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Co-authored-by: C.A.M. Gerlach <[email protected]>

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 category: Announcement
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+tags: milestone, new-feature, installers
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-summary: Spyder 6 will introduce new conda-based installers for Windows, macOS, and Linux. While Windows and macOS have had installers for some time, this new development will provide a more consistent user experience across all platforms, including Linux. Additionally, this new installer will provide a more reliable runtime environment for Spyder, setting the foundation for several new features.
+summary: Spyder 6 will introduce new conda-based installers for Windows, macOS, and Linux. While Windows and macOS have had installers for some time, this new development will provide a more consistent user experience across all platforms, including Linux. Additionally, this new installer will provide a more reliable runtime environment for Spyder, and lay the foundation for several new features.
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-Spyder is an excellent development environment for scientists and engineers.
-For the last several years Spyder has provided standalone applications for Windows and macOS which isolated Spyder's runtime environment from users' development environments, providing a more stable user experience than a traditional conda or pip installation methods.
-However, these standalone applications precluded implementing desirable features such as automatic incremental updates and 3rd party plugin management.
+For the last several years, Spyder has offered standalone installers for Windows and macOS which isolate Spyder's runtime environment from users' development environments.
+This provides a more stable user experience than traditional conda or pip installation methods.
+However, these standalone installers did not allow implementing desirable features, such as automatic incremental updates and external plugin management.
 Additionally, these standalone applications were limited to Windows and macOS.
 
-Our new installers provide a more consistent installation experience for all users across all platforms, including Linux, while maintaining the benefits of an isolated runtime environment for Spyder.
-Additionally, they provide a runtime environment that is compatible with incremental updates and 3rd party plugin management.
+Our new installers provide a more consistent experience for users across all platforms, including Linux, while maintaining the benefits of an isolated runtime environment for Spyder.
+Additionally, they are fully compatible with incremental updates and external plugin management.
 Look for future announcements about these and other features!
 
-So what will you see with these new installers?
-If you are a Windows user, you will continue to have a GUI installer guiding you through the installation process; you will likely not notice any difference from the previous standalone application installer experience.
+So, what will you see with these new installers?
+If you are a Windows user, you will continue to have a GUI guiding you through the installation process, and will likely not notice any difference from the previous standalone application installer experience.
 
 ![Windows installer](windows.png)
 
-If you are a macOS user, you will now have a pkg installer instead of a dmg compressed disk image.
-Rather than drag-and-drop the application to the Applications folder, the pkg installer provides a graphical user interface that will guide you through the installation process, just like any other pkg installer.
+If you are a macOS user, you will now have a `.pkg` package installer instead of a `.dmg` disk image.
+Rather than drag-and-drop the application to the `Applications` folder, the `.pkg` installer provides a graphical user interface that will guide you through the installation process.
 
 ![macOS installer](macos.png)
 
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 In all cases, you will not need to have Anaconda installed, nor do you need an existing Python environment; in fact, you don't even need a preexisting Python installation.
 These installers are completely self-contained.
-Spyder will continue to include popular packages such as numpy, matplotlib, scipy, etc., so you can start coding out-of-the-box.
-However, you will still be able to use Spyder with your existing conda and pip (or any other) Python environments, as before.
+Spyder will continue to include popular packages such as NumPy, SciPy, Pandas and Matplotlib so you can start coding out-of-the-box.
+However, you will still be able to use Spyder with your existing conda, venv, Python.org, and other Python installers and environments as before.
 
-The Spyder team is really excited about these new installers and the new features it will make possible and we hope you find them an improvement over the previous installers.
+The Spyder team is really excited about these new installers and the new features they will make possible, and we hope you enjoy them too!