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Modern development tools, especially IntelliJ IDEA, have such comprehensive debugging support that for virtually any niche use case, there is a specialized tool for the job. This can make it hard to know where to begin. If you are new to debugging tools and want the biggest return on your learning i…

We’ve released version 2026.2.2 of ReSharper, Rider, and .NET tools. You can install this update from inside the tools themselves, through the Toolbox App, or on our website. Here’s what’s new in this update. Rider 2026.2.2 AI Agent Setup widget We’ve recently added a wide range of featu…

We’ve all been there: you join a new project, and the first thing you ask for is the architecture diagram. You're handed a diagram that looks great, but after a week of debugging, you realize it’s six months out of date. Service A hasn't talked to Service B since the spring, and there’s a new messag…

We’ve just released IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.3. You can update to this version from inside the IDE, using the Toolbox App, or using snaps if you are a Ubuntu user. You can also download it from our website. The latest update brings the following improvements: When opening a recent project, the Ma…

Java 27 is here! Explore what’s new, how IntelliJ IDEA supports the latest Java features, and how the IDE itself benefits from JDK updates. Take a tour of the release :point_down:

Version 3.8 of the Toolbox App restores keyboard navigation in project and tool lists. On macOS, manual IDE updates stay available even when the system reports the installation directory as protected. IDE updates remain available on macOS macOS was sometimes incorrectly reporting an IDE instal…

Register for the Meetup On September 15, the Zephyr community is coming together for an in-person meetup at the JetBrains office in Amsterdam. The Zephyr Project is an open-source collaboration project hosted by the Linux Foundation. Its community brings together developers, users, silicon ven…

Find out how we teamed up with Microsoft to optimize startup times of ReSharper and JetBrains Rider with Microsoft Defender for Windows Developers.

Google's newest coding model, Gemini 3.8 Flash, is tuned for long jobs and comes with an incredible launch discount. Google shipped three Flash releases in six weeks, and the newest one is built for exactly the kind of work Junie does all day: multi-step engineering tasks that take real explorati…

Rust AI is moving from the experimentation stage toward more practical usage. We recently kicked off a new livestream series with the Rust Foundation to explore how Rust and AI are coming together in real-world applications. In the first session, our Developer Advocate Orhun Parmaksız spoke with Ste…

JetBrains IDEs have worked with WSL for many years, and over time, several ways of using it have emerged across our products. Depending on the entry point, the IDE could rely on a different underlying architecture, leading to a different experience. Starting with the 2026.2 release, there is one …