Just over a year ago, we announced the launch of paid plugins on the JetBrains Marketplace. Today we want to highlight some of the major updates we’ve made to paid plugin functionality on the Marketplace and in our IDEs during the first year of the Marketplace’s operation.

TL;DR We are going to use organizations in search instead of the vendor field from the plugin descriptor. Several weeks ago we introduced Organizations. One of the reasons we implemented them was to simplify plugin search for end users. From now on, we are going to use organizations in the search index instead of the vendor field from the plugin descriptor. (more…)

TL;DR We have added the ability to consolidate authors and their plugins in an Organization in Marketplace. There are almost 5,000 plugins in our Plugin repository, including over 20 paid plugins. These plugins are created by both individual users and companies. To increase the credibility of plugins, simplify the search process for end-users, and facilitate the support of plugins, we’ve added a new entity to the Marketplace called "Organization". An organization comprises authors and their plugins. It provides users with information such as the organization’s website, email, and ad

The recording of our January 16 webinar, How We Built Comma, the Raku IDE, on the IntelliJ Platform featuring Jonathan Worthington, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. This webinar tells the story of how Edument built an IDE for the Raku programming language using the IntelliJ Platform. Building an IDE from scratch would have been prohibitively expensive. By contrast, building on the IntelliJ Platform meant starting from a mature base, getting a great deal of generic IDE functionality for free, and therefore being able to f

JetBrains Account and sales-related applications will have 3 hours of scheduled downtime on January 19, 2020, starting at 9 am CET. Since Marketplace has integrations with these services, the following functionality will not be available during this period: Uploading new plugins and new versions of the plugins Editing plugins information Buying paid plugins Showing sales information for paid plugins authors In addition, it will not be possible to verify acceptance of the license agreement, so users of plugins.jetbrains.com will see a banner with a link to the agreement and it will

We are introducing a JetBrains Platform Slack to help the JetBrains plugin development community keep in touch. This Slack is NOT an official support channel. It is a place where the community hang out along with some members of the JetBrains team (:jetbrains: icon .) For official support, please use the support channels, where messages are also persisted. JetBrains Platform Slack aims to be an inclusive space that is committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, ability, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and religi

We would like you to be informed that the login/password authentication method previously available in the https://plugins.jetbrains.com API has been replaced with token-based authentication. This will help improve the security of your plugins. We ask that you switch to the new auth method as soon as possible. The JetBrains Hub authentication policies have changed as we’ve introduced mandatory two-factor authentication. For this reason, the login/password option for publishing your plugins to https://plugins.jetbrains.com via the API will stop working on August 26, 2019. If you are usin

Last September, we announced the start of the JetBrains Marketplace Early Access Program, and we are very grateful to the 100+ individual plugin developers and companies who participated in this EAP and shared their feedback with the Marketplace team. It was a fantastic journey for all of us, and it definitely proved that we have a community of plugin developers for JetBrains tools who are truly awesome! JetBrains Marketplace platform is an evolutionary new step for the plugins repository which turns it into a marketplace for third-party plugin developers to sell their plugins and take adva

In the latest EAP build of IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2 we’ve extracted Java functionality into a separate plugin. This separates the Java implementation from the “platform” part of IntelliJ IDEA and introduces some flexibility for the future. For example, we could include Java functionality as a plugin to other products, and other plugins such as Gradle can now take optional dependencies on Java, and still work if Java isn’t available. The new plugin is not visible in Settings | Plugins and cannot be switched off, so there should be no impact on end users. However, if you’re writing a plugin for I

Beginning with the 2019.1 release, Custom UI Themes can be provided by 3rd party authors to customize the whole Look and Feel of the IDE. Customization is done by packaging a Theme descriptor file (JSON format) as a plugin. Most themes will change the colors of the UI, but replacing icons, changing the appearance of borders, and bundling editor schemes are also possible. By the way, the bundled “ High contrast” theme uses the same mechanism. After uploading the Custom UI Theme plugin to the JetBrains Plugin Repository (plugins.jetbrains.com), it can easily be installed right from the

We would like to inform all the ReSharper Platform plugin developers that the ReSharper gallery server is being retired and will be soon turned off. All the plugins from the ReSharper gallery will be migrated to the JetBrains Marketplace. All new plugins and plugin updates should be uploaded to there after the migration is finished. The migration will be performed on January 30th, 2019. As a result of this change, any existing NuGet API keys will no longer be valid. A new token must be obtained from JetBrains Hub as described in the documentation. Also, you need login at JetBrains Marke

Since we started development on IDEA, every nightly build of each IntelliJ-based IDE was tagged in the intellij-community repository on GitHub. After 18 years of development and having 10 products, we now have more than 68,000 tags in the repository! This many tags causes performance issues with git, in particular, every git fetch is very slow. To improve the experience of working with the intellij-community repository, both for us and for our contributors, we have removed these tags. We're currently deciding on whether they are needed on GitHub and what our tagging strategy will be going f