ANN: Spyder v2.2.3 released

[Pierre Raybaut]

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