IntelliJ IDEA

Two months ago, we announced the preview of Java and Kotlin by IntelliJ IDEA – an LSP-based extension that brings IntelliJ IDEA’s Java and Kotlin intelligence to third-party editors, starting with VS Code and its forks, such as Cursor. This was our first step towards bringing IntelliJ IDEA’s Java…

September gave us plenty to talk about, with major releases and thought-provoking reads. Java 27 arrived, and JetBrains opened a new chapter in agentic development with the announcement of JetBrains Air, a system of products for agentic software development, followed by the EAP of JetBrains Air in I…

AI can produce code. Organizations still have to produce software. Agentic development is changing how software gets made, but it hasn’t changed what it costs to be wrong. Six months ago, we began publicly experimenting with agentic development environments. Around the same time, we introduced Je…

Java 27 is here! Explore what’s new, how IntelliJ IDEA supports the latest Java features, and how the IDE itself benefits from JDK updates. Take a tour of the release :point_down:

The Grails plugin for IntelliJ IDEA (which provides framework-aware coding assistance, GSP tooling, and GORM integration) has moved to the Apache Grails project. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), which already stewards the Grails framework, now owns the plugin's source code, which lives in its n…

July gave the tech world plenty to talk about, from fresh releases and useful tutorials to Kotlin updates, AI experiments, and new ideas across the wider ecosystem. We packed the best of it into one issue, so you can skip scrolling and get straight to the good stuff. To top it all off, Donald Raab j…

It’s no secret that agentic development is changing how developers build software. As agents take on more and more of the implementation work, developers spend less and less time manually editing code.  For this manual work, they might only need a basic, narrow set of features that IDEs prov…

Scala Plugin 2026.2 is out! What's New: - Support for BSP projects in WSL and Docker - Command completion - Support for interleaving parameter clauses - Support for dependent parameter types in the same clause - Better support for match types

Welcome back to another edition of Java Annotated Monthly! As always, we've rounded up the best reads from across the ecosystem so you don't have to go hunting yourself. This month's lineup spans the usual favorites: fresh finds from the Java and Kotlin worlds, a healthy dose of AI developments w…

Starting from IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2, JetBrains will sunset Kotlin Notebook as a product and will no longer maintain it.

Connect your IDE to your LinkedIn profile and showcase your JetBrains IDE expertise based on real tool usage.

A fresh edition of Java Annotated Monthly has landed! The world of software development keeps moving at full speed, and this month's selection helps you keep up without drowning in tabs. Inside, you'll find hand-picked articles, podcasts, videos, and thought-provoking reads covering Java, Kotlin,…