v2.0.0-beta8

The IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin 2.0.0-beta8 is a plugin for the Gradle build system to help configure environments for building, testing, verifying, and publishing plugins for IntelliJ-based IDEs. It is a successor of Gradle IntelliJ Plugin 1.x.

To read more about the upcoming 2.0.0 release, please visit the documentation and the Migration Guide from Gradle IntelliJ Plugin.

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Added

• intellijPlatformTesting top-level extension for registering custom tasks
• Resolving IntelliJ Platform artifacts from JetBrains CDN using common coordinates
• jetBrainsCdn() repository helper
• DependencyVersion for controlling how particular dependencies are resolved (latest/closest/match IntelliJ Platform/exact)
• Added -Didea.l10n.keys=only to the buildSearchableOptions task

Changed

• Custom tasks registering refactoring
• testIdeUi no longer runs IDE with Robot Server Plugin applied
• defaultRepositories() repository helper executes now jetBrainsCdn() instead of binaryReleases()

Fixed

• Fixed Could not find bundled plugin with ID: 'org.jetbrains.kotlin'
• Fixed Cannot snapshot ../system/jcef_cache/SingletonSocket: not a regular file issue when preparing sandbox
• Optimized resolving the latest/closest dependency version from available Maven repositories

Removed

• CustomRunIdeTask, CustomTestIdeTask, CustomTestIdePerformanceTask, CustomTestIdeUiTask custom task classes
• CustomIntelliJPlatformVersionAware, SandboxProducerAware task aware class
• binaryReleases() repository helper
• org.jetbrains.intellij.platform.buildFeature.useBinaryReleases flag