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New Release: 1.3.16

Major highlights:

• Interactive console: help() works
• Interactive console: context information showing in completions
• Interactive console: backspace will also delete the selected text
• Interactive console: ESC does not close the console when in floating mode anymore
• Code completion: calltips context info correctly made 'bold'
• Code completion: variables starting with '_' do not come in import *
• Code completion: can be requested for external files (containing system info)
• Code completion: fixed recursion condition
• Code completion: egg file distributed with dll that has a source module with the same name only with a __bootstrap__ method now loads the dll instead of the source module (e.g.: numpy egg)
• Debugger: Step over/Step return can now execute with untraced frames (much faster)
• Debugger: Problem when handling thread that had no context traced and was directly removed.
• Launching: F9 will reuse an existing launch instead of creating a new one every time
• Launching: The default launch with Ctrl+F11 will not ask again for the launch associated with a file (for new launches -- old launches should be deleted)
• Project Explorer: fixed integration problems with CDT (and others)
• Launch: console encoding passed as environment variable (no longer written to the install location)
• More templates for "surround with" (Ctrl+1)
• Previous/next method could match 'class' and 'def' on invalid location
• Outline: Assign with multiple targets is recognized
• Bug fix for pydev package explorer when refreshed element parent was null

Previous: 1.3.15

• Files without extension: If a file that does not have an extension is found in the root of the pythonpath, code-completion and breakpoints work with it.
• Extract method: comma not removed when found after a tuple and before a keyword argument.
• Console Encoding: print u"\xF6" works (console encoding correctly customized in python -- see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1580766&group_id=85796&atid=577329 for details).
• Debugger: Context of breakpoint correctly defined when comments are present in the end of the module.
• from __future__ import (xxx, with_statement): works.
• Interactive Console View, featuring:
• Code Completion
• Context sensitive with shell completions
• Qualifier matches as case insensitive
• Templates
• Repeating the activation changes from templates to default completions
• Console Configurations
• Initial commands for starting the console
• Colors for the console
• Vmargs can be specified for jython
• Auto-indent
• Auto-edits
• Context info on hover
• Up / Down Arrows cycles through the history (and uses the current text to match for the start of the history command)
• Page Up: shows dialog with console history (where lines to be re-executed can be selected)
• Esc: clears current line
• ctrl+1 works for assign quick-assist
• Hyperlinks addedd to tracebacks in the console
• Paste added directly to the command line
• Cut will only cut from the command line
• Copy does not get the prompt chars
• Home goes to: first text char / prompt end / line start (and cycles again)
• Cursor automatically moved to command line on key events
• Multiple views of the same console can be created
• Limitation: Output is not asynchonous (stdout and stderr are only shown after a new command is sent to the console)

Previous: 1.3.14

• Outline view: patch by Laurent Dore: better icons for different types of fields methods.
• Outline view: patch by Laurent Dore: more filters.
• PyLint: working dir is the directory of the analyzed file.
• Project explorer: fixed bug on integration with Dynamic Web Project.
• Extract method: fixed bug when trying to refactor structure: a = b = xxx.
• Generate constructor using fields: working for classes that derive from builtin classes.
• Override methods: working for classes that derive from builtin classes.
• Debugger can use psyco for speedups: see http://pydev.blogspot.com/2008/02/pydev-debugger-and-psyco-speedups.html.
• Debugger: shows parent frame when stepping in a return event.
• Go to previous/next method: (Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down): does not rely on having a correct parse anymore.
• Auto-formatting: No space after comma if next char is new line.
• Code Completion: Handling completions from attribute access in classes (accessed from outside of the class).
• Auto-indent: Better handling when indenting to next tab position within the code.
• Caches: Some places were recreating the cache used during a completion request instead of using the available one (which could have a memory impact on some situations).

Previous: 1.3.13

• Outline view: working correctly again.
• Keybinding conflict: Alt+shift+T+XXX refactoring keybindings are now only defined in the pydev scope.
• Hyperlink: Using new hyperlink mechanism (added at Eclipse 3.3).

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Two screencasts demonstrating pydev and pydev extensions have been created. They are hosted at ShowMeDo.com.

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