News and announcements
OCIDE 4.7.0 released + enter in maintainance mode
Written for OpenCobolIDE by ColinDuquesnoy on 2016-01-26
This is a quite big release. We fixed about 29 bugs reported by our users and implemented about 20 new features. See the detailed changelog here: https:/
Starting from this version, OpenCobolIDE has entered in maintainance mode. No new features will be accepted, only bug fixes.
The next major version of OpenCobolIDE will be HackEdit , a brand new project that will replace OCIDE when it is ready (currently in alpha).
Link to hackedit: https:/
Link to the cobol plugins for hackedit: https:/
HackEdit 1.0 ALPHA 1 released
Written for OpenCobolIDE by ColinDuquesnoy on 2015-11-10
The first public **alpha** version of HackEdit has been released on PyPi: https:/
HackEdit is meant to be the successor of OpenCobolIDE. At the moment, there is no documentation and no installers. All those will come with future releases.
You can install it with pip:
sudo pip3 install hackedit hackedit-cobol
Read the full install instruction specific to your platform in the readme: https:/
Report any issues you encounter on the issue tracker: https:/
You can also discuss about HackEdit on Gitter: https:/
Regarding OpenCobolIDE's future. There will be a new version soon with many new features. Afterwards, OCIDE will enter in maintainance (bug fixes only or of new features introduced in pyqode.cobol). It will be maintained untill HackEdit 1.0 final is ready.
OpenCobolIDE 4.6.2 released!
Written for OpenCobolIDE by ColinDuquesnoy on 2015-06-07
This release brings many improvements to the windows installer: the installer and our binaries are now digitally signed and the bundled compiler has been updated from OpenCobol 1.1 to GnuCobol 1.1 (see the list of differences here: http://
On other platforms this is mainly a bug fix release. Worth to note that the installation of desktop file on linux is now fixed and that the name of the executable has been changed to lowercase (opencobolide instead of OpenCobolIDE).
Updated .
OpenCobolIDE 4.5 released and PPA packages back!
Written for OpenCobolIDE by ColinDuquesnoy on 2015-05-01
This release add a gui for choosing the EOL convention and add a new code completion filter based on subsequence matching. The dark theme has been refined and ppa packages made their way back!
To install OpenCobolIDE on ubuntu (or any spin-offs), just run:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:colin-
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3-
OpenCobolIDE 4.3.0 released
Written for OpenCobolIDE by ColinDuquesnoy on 2015-01-09
The new version of OpenCobolIDE has just been released.
In this version we added support for dbpre (SQL Cobol) on Linux.
We also added a way for the windows users to choose a different GnuCobol build (e.g. kiska's builds are now working with the IDE and you can finally get your hands on GnuCobol 2.0)
