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We want to give you an update regarding the status of the JavaFX runtime and JCEF in the IntelliJ Platform. TL;DR Starting with version 2020.2 of the IDE, which will be released at the end of July 2020, we are no longer bundling JavaFX with the default JetBrains Runtime. As an alternative to these A…

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…

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 …

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…

When building an IntelliJ based IDE, we've historically packed class files from implementation modules into a single big JAR. For example, for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate this was idea.jar. However most of the classes in that JAR were IntelliJ Platform classes which are included in all IntelliJ-based IDE…

As our plugin ecosystem grows, we want to give developers the same experience they have come to expect from our IDEs. Today we are happy to announce the integration of the Plugin Verifier tool for the Plugins Repository. This will allow you to check the binary compatibility between the IntelliJ IDEA…

Historically, all libraries used for building IntelliJ have been stored, as JAR files, directly in the IntelliJ git repositories. This approach has several downsides, such as increasing the size of the git repo whenever we need to update to a new version. Also, who wants to manually manage dependenc…