What's New in IntelliJ IDEA

Welcome to the IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 release overview. This version brings powerful updates to help you stay productive, write better code, and adopt the latest technologies with confidence. The highlights of this release include: For this release, we’re changing how we present the updates. Instead of listing every tweak and fix, this page now highlights only the most impactful new features. Users rarely scroll past the third screen. By focusing on what matters most, we hope to make it easier for you to catch the updates that actually impact your work. A separate What’s Fixed post will follow, detailing stability and quality improvements across core areas such as remote development, performance, user experience, and long-standing technical debt. Make sure to upgrade to the latest versions of JetBrains AI Assistant (automatically updated with IntelliJ IDEA) and Junie, the JetBrains AI coding agent (go to Settings | Plugins to install Junie). They focus on model flexibility, smarter context management, and MCP support, so you can tailor your AI setup to the specific needs of your project. Better performance and new capabilities for Junie and AI Assistant: New ways to provide more precise context to the AI: Support for the MCP in Junie and IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2: All JetBrains AI features are available for free, with unlimited code completion, powerful local workflows, and limited cloud-based features. Try it now. Be among the first to adopt the newest tech with IntelliJ IDEA’s support for both final and preview features of Java 25 – the next long-term support (LTS) release. As many developers are expected to migrate from Java 11, 17, or 21, we're making sure the IDE is ready for the transition in advance. In addition, we've made it possible to download Java 25 Early Access builds directly from the IDE, just like you do for stable releases.