--- title: Busy Plugin Developers Newsletter – Q3 2026 | daily.dev description: This quarterly newsletter rounds up JetBrains plugin development news for Q3 2026. JetBrains Marketplace now collects UI freeze reports with thread dumps and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/busy-plugin-developers-newsletter-q3-2026-vnj8slcu2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Busy Plugin Developers Newsletter – Q3 2026 | daily.dev og:description: This quarterly newsletter rounds up JetBrains plugin development news for Q3 2026. JetBrains Marketplace now collects UI freeze reports with thread dumps and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/busy-plugin-developers-newsletter-q3-2026-vnj8slcu2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VnJ8SlcU2.png og:image:alt: Busy Plugin Developers Newsletter – Q3 2026 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Busy Plugin Developers Newsletter – Q3 2026 **[JetBrains](https://daily.dev/sources/jetbrains)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This quarterly newsletter rounds up JetBrains plugin development news for Q3 2026. JetBrains Marketplace now collects UI freeze reports with thread dumps and CPU snapshots to help debug IDE freezes. IntelliJ Plugin Verifier 1.411 adds content module support in dependency resolution and lowers memory use for report generation, which now streams reports. IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin 2.19.0 adds buildPluginVariants tasks for Linux, macOS and Windows on x86_64 and arm64, and removes the deprecated setupDependencies task. A new web-based IDE Plugin Generator merges the IDE wizard and GitHub template. JetBrains Plugin Developer Conf 2026 runs online and free on November 10, 2026. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I debug a UI freeze reported by users of my IntelliJ plugin that I can't reproduce locally? JetBrains Marketplace now collects UI freeze reports for plugins directly, including full thread dumps and CPU snapshots. Developers can read these reports, enable reporting, and even use an AI agent to help find the root cause, as explained in a guide and video from Jakub Chrzanowski. Details are also documented in the Marketplace Freezes Tab documentation. _daily.dev surfaces plugin tooling updates like this for developers debugging hard-to-reproduce IDE freezes._ ### What's new in IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin 2.19.0? IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin 2.19.0 adds new buildPluginVariants tasks that build Linux, macOS, and Windows plugin distributions for x86_64 and arm64 on 2026.1 and later. It also adds a testFrameworks() helper, full --offline support, stops bundling Kotlin stdlib and Coroutines into the sandbox by default, and removes the deprecated setupDependencies task as a breaking change. _plugin developers tracking Gradle plugin breaking changes can follow updates like this on daily.dev._ ### How much faster is WSL project support in JetBrains IDEs after switching to Native mode? JetBrains IDEs now open WSL projects in Native mode up to 38% faster, after the team tried three other approaches first. This relies on the IJent agent and EelApi, which also let plugins run the same way across WSL, Docker, and Dev Containers. _developers choosing between WSL setups can keep up with performance changes like this via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [JetBrains Plugin Developer Conf 2026: AI, New APIs, and More](https://daily.dev/posts/jetbrains-plugin-developer-conf-2026-ai-new-apis-and-more-5bf5bo0tw) · JetBrains · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [August 2026 - The JetBrains Blog](https://daily.dev/posts/august-2026---the-jetbrains-blog-qvxjgk6yp) · JetBrains .NET Blog · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [IntelliJ Platform 2025.3: What Plugin Developers Should Know](https://daily.dev/posts/intellij-platform-2025-3-what-plugin-developers-should-know-losdwkuha) · JetBrains · 13 upvotes · 0 comments - [Java Weekly, Issue 645](https://daily.dev/posts/java-weekly-issue-645-xeh1bvwte) · Baeldung · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#java](https://daily.dev/tags/java), [#jetbrains](https://daily.dev/tags/jetbrains), [#gradle](https://daily.dev/tags/gradle) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/busy-plugin-developers-newsletter-q3-2026-vnj8slcu2) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Busy Plugin Developers Newsletter – Q3 2026","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/busy-plugin-developers-newsletter-q3-2026-vnj8slcu2","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/busy-plugin-developers-newsletter-q3-2026-vnj8slcu2"},"datePublished":"2026-10-26T01:58:42.973Z","dateModified":"2026-10-26T01:59:16.151Z","description":"This quarterly newsletter rounds up JetBrains plugin development news for Q3 2026. 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