JetBrains PyCharm Blog

Thought that things were pretty quiet here during the summer? Not really! The PyCharm team has been hard at work on a new release of PyCharm, which (following the tradition of Python interpreter version numbers) will be called 2.6.

The big new feature in this version is diagrams support. PyCharm is now able to show you a visual overview of the structure of your code – and that includes class diagrams for any Python project, as well as model dependency diagrams for Django and App Engine projects.

Other than that, the team has been primarily focused on smaller changes that improve the quality of PyCharm’s code analysis and completion. This includes:

• New code completion shortcut: press Ctrl-Space twice to complete any non-imported identifiers (modules, classes, functions or variables) anywhere in your code;
• Many fixes and improvements in Django code completion and inspections;
• Code insight fixes and changes to default inspection settings to reduce the number of false positives in PyCharm’s inspection reports;
• New intention actions to assist in specifying types for parameters and variables;
• Autodetection of test framework and docstring format used in the project.

Besides that, PyCharm has been updated to support the new language features in current beta version of Python 3.3. Full support of Python 3.3, including the new virtual environments and namespace packages, is planned for the final release of PyCharm 2.6.

All of these features are available in the first EAP build which is available for download now. The final release is still a few weeks away, and we hope that we will be able to sneak a few other goodies in before the release is done.

As usual, your feedback is welcome on our new forum and in the issue tracker.

The PyCharm team is currently hard at work on PyCharm 2.6, which is going to be out in a few months – but before that, we’d like to publish one more update for PyCharm 2.5. The biggest change in this release is a new implementation of resolving imported references, which greatly improves the performance of code analysis and completion on files which contain a large number of import statements or deep hierarechies of imports. Besides that, we’ve fixed a few bugs, primarily in the debugger. The latest bunch of fixes from the underlying IntelliJ Platform is also included in this release.

You can download the new build from the EAP page or update from within the IDE. As usual, if you run into any new issues, please let us know by filing a tracker issue, so that we would be able to fix them before 2.5.2 goes final.

Today we’ve published the Release Candidate build for PyCharm 2.5.1, build 117.296. This is a recommended upgrade for all users of PyCharm 2.5, resolving many issues with PyPI integration, remote interpreters, and other areas of the product. You can download the new build from the EAP page or update using “Check for updates” from within the IDE. The complete release notes for the new build are also available.

Please give the new build a try and let us know if you run into any problems, so that we could fix them before the final 2.5.1 release is published. Thanks!

Since the release of PyCharm 2.5 Beta, we’ve received a lot of feedback from our users, and we have been working hard to polish the new features even further, as well as resolve some issues outstanding from older versions of PyCharm. Today’s Release Candidate build includes all of the fixes – and you can see that the list in the release notes is quite long.

The new build is available for download on the PyCharm 2.5 Preview site; if you’re currently running PyCharm 2.5 Beta, you can update from within the IDE.

If you run into some problems, please report them to YouTrack – there’s still a bit of time to fix them before the final release.