Gatway vs. WSL2 mode or IntelliJ
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Has there been a change in the way IntelliJ works with WSL mode on Windows. The recommendation before was to use IntelliJ gateway, but the article https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/how-to-use-wsl-development-environment-in-product.html#wsl-general Updated June 04 2026 makes no mention of using Gatway.
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Nothing has been removed. There are two separate ways to work with WSL in IntelliJ IDEA, and the help page you linked covers only one of them.
**1. Local WSL (what that article describes)**
The IDE runs on Windows and opens a project that lives in the WSL file system directly, through a `\\wsl.localhost\<Distro>` path. This workflow never used Gateway, so its absence from the page is expected. It is the simplest setup and works well for most projects.
**2. Remote development into WSL**
A full IDE backend runs inside WSL2 and you connect to it with JetBrains Client. This is the path you are thinking of when you mention Gateway. It gives better performance on large projects, because indexing and code analysis run natively in Linux.
JetBrains Gateway itself is not deprecated. What changed is that you no longer need the standalone Gateway app to work with WSL: you can start remote development into WSL from IntelliJ IDEA directly, from the Welcome screen under **Remote Development** (or **File | Remote Development**). Gateway is still available and is still the launcher for SSH connections, dev containers, and cloud dev environments.
So neither choice is wrong: use the local workflow for convenience, or remote development into WSL when you want native Linux performance.
Docs:
- Local WSL: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/how-to-use-wsl-development-environment-in-product.html
- Remote development overview: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/remote-development-overview.html