Plugin Verifier 1.393 has been released

IntelliJ Platform Plugin Verifier
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:tada: Plugin Verifier 1.393 has been released.

The most important changes:

  • Increase unpacked IntelliJ plugin size to 5GB.
  • Plugin name must be in Latin characters, including numbers, and general or special symbols if needed (e.g., period, hyphen, parentheses).

See full changelog for detailed changes.

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Currently, there is an issue with verification on Windows (MP-7673 Plugin Verifier: The plugin descriptor ‘plugin.xml’ is not found on Windows). It is under investigation.

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Hi, do you have some news to share about the poor performance on Windows?

If my memory is correct, the intellij platform plugin depends on the plugin verifier for various tasks (like building), but the performance is terribly poor on Windows. You can check the build times on the intellij platform plugin GitHub pipelines: 18min on Linux/macOS, 30min on Windows. For my plugin: 18 sec on Linux, more than 40 sec on Windows (~20 sec with the intellij platform plugin 2.1.0).

A discussion on Slack pointed out some problems while zipping/unzipping files on Windows, and adding some caching could help. Unfortunately, the Slack server is no longer available.

I think Jakub is aware of this, but it depends on the plugin verifier. This issue exists since the intellij platform plugin v2.2.0 :sleepy_face: (8 months)

Regards,

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@robert.novotny was it pulled? I’m not seeing it in the binary distributions, only 1.388. My primary dev machine is Windows anyway, so I guess I should wait for the fix for the Windows issue.

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@illuminatedcloud The binary distribution of is available both in GitHub and Maven Central.

@jonathanlermitage.1 Performance issues on Windows are still under investigation, we are aware of that.

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Thanks. And yes, I’ve also hit the Windows-specific issue trying to run it locally. I guess I’ll have to wait for the next build (or the one that fixes that issue). Sticking with 1.388 for now.