News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Visual 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.
Python 3.14, the next major version of the popular programming language, released the third 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 developers to prepare their project for new Python version compatibility.
After 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 good on HiDPI/Retina screens.
Visual 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 editing format (GPT 4.1 and o4-mini) and Anthropic’s replace string tool (Claude Sonnet 3.7 and 3.5), that results significantly faster edits, especially in large files.
The 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 code editing session to accomplish that task.
image from visualstudio.com
GNU 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.
After 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.
Visual 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.
image from openai.com
Apache 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 Batik library to the much more lightweight JSVG library.
Looking 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 MemSed looks familiar, as it’s heavily inspired by the basic Cheat Engine workflow.
