Writerside Early Access Program

At JetBrains we believe that making tools for developers should involve listening to them. Our Early Access Program lets the community participate in discussions devoted to our products and influence the development planning, from the early stages onwards.

Why should you try EAP builds?

Early Access Programs allow you to try pre-release versions of our software.

You can use them to evaluate the features which will be added to the next release. Please use our issue tracker to report bugs and suggest new features.

This is an early access version of the product.

You expressly acknowledge that this version of the product may not be reliable, may not work as intended and may contain errors. Any use of the EAP product is at your own risk.

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2024.3 eap build 243.22562.371

Released: December 20, 2024

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  • New dedicated view for managing libraries of reusable content snippets
  • Possibility to create folders for topics from the Table of Contents view
  • Various fixes for the GitHub action, API docs generation, and the XML schema

For a full list of new features, improvements, and fixes, see What's New.

2024.3 eap build 243.22562.163

Released: December 12, 2024

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  • New dedicated view for managing libraries of reusable content snippets
  • Possibility to create folders for topics from the Table of Contents view
  • Various fixes for the GitHub action, API docs generation, and the XML schema

For a full list of new features, improvements, and fixes, see What's New.

2024.3 eap build 243.21565.432

Released: November 11, 2024

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  • Proper highlighting for all supported languages in code blocks, correct processing of code blocks with empty lines, ability to reference files via relative paths and navigate to source code files.
  • Generate API references as new instances or topics, render a navigable sidebar for API references, and include API docs into search.
  • Export PDF as an artifact, configure the Table of Contents page title.

For a full list of new features, improvements, and fixes, see What's New.

2024.2 eap build 242.21870.138

Released: September 19, 2024

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  • The Good Docs Project templates for new topics
  • Ability to ignore certain build-time checks
  • Completion for tooltips and glossary terms, support for chapter levels, and correct emoji rendering

For a full list of new features, improvements, and fixes, see What's new in 242.21870.

2024.1 eap build 241.18775.101

Released: August 1, 2024

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  • More output customization options and assistance when configuring the documentation appearance
  • Live preview now syncs to the position in the editor and enables you to pin a specific topic to the preview tool window
  • Preview in the browser now updates immediately – no need to reload
  • New actions to create some configuration files from templates: buildprofiles.xml and glossary.xml
  • Labels for topics and chapters
  • Support for inline math formulas using LaTeX and Markdown-style math blocks

For a full list of new features, improvements, and fixes, see What's new in 241.18775.

2024.1 eap build 241.18775.98

Released: July 16, 2024

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  • More output customization options and assistance when configuring the documentation appearance
  • Live preview now syncs to the position in the editor and enables you to pin a specific topic to the preview tool window
  • Preview in the browser now updates immediately – no need to reload
  • New actions to create some configuration files from templates: buildprofiles.xml and glossary.xml
  • Labels for topics and chapters
  • Support for inline math formulas using LaTeX and Markdown-style math blocks

For a full list of new features, improvements, and fixes, see What's new in 241.18775.

2024.1 eap build 241.16003.85

Released: June 5, 2024

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  • Integrated AI Assistant chat (AI Assistant plugin is required)
  • Context-aware AI-based actions: rephrase, review, or translate selected text into English
  • AI-based content generation: generate a TLDR, a web summary for SEO, or a link summary

For a full list of new features see What's new in 241.16003.

2024.1 eap build 241.15989.11

Released: April 24, 2024

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  • Support for downloadable resources
  • Support for using a custom search service
  • Improvements for generating API documentation
  • Improvements and fixes for PDF export
  • Various fixes and improvements in the New Project wizard, more robust git branch switching, correct schema and validation, highlighting and resolving images and variables

For a full list of new features, improvements, and fixes, see What's new in 241.15989.11.

2023.3 eap build 233.14938

Released: March 13, 2024

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  • New action and dialog for adding API documentation from the table of contents
  • Support for adding D2 diagrams
  • Option to select the keymap when exporting to PDF
  • Ability to use inline formatting in title of chapters, procedures, and other elements with titles
  • Self-contained artifacts that do not depend on external resources and bundle everything you need to publish your help website in an isolated environment

For a full list of new features, improvements, and fixes, see What's new in 233.14938.

2023.3 eap build 233.14389

Released: February 1, 2024

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2023.3 eap build 233.14272

Released: January 25, 2024

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  • Initial support for PDF export
  • Paste images into the editor
  • Find unused images, topics, and snippets

For a full list of new features, improvements, and fixes, see What's new in 233.14272.

2023.3 eap build 233.14264

Released: January 25, 2024

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  • Initial support for PDF export
  • Paste images into the editor
  • Find unused images, topics, and snippets

For a full list of new features, improvements, and fixes, see What's new in 233.14264.

2023.2 eap build 232.10275

Released: November 29, 2023

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Most notable changes:

  • Support for PlantUML diagrams
  • Paste images into the editor from the clipboard
  • API docs: Markdown in object descriptions, references to objects and parameters, multiple <sample> elements
  • MD import: first imported topic becomes the home page, all files are selected for import by default
  • Better error reporting in the build log
  • Support for non-latin characters

For a full list of new features, improvements, and fixes, see What's new in 232.10275.

2023.2 eap build 232.10165

Released: October 16, 2023

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  • Combine the simplicity of vanilla Markdown with fully structured semantic markup
  • Single-source to multiple outputs
  • Preview content as you type exactly the way it will be published
  • Harness the power of JetBrains IntelliJ-based IDEs for intelligent writing assistance
  • Use built-in Git integration for streamlined version control
  • Import from existing Markdown sources or create a new playground project
  • Start writing with templates, not empty topics
  • Generate API documentation from an OpenAPI specification