The new Release 20.03 is out! You can download binaries for Windows and many major Linux distros here .
And please report it to the maintainer of your linux distribution that there is a new release of codeblocksYou can build codeblocks pretty easy: https://github.com/bluehazzard/codeblocks_sf/wiki/build_linux_mint_18if you find difficulties in this build instruction please report them...