Spyder-kernels

Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 479](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/479) - PR: Fix hangs with Maplotlib interactive backends, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)

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New features

* Add support for chained exceptions to the debugger.
* Improve getting signatures from docstrings.
* Restore compatibility with Python 2.

Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 475](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/475) - PR: Skip IPython 8.17.1 in our dependencies for Python 3.9+, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 474](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/474) - PR: More improvements to getting signatures from text, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 473](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/473) - PR: Improve getting signatures from docstrings and catch error when trying to get the signature of some objects, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 472](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/472) - PR: Add support for chained exceptions to the debugger, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 471](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/471) - PR: Improve the way we depend on IPython and IPykernel per Python version, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 469](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/469) - PR: Restore compatibility with Python 2, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)

In this release 6 pull requests were closed.

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Issues Closed

* [Issue 454](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/454) - Codecov Package was Yanked ([PR 455](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/455) by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12))

In this release 1 issue was closed.

Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 461](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/461) - PR: Increase minimal required version of IPykernel to 6.23.2, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 459](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/459) - PR: Skip more buggy IPython versions, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 458](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/458) - PR: Disable IPython's debugger skip functionality by default, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 455](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/455) - PR: Remove `codecov` package and use Github action to upload coverage instead, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12) ([454](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/454))

In this release 4 pull requests were closed.

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Issues Closed

* [Issue 440](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/440) - distutils and LooseVersion deprecation ([PR 450](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/450) by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12))

In this release 1 issue was closed.

Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 452](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/452) - PR: Fix error when executing empty Python script, by [rear1019](https://github.com/rear1019)
* [PR 450](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/450) - PR: Remove usage of `distutils.LooseVersion`, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12) ([440](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/440))
* [PR 449](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/449) - PR: Add support for Jupyter-client 8, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 448](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/448) - PR: Skip IPython versions that give buggy code completions, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 442](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/442) - PR: Add FreeBSD to `test_user_sitepackages_in_pathlist`, by [rhurlin](https://github.com/rhurlin)
* [PR 434](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/434) - PR: Use `allow_pickle=True` when loading Numpy arrays, by [nkleinbaer](https://github.com/nkleinbaer)
* [PR 430](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/430) - PR: Inform GUI about position of exception in post mortem debugging, by [rear1019](https://github.com/rear1019)

In this release 7 pull requests were closed.

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Issues Closed

* [Issue 307](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/307) - formatargspec is deprecated since Python 3.5 ([PR 435](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/435) by [juliangilbey](https://github.com/juliangilbey))

In this release 1 issue was closed.

Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 438](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/438) - PR: Increase minimal required Jupyter-client version to 7.4.9, by [ccordoba12](https://github.com/ccordoba12)
* [PR 435](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/435) - PR: Replace deprecated `inspect.formatargspec` call, by [juliangilbey](https://github.com/juliangilbey) ([307](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/307))

In this release 2 pull requests were closed.

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Issues Closed

* [Issue 427](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/427) - Make spyder-kernels compatible with IPython 8 ([PR 419](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/419) by [eendebakpt](https://github.com/eendebakpt))

In this release 1 issue was closed.

Pull Requests Merged

* [PR 419](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/pull/419) - PR: Update IPython requirement to support version 8, by [eendebakpt](https://github.com/eendebakpt) ([427](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder-kernels/issues/427))

In this release 1 pull request was closed.

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