RStudio

What's new in this version:

New:
RStudio:
- Added a Source column that displays a package’s origin (if known) in RStudio’s Packages pane
- Provided an additional icon in RStudio’s Packages pane that links to a package’s external documentation (e.g., pkgdown website) when available
- Added functionality in the RStudio UI for changing the current repository/snapshot when using Posit Package Manager
- Added support for highlighing all SQL 2023 standard keywords in SQL documents in RStudio
- Added support for version 17 of the R graphics engine in RStudio
- Improved legibility of highlighted code when the RStudio debugger is active
- Added a user preference in RStudio to disable showing the splash screen at startup
- Added support for closing the RStudio splash screen when clicked with the mouse
- Increased RStudio’s default console buffer size to 10,000 lines
- Added functionality to bring an existing zoomed plot window to the foreground when clicking the Zoom button in the RStudio Desktop plots pane
- Provided an option in RStudio to stop ignoring update prompts when manually checking for updates after previously ignoring them
- Added Posit Product Documentation theme v7.0.0 with cookie consent, style updates, accessibility fixes, and dark theme improvements
- Introduced a new structure for RStudio release note entries
- Added an option (off by default) to zoom RStudio Desktop UI with Ctrl/Cmd + mouse wheel

Posit Workbench:
- Added support for custom certificate bundles for GitHub Copilot in RStudio
- Redesigned the Workbench homepage to provide a more efficient and intuitive user experience focused on projects
- Added Positron Pro and VS Code projects alongside RStudio Pro projects on the Workbench homepage
- Added a custom “Metadata” column in the RStudio Packages pane for sessions using Posit Package Manager
- Added support for enforcing the user limit specified by the Posit Workbench product license strictly
- Released Posit Product Documentation theme v7.0.1 with cookie consent, style updates, accessibility fixes, and dark theme improvements
- Enabled Positron Pro sessions by default in Workbench
- Added a step to back-up existing Positron Pro configuration files and install defaults during upgrade
- Added support for importing VS Code settings into Positron Pro in Workbench
- Added support for setting the default Connect server for the Publisher extension in Positron settings via the default-rsconnect-server option in rsession.conf
- Added a product check request in Workbench that notifies a Posit server when the service is set up and actively using a license. Control this with the server-product-check configuration setting (enabled by default: 1)`.
- Improved integration between RStudio and Posit Package Manager, including repository discovery, authentication, and feature visibility
- Added support for just-in-time provisioning of local groups for Proxied Auth, OpenID Connect, and SAML Authentication in Workbench
- Added a Run Script in a Workbench Job action (and matching command) in the editor toolbar for R and Python scripts in Positron and VS Code
- Organized the Workbench Jobs pane in Positron Pro and VS Code by script, adopt familiar VS Code UI conventions, and open scripts or virtual Job Details documents when clicked
- Added support for dismissing completed jobs individually from the Workbench Jobs pane in Positron Pro and VS Code. Provided Dismiss Completed Jobs and Restore Completed Jobs actions to hide/unhide all completed jobs (not persistent across sessions).
- Added a preview setting in Workbench to launch jobs from Positron Pro and VS Code with managed credentials (disabled by default)
- Provided a new Audit Database and get_historical_session Workbench API endpoint to retrieve data about ended sessions
- Made Prometheus metrics generally available and removed Preview status
- Removed pwb_session_durationfrom Prometheus Metrics and provided session start/end times via the new Workbench API endpoint get_historical_session
- Added Prometheus metrics for the Launcher component of Workbench
- Added version information for Positron Pro and Posit Workbench Code Server to the diagnostic report output
- Added Positron Pro version information to Positron Pro session output
- (vscode-server#202): Added GitHub Device Login URL as a default trusted domain for VS Code and Positron Pro sessions
- Enhanced the image selection in the Workbench New Session dialog to more clearly display and classify available images
- Added a switch in both Workbench homepages to toggle between the new and legacy versions and remember the user’s choice locally (see deprecation notice)
- Added the kapa.ai website widget to Posit Workbench documentation to answer questions about deploying, configuring, and using Workbench, Posit Connect, and Posit Package Manager.
- Added support for SLURM 24 and 25
- Improved diagnostic messages for communication errors between Workbench components
- Added version information for Positron Pro and Posit Workbench Code Server in diagnostic report output
- (vscode-server#164): Added support for controlling the location of VS Code session logs with the XDG_STATE_HOME environment variable
- (vscode-server#202): Added GitHub Device Login URL as a default trusted domain for VS Code and Positron Pro sessions
- Improved Positron Pro Admin and User Guide documentation
- Added AWS Load Balanced Reference Architecture
- Added support for RHEL 10

Fixed:
RStudio:
- Fixed an issue where RStudio would display a “Cannot reinitialise DataTable” error in RStudio when viewing data sets
- Fixed an issue where pkgdown websites built outside of the user directory could not be viewed from RStudio Server
- Fixed an issue where factors with more than 64 levels were displayed as though they were character vectors in RStudio
- Fixed an issue where the “Save As” dialog would not be visible when trying to save an older git revision of a file
- Fixed an issue where code indentation stopped working following code chunks containing only Quarto comments
- Fixed an issue where RStudio could hang when attempting to execute notebook chunks without a registered handler
- (Windows) Fixed an issue where “Use default 32bit / 64bit version of R” did not always use the default version of R set in the registry
- Fixed an issue where Copilot would hang by updating copilot-language-server
- Fixed an issue where an error message was not shown when the GitHub Copilot language server was missing
- Fixed an issue where GitHub Copilot was unaware of files already loaded in the source editor before Copilot starts
- Fixed an issue where RStudio’s Update Packages dialog could report packages were out-of-date for packages installed into multiple library paths
- Fixed an issue where attempting to attach or detach a package using the Packages pane could cause UI to become out-of-sync with actual package state
- Fixed an issue where GitHub Copilot’s status was incorrectly reported as an error in the Preferences dialog
- Fixed an issue where GitHub Copilot would not index project files when Copilot was started while the project is open
- Fixed an issue where the entire document was sent to GitHub Copilot after each edit instead of just the changes
- Fixed an issue where RStudio would send multiple didOpen messages to GitHub Copilot for the same file
-Fixed an issue where new R package projects did not inherit “Generate documentation with Roxygen” preference
- Fixed an issue where large character vectors were shown with an NaN size in the environment pane
- Fixed an issue where hitting the Escape key to close the “Update Available” dialog would exit RStudio
- Fixed an issue where the splash screen would not close and the RStudio main window would not show when starting RStudio Desktop
- Fixed an issue where the “Switch Focus between Source/Console” command would not work when the Visual Editor was active
- Fixed an issue in RStudio Desktop on Windows where creating multiple cursors using Alt + the mouse would move focus to the menu bar
- Fixed an issue where the label in readr-based text import dialog incorrectly showed “factors” instead of “factor levels”
- Fixed an issue where RStudio was not resolving xdg-open on the PATH, and was instead assuming it was located at /usr/bin/xdg-open
- Fixed an issue where error messages were not wrapped when presented in the Console
- Fixed an issue where the RStudio memory panel showed shared memory resources for certain cgroup configurations
- Fixed an issue where an error was shown when creating a new folder in the Choose Directory dialog
- Fixed an issue where NaN might display for the object sizes of large character vectors by using lobstr in RStudio to compute the size

Posit Workbench:
- Fixed an issue where Positron State was not being loaded on login
- Fixed an issue where Shiny for Python and other applications would regularly experience websocket failures in VS Code and Positron sessions
- Fixed an issue where Workbench Jobs launched from Positron and VS Code did not set the working directory correctly for scripts outside of the current workspace
- Fixed an issue where setting create-container-user=1 in rserver.conf option would not work when pam-use-password=1 was also set
- Fixed an issue where completed jobs in the Workbench Jobs pane in Positron and VS Code had a non-functional Stop Workbench Job action
- Fixed an issue where Workbench Jobs launched from Positron and VS Code were ignoring queues, resource limits, or resource profiles
- Fixed an issue where RS_SERVER_URL was not set correctly in Positron and VS Code sessions launched through the Workbench API
- Fixed an issue where Positron user settings were not being copied to user-data-dir
- Fixed an issue where RStudio memory limits were applied to shared processes for certain cgroup configurations
- Fixed an issue where local launcher resource limits did not work with pam_systemd
- Fixed an issue where a file descriptor would leak in RStudio Pro sessions when running on a system without cgroups v1 or v2
- Fixed an issue where rworkspaces would sometimes segfault when it exited (no user impact)
- Fixed an issue where VS Code/Positron Pro session browser state would not be loaded on sign in after being signed out due to inactivity
- Fixed an issue where image selection in the launcher UI was not behaving consistently
- Fixed an issue with locking users when using a license that has unlimited user count
-Fixed an issue where users were not gracefully returned to the homepage when clicking an invalid link
- Fixed an issue where the original CPU and Memory requests would not be remembered when resuming a session
- Fixed an issue where Positron user settings were not being copied to user-data-dir
- Fixed an issue where VS Code sessions were incorrectly labeled as "rstudio-pro" in the pwb_sessions_launched_total Prometheus metric
- Fixed an issue where the upload link in the Workbench diagnostics report was outdated
- Fixed an issue where sessions started in a Kubernetes cluster would fail to start if “.0000” was appended to the CPU request
- Fixed an issue that could cause spurious login failures in Workbench
-vscode-ext#268): Fixed an issue where the custom port warning for FastAPI application in VS Code and Positron Pro sessions would not be displayed in some cases
-vscode-ext#278): Fixed an issue where Python/R console activity in Positron Pro sessions was not detected when the browser was closed, which caused premature termination
-vscode-ext#310): Fixed an issue where disabling the extension marketplace in Positron Pro sessions would prevent built-in extensions from being installed
-vscode-ext#291): Fixed an issue where long-running Workbench Jobs launched from Positron and VS Code were displaying incorrect runtimes
-vscode-ext#345): Fixed an issue where the Workbench extension for VS Code and Positron had an overly noisy notification
- (vscode-server#171): Fixed an issue where VS Code and Positron Pro sessions would prompt the user when navigating to the Workbench homepage as though the Workbench URL were an external link