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Kotlin 1.5.0-RC is available with all the features planned for 1.5.0 – check out the entire scope of the upcoming release! New language features, stdlib updates, an improved testing library, and many more changes are receiving a final polish. The only additional changes before the release will be fixes. Try the modern Kotlin APIs on your real-life projects with 1.5.0-RC and help us make the releas

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

Kotlin 1.5.0-M2 is the last milestone release for Kotlin 1.5.0, which is coming this spring. So this is the last chance to make sure that your projects will successfully work with Kotlin 1.5.0. Install 1.5.0-M2 If you migrate your projects now, you can save yourself time and energy in the future, when Kotlin 1.5.0 comes out, and you can help us provide urgent fixes before the release. For example,

Kotlin 1.4.30 is now available. This is the last 1.4 incremental release, so we have lots of new experimental features that we plan to make stable in 1.5.0. We would really appreciate it if you would try them and share your feedback with us. We hope you enjoy testing out all these new updates, and please let us know what you think. What's changed in this release: Language features and compiler T

We’re planning to add new language features in Kotlin 1.5, and you can already try them out in Kotlin 1.4.30: Stabilization of inline value classes Experimental support for JVM records Experimental support for sealed interfaces and other improvements for sealed classes To try these new features, you need to specify the 1.5 language version. The new release cadence means that Kotlin 1.5 is

(Updated) The new backend is Stable and is itching to be made the new default. We need each of you to start adopting it, testing it, and giving us feedback so we can give it a final polish, let's look at how you can start using it. What is IR backend? After the compiler frontend is done analyzing the code, the backend generates the executables. We have three backends: Kotlin/JVM, Kotlin/JS, and K

Kotlin 1.4.20 is here with new experimental features for you to try. Being open to community feedback is one of the Kotlin team’s basic principles, and we need your thoughts about the prototypes of the new features. Give them a try and share your feedback on Slack (get an invite here) or YouTrack. Here are some of the key highlights: Support for new JVM features, like string concatenation via in

In Kotlin 1.4, we’re adding new experimental ways for generating default methods in interfaces in the bytecode for the Java 8 target. Later, we’re going to be deprecating the @JvmDefault annotation in favor of generating all the method bodies in interfaces directly when the code is compiled in a special mode. Read more details of how it currently works and what will change, below. In Kotlin, you

Today we’re glad to present the last milestone preview of Kotlin 1.4 – 1.4-M3. In this post, we’ll guide you through the changes this preview brings to the Kotlin standard library. Other components are also getting updates in M3; we’ll cover them soon in another blog post with the release candidate version (1.4-RC), which will finalize the scope of Kotlin 1.4. The standard library changes in 1.4-