v2.0.0-beta2

The IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin 2.0.0-beta2 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

• Use IntelliJ Platform distribution from download.jetbrains.com by default. To switch back to IntelliJ Maven Repository artifacts, use org.jetbrains.intellij.platform.buildFeature.useBinaryReleases=false
• Introduced Custom* tasks. if you want to extend the runIde or testSomething tasks, use the Custom*Task classes. See: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/tools-intellij-platform-gradle-plugin-custom-tasks.html
• Better handling of missing dependencies/misconfiguration
• Bring back the SetupDependenciesTask to avoid failing build when migrating from 1.x
• Better ClosestVersionResolver error messages
• When running IDE in Split Mode, it’s possible to specify splitModeTarget (BACKEND, FRONTEND, BACKEND_AND_FRONTEND)

Fixed

• Fixed including transitive modules/bundled plugins dependencies of declared plugin dependencies
• Fixed JetBrains Runtime (JBR) resolving
• move TestFrameworkType from org.jetbrains.intellij.platform.gradle.extensions to org.jetbrains.intellij.platform.gradle

Removed

• Dropped testIde task as test is now properly configured