A 2026 guide to AI coding assistants reports that 72% of developers now use them daily, with GitHub Copilot remaining the benchmark at $19/month despite enterprise security concerns. The guide highlig…
JetBrains' September 2026 Java Annotated Monthly highlights the release of JDK 27, which includes nine JEPs, with compact object headers enabled by default (JEP 534) reducing heap usage by 10%–20% and…
GitHub's August 31 weekly release for GitHub Copilot adds Claude Fable 5.1 for Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users, and Gemini 3.8 Flash for Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users. Copil…
GitHub has made Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash model available in GitHub Copilot, with early testing showing strong performance on complex terminal-based coding tasks. The model is billed at introductory p…
Google has released version 1.0.0 of its Gen AI Kotlin SDK, providing Kotlin developers an idiomatic interface to integrate Gemini models across Android, server-side, and multiplatform projects. The S…
JetBrains released Kotlin Toolchain 0.12.0, adding multiplatform library publishing, preview support for Wasm applications, and Compose Hot Reload from the command line. The update also improves compl…
GitHub Copilot can now formally approve pull requests as of September 1, with the approval counting toward branch protection rules, according to GitHub's changelog. The feature, available in public pr…
JetBrains will host GameDev Day 2026 on September 28, a free online event featuring practical talks on game development tools and pipelines, with sessions on AI-assisted Figma-to-Unity integration, pr…
Cline migrated its VS Code extension, installed by over 11 million developers, to the new Cline SDK, replacing a ~76,000-line monolithic core with a modular runtime. The company reports that the refac…
Cline migrated its VS Code extension, used by over 11 million developers, to the new Cline SDK, a move that reduced agent failures by 10x after an initial failed attempt forced a safer rollout strateg…
JetBrains released TeamCity 2026.2, making pipelines generally available for On-Premises and Cloud, and adding BYOK for its AI Assistant, allowing users to connect any major cloud AI provider or local…
JetBrains CLion 2026.2.2 introduces a new AI skill, clion-embedded-hardfault, that automatically diagnoses ARM Cortex-M hard faults by decoding fault registers and tracing the root cause, reducing man…
JetBrains' 2026 Developer Ecosystem Survey of over 15,000 developers found that more than half of professional developers now manually write less than 20% of their code, with AI agents generating 46% …
Kilo Code for JetBrains has launched a new multi-agent control room that allows developers to run multiple coding agents in parallel, each with its own isolated git worktree, and run results using exi…
JetBrains released Compose Multiplatform 1.12.0 on August 26, adding an experimental Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI coding agents trigger reloads, take screenshots, inspect the seman…
Security researcher Johann Rehberger published a multi-stage attack on August 26 achieving remote code execution against Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode with a 60 to 80 percent success rate, exploitin…
JetBrains' August 2026 AI Coding Agent Adoption report, based on 15,000+ professional developers, shows Claude Code now commands 39% adoption worldwide and 47% in the U.S., used twice as often as GitH…
Google has released Antigravity extensions for VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, and Zed, bringing its agentic coding tool to popular editors without requiring a switch to its dedicated IDE. The exte…
GitHub released weekly updates for GitHub Copilot on August 24, adding team sessions in Slack and Microsoft Teams, a generally available Customize tab in the Copilot app, and new CLI features includin…
A 2026 Stack Overflow survey reveals that 72% of developers using AI code assistants report lower satisfaction with code quality compared to 2023, with GitHub Copilot's median speedup dropping from 40…