Fresh Update: IntelliJ IDEA 8.1.2

The IntelliJ IDEA 2025.1 release has landed! It delivers numerous refinements across the IDE to enhance your productivity, the quality of your code, and your overall comfort.

Starting with IntelliJ IDEA 2025.1, K2 mode, a new implementation of Kotlin support, will be enabled by default. This change is an important step in the ongoing effort to improve Kotlin support in the IDE.  While this transition brings many improvements and lays the foundation for a smoother…

We're excited to tell you about all the changes we've made in recent months to improve the Bazel plugin experience in IntelliJ IDEA. Every couple of weeks, we've been shipping updates to JetBrains Marketplace with focused fixes and features. Over time, these smaller updates have amounted to substant…

I'm Yan Zhulanow, and I lead the Kotlin Analysis API team. Last year, we made a series of announcements about Kotlin K2 mode in IntelliJ IDEA. Now, as K2 mode is about to become the default, I am thrilled to tell you more about everything we had to go through to make this release happen. Even bef…