The Early Access Program at JetBrains has been around since the early days. It provides free access to pre-release versions of our products, allowing you to evaluate new features, test issues that have been resolved, and more. It’s a great way for us to receive feedback and we’re always eternally grateful to all of our EAP users.
As of the next EAP releases of our IDEs and .NET tools (excluding Community editions), we’ll be requiring folks to use a JetBrains Account in order to be able to use these. The reasons for this are multiple:
Trials will soon require login. With the next release, w