# \#release

**URL:** https://discourse.psychopy.org/tag/release/14.md

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## [🧠 New PsychoPy Beta Release: 2025.2.1](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-psychopy-beta-release-2025-2-1/45865)

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**Author:** [@Becca](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/Becca)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 22, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-psychopy-beta-release-2025-2-1/45865 "2025-10-22T13:05:43Z")

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We’ve just released the latest PsychoPy beta (v2025.2.1)! :tada: This update includes several important bug fixes and general improvements to performance. :backhand\_index\_pointing\_right: Full changelog and download: …

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## [V 2023.1.x use?](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/v-2023-1-x-use/33507)

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**Author:** [@mqadri](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/mqadri)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 24, 2023, 9:54am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/v-2023-1-x-use/33507 "2023-02-24T09:54:09Z")

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I told a colleague to download psychopy and found that they did not have the latest 2023.1.0 version, because it’s not the one accessible from https://www.psychopy.org/download.html. Is this version not meant to be broad…

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## [How to end routine only if a key pressed for a certain duration?](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/how-to-end-routine-only-if-a-key-pressed-for-a-certain-duration/33501)

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**Author:** [@emregurbuz](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/emregurbuz)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 24, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/how-to-end-routine-only-if-a-key-pressed-for-a-certain-duration/33501 "2023-02-24T01:24:59Z")

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Hi everyone! Description of the problem: I want to prepare an experiment in which a specific key should be pressed long enough to continue to the following routine. I could build the experiment on PsychoPy however I am …

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## [PsychoPy Release 2022.1](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/psychopy-release-2022-1/27709)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 1, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/psychopy-release-2022-1/27709 "2022-03-01T23:56:29Z")

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Hi there, just to let you know, for those that haven’t already noticed… PsychoPy/JS 2022.1.1 is now available from all the usual locations. Highlights of this new release: Improved interface for searching, syncing and …

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## [PsychoPy 2021.1.0 released](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/psychopy-2021-1-0-released/20671)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 21\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/psychopy-2021-1-0-released/20671 "2021-09-22T11:29:57Z")

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Brings lots of fixes, better layout of component params and a new Button Component to make it easy to execute callback code from a text button Do be careful, as always with a .0 release (i.e 1st release in a new series)…

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## [Version 2021.2.3 is online, and it's really a good time to upgrade!](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/version-2021-2-3-is-online-and-its-really-a-good-time-to-upgrade/24539)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 13, 2021, 10:34am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/version-2021-2-3-is-online-and-its-really-a-good-time-to-upgrade/24539 "2021-08-13T10:34:15Z")

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Just to let you know that 2021.2.3 is released. Notable fixes: that annoying thing on macOS where the app appears to freeze until you click on it in the dock an issue with useVersion that meant not all of the old code …

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## [New release 2020.2.5](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-2020-2-5/17521)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 25, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-2020-2-5/17521 "2020-10-25T17:49:50Z")

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PsychoPy 2020.2.5 is now out. This is a bug-fix release with a lot of fixes. Thanks so much to our new team of developers, as well as the wonderful volunteer contributors, that are squashing bugs faster than ever! https…

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## [Release 2020.2.3 fixing launch issues for macOS Catalina/Mojave](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/release-2020-2-3-fixing-launch-issues-for-macos-catalina-mojave/15886)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [August 28, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/release-2020-2-3-fixing-launch-issues-for-macos-catalina-mojave/15886 "2020-08-28T12:46:59Z")

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Hi folks, I’ve spent most of this week battling with Apple’s “Gatekeeper”. This used to be a relatively minor annoyance - it used to complain that we weren’t a known developer so you’d have to agree to the app running. T…

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## [PsychoPy 2020.2.1 released](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/psychopy-2020-2-1-released/15560)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 27\
**Last updated:** [August 22, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/psychopy-2020-2-1-released/15560 "2020-08-22T17:22:17Z")

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Hi there! This is a huge and exciting release, including (Beta release) editable textboxes (with unicode keyboard inputs) (Beta release) forms that can be used online a whole new (themable) look and feel including dar…

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## [New release 3.2.0](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-3-2-0/8931)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [June 4, 2020, 10:55am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-3-2-0/8931 "2020-06-04T10:55:35Z")

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Happy days!! PsychoPy 3.2.0 is out! https://github.com/psychopy/psychopy/releases As with all major releases you should check carefully that your experiment still runs as expected. In particular for this release check…

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## [PsychoPy 3.1.2 released](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/psychopy-3-1-2-released/7787)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 16, 2019, 9:35am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/psychopy-3-1-2-released/7787 "2019-05-16T09:35:01Z")

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Available now at http://www.psychopy.org/download.html Fixes several bugs caused by the new keyboard class, including bad stuttering of sounds

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## [PsychoPy 3.0.0 is officially released for general consumption!](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/psychopy-3-0-0-is-officially-released-for-general-consumption/6206)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [January 18, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/psychopy-3-0-0-is-officially-released-for-general-consumption/6206 "2019-01-18T18:23:49Z")

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PsychoPy 3 is officially released for general consumption! After many months of beta testing (and many versions that were badly broken in one way or other!) I’m delighted to announce the release of 3.0.0 This is the ve…

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## [Release 3.0.0b12 still beta but getting much better!](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/release-3-0-0b12-still-beta-but-getting-much-better/5976)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 29, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/release-3-0-0b12-still-beta-but-getting-much-better/5976 "2018-11-29T17:19:23Z")

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Hi folks! Just to let you know that I’ve just released the new beta version of PsychoPy3. It is still beta, so you should still be cautious, but I think we’re getting pretty close to a version 3.0.0 release! In particu…

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## [Keyboard release event- no response as a correct response](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/keyboard-release-event-no-response-as-a-correct-response/4560)

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**Author:** [@MartaCasales](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/MartaCasales)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 24, 2018, 11:54am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/keyboard-release-event-no-response-as-a-correct-response/4560 "2018-05-24T11:54:14Z")

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Hi everyone, I am working on a task, designed in Builder, in which on each trial participants are required to keep two keyboard keys pressed down (index finger on the ‘v’ and middle finger on the ‘b’), then they respond…

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## [New release 1.90.2](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-1-90-2/4548)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 21, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-1-90-2/4548 "2018-05-21T12:49:04Z")

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This fixes a few minor buglets in the 1.90.1 release. As usual, you can download from or do pip install -U psychopy if you have your own Python installation

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## [New Release: 1.90.0 supporting Python3!](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-1-90-0-supporting-python3/4151)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 18, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-1-90-0-supporting-python3/4151 "2018-03-18T21:54:11Z")

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It’s a very long time since our last major release but 1.90.0 is finally out! This was a very major refactor of a lot of code. It adds: compatibility with Python3 (not working for all hardware) better pip install psy…

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## [Recording home key release and key press duration](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/recording-home-key-release-and-key-press-duration/3500)

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**Author:** [@Strato\_Incendus](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/Strato_Incendus)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 23, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/recording-home-key-release-and-key-press-duration/3500 "2017-11-23T21:33:20Z")

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Hi everyone! Our group of Psychology Master students (using PsychoPy 1.85.2) is currently working on an experiment in which a response consisting of three keypresses in succession (V, B, and N) is supposed to trigger an…

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## [Bug-fix release 1.85.3](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/bug-fix-release-1-85-3/2927)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 25, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/bug-fix-release-1-85-3/2927 "2017-09-25T21:09:41Z")

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PsychoPy 1.85.3 has just been uploaded to the github releases page: https://github.com/psychopy/psychopy/releases This release fixes several bugs but it does also add 2 new dependencies. Usually we avoid adding anythin…

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## [New release: 1.85.2 now out](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-1-85-2-now-out/2688)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 13, 2017, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-1-85-2-now-out/2688 "2017-07-13T12:21:45Z")

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Versino 1.85.2 can now be downloaded here: https://github.com/psychopy/psychopy/releases This is a bug-fix release and I'm not aware of any reason that it should damage your existing (1.85.x) experiments but test care…

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## [New release: 1.84.2](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-1-84-2/1211)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [October 4, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-1-84-2/1211 "2016-10-04T12:25:40Z")

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Hi there, You can now download a new version https://github.com/psychopy/psychopy/releases/tag/1.84.2 fixing some bugs that were introduced in the 1.84 series. Mostly these were caused by code refactoring leading to Bu…

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## [New release: 1.84.1](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-1-84-1/1036)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 6, 2016, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-1-84-1/1036 "2016-09-06T12:21:30Z")

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NB Jon RECOMMENDS you “WATCH” the announcements category to get these announcements about PsychoPy (low traffic). Release now out: https://github.com/psychopy/psychopy/releases/tag/1.84.1 This is a bug-fix version …

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## [New release: 1.84.0](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-1-84-0/901)

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**Author:** [@jon](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jon)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 17, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/new-release-1-84-0/901 "2016-08-17T21:31:16Z")

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OK, so 1.84.0 is finally official released! :slight\_smile: https://github.com/psychopy/psychopy/releases/tag/v1.84.0 Do give it a go but do be wary; new releases in a series are always a little temperamental. Certai…
