JetBrains Release Notes

IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.2 is now available.

You can update to this version from inside the IDE, using the Toolbox App, or by using snaps if you are a Ubuntu user. You can also download it from our website.

IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.2 brings the following refinements:

• Loading a remote OpenAPI specification no longer fails. [IJPL-63202]
• The order of terminal tabs is now preserved after reopening a project. [IJPL-212254]
• Checkboxes in Markdown now have improved contrast for better visibility. [IJPL-93391]
• The vertical scrollbar is once again displayed correctly in the Markdown preview pane. [IJPL-251259]
• Opening directories containing a large number of .md files no longer causes the IDE to freeze. [IJPL-93385] …

IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 is here!

This version brings updates designed to streamline your workflows and help you confidently adopt the latest innovations across the Java ecosystem. 

You can download this latest release from our website or update to it directly from inside the IDE, via the free Toolbox App, or using snap packages for Ubuntu.

Explore the What’s New page for a complete overview of the key new features, including detailed explanations and demos.

Explore the What’s New page

In addition, our developer advocates have recorded a walkthrough video covering all the release highlights. Check it out!

IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 adds day-one support for Java 27 and the latest Kotlin 2.4 language features, helping you stay up to date with the newest JVM technologies. This release also streamlines Spring development with improved database migration workflows and richer Spring Security insights, while making debugging more powerful with new logpoints and enhanced navigation from runtime output to source code.

Here are the key highlights of this release:

AI upgrades:

• Native GitHub Copilot integration
• Agent skills
• AI completion support for third-party providers

Productivity-enhancing features:

• Logpoints
• Dependency completion
• Early Gradle 10 support and migration assistance …

Welcome to an overview of the most important fixes and usability improvements in IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.

This release brings more than 1,300 bug fixes and usability improvements, and it addresses 140 freezes and other performance issues identified through internal diagnostics and user reports. Below is a recap of the most impactful updates.

Performance

Responsiveness remains a top priority. IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 includes fixes for more than 140 freezes and other performance issues.

When editing Markdown files, the IDE is now much more responsive, improving the experience of writing specifications for agents

Projects opened natively in WSL or Docker environments should stall less often. …

Hello everyone,

The new release of IntelliJ IDEA introduces a few new features for Scala developers that we’ve been working on for some time, as well as a number of fixes and improvements. We hope that they will make your Scala experience even better than before.

Build tool support

The logic behind sbt tasks in run/debug configurations has been reworked and now allows for a wider range of sbt commands. This enabled us to fix an issue where passing multiple parameters to an sbt command was either interpreted as a single parameter or caused the command name to be treated as an additional parameter. To work around this, developers had to run the task in the sbt shell instead. The new logic is much simpler: We no longer modify the user input. Instead, the input is expected to be a valid sbt command, e.g. tasks must be separated with semicolons, and we do not unquote the input.

Additionally, we’ve fixed a bug in the sbt shell where sync failed after waiting for user input. Also, previously, sbt import would not work if the .jvmopts file contained key-value pairs separated by a whitespace, such as --add-exports java.base/sun.nio.ch=ALL-UNNAMED – we’ve fixed this, too. …