Can someone please explain to me why AS kotlin plu...

# intellij

[efemoney]

Can someone please explain to me why AS kotlin plugins lag behind SO BAD. Not having the Beta or RC plugins I can even start to live with. But not having even the latest stable plugins on the latest stable/preview versions of AS is completely bonkers to me. I’m curious, Is there some issue preventing this that we should be aware of?

For context I am trying to use 1.9Beta on AS Hedgehog Canary 4. I can see the 1.9 plugin available for IJ Ultimate (2023.1.2). But Hedgehog (which is based on 2023.1) is literally stuck on 1.8.0 plugin 😞

[Matthew Gharrity]

Hi Efeturi, arguably the Kotlin plugin version string in Hedgehog C4 is incorrect [long story]. Hedgehog C4 already bundles Kotlin compiler version 1.9.0-dev-1670 for IDE analysis. On Mac this can be shown via:

unzip -p ".../Android Studio <http://Preview.app/Contents/plugins/Kotlin/lib/kotlinc.kotlin-compiler-fe10.jar|Preview.app/Contents/plugins/Kotlin/lib/kotlinc.kotlin-compiler-fe10.jar>" META-INF/compiler.version

I’ll chat with JetBrains to see if we can clear up some of the confusion here.

[Matthew Gharrity]

Usually the Kotlin analyzer version can be found in the UI too (see below). However, I don’t see this in recent releases; I’ll look into it

[efemoney]

Thank you @Matthew Gharrity! Yeah I noticed the “analyzer” version info disappeared on recent releases also. I (incorrectly) thought it was removed completely. Thanks for the info, I’ll keep an eye out for any news in this regard 🙏🏾

[Alexey Belkov [JB]]

Analyzer version is only shown in internal IDE mode, so as not to confuse users even more with multiple Kotlin versions displayed on a single screen. Generally, it can be considered an implementation detail and is not important to end users.

[efemoney]

Okay that is understandable. Thank you both! @Matthew Gharrity & @Alexey Belkov [JB].