2025.02.0-79

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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+, 24+ for arm64)
• .rpm for Red Hat-based Linux (RHEL9)

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Release Notes

New Features

• Better Data Explorer handling for emptiness in column names posit-dev/ark#659
• Data Explorer for directly viewing data files now supports gzipped CSV/TSV #5901
• New architecture for managing notebook kernels #5926
• Added support for long-running remote SSH sessions #5899
• Improved runtime startup #5959
• File hyperlinks from the R package cli are now clickable in R package task terminals #5850
• No longer start runtimes that were never used in a workspace #5992

Bug Fixes

• Fixed RPC timeouts in the Variables Pane with code execution #5871
• Fixed how the Data Explorer for directly viewing data files watches files for updates #5890
• Fixed S4 support in the Variables pane posit-dev/ark#658
• Fixed FastAPI support on Windows #5858
• Fixed diagnostics for raw notebook cells #5950
• Fixed how Positron handles Python typing-extensions #5984
• Fixed path completions in Python #6002
• Fixed path completions in notebooks #6018
• Fixed drag/drop into File Explorer pane #6030

Dependencies

• Updated code-oss upstream to v1.96 (also fixed crash when interacting with native OS toolbar on Linux)