GitHub shipped two upgrades for JetBrains Copilot users on August 11: Ollama is now a supported bring-your-own-key provider in the plugin, and persistent memory now carries context across agent sessio…
GitHub released an update on August 11 enabling JetBrains users to run GitHub Copilot with local models via Ollama, shifting inference off hosted servers and eliminating per-token billing. The update …
JetBrains WebStorm now supports the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), an open standard that lets developers use any ACP-compliant AI agent, including those from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, without a Jet…
JetBrains has released Chrome DevTools Connect for WebStorm 2026.2.1, a bundled Chrome DevTools CLI skill that lets AI agents interact with Chrome directly from the IDE, eliminating the need to switch…
JetBrains released Figma Connect for WebStorm 2026.2.1, integrating Figma design files directly into the IDE to streamline design-to-code workflows. The tool lets developers select layers, attach desi…
A developer argues that teams need only two refactoring tools, not ten, and provides a decision tree based on scope, type-heaviness, and team size. The post recommends specific tool pairs for solo dev…
JetBrains released WebStorm 2026.2 with native TypeScript 7 support, delivering up to a 4x faster project load time on large codebases like Kibana (from ~12 seconds to ~3 seconds). The update also inc…
Kilo Code launched a native plugin for JetBrains IDEs, rebuilt from scratch in Kotlin with Swing UI to replace its previous webview-based extension. The plugin offers chat sessions, slash commands, re…
NPM Safety Guard, a comprehensive npm security scanner available as a VS Code extension and JetBrains plugin, detects supply-chain threats that npm audit misses. It employs 23 detection layers includi…
The article describes a batch script designed to reset the trial period for JetBrains software, specifically ReSharper C# and C++. The script works by deleting evaluation license folders and registry …