What’s New in IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 | IntelliJ IDEA Talk

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 is here!

In this episode of IntelliJ IDEA Talk, we’ll demo and discuss new feature highlights in detail, giving our opinions on how and why they’ll help you in your daily professional development work. We’ll talk about:

0:00 – Introduction
0:50 – AI updates: Junie’s MCP support and other updates.
7:09 – Java 25: Support for the latest Java features.
14:31 – Virtual threads: Improved debugging support.
22:33 – JSpecify: Support for the new nullability standard.
28:09 – Spring Debugger: The most exciting feature for Spring Boot devs!
36:10 – Spring Modulith: Support for clean architectures.
41:01 – Spring + Kotlin: Improvements and ongoing collaboration.
44:16 – Kotlin Notebook: Enhanced REPL for seamless interactive coding.
54:14 – Maven 4: Support for the upcoming major release.
1:03:28 – Universal entry point: No need for keyboard shortcuts.
1:12:17 – Single unified distribution: No more Ultimate and Community editions.

Download IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 to try out the new features right away 👉 https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
For even more details about the 2025.2 update, check out our redesigned What’s New page 👉 https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsnew/.
Then join the livestream for some hands-on demos and a live Q&A in the chat!

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