Geany 0.18 is the last version on UBUNTU's repository .
I post the output of "LANG=C geany --verbose":

luca@luca-laptop:~$ LANG=C geany --verbose
** INFO: Geany 0.18, GTK+ 2.20.1, GLib 2.24.1
** INFO: /home/luca/input_37.dat : None (UTF-8)
** INFO: /home/luca/input_39.dat : None (UTF-8)
** INFO: /home/luca/input_5.dat : None (UTF-8)
** INFO: /media/dati/tesi_luca/tesi_luca.tex : LaTeX (UTF-8)
** INFO: Loaded /usr/share/geany//latex.tags (LaTeX), 1341 tag(s).
** INFO: /media/dati/csigma/cs_6b.f : F77 (UTF-8)