Funny, I haven't noticed any official <#C0922A726|...

# meta

[dave08]

Funny, I haven't noticed any official #announcements on Kotlin 1.8.0, nor any blog posts... just a what's new page hidden in the docs?

[ribesg]

Weird. There was a blog post and an announcement but I can't find them anymore

[eygraber]

There's this https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew18.html#kotlin-multiplatform-a-new-android-source-set-layout but I don't remember seeing a blog post yet. Maybe because of new years

[Alina Dolgikh [JB]]

Hi! There was a tweet so far https://twitter.com/kotlin/status/1608488011909550081
Other materials will come soon. The delay is due to the holiday season 🎊🙂

[dave08]

Ahh... so there will be a blog post... thanks!

[dave08]

Usually on #feed somebody announces too early and everyone jumps on him to wait for the blog post that indicates all the parts were fully released... here someone pre-announced it, and nobody said it's ok to upgrade yet.

[dave08]

Maybe it would be nice to have the last step in the CI pipeline send a post to #feed when a new release is ready to use? Even if the blog isn't ready yet, at least people will know they can upgrade...

[Alina Dolgikh [JB]]

Yes, we are aware of that confusion, that’s why we’ve posted on twitter. But let me also post it on #announcements too. With no details at this point, just a general mention it’s been released.

[Alina Dolgikh [JB]]

Maybe it would be nice to have the last step in the CI pipeline send a post to #feed when a new release is ready to use? Even if the blog isn’t ready yet, at least people will know they can upgrade...

thanks. I’ll share this idea with the team

[dave08]

I personally don't use twitter at all, but I do some to this slack very often... I'm not sure if there's many like me, but putting on #announcements would be nice...

Though I now noticed that I get Not compatible with the version of your running IDE (IntelliJ IDEA 2022.3.1) in the kotlin plugin's page... and there doesn't seem to be any pre-release (not canary) that supports it...?

[dave08]

(I'm on the early access program...)

[Sergei Pecherkin [JetBrains]]

Hi @dave08! I’m sorry for the late reply. There are few different issues.
• IDEA 2022.3.1 uses bundled Kotlin plugin. There is a frontend 1.8.20-dev-1103 despite the current Kotlin plugin version 223-1.7.21-release-272-IJ8214.52. It means that you can use all 1.8.0 features in the IDE. If you have any issues, please, let me know.
• You see the message Not compatible with the version of your running IDE (IntelliJ IDEA 2022.3.1) , because we don’t publish bundled plugins on the website. So, the message is correct technically, but you already have bundled plugin in the IDE.
We’re sorry for the inconvenience. I understand that it’s difficult to realise what’s happening with versions. We do our best to solve the issues and make the process more transparent.

[dave08]

Oh... and 1.8.20-dev-1103 supports plain 1.8.0? I just got that version because of EAP?

It's a bit funny that in the marketplace in my installed plugins, the kotlin plugin says this:
(which is where I looked...)

[dave08]

But, true, on the settings page you showed, I do have the same thing as you...

[bobko]

Oh... and 1.8.20-dev-1103 supports plain 1.8.0?

Not 1-to-1 but yes, it does. We consider that it supports 1.8.0 well enough that we didn't release a special 1.8.0 plugin for 223

I just got that version because of EAP?

No, we put 1.8.20-dev-1103 into the release version. It's dev version from Kotlin perspective. But from IntelliJ perspective, it has gone through the whole IntelliJ release cycle and we consider it's stable enough to put it into the release version of IDEA