Spyder 5 comes with several interesting and exciting new features. The most important ones are:
- Improved dark theme based on QDarkstyle 3.0.
- New light theme based on QDarkstyle 3.0.
- New look and feel for toolbars.
- New icon set based on Material Design.
- New API to extend core plugins, with the exception of the Editor, IPython console and Projects.
- New plugins to manage menus, toolbars, layouts, shortcuts, preferences and status bar.
- New architecture to access and write configuration options.
- New API to declare code completion providers.
- New registries to access actions, tool buttons, toolbars and menus by their identifiers.
Release notes
For the full list of closed issues and merged pull requests in this release, please see our Changelog.