IntelliJ IDEA

We’re continuing to modernize our IDEs, and in this update we’ve refreshed something you interact with constantly – the editor. These changes are designed to provide improved comfort, a cleaner look, and a more enjoyable experience during the hours you spend coding. We want to make the editor easier…

February is a strange little month. Short, quiet, and typically uneventful. There are fewer distractions and fewer launches, which makes it the ideal time to slow down and take a look at what is actually driving the tech world at the moment. This issue leans into that calm, with Trisha Gee joinin…

We released Spring Debugger in May 2025 to bring more clarity to the “magic” behind Spring Boot – helping you see what’s really happening inside your running application. By the end of 2025, the plugin had reached more than 300,000 unique downloads and became a trusted tool within the developer comm…

You’re invited to IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2026 – a free online conference for developers working across the JVM ecosystem.

Happy New Year and welcome to the first Java Annotated Monthly of 2026! We hope this year brings fresh ideas, smarter ways to stay productive, and innovation that lasts.

IntelliJ IDEA is now a unified product! As we announced back in July, starting from this release (2025.3), there is one IntelliJ IDEA, replacing the separate IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition and IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate to keep things simple and convenient. All the functionality of the Community Edi…

The Islands theme is now the default look across JetBrains IDEs starting with version 2025.3.This update is more than a visual refresh. It’s our commitment to creating a soft, balanced environment designed to support focus and comfort throughout your workflow. We began introducing …

This month brings significant developments throughout the Java ecosystem. Java has begun announcing JEPs targeted for the upcoming release, while Spring has unveiled major updates with Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4. As always, we've curated the most interesting articles, videos, and podcas…

As the next step in the evolution of K2 mode, we are officially deprecating its predecessor, K1 mode.

In IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, JSpecify becomes the preferred nullability source. When it’s present on the classpath, the IDE automatically recognizes and even generates JSpecify annotations via quick-fixes and refactorings.

Spring’s AOT engine has been around since the Spring Native days, but Spring Data never really benefited from it – until now. Repository infrastructure is one of the most dynamic parts of the framework, and for years it relied heavily on proxies, reflection, and queries generated at runtime. That…

IntelliJ IDEA’s source code has been publicly available for more than 15 years, helping millions of developers learn, experiment, and contribute to the IDE, as well as build their own tools. Now, we're taking our commitment to open source a step further by making it even easier for the community to …