Hi all,

 

On the behalf of Spyder's development team (http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/people/list), I'm pleased to announce that Spyder v2.2.3 has been released and is available for Windows XP/Vista/7/8, GNU/Linux and MacOS X: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/.

 
This is a maintenance release of the v2.2 branch which is the last release to support Python 2.5:

* Spyder 2.2 supports Python 2.5 to 2.7

* Spyder 2.3 will support Python 2.7 to 3.3

* (Spyder 2.3.0dev6 is also available as of today: this is an experimental release but quite stable which already supports Python 3)

See also https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/downloads/list.

 
Since v2.2.2:
* Several bug have been fixed (see changelog for further details: https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/ChangeLog)
* New features have been added like full support for a MATLAB-like cell mode (see "Run" menu) and the Optional Dependencies dialog box (see menu "?") which gives the user a status of Spyder's dependencies
 

Spyder is a free, open-source (MIT license) interactive development environment for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive testing, debugging and introspection features. Originally designed to provide MATLAB-like features (integrated help, interactive console, variable explorer with GUI-based editors for dictionaries, NumPy arrays, ...), it is strongly oriented towards scientific computing and software development. Thanks to the `spyderlib` library, Spyder also provides powerful ready-to-use widgets: embedded Python console (example: http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/sift3.png), NumPy array editor (example: http://packages.python.org/guiqwt/_images/sift2.png), dictionary editor, source code editor, etc.


Description of key features with tasty screenshots can be found at:

http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/Features

 

Don't forget to follow Spyder updates/news:

* on the project website: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/

* and on our official blog: http://spyder-ide.blogspot.com/

 

Last, but not least, we welcome any contribution that helps making Spyder an efficient scientific development/computing environment. Join us to help creating your favourite environment!

(http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/wiki/NoteForContributors)

 

Enjoy!

-Pierre