved API for plugin creators.
  • Bugfixes and other minor features.

• October 6th 2019: Spyder 4 final release.