https://www.ilscipio.com/en/categories/business/ Recent content in Business on Ilscipio - Enterprise Commerce Experts Hugo en-US Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.ilscipio.com/en/blog/maintaining-22-plugins-cost/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.ilscipio.com/en/blog/maintaining-22-plugins-cost/ <p>JetBrains released 2026.2 and I had 22 compatibility matrices to update. That is 22 plugins times six supported IDE versions times &ldquo;does this still compile, does it still work, did they deprecate the API I depend on.&rdquo; I did not plan for this when I built the first one.</p> <h2 id="the-quarterly-update-cycle">The quarterly update cycle</h2><p>Every JetBrains platform release can break plugin APIs. Sometimes it is a renamed method. Sometimes it is a removed extension point. Sometimes it is a subtle behavior change in the PSI tree that makes your completion engine return wrong results.</p>