Just one month ago, we released Jetpack Compose for Desktop Milestone 1, the first public iteration of our modern declarative UI framework. We were delighted about how the Kotlin community has embraced Compose for Desktop. It was awe-inspiring to see people bring their Android apps to the desktop, re-implement the user interfaces of famous applications, and bring entirely new experiences to life with Compose for Desktop. Visit the Compose for Desktop landing page Since then, we have been hard at work to bring you the next version. Today we’re publishing Compose for Desktop Milestone 2, dedica

Today, we are excited to present the first milestone release of Jetpack Compose for Desktop, a modern UI framework for Kotlin that makes building performant and beautiful user interfaces easy and enjoyable. We invite you to take this technology preview out for a test drive, and we eagerly await your feedback! Visit the Compose for Desktop landing page Delightful desktop UI development Compose for Desktop provides a declarative and reactive approach to creating user interfaces with Kotlin, with an API inspired by other modern frameworks like React and Flutter. At its core, Compose for Desktop

With more than 4,000 available plugins, the Plugins Repository is able to deliver a variety of third-party plugins that can extend your JetBrains product on demand. There are plugins to bring you everything from additional languages and new technology support to cloud integrations, to themes, learning shortcuts, and even a Nyan Cat progress bar. Plugins for pretty much all the JetBrains tools including, but not limited to, all the IntelliJ–based IDEs, TeamCity, and .NET tools. Today we want to introduce to you the brand-new JetBrains Marketplace platform, a new evolutionary step for the Plugi

GitHub introduced a change last week that drops support for weak cryptographic keys. This has resulted in connectivity issues for some users who are connecting to GitHub using SSH and the built-in client SSH Executable. To rehash, there are two ways to work with Git and SSH when using any of the IntelliJ-based products: Using Built-in SSH client Using Native SSH client This setting is configured under Version Control | Git | SSH executable: It is only when you use the built-in client that this causes issues with the recent changes with GitHub. This issue has already been fixe

Come watch JetBrains CTO, Dmitry Jemerov, build an IntelliJ IDEA plugin from scratch and discuss the ins and outs of plugin development. If you would like to get a head start, you can review a recent post on the IntelliJ IDEA blog as a primer for this webinar with tips and a link to 200+ open source plugins as examples. There will be opportunities throughout the webinar to ask questions. This free webinar will take place Thursday, November 29th from 19:00 - 20:00 CET (Central European Time). Space is limited; please register now while you can! This is the second in our series of webinars foc