JetBrains has unveiled the 2024.2 updates to its household of JetBrains IDEs and its JetBrains AI Assistant. The updates deliver 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 presents quicker and smarter code completion for Java, Kotlin, and Python, powered by JetBrains’ internally skilled giant language fashions (LLMs). Assist for different languages is coming sooner or later, JetBrains mentioned. The AI assistant’s chat additionally now’s smarter, due to GPT-4o mini mannequin assist, and contains chat references for higher context, the corporate mentioned. New capabilities embrace in-terminal VCS (model management system) battle decision and customizable prompts for unit checks 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’ basic UI continues to be accessible as a plugin. As well as, the Search All over the place 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.