Pre-Release 5.11.0-rc1

This is a release candidate for 5.11.0.

This release includes a number of new features and improvements, including a new Beta Update Track for testing future updates, enhanced context menus for text entry fields and UI elements, a revamp to the existing translation system and logging capabilities, and more. This release includes the Python Image Library (PIL) into our core bundle, adds a number of stability and configuration checks to the tool, and adds new schemas and configuration values to senders.

This release also includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and updates to various aspects of the code to enhance maintainability are included. Notably, MacOS support has been removed due to a lack of support for this OS in Elite, and a number of functions have been deprecated and will be removed in later versions. Plugin developers, take note!

Changes and Enhancements

• Established a Beta Update Track to allow users to assist in future update testing
• Added a global context menu for text entry fields that includes cut, copy, and paste options
• Added a context menu for Ship, System, and Station UI elements which allows opening the respective link in any of the available resource providers.
• Added translation hooks to the update available status string
• Added additional status logging when we're awaiting game log-in
• Added the Python Image Library (PIL) to the core EDMC library bundle
• Added respect for EDSM API limits to the default plugin
• Added EDDN stationType and carrierDockingAccess schemas to the sent events
• Added MaxJumpRange and CargoCapacity events to the Inara sender
• Added a high-level critical error handler to gracefully terminate the program in the event of a catastrophic error
• Added the ability to override the default language for a translation by adding the optional 'lang' parameter to the translate function for individual functions
• Added an updated template and new security reporting guidance to the documentation
• Added a new updater for the FDevID Files to keep the dependency up to date without requiring a new patch version push
• Added a System Profiler Utility to assist with gathering system and environment information for bug report purposes
• Added a new security policy for responsible disclosure of identified security issues
• Enabled security code scanning on the GitHub repository
• Updates the look and feel of the "Already Running" popup to reduce overhead and improve the look of the popup
• Updated translations to latest versions
• Updated documentation to reflect certain changes to the code
• Updated the GitHub Bug Report template
• Updated the GitHub Pull Request template
• Updated internal workflows to more recent versions
• Updated util_ships to avoid using Windows reserved file names as output
• Converted all usages of the unnecessary OrderedDict to use the standard dict
• Clarifies the hierarchy of parent classes for custom MyNotebook classes
• Renamed the default translation function from _() to tr.tl()
• Renamed the Translations base class to conform to Pythonic standards
• Deprecated the _Translations class
• Deprecated the Translations singleton in favor of translations
• Unpinned several dependencies that were already dependencies of other dependencies to prevent dependency conflicts (say that 5 times fast)
• Updated a few type hints to allow updates to more updated dependencies
• Changed the translation function import to no longer rely on forcing it into Python's builtins
• Handed over a few tk classes to their ttk equivalents for better styling
• Reworked the Plugin system to no longer use the deprecated importlib.load_module()
• Deprecated nb.Entry and nb.ColoredButton as they simply point toward other classes with no processing
• Removed macOS support
• Removed deprecated modules.p and ships.p files
• Removed deprecated openurl() function

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where certain types of exceptions from the Requests module wouldn't be handled properly regarding killswitches
• Fixed a rare bug where source builds running on 64-bit Python could generate an OverflowError in the monitor system
• Fixed a bug where EDMC would open directories in the webbrowser instead of the file explorer on Linux
• Fixed a rare bug that could cause the EDSM plugin to crash due to missing configuration values

Plugin Developers

• nb.Entry is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to nb.EntryMenu
• nb.ColoredButton is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to tk.Button
• Calling internal translations with _() is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to importing translations and calling translations.translate or translations.tl directly
• Translations as the translate system singleton is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to the translations singleton
• help_open_log_folder() is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to open_folder()
• update_feed is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to get_update_feed().
• modules.p and ships.p are deprecated, and have been removed
• The openurl() function in ttkHyperlinkLabel has been removed. Please migrate to webbrowser.open()