Until-build ignored for 243+?

Hi,

According to Warn when the `until-build` property is specified for IntelliJ Platfo… · JetBrains/intellij-platform-gradle-plugin@529c51f · GitHub, the until-build property is ignored for IntelliJ Platform version 243 or higher.

Is there a reason for that? Is it already reflected on the marketplace and in IDEs? Will this affect existing plugin releases?

I think this is a good thing for most plugins. Meanwhile, some plugins may want to restrict the until-build for good reasons (like support…). Is there any reason to force this new behavior?

Thanks.

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This change is appropriately covered in IDEs and Marketplace. An official announcement will be published soon!

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Just a personal feeling, it would be good to get involved in such impacting changes. If my understanding is correct, there has been no discussion with the plugin developers community.

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If this really is what it appears to, then I strongly dislike it already :frowning_face:
There’s a reason I publish only for one major release. I don’t want to be swamped with exceptions when an EAP is out and want to do QA before I publish…

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Issue reference https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-166094

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I see in that YouTrack issue it states:

Important note: until-build is still honored if it comes from a custom repository or marketplace response. Until-build is only disregarded if it comes from a plugin.xml in a plugin artifact.

Does this mean if one manually edits the below (see screenshot) in the specific plugin version on marketplace, that the until-build will be honored?

How does (or, will) this field get initially populated?

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If my understanding is correct, the until field on the marketplace should be blank if the until field from the plugin.xml is set to 251+.

Meanwhile, I’m probably wrong because I recently uploaded a new plugin release, with the until field (plugin.xml) set to 252.*, and the until field on the marketplace has been automatically set with 252.*.
I’m lost. I expect the marketplace won’t unset the until field later for existing plugin releases :sweat_smile:

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Also, I see that several 3rd-party plugin are still using the intellij platform plugin v1 (migration to v2 can be painful), which does not show a warning about that. They will probably miss this information.

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Hi! Nothing changes just yet for 2025.1 releases, so no worries about timing.

We will announce the change for 2025.2 only.

All details are on the way!

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