General information:

• The bpython-cli rendering backend has been removed following deprecation in
  version 0.19.
• This release is focused on Python 3.13 support.

New features:

Fixes:

• Fix signature support
  Thanks to gpotter2
• #995: Fix handling of SystemExit
• #996: Improve order of completion results
  Thanks to gpotter2
• Fix build of documentation and manpages with Sphinx >= 7
• #1001: Do not fail if modules don't have version

Changes to dependencies:

• Remove use of distutils
  Thanks to Anderson Bravalheri

Support for Python 3.12 and 3.13 has been added. Support for Python 3.7 and 3.8 has been dropped.

General information:

• This release is focused on Python 3.11 support.

New features:

• #980: Add more keywords to trigger auto-deindent.
  Thanks to Eric Burgess

Fixes:

• Improve inspection of builtin functions.

Changes to dependencies:

• wheel is no required as part of pyproject.toml's build dependencies

Support for Python 3.11 has been added.

General information:

More and more type annotations have been added to the bpython code base. Some work has been performed to stop relying on blessings.

New features:

• #905: Auto-closing brackets option added. To enable, add brackets_completion = True in the bpython config. Thanks to samuelgregorovic

Fixes:

• Improve handling of SyntaxErrors
• #948: Fix crash on Ctrl-Z
• #952: Fix tests for Python 3.10.1 and newer
• #955: Handle optional readline parameters in stdin emulation. Thanks to thevibingcat
• #959: Fix handling of __name__
• #966: Fix function signature completion for classmethods

Changes to dependencies:

• curtsies 0.4 or newer is now required
• Support for Python 3.6 has been dropped.

Fixes:

• #938: Fix missing dependency on typing_extensions. Thanks to Dustin Rodrigues

General information:

• The #bpython channel has moved to OFTC.
• Type annotations have been added to the bpython code base.
• Declarative build configuration is used as much as possible.

New features:

• #883: Allow auto-completion to be disabled
• #841: Respect locals when using bpython.embed
• Use pyperclip for better clipboard handling

Fixes:

• #700, #884: Fix writing of b"" on fake stdout
• #879: Iterate over all completers until a successful one is found
• #882: Handle errors in theme configuration without crashing
• #888: Read PYTHONSTARTUP with utf8 as encoding
• #896: Use default sys.ps1 and sys.ps2 if user specified ones are not usable
• #902: Do not crash when encountering unreadable files while processing modules for import completion
• #909: Fix sys.stdin.readline
• #917: Fix tab completion for dict keys
• #919: Replicate python behavior when running with -i and a non-existing file
• #932: Fix handling of signature for completion. Thanks to gpotter2

Changes to dependencies:

• pyperclip is a new optional dependency for clipboard support
• backports.cached-property is now required for Python < 3.8
• dataclasses is now required for Python < 3.7
• Support for Python 3.10 has been added.

General information:

• Support for Python 2 has been dropped.

New features:

• #643: Provide bpython._version if built from Github tarballs
• #849: Make import completion skip list configurable
• #876: Check spelling with codespell
  Thanks to Christian Clauss

Fixes:

• #847: Fix import completion of modules
• #857: Replace remaining use of deprecated imp with importlib
• #862: Upgrade curtsies version requirements
  Thanks to Kelsey Blair
• #863: State correct default config file directory
  Thanks to niloct
• #866: Add more directories to the default import completion skip list
• #873: Handle 'd' when mapping colors
• #874: Avoid breakage with six's importer

Changes to dependencies:

• curtsies >= 0.3.5 is now required
• pyxdg is now required
• wcwidth has been replaced with cwcwidth

Fixes:

• Fix check of key code (fixes #859)

General information:

• The next release of bpython (0.21) will drop support for Python 2.
• Support for Python 3.9 has been added. Support for Python 3.5 has been
  dropped.

New features:

• #802: Provide redo.
  Thanks to Evan.
• #835: Add support for importing namespace packages.
  Thanks to Thomas Babej.

Fixes:

• #622: Provide encoding attribute for FakeOutput.
• #806: Prevent symbolic link loops in import completion.
  Thanks to Etienne Richart.
• #807: Support packages using importlib.metadata API.
  Thanks to uriariel.
• #809: Fix support for Python 3.9's ast module.
• #817: Fix cursor position with full-width characters.
  Thanks to Jack Rybarczyk.
• #853: Fix invalid escape sequences.

General information:

• The bpython-cli and bpython-urwid rendering backends have been deprecated and
  will show a warning that they'll be removed in a future release when started.
• Usage in combination with Python 2 has been deprecated. This does not mean that
  support is dropped instantly but rather that at some point in the future we will
  stop running our testcases against Python 2.
• The new pinnwand API is used for the pastebin functionality. We have dropped
  two configuration options: pastebin_show_url and pastebin_removal_url. If
  you have your bpython configured to run against an old version of pinnwand
  please update it.

New features:

Fixes:

• #765: Display correct signature for decorated functions.
  Thanks to Benedikt Rascher-Friesenhausen.
• #776: Protect get_args from user code exceptions
• Improve lock file handling on Windows
• #791: Use importlib instead of deprecated imp when running under Python 3

Support for Python 3.8 has been added. Support for Python 3.4 has been dropped.

New features:

• #713 expose globals in bpdb debugging.
  Thanks to toejough.

Fixes:

• Fix file locking on Windows.
• Exit gracefully if config file fails to be loaded due to encoding errors.
• #744: Fix newline handling.
  Thanks to Attila Szöllősi.
• #731: Fix exit code.
  Thanks to benkrig.
• #767: Fix crash when matching certain lines in history.

Support for Python 3.3 has been dropped.