Planned release date of 2023.3 with Java 21 support
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As far as I can see from the github activity of the IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition the next major 2023.3 release of IntelliJ IDEA will support Java 21 - the next LTS Java release. My main question is: when this release of 2023.3 is planned to happen?
There already is the first release candidate of OpenJDK 21, available at https://jdk.java.net/21/ and this is a good time to start trying it with IntelliJ IDEA but the current 2023.2 version doesn't support Java 21 and also I can't find 2023.3 EA builds.
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Support for Java 21 is now available in 2023.2.2
Hello,
Stable release is planned on the end of November.
Sergei Riabinin do we need to manually download/install the JDK or should this be showing 21 for me?
edit:
installing jdk by hand and selecting it (and enabling preview features) seems to work but red squigglies for eg unnamed classes:
USE Oracle JDK21 or OpenJDK21, the import of “java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit” always report an error. but it can run or debug normally.
Subfire I already have this
and I already mentioned that yes run/build/etc seems to work but that's not what I (anyone?) care about - it's whether the new syntax and etc features are supported that matters.
I too have updated IDEA to version 2023.2.2. However, currently unable to run new Java 21 features like String templates.
I am guessing that Sergei Riabinin jumped the gun reporting support because no new release of 2023.2.2 is available; note 09-13 here
2023.3 EAP finally has support.
Dude, I payed for the ultimate version, thought the release cadence wasn't that long … I think there is no excuses to have to wait this long for Java 21 support …
IntelliJ used to be a Java IDE. Nowadays, it does a million different things and unfortunately Java is not its focus anymore. VS Code is starting to look pretty attractive.