RStudio for Mac

Posit Workbench

• (#7593): Added Azure Load Balanced Reference Architecture

Fixed

RStudio

• (#16819): Fixed an issue where Ctrl + F failed to activate Find dialog in Visual mode.
• (#16950): Fixed an issue where Air formatting was not applied when reformatting a code selection.
• (rstudio-pro#9882): Improved OpenSSL compatibility for RHEL 9 by building on RHEL 9.4 to ensure builds are linked against OpenSSL 3.0

Posit Workbench

• (rstudio-pro#9880): Fixed an issue where the system logs an error when the audited-jobs-private-key-path configuration is missing and audited jobs remain disabled.
• (rstudio-pro#9790): Fixed an issue in 2026.01 where users could not login if using the option auth-pam-sessions-use-password=1.
• (rstudio-workbench-vscode-ext#422): Fixed an issue where opening the home directory as a folder in Positron or VS Code caused many files to be created in the directory ~/.local/share/pwb/recent_projects that could affect the ability to login later.

Deprecated / Removed

RStudio

Posit Workbench

Dependencies

• Positron 2026.02.0: Positron Assistant has switched to using a native implementation of the GitHub Copilot completion engine. Users who are already logged into GitHub Copilot need to sign out and sign back in via the Accounts menu. See this discussion post for details.
• RHEL 9 linked against OpenSSL 3.0