Releases

Kotlin 1.8.20 has been released! Highlights include: Kotlin K2 compiler updates, AutoCloseable interface and Base64 encoding in stdlib, new JVM incremental compilation enabled by default, new Kotlin/Wasm compiler backend. Learn more!

New experimental functions for JVM, Improved kotlin-reflect performance, New -Xdebug compiler option, and more.

Kotlin 1.7.20 has been released! Highlights include: K2 support for several new plugins; preview of the ..< operator for open-ended ranges; K/N memory manager enabled by default; inline classes with generic underlying types (experimental). Learn more!

Kotlin 1.7.0 unveils the Alpha version of the new Kotlin/JVM K2 compiler, stabilizes language features, and brings performance improvements for the JVM, JS, and Native platforms.

Kotlin 1.6.20 offers previews of future language features and brings performance improvements for the JVM, JS, and Native platforms.

Enjoy a better debugging experience, improved IDE performance, new editor inline hints for ranges and chain calls, and more improvements for Kotlin in IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3: A better debugging experience, including inline stack frames, and smart step into.IDE performance improvements, including faster declaration searches.New editor inline hints for ranges and chain calls.New refactorings and improved inspections and intentions.Other IDE improvements. Auto-update to this new release IntelliJ IDEA will give you the option to automatically update to the new release as soon as it is avail

Kotlin 1.6.0 is now officially released with Stable exhaustive whens, Kover, and new memory manager for Kotlin/Native!

Kotlin 1.5.30 includes many experimental language and standard library features that we are planning to release in Kotlin 1.6.0. Give them a try and share your feedback with us!

Enjoy improved performance, a better coroutines debugging experience, WSL 2 and Run Targets support, and more improvements for Kotlin in IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2: IDE performance improvements, including faster test file analysis and faster rename refactoringBetter debugging experience for the coroutine agentRemote development supportKotlin plugin in the IntelliJ IDEA repositoryOther IDE improvements (more…)

Kotlin continues to stay up to date with latest Java features such as dynamic invocations and to provide better interoperability with Java by adding support for Java’s Lombok and JSpecify. We are also continuing our work of making the standard library consistent across platforms, as well as investing in Gradle tooling and the new JS IR backend. Update to Kotlin 1.5.20 This blog post provides an overview of the updates in this release: Kotlin/JVM improvements, including string concatenation via invokedynamic and experimental support for calling Java’s Lombok-generated methods and JSpec

Kotlin 1.5.0 delivers stable language features, the new default JVM IR compiler, improvements to the standard and test libraries, and more.

The newest release of IntelliJ IDEA, version 2021.1, comes with the improved Kotlin plugin. Enjoy an improved developer experience with faster code completion and highlighting, change signatures with better IDE support, benefit from better debugging experience for evaluating properties, and more. Here is what you’ll get by installing the new plugin: Faster code completion and highlighting Evaluation of custom getters right in the Variables view Change Signature refactoring with better IDE support Code completion for type arguments Class diagrams for your Kotlin code Othe