The IntelliJ Platform Gradle Plugin 2.0.0-rc2 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.

If you have any issues or requests, please submit them to the GitHub Issues. To submit questions or suggestions in relation to the documentation, use the feedback form at the bottom of the article.

Added

• Groovy support
• Make plugin(id, version, group) dependency helper accept group in the format of: empty (use Marketplace groupId), @channel, or user-defined groupId
• Introduce PrepareJarSearchableOptionsTask for performance purposes
• Possibility for specifying configurationName when using testFramework, platformDependency, and testPlatformDependency dependency helpers

Fixed

• Sandbox producer of a custom task shouldn't inherit sandboxDirectory from the base sandbox producer.
• Use lenient configuration when resolving JetBrains Runtime (JBR) dependencies
• Add exclusiveContent to the jetbrainsRuntime() repository definition to resolve only JBR artifacts
• Avoid recalculating the IvyModule for bundled plugin/module if already written to Ivy XML file