Updating Positron

By default, Positron automatically checks for updates from our channel of monthly releases.

You can opt out of this automatic checking by changing the update.mode setting to "none"; see our page on privacy and data collection for more details.

Daily builds

For users who are interested in trying out new features at a faster cadence, we also provide a channel of daily builds; you can opt in to these builds by changing the update.positron.channel setting to "dailies".

If you change the setting to "dailies", what can you expect?

  • You will have an updated version of Positron available most days (instead of once a month). You’ll see a notification in the bottom left prompting you to restart.
  • These daily builds only go through automated testing before being made available, not our full QA process. If you consider yourself an adventurous early adopter, this may be a good fit for you!
  • If some daily build happens to be entirely broken for you, the best step for you to take is to close Positron and install the latest monthly release.

Windows package managers

We don’t yet officially maintain Positron on Windows package managers, but you can install the latest version of Positron via scoop or winget thanks to the efforts of community maintainers.

Scoop Package Manager

# Add the bucket that has Positron (only need to do this once)
scoop bucket add r-bucket https://github.com/cderv/r-bucket.git

# install 
scoop install positron

# update
scoop update positron

This bucket is managed by Christophe Dervieux.

Winget Package Manager

# install
winget install --id Posit.Positron

# upgrade 
winget upgrade --id Posit.Positron

This is community maintained, via automated PR to the central manifest repository.