2025.01.0-39

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Installers can be found under the Assets section below. The filename extensions for each platform are:

• .dmg for macOS 10.15+ (Universal)
• -Setup.exe for Windows 10, 11 x64 (system level install)
• -UserSetup.exe for Windows 10, 11 x64 (user level install)
• .deb for Debian-based Linux (Ubuntu 22+)
• .rpm for Red Hat-based Linux (RHEL9)

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Release Notes

New Features

• Added a setting to specify default R repositories #5547
• Exposed RuntimeCodeExecutionMode arg to positron.runtime.executeCode() in the API for extensions #5450
• Simplified logic for switching runtimes in a notebook #5558
• Speed up Python startup by not eagerly importing large third party libraries #5599

Bug Fixes

• Improved runtime session stability #5380
• Fixed r.packageInstall command #5554, #5579
• Fixed duplicate notebook progress bars #5546
• Fixed shutting down a notebook when no session is running #5560
• Fixed interactive matplotlib plots in notebooks #5601
• Fixed intermittent unresponsive interrupt button in notebooks #5566, #5629
• ? and ?? are no longer detected as syntax errors in notebooks #5561
• No longer eagerly evaluate ibis expressions #5625
• Fixed the experimental Data Explorer feature for directly viewing data files with <10 rows #5644

Dependencies

• Updated ms-python upstream to v2024.20.0