Spyder-kernels

Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 534](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/534) - PR: Fix some async do completes, by [Carreau](https://github.com/Carreau)
* [PR 532](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/532) - PR: Split `test_interrupt` into two tests, by [Carreau](https://github.com/Carreau)
* [PR 520](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/520) - Handle async do_complete in the debugger, by [Carreau](https://github.com/Carreau)
* [PR 519](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/519) - PR: Clarify test error message, by [Carreau](https://github.com/Carreau)
* [PR 515](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/515) - PR: Fix version that will be released from master, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 478](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/478) - PR: Add feature to prepend/append PYTHONPATH to sys.path, by [mrclary](https://github.com/mrclary)

In this release 6 pull requests were closed.

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Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 530](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/530) - PR: Correctly process Pdb commands available in `cmdqueue`, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 527](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/527) - PR: Use an older Ubuntu version on CIs, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 526](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/526) - PR: Filter frames that come from Spyder-kernels in tracebacks and fix tracebacks in Python 3.8, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)

In this release 3 pull requests were closed.

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Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 524](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/524) - PR: Improve release instructions for the new backporting workflow, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 521](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/521) - PR: Add logic to handle traceback color configuration, by [dalthviz](https://github.com/dalthviz)

In this release 2 pull requests were closed.

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Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 517](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/517) - PR: Manually register the Matplotlib inline backend in case it hasn't, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 514](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/514) - PR: Fix development version for the stable branch, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 510](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/510) - PR: Replace Quansight logo by CZI one in Readme, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 508](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/508) - PR: Update workflows to run in the `3.x` branch (CI), by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 506](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/506) - PR: Make `glob` and `loc` kwargs of `debug_exec`, by [impact27](https://github.com/impact27)
* [PR 504](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/504) - PR: Update workflow actions (CI), by [mrclary](https://github.com/mrclary)
* [PR 503](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/503) - PR: Update `load_dicom` to accommodate Pydicom 3.0, by [mrclary](https://github.com/mrclary)

In this release 7 pull requests were closed.

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New features

* Speed up debugger execution.
* Notify Spyder when Matplotlib backend changes.
* Use control channel for comms instead of a special one.
* Update variable explorer from the kernel.
* Simplify kernel configuration from Spyder.
* Add a `comm_handler` decorator.
* Transform `runfile`, `debugfile` and `runcell` commands to IPython magics.
* Add comm handlers to interrupt executions and enter the debugger after that.
* Publish Pdb stack frames to Spyder.
* Drop support for Python 2 and support Python 3.8+

Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 500](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/500) - PR: Restore `TMPDIR` env var if it was available on the Spyder side, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 498](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/498) - PR: Remove `TMPDIR` env var after initialization, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)

In this release 2 pull requests were closed.

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Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 495](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/495) - PR: Add comm handler to get information about the Python environment associated to the kernel, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)

In this release 1 pull request was closed.

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