winget install --id Posit.PositronAbout Positron
What is Positron? - A next-generation data science IDE built by Posit PBC - An extensible, polyglot tool for writing code and exploring data - A familiar environment for reproducible authoring and publishing
What's new in 2026.06.0
Check out all the changes for this release. Posit Assistant Last release we introduced Posit Assistant, our unified, data-science-focused approach to AI assistance. This release continues that work, and we want to give you advance notice that the older Positron Assistant will be deprecated in the next release. If you are still using Positron Assistant, we encourage you to migrate to Posit Assistant now. As a first step, the positron.assistant.enable setting is deprecated in favor of assistant.enabled, and the Positron Assistant welcome view now points you to Posit Assistant. Posit Assistant supports the same broad set of providers as Positron Assistant, along with the Posit AI model provider and new experimental support for Google Vertex. Learn more about the differences between the new Posit Assistant and the older Positron Assistant. New in Posit Assistant this release, you can use the Posit AI model provider for Next Edit Suggestions, which propose your likely next change as you edit. You can also access the Configure Language Model Providers item in the accounts menu. Packages pane improvements We introduced the Packages pane last release, and this release makes it more informative and flexible. A Show Help button and context menu entry on every package take you straight to its documentation in the Help pane. You can now combine category filters as an intersection, so you can narrow the list to, for example, packages that are both attached and outdated. A new Item Size toggle lets you switch between a compact row view and a richer card view that surfaces package descrip...
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
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| 2026.06.0 | Unknown | Check out all the changes for this release. Posit Assistant Last release we introduced Posit Assistant, our unified, data-science-focused approach to AI assistance. This release continues that work, and we want to give y... |
| 2026.05.2 | Unknown | Check out all the changes for this release. Announcing the Packages pane Our Packages pane is available in this release as a preview feature. The new Packages pane brings streamlined package management directly into the... |
| 2026.05.1 | Unknown | Check out all the changes for this release. Announcing the Packages pane Our Packages pane is available in this release as a preview feature. The new Packages pane brings streamlined package management directly into the... |
| 2026.05.0 | Unknown | Check out all the changes for this release. Announcing the Packages pane Our Packages pane is available in this release as a preview feature. The new Packages pane brings streamlined package management directly into the... |
| 2026.04.1 | Unknown | Positron Server for academic use via JupyterHub 🎓 Academic institutions can now offer Positron Server to their students at no cost through JupyterHub. If your institution already runs JupyterHub, you can add Positron as... |
| 2026.04.0 | Unknown | Positron Server for academic use via JupyterHub 🎓 Academic institutions can now offer Positron Server to their students at no cost through JupyterHub. If your institution already runs JupyterHub, you can add Positron as... |
| 2026.03.0 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 2026.02.1 | Unknown | New Positron Notebook Editor is available for alpha testing! 📓 We're excited to invite you to try the new Positron Notebook Editor, our reimagined experience for working with Jupyter (.ipynb) notebooks. While still in al... |
| 2026.02.0 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 2026.01.0 | Unknown | Explore your Console history 📜 Positron has a new History Pane, similar to RStudio's. Your Console inputs are tracked by language and grouped by time period. You can search your history, send entries to the Console or an... |
| 2025.12.2 | Unknown | No notes |
| 2025.07.0 | Unknown | Positron is out of beta! ❤️ Stable releases of Positron are now available! Thank you to all our beta users who have been testing and giving feedback on our prereleases over the last year. Daily builds 🪩 For users who are... |
| 2025.06.0 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 2025.05.0 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 2025.04.0 | Unknown | New Features - [#6533, #6902, #6997, #7005, #7070, #7083, #7087] Made yet further improvements to our experimental multisession console support (especially in managing LSPs); read more at #6712 for how to opt in. - [#681... |
| 2025.02.0 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 2025.01.0 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 2024.12.0 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 2024.11.0 | Unknown | Release notes |
| 2024.10.0 | Unknown | Release notes |