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Quarto open-source scientific and technical publishing system

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Quarto's VS Code extension moved to MIT and now ships fixes for Positron and citations.

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◆Current state
Quarto's VS Code extension ships roughly monthly with a focus on cell editing and Positron integration. After the MIT relicense in 1.137.0, 1.138.0 fixed how Python cells run in knitr documents in Positron, a language-server crash on bad YAML options, and Zotero failing to appear as a citation source. 1.139.0 in October raised the minimum VS Code version and fixed citation and YAML handling.
◆Where it's heading
Since the relicense, releases have been fixes rather than features, mostly around Positron and the visual editor's citation support. The extension increasingly defers language features to Positron when it provides them.
◆Prediction
Expect a 1.140 release within about a month with more Positron integration fixes; no new feature area is signalled.

◆Recent moves

  1. 24d ago

    Quarto VS Code extension 1.139.0: citation and YAML fixes

    The VS Code extension now requires VS Code 1.101, writes non-article citations as @misc and reads YAML merge keys like the Quarto CLI. Editor maintenance.

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  2. 2mo ago

    VS Code extension 1.138.0: Positron and Zotero citation fixes

    Version 1.138.0 fixes Positron behaviour for Python cells in knitr documents, a language-server crash on unparseable YAML options, and Zotero citation sync that failed silently since 1.136.0. It is a follow-up cleanup after the MIT relicense.

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  3. 2mo ago

    Quarto VS Code Extension v1.137.0: Relicensed to MIT

    ⚡ SPARK

    v1.137.0 relicenses the Quarto VS Code extension from its previous license to MIT — a strategic opening that removes legal friction for commercial bundling, embedding in other editors, and forking by third parties. For an extension with a public API already in place, this is the unlock for ecosystem growth.

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  4. 2mo ago

    VSC extension - v1.136.0

    v1.136.0 cuts memory overhead by only starting the language server in workspaces containing Quarto documents, fixes a math parse bug that broke the entire document outline on a single malformed equation, and adds a comment reflow command and smarter insert-cell behavior — meaningful quality-of-life for heavy .qmd authors.

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  5. 4mo ago

    VSC extension - v1.135.0

    v1.135.0 enables Julia code cell execution in Positron (matching Python and R parity) and fixes error toast flooding from cell failures — incremental but meaningful for data science teams using Julia alongside R and Python in the same .qmd document.

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  6. 4mo ago

    VSC extension - v1.134.0

    v1.134.0 deepens Positron integration with a unified Export command for .ipynb files, Render Document in the Notebook Editor, and a fix for IPython magic lines triggering false language-server diagnostics — reducing friction for users switching between .qmd and notebook workflows.

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