Spyder-kernels

New features

* Add an option to exclude callables and modules in namespace view.
* Add methods to update `sys.path` from Spyder.
* Add an option to execute IPython events in Pdb.

Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 183](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/183) - PR: Add an option to namespace view settings to exclude callables and modules
* [PR 182](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/182) - PR: Use IPython completer for Pdb
* [PR 181](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/181) - PR: Add path update methods
* [PR 180](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/180) - PR: Cleanup spydercustomize
* [PR 179](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/179) - PR: Use a timeout in CommBase if a call passes one different from None
* [PR 178](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/178) - PR: Correctly set namespace while debugging
* [PR 175](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/175) - PR: Add an option to execute IPython events in Pdb
* [PR 174](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/174) - PR: Prevent pdb syntax error from blocking the console ([10588](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/10588))

In this release 8 pull requests were closed.

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New features

* Create a new ZMQ socket for comms.
* Allow different frontends to have different pickle
protocols.
* Add a way to ignore installed Python libraries while
debugging

Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 177](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/177) - PR: Update ipykernel required version ([2902](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/2902))
* [PR 176](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/176) - PR: Improve displayed type and value for generic objects
* [PR 169](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/169) - PR: Create a Comm socket
* [PR 168](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/168) - PR: Require more recent version of jupyter-client
* [PR 167](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/167) - PR: Don't demand that a file exists in Pdb
* [PR 166](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/166) - PR: Allow different frontends to have different pickle protocols
* [PR 152](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/152) - PR: Add a way to ignore installed Python libraries while debugging

In this release 7 pull requests were closed.

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New features

* Allow IPython magics in Pdb.
* Allow Pdb to run multiline statments.
* Make `runfile` to retrieve code from Spyder.
* Add code completion to Pdb.

Issues Closed

* [Issue 139](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/139) - Regression: runfile doesn't execute ipython magic ([PR 143](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/143))

In this release 1 issue was closed.

Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 163](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/163) - PR: Fix tests that use setup_kernel
* [PR 162](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/162) - PR: Improve Pdb sigint handler
* [PR 161](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/161) - PR: Fix post-mortem debugging
* [PR 157](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/157) - PR: Fix breakpoint update ([10290](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/10290))
* [PR 154](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/154) - PR: Allow IPython magics in Pdb
* [PR 153](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/153) - PR: Add a setting to disable printing the stack on every Pdb command
* [PR 151](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/151) - PR: Remove Pdb Monkeypatching
* [PR 148](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/148) - PR: Allow Pdb to run multiline statments
* [PR 143](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/143) - PR: Make runfile to retrieve code from the Spyder editor and add it to linecache ([1643](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/1643), [139](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/139))
* [PR 133](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/133) - PR: Add code completion to Pdb

In this release 10 pull requests were closed.

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New features

* Add a new debugcell builtin command.
* Make runfile work in an empty namespace by default.
* Improve the display of tracebacks.
* Use the highest pickle protocol available to serialize data.
* Use Jupyter comms to communicate with the Spyder frontend.
* This release also contains all fixes present in versions 0.5.1
and 0.5.2.

Issues Closed

* [Issue 147](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/147) - debugfile() got an unexpected keyword argument 'current_namespace' ([PR 150](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/150))
* [Issue 145](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/145) - KeyError on comms when restarting the kernel ([PR 146](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/146))
* [Issue 97](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/97) - Can't repeat runcell from terminal ([PR 112](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/112))
* [Issue 73](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/73) - Select a higher Pickle protocol in case Spyder and the kernel are running in Python 3.4+ ([PR 111](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/111))

In this release 4 issues were closed.

Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 150](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/150) - PR: Add current_namespace kwarg to debugfile ([147](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/147))
* [PR 146](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/146) - PR: Set closed flag before deleting comms ([145](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/145))
* [PR 144](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/144) - PR: Solve error with exit command not being defined in the debugger
* [PR 142](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/142) - PR: Set debug state before asking for input
* [PR 140](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/140) - PR: Update jupyter-client minimal required version
* [PR 137](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/137) - PR: Add a way to change foreground color of Sympy repr's
* [PR 136](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/136) - PR: Ask the frontend to save files before running them
* [PR 134](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/134) - PR: Improve the display of tracebacks and better handle namespace and __file__ during execution
* [PR 131](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/131) - PR: Make runfile work in an empty namespace
* [PR 130](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/130) - PR: Add .pickle files to .gitignore
* [PR 128](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/128) - PR: Fix deprecated import
* [PR 112](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/112) - PR: Use the comms API to improve runcell and add a new debugcell command ([97](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/97))
* [PR 111](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/111) - PR: Use Jupyter comms to communicate with the Spyder frontend ([73](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/73))

In this release 13 pull requests were closed.

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New features

* Add entries necessary for the new Object Explorer to
REMOTE_SETTINGS.
* This release also contains all features and fixes present in
version 0.5.0

Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 100](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/100) - PR: Add object explorer settings to REMOTE_SETTINGS

In this release 1 pull request was closed.

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New features
* This release contains all features and fixes present in versions
0.4.3 and 0.4.4

Issues Closed

* [Issue 93](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/93) - test_np_threshold is failing ([PR 95](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/95))

In this release 1 issue was closed.

Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 95](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/95) - PR: Change np.nan for np.inf in test_np_threshold ([93](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/93))

In this release 1 pull request was closed.

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