Kotlin support is now available in BlueJ, one of the most established environments for teaching introductory object-oriented programming (OOP). This work is the result of a collaboration between JetBrains and the BlueJ team at King’s College London, including Professor Michael Kölling and Dr. Neil Brown, whose work has …

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Embedded software development comes with a unique set of pressures: strict safety and security standards, complex toolchains, and the constant challenge of catching defects as early as possible. Starting with CLion 2026.1.2, you can open SARIF findings from Parasoft C/C++test analyses for standards such as MISRA C/C++, …

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Hi everyone! May and June brought so much Kotlin news that I needed a little extra space for this roundup. Kotlin turned 15, Kotlin 2.4.0 arrived with new capabilities for developers on every platform, and I found plenty of ways to learn, experiment, build AI agents and AI-powered applications, and explore useful …

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Born out of a deep partnership between JetBrains and GitHub, this integration makes Copilot native in the agent picker and delivers a more stable agent experience directly in the IDE you already use every day. From ACP Registry to native experience Copilot was previously accessible via the ACP Registry, but this …

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We’re excited to welcome Windows developers to JetBrains Air! Download for x64 / Download for ARM64 Since we launched the JetBrains Air, Windows support has been one of the most requested updates from the developer community. We heard that feedback and worked hard to bring Air to Windows. Air is built for …

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What’s at stake with every commit Security incidents in financial services are both frequent and costly. The average data breach in the financial industry cost USD 6.08 million in 2024. That includes incident response, customer notification, legal work, and reputational damage, but it doesn’t include the months of …

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Starting from IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2, JetBrains will sunset Kotlin Notebook as a product and will no longer maintain it. The plugin will remain available on an open-source model so the community can continue its development. Below, we explain why we’re making this change, how it affects current Kotlin Notebook users, …

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Language Server Protocol (LSP) solves a real problem: before, each IDE or editor had to implement support for a specific language separately. A language server puts that work in one place and exposes it through a common protocol, providing completion, formatting, documentation, and related features. That common …

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Modern development has shifted one old IDE paradigm significantly: Now, not only is it possible that a project is not hosted on the same physical or remote machine as your IDE instance, it could even be that both share the same host but are separated from one another inside isolated environments. If you are a […] Link …

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When news broke that SpaceX would acquire Cursor’s parent company, Anysphere, in a reported $60 billion all-stock deal, most of the discussion centered around AI. This was another milestone and enormous valuation, and signal that AI is still bringing enormous disruption. Those reactions aren’t wrong but they can …

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JetBrains AI supports multiple coding agents, including Junie, Codex, Claude Agent, and any ACP-compatible agent you bring yourself. Previously, AI users in JetBrains IDEs started in Chat mode and had to choose an agent themselves. As models became more advanced, agents became more capable and their adoption grew. We …

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Starting with the Toolbox App 3.6 Early Access Program (EAP), SSH connections to remote environments use the JetBrains Daemon (jetbrainsd) by default. We’re making this change available in the EAP first because jetbrainsd is becoming the shared background service for JetBrains tools. Moving SSH there helps us validate …

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Here’s a case worth pondering: your app freezes for ten seconds, and you ask an AI agent what’s wrong. What does it actually do? For a long time the honest answer was: it rummages through your code and takes a wild guess. A snapshot taken by a profiler tool is runtime evidence. It knows exactly […] Link to article: …

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This is a guest post by Mateusz Maćkowski and Marek Grzelak, co-maintainers of cot.rs and speakers at Rustikon 2026. You can watch their full talk here. In the very beginning, all we wanted to do was build a JSON API. After doing that a few times in Rust, we noticed a recurring pattern. Every new […] Link to article: …

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Imagine there’s a stranger out there who has nothing but API access to your chatbot. They are interested in knowing whether a specific patient, employee, or customer appears in the data you trained it on. Without breaching the database or stealing backups, this person can theoretically figure out this information with …

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A while ago at PyCon US 2026, I had the pleasure of listening to the Python Steering Council give updates about new features that are being added in Python 3.15. One that stood out was explicit lazy imports (via PEP 810), which defer module loading until first use. I am curious to see how this […] Link to article: …

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Amper 0.11.0 is out, and you will notice a shift in the product branding immediately. If you missed the KotlinConf keynote (watch the recording), here’s the headline: Amper has evolved into the Kotlin Toolchain and is now Alpha! This release brings that transition to life, alongside the ability to publish JVM …

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YouTrack 2026.2 introduces customer groups in YouTrack Helpdesk, helping B2B support teams tailor the support experience to different customers. Teams can manage tickets by company, team, or organization, maintain different SLAs, assign support agents to specific groups, and apply customer-specific rules. Multiple …

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