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A blog post about open-sourcing the LSP API in IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 is live! 🧠 😮 Plot twist: the work is also planned for 2026.1.4 stable, so Android Studio support may arrive earlier than 2026.2. blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2026/…

Too many moving parts in modular @intellijidea plugins? New 🎥: building a plugin with content modules using the IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin. Covers optional content modules and gdemos CSS PSI, available for free since 2026.1. youtu.be/7fEdrktCYDo

⚡️Plugin Developer Conf is back on Nov 10, 2026, and we’re now looking for speakers! Whether your talk is about building and managing plugins, overcoming challenges, or sharing best practices — we’d love to hear from you. Find more details 👇 blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2026/…

Plugin authors: if you save through VFS and then hand a file path to a CLI, formatter, VCS command, or Java file API, check this. VFS may see fresh content before the disk does. If the next reader is outside VFS, flush first. blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2026/…

IntelliJ Platform plugin devs are getting "ErrorReportSink": an experimental API for automatic error and freeze reporting.

Stop asking users to paste tokens into plugin settings! I recorded a video about adding OAuth2 login to JetBrains IDE plugins: browser login, IDE callback, PKCE, PasswordSafe, and GitHub API calls 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8kLA…

Accessibility work in JetBrains IDEs continues in 2026: Windows Magnifier support, improved keyboard access to more IDE areas, and Orca support starting with 2026.2. If these features are part of your daily dev workflow, we’d value your feedback: blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2026/…

@hszanowski did something unbelievable, just compare how build.gradle.kts looks now and how it was before! Awesome job, thank you

Freeze dumps for everyone? Usually no. But when you build plugins for JetBrains IDEs, absolutely yes. If your plugin causes UI freezes for users, you need the right diagnostics to investigate and fix them. The easiest way to collect reports is the JetBrains Marketplace error reporter, but today it does not expose the freeze dumps it already collects. If you think plugin developers should have access to that data, please upvote this issue: youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/MP-8083/…

What’s new for plugin devs in Q1 2026? 👇 🚨 Updated plugin approval guidelines 🧩 Revamped “Build Plugins” page 🔧 Fresh tooling updates 📚 New resources to learn and level up blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2026/…

Android Studio finally gets embedded browser power 🚀 This is a big unlock for all Android developers and plugin authors! Embedded web UIs in Android Studio just got a lot more real 👉 tool windows, auth flows, onboarding, browser-powered plugin UX. Until now, Android Studio has been missing a capability that other JetBrains IDEs already have — JCEF, the embedded web browser. platform.jetbrains.com/t/experimental…

If you build plugins for JetBrains IDEs, open this before making another icon manually. It collects practical icon generators for: 👉 IntelliJ-style letter icons 👉 icon modifiers 👉 badge composition for SVGs Useful, specific, and easy to apply 👇 platform.jetbrains.com/t/icons-icons-…

He did this again! 🫣

Many developers care deeply about IDE performance, so we turned an internal post by @knischt into a public one. It covers the architecture behind UI freezes in IntelliJ-based IDEs, what it took to move more work off the UI thread, and the results so far. blog.jetbrains.com/platform/2026/…

IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin 2.14.0 is not a casual upgrade. I’m live tonight at 9 PM CEST / 3 PM EDT on Twitch, X, and YouTube to break down the release, the breaking changes, and the features that actually matter. I’ll also update the Plugin Template live so we can see what the new setup really looks like. If you build plugins for JetBrains IDEs, come watch before this release watches you. 👉 Twitch: twitch.tv/hszanowski 👉 YouTube: @hszanowski" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@hszanowski 👉 X: x.com/hszanowski

RT @hszanowski: VS Code has the extension. @JetBrains IDEs are next. On Friday, March 27, at 2 PM CET / 9 AM ET, I’m building a JetBrains…

New YouTube video: Plugin Model v2 for IntelliJ Platform. Better reload, clarified dependencies, isolated architecture — and a prerequisite for Remote Development support. A plugin is now split into explicit content modules, each with its own descriptor, dependencies, and classloader. See an overview of the model in action. 🎥 youtu.be/Kfsu0ITcvs0

🎥 Missed our livestream on UI freezes in JetBrains IDE plugins? In this livestream recording, we cover what causes freezes (yes, plugins too), how to spot them using thread dumps, and practical ways to fix them. Watch it here 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=Rrddst…

IntelliJ Platform News: If your plugin reacts to lots of file events, this VFS update is worth knowing about. I break down what changed, what the old EDT-coupled behavior was, and what the new background-capable listener APIs actually give you. youtube.com/shorts/4EfWxdn… Curious if you’d migrate your listeners.

Ok, I'm in: if you build a plugin for JetBrains IDEs, I can review your Gradle build script. I'll verify if caching works, introduce all those good practices, and even migrate it out of Groovy. Drop me your GitHub repo, and I'll pick it up next week on the live stream! On me!