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 Envisage CHANGELOG
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Version 4.7.0
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Another incremental release for bug fixes related to IPython.

Fixes
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* Add failing test and fix for old-style relative import. (#109)
* Old-style relative import ipython_kernel plugin (#108)
* Fix attractors example (#103)
* Use --gui rather than --matplotlib when starting IPython kernel.  (#101)
* InternalIPKernel.shutdown method doesn't stop the kernel's IOPubThread (#93)
* Fix task layout serialization under Python3 (#90)


Version 4.6.0
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This is an incremental release, mainly consisting of bug fixes.  The most
significant change is the support for IPython >= 4 in the IPython plugin.

Thanks to @corranwebster, @dpinte, @itziakos, @jonathanrocher, @kamalx,
@rahulporuri, @robmcmullen, @sjagoe

Enhancements
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* IPython kernel plugin now supports IPython >= 4 (#82)
* Remove usage of deprecated IPython QtConsole API (#80)
* Defer selection of toolkit and avoid creating GUI applications as side-effects as
  much as possible (#77, #76)

Fixes
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* Fixes for tests under Python 3.5 (#86)
* Work around for issue with Traits in Python 3 (#78)
* Replace uses of ‘file’ and ‘execfile’ (#75) 
* Fix MOTD_Using_Eggs example (#66)
* Fix broken and outdated links in documentation (#72)
* Fix link to docs from README (#70)
* Fix degenerate case where window is created with no layout (#44)


Version 4.5.1
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Enhancements
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* Add tox for testing package install (#67)

Fixes
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* Include missing test files in the package data (#67)
* Include missing test cases for Python 3.4 (#67)


Version 4.5.0
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New features
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* IPythonKernelPlugin for Tasks: run an IPython kernel within the
  envisage app and expose it as a service (#54).
* Envisage now supports Python 3.4 (#61).

Enhancements
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* Allow loading plugins from an egg basket even when some eggs are
  invalid (#40, #46).
* Add a simple ``GUIApplication`` to bootstrap basic plugin-driven
  applications (#34).
* Split the IPython kernel and IPython menu action into two separate
  plugins for flexibility (#57).

Fixes
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* Use new Traits interfaces and adaptation implementation (#37).
* Envisage now configures the logger with a ``NullHandler`` to avoid
  spurios unconfigured logger warnings (#45).
* Envisage no longer swallows exceptions in plugin startup (#50).
* Various fixes to continuous integration configuration (#47, #60).


Version 4.4.0
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The major component of this feature is to work with the new
``traits.adaptation`` mechanism in place of the deprecated
``traits.protocols``, maintaining compatibility with ``traits`` version
4.4.0.

This release also adds a new method to retrieve a service that is
required by the application and provides documentation and test updates.


New features
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* Added a simple GUIApplication class (673c8f6)
* Added a method to get a required service (94dfdea)

Enhancements
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* Updated to use the new traits.adaptation functionality (34fa5e6)

Fixes
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* Updated links to point to github instead of svn codebase (87cdb87)
* Fixed test cases and added to Travis-CI (6c11d9f)
