PyDev 8.3.0 is now available!
Let me start with some warnings here:
First, PyDev now requires Java 11. I believe that Java 11 is pretty standard nowadays and the latest Eclipse also requires Java 11 (if you absolutely need Java 8, please keep using PyDev 8.2.0 -- or earlier -- indefinitely, otherwise, if you are still using Java 8, please upgrade to Java 11 -- or higher).
Second, Eclipse 2021-03 (4.19) is broken and cannot be used with any version of PyDev due to https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=571990, so, if you use PyDev, please keep to Eclipse 4.18 (or get a newer if available) -- the latest version of PyDev warns about this, older versions will not complain but some features will not function properly, so, please skip on using Eclipse 4.19 if you use PyDev.
Now, on to the goodies ;)
On the linters front, the configurations for the linters can now be saved to the project or user settings and flake8 has an UI for configuration which is much more flexible, allowing to change the severity of any error.
A new option which allows all comments to be added to a single indent was added (and this is now the default).
The code-completion and quick fixes which rely on automatically adding some import will now cache the selection so that if a given token is imported that selection is saved and when asked again it'll be reused (so, for instance, if you just resolved Optional to be typing.Optional, that'll be the first choice the next time around).
Environment variables are now properly supported in .pydevproject. The expected format is: ${env_var:VAR_NAME}.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Luis Cabral, who is now helping in the project for doing many of those improvements (and to the Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/fabioz which enabled it to happen).
Enjoy!
