JetBrains has unveiled the 2024.2 updates to its household of JetBrains IDEs and its JetBrains AI Assistant. The updates carry a brand new streamlined person interface to the IDEs, and improved code completion and chat to the JetBrains AI Assistant. JetBrains unveiled the 2024.2 updates on August 6.
The JetBrains AI Assistant 2024.2 provides quicker and smarter code completion for Java, Kotlin, and Python, powered by JetBrains’ internally skilled massive language fashions (LLMs). Assist for different languages is coming sooner or later, JetBrains stated. The AI assistant’s chat additionally now could be smarter, because of GPT-4o mini mannequin assist, and contains chat references for higher context, the corporate stated. New capabilities embrace in-terminal VCS (model management system) battle decision and customizable prompts for unit assessments and documentation.
For the JetBrains household of IDEs, a brand new UI is now the default for all customers. The extra streamlined UI was created to cut back visible complexity, present quick access to important options, and progressively disclose complicated performance as wanted. JetBrains’ traditional UI remains to be out there as a plugin. As well as, the Search In all places dialog now permits builders to preview codebase components being searched. The JetBrains IDEs now will detect and use proxy settings configured on a developer’s machine by default.
