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Install Positron

A next-generation data science IDE

Install with winget
winget install --id Posit.Positron
Upgrade
winget upgrade --id Posit.Positron
Uninstall
winget uninstall --id Posit.Positron

About 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

Version history

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2026.07.1 Unknown Release notes
2026.07.0 Unknown Check out all the changes for this release. Positron Notebook Editor The Positron Notebook Editor comes out of preview to general availability in this release, and is now the default editor for Jupyter (.ipynb) notebooks...
2026.06.1 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...
2026.06.0 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 πŸŽ“ 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 πŸŽ“ 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! πŸ““ 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 πŸ“œ 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 πŸͺ© 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