Incompatible Changes in IntelliJ Platform and Plugins API

Edit pageLast modified: 12 March 2025

IntelliJ API may be occasionally changed between releases, leading to existing plugins' incompatibilities with newer IDE builds.

See Verifying Plugin Compatibility on how to use Plugin Verifier and IDE inspections to check such problems.

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Known Breaking Changes

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