Why do I need the JetBrains version of products with JBR and why is this version not available now?
I noticed that most of the JetBrains IDE up to and including the 2019 version for each OS had a version with built-in JBR.
I googled and found only this information about JB - https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/JBR/JetBrains+Runtime
As I understand it, JBR is a slightly modified OpenJDK, which, in turn, is a set of open source libraries, utilities, packages, and other components written in Java.
Actual questions:
1. How does the "with bundled OIK" version differ from the "without bundled OIK" version and from the version without any suffixes?
2. Why for JetBrains IDE latest versions (2020.x) is there a version with JBR only for Linux?
Just in my understanding, where it is not written "with bundled JRE", it means that this version does not have additional components from OpenJDK, which will probably help in development.
P.S.
Yes, I was not mistaken, I write JetBrains IDE (not IDEA), because I mean all independent products (not plugins) for development.
Please sign in to leave a comment.
JetBrains Runtime is OpenJDK with patches from JetBrains. We recommend using JetBrains Runtime when possible. Only switch to a different runtime when instructed by the support team.
Providing distributions without JetBrains Runtime caused a lot of issues for the users who were reporting them to JetBrains while these issues were already fixed via the patches available in JetBrains Runtime.
In order to make the product experience as smooth as possible we now only provide distributions with the bundled JetBrains Runtime.
You can tell it by the jbr directory available inside the installation directory.
Serge Baranov,
And what is the difference between the "without bundled JBR" version and the version without suffixes?
For example, for Intellij IDEA 2019.3 for Linux - 3 versions of the program.
1. with bundled JetBrains Runtime 11
2. with bundled JetBrains Runtime 8
3. without bundled JetBrains Runtime