GNU Octave, the free open-source scientific programming language, released new major 11.1.0 version yesterday. This is the first release in version 11, that introduced many new functions, performance improvements, and some UI changes. First, the new version updated the user interface with new Editor Files tab for the built-in File Browser, option to toggle start-up […]
Read MoreVisual Studio Code 1.109, the January 2026 release of Microsoft’s AI code editor, was released few days ago. The new monthly release introduced preview support for Claude Agent, allowing to delegate tasks to the Claude Agent SDK using the Claude models included in your GitHub Copilot subscription. It also improved the agent extensibility by allowing […]
Read MoreGo programming language released new 1.25 version on Tuesday after another 6 months of development. The new release introduced new Go command options, runtime and compiler changes, some new packages, and platform changes. The go doc command in the release introduced new -http option, to start a documentation server showing documentation for the requested object, […]
Read MoreVisual Studio Code 103, the July release of the Microsoft’s IDE, was released few days ago on Thursday. The new release made OpenAI GPT-5, the new model released on the same day, to all paid GitHub Copilot plans. AI chat now support checkpoints, allowing to easily go back to certain points of your chat conversations. […]
Read MoreJetBrains announced the 2025.2 release of its IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm IDE yesterday. In the release, the AI-powered code completion now suggests code blocks for Java in offline, and lets you choose your preferred local code completion model. AI Assistant has been updated with AI-powered code completion for SQL, YAML, JSON, and Markdown, and Junie […]
Read MoreJetBrains announced the 2025.2 release of its PyCharm Python IDE today! 2025.2 will be the last supported version of PyCharm Community. In the next 2025.3, there will be only an unified PyCharm with core functionality (including Jupyter Notebook support) for free and a Pro subscription with additional features. The developer team will offer a seamless […]
Read MoreFor testing purpose, Microsoft .NET 10 (preview version so far) is available to install in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and 25.04 through PPA. .NET 10 is the next LTS (Long Term Support) release with 3 years of support. It’s so far in preview development stage, while the full release is expected in November 2025. What’s […]
Read MoreVS Code 1.102, the June release of Microsoft’s IDE, was released few days ago on Wednesday. Since the release, Copilot Chat is finally open-sourced under the MIT license. And, the source code, is available at this github page. As you see in the screenshot, the chat view has a new “Configure Chat” gear menu, allowing […]
Read MoreAfter more than one and half year of development, the free open-source geany text editor released new major 2.1 version! The new release of this lightweight IDE is named “Yage”. It added geany-themes, the separated color schemes in built-in. Meaning users can now easily change the color scheme from “View” menu, without downloading & installing […]
Read MoreVisual Studio Code announced new monthly 1.101 (aka May 2025) releases few days ago. The new release of this free open-source code editor allows you to define tool sets through either the UI or a proposed API. Tool set can group related tools together, making it easier to use them in your chat. The release […]
Read MorePython 3.14, the next major version of the popular programming language, released the second Beta few days ago. Here’s how to install it in all current Ubuntu releases. Python 3.14 is planned to be released on October 07, 2025, with 5 years of support until 2030. It’s so far in Beta for testing and software […]
Read MoreAfter 3 months of development, Apache NetBeans announced the new 26 release today. The new release updated its UI with better HiDPI support. It now displays the dragged tab image and ensures to render SVG icons at full resolution on HiDPI screens. And, there are 150 more icons updated from GIF/PNG to SVG to look […]
Read MoreVisual Studio Code 1.100, the April 2025 release of Microsoft’s IDE, was released one day ago on May 8. The new version now uses GPT-4.1 as the default base model in AI chat, though it’s a progressive roll-out feature that may not yet be available to all users. It implemented support for OpenAI’s apply patch […]
Read MoreThe March 2025 release of Visual Studio Code, aka 1.99, was released few days ago. The new release introduced chat agent mode for VS Code Stable, which can be enabled by setting chat.agent.enabled. With chat agent mode in Visual Studio Code, you can use natural language define a high-level task and to start an agentic […]
Read MoreThis tutorial will help you install Java Development Kit or JDK on Ubuntu 24.04. This is required for you to do software development in Java programming language because it contains the compiler and Java Virtual Machine alias JVM as well as the librari…
Read MoreGNU Octave, the free open-source programming language for scientific computing and numerical computation, rolled out the new 10.1.0 release. The official announcement is not ready at the moment of writing. Though, the source tarball was made available to download since last week. And, I’ve made the package into PPA for all current Ubuntu releases. According […]
Read MoreAfter 5 years since the last 20.03, the Code::Blocks IDE finally announced new 25.03 stable release few days ago. The new Code::Blocks 25.03 added support for MinGW64, MSYS2, MSVC17 and TDM compilers, C++ standards 23 and 26 (and their gnu extensions), as well as new -std=c23 and -std=gnu23 options on GCC13 and newer. It also […]
Read MoreVisual Studio Code 1.98, the February release of the IDE and code editor, was released! The release added 2 new AI models, GPT 4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet, to choose from when using Copilot, and allows to change the model for inline suggestions. The new release added notebook support in Copilot Edits (though experimental), removed […]
Read MoreApache NetBeans announced new 25 release a few days ago. Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu. NetBeans 25 was released after 2 release candidates. It updated the user interface with another batch of SVG icons for better HiDPI display support, and switched SVG loading routine in ImageUtilities from the […]
Read MoreLooking for a Cheat Engine like application to search and edit memory in Linux Desktop? Here’s a free open-source app work in process! It’s MemSed (MEMory Search and EDit), an open-source tool written in C programming language. If you have ever used Cheat Engine to scan & edit memory for computer games, you’ll find that […]
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