IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3 Early Access Program Is Open!

Maria Kosukhina

We’re kicking off the next development cycle and inviting you to join it.

The Early Access Program (EAP) for IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3 is now open, offering an early look at the new features and improvements we’re working on. By evaluating new features and sharing constructive feedback, you help us provide you with powerful, reliable tooling for professional development.

As always, EAP builds are free to use and can be installed side by side with your stable IDE version. You can get EAP builds from the Toolbox App, download them from the website, or use snaps for Ubuntu.

Download IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3 EAP

Please note that EAP builds are not fully tested and might be unstable, as the version is still a work in progress. Please keep this in mind when using them.

In this post, we’d like to share a glimpse of what’s in our planning dashboards for the upcoming release. The list below is neither final nor exhaustive, but it’s meant to show the direction we’re heading.

Single distribution 

In 2025.3, IntelliJ IDEA will move to unified distribution, and several important changes related will appear during the EAP cycle. These include more features becoming available without subscription, such as wizards, basic highlighting for JavaScript, SQL, JPQL, template engines markup, and support database schema exploration. A detailed list of features going free will be published closer to the release.

Also there will be no IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition EAP builds available in the Toolbox App or from the IntelliJ Platform Gradle plugin. Please use the EAP builds of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate instead. More information about Gradle builds will be published later on platform.jetbrains.com.

Technology updates 

We’re continuing our effort to support the latest technologies you may use in your projects. This release brings full support for Java 25, Spring Boot 4, JUnit 6, all expected to be released within the next few months.

Spring 

In addition to supporting new features introduced for Spring 7, we’re working on significantly improving Spring Data JDBC support and extending the capabilities of the Spring Debugger introduced in v2025.2.

Kotlin

Kotlin support in the IDE continues to improve, with enhancements to code completion and overall quality in K2 mode. In addition to support for Spring 7, the Kotlin Routing DSL is getting better IDE assistance, along with various quality-of-life improvements for Spring development.

For Kotlin Notebook, we’re also improving stability and adding more improvements, like support for database integration – one of the most common scenarios in server-side development.

Kubernetes support

Starting with 2025.3, we’re improving the experience of working with Kubernetes YAML files. We’re aiming to enable inlay quick actions in the editor for faster port forwarding, resource status updates, current context selection, and easier access to secrets.

User experience

In v2025.3, IntelliJ IDEA is getting a visual upgrade – the new Islands theme. Based on the feedback we’ve collected and our experiments in the previous release cycle, we’re now looking into making it the new default. We are going to share more details about the new theme soon.

Meanwhile, you can try the Islands theme in this EAP build by enabling it in Settings | Appearance & Behavior | Appearance | Theme.

Another notable change we’re working on is the new Welcome screen that takes you straight into the IDE, with no extra dialog windows or additional clicks.

We’re also working on improving how the IDE communicates with you while project indexes are still being built. This includes a clearer overview of background tasks and more transparent, predictable progress indicators so you can stay focused on your code with fewer distractions.

Remote development

Following the improvements introduced in the previous release to refine the remote development experience, we’re continuing in the same direction. In v2025.3, we plan to enable smoother typing for more languages including CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and shell scripts. Additionally, the launch experience is being revamped to accelerate startup and make it more seamless.

Terminal

In v2025.3, we’re bringing AI support to the terminal, starting with inline completion as the first step.

Stability

A large portion of our team’s workload is dedicated to maintaining the quality and stability of the IDE. We’ll communicate those improvements in a dedicated What’s Fixed post, like we did for the previous release.

For the full list of fixes and improvements already included in the first 2025.3 EAP build, please refer to the release notes.

Share your feedback

Take part in the Early Access Program by trying out the EAP builds and sharing your feedback with us. You can get in touch with us on X, BlueSky or LinkedIn, or leave a comment below. If you come across a bug or something that doesn’t work as expected, please report it via our issue tracker.

Happy developing!

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