Best of JetBrains — October 2025

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   DataGrip Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

   JetBrains DataGrip, a cross-platform database IDE, is now free for non-commercial use including learning, hobby projects, open-source development, and content creation. The change follows similar moves for RustRover, CLion, Rider, WebStorm, and RubyMine. All commercial features remain available in the free version, including AI-powered code completion, multi-database support, and Git integration. Commercial users must still purchase licenses. The free license lasts one year with automatic renewal and requires anonymous telemetry sharing.

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   Moving PHP open source forward

   JetBrains announces a new structured approach to PHP open-source sponsorships, committing to support approximately five projects annually. For 2025-2026, they're sponsoring developers working on Mago (a Rust-based PHP linter), PHPStan, Rector, AI/MCP exploration in PHP, and 3v4l.org. They continue supporting the PHP Foundation while transitioning away from sponsoring Xdebug and CodeSniffer to diversify their support across more projects over time.

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   IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2.4 Is Out!

   IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2.4 is now available with bug fixes addressing critical issues including uninstaller failures, code completion freezes caused by recursive StubIndex calls, cURL import problems in HTTP Client, line ending preservation during shelve/unshelve operations, background image display in tool windows, Maven console output for Chinese characters, AI diff view usability improvements, and module build dependency ordering.

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   Stitcher.io

   JetBrains developed a strategy to sponsor five PHP open source projects annually for sustained impact. The initiative aims to lead by example, encouraging companies relying on PHP to allocate small budgets ($100/month) toward open source sponsorships. Companies can identify projects through their composer.json dependencies, focusing on actively maintained projects with limited existing sponsorship.

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   JetBrains Is Sunsetting CodeCanvas

   JetBrains announced the discontinuation of CodeCanvas, their cloud development environment platform launched in 2024. The company concluded that traditional CDEs are becoming obsolete in the AI-enabled development landscape and cannot meet evolving developer needs. CodeCanvas will stop accepting new licenses immediately, provide support until January 2026, and shut down completely by March 2026. JetBrains is pivoting to develop a new AI-first, cloud-native product focused on autonomous AI agents, with CDEs playing a supporting role in the new architecture.

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   Claude Agent Now Built Into PhpStorm AI Assistant

   JetBrains has integrated Claude Agent directly into PhpStorm's AI Assistant, eliminating the need for separate plugins or subscriptions. The integration provides AI-powered code generation, diff reviews, real-time error handling, and seamless code sharing within the IDE. PhpStorm now offers both Claude and Junie agents, with full Laravel support included for free since summer 2025, enabling smarter scaffolding, migration assistance, and faster developer onboarding.

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