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Visual Studio Code 1.104, the August release of Microsoft’s code editor, was released few days ago.
The new release introduced Auto AI model selection support (Preview feature), allowing to automatically choose between Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-5, GPT-5 mini, and GPT-4.1 models, to get the optimal performance and reduce rate limits.
Go 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.
Visual 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.
JetBrains 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.
JetBrains 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.
For 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.
VS 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.
After 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 the themes manually.
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.
