January 2026 monthly summary for JetBrains/amper focused on delivering migration and testing improvements and addressing Android compatibility gaps, resulting in clearer migration paths, improved test configuration, and broader device support.

December 2025: Delivered and improved Maven migration tooling for Amper. Key feature deliveries include a Maven Project Migration Tool to onboard Maven projects into Amper's structure, with broad configuration and dependency support, and an enhancement to maven-compiler-plugin handling that respects pluginManagement for accurate builds. No major bugs reported; focus on reliability and onboarding efficiency. Business impact: reduces manual migration effort, accelerates adoption of Amper for Java/Maven projects, and improves build fidelity post-migration. Technologies and skills demonstrated: Maven, pluginManagement, build configuration automation, dependency migration, and tooling for project structure transformation.

Month 2025-11 monthly recap for JetBrains/amper focusing on business value and technical execution. Core features delivered include BOM support for Maven dependency resolution in unscoped dependency lists and enabling executable MkDocs documentation script to streamline docs generation. No major bugs fixed this period; maintenance focused on enhancing build reliability and documentation workflows. Overall impact: improved dependency governance for Maven projects and faster, repeatable documentation processes, contributing to higher release quality and developer productivity. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Maven BOM handling, unscoped dependency resolution updates, Unix permission management for tooling, MkDocs-driven docs automation, and task-level changes to support BOM dependencies.

Monthly summary for 2025-10: Implemented Compose Hot Reload integration across CLI, server, and deployment for the JetBrains/amper repo, delivering a unified hot-reload experience that accelerates developer feedback loops and reduces redeploy time. This cycle included adding a CLI --compose-hot-reload-mode option, enabling server-side support, upgrading dependencies, integrating the recompiler-extension, and strengthening tests and docs. The work culminated in a version bump to Compose Hot Reload 1.0.0-rc01 and updates to old distribution tasks to include the recompiler-extension, along with improved test stability and clearer reference documentation.

September 2025 summary: Delivered cross-repo improvements that streamline dependencies, expand platform templates, and strengthen developer tooling. Key features include a BOM-driven dependency management overhaul for Spring Boot and Ktor with an applyBom flag and cross-framework version alignment; Spring Boot templates extended with database drivers (H2, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and Kotlin reflection support; Android platform tooling upgraded to SDK 36 (AGP 8.10.1 across configs/tests); and Compose Hot Reload stability improvements with updated documentation. Major bugs fixed include removing an unused logback dependency from the built-in catalog and eliminating the standalone dependency synchronization script. Overall impact: reduced maintenance overhead, fewer runtime/classpath issues, and faster onboarding, with enhanced platform readiness and a more robust development experience. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Kotlin, Kotlin reflection, Spring Boot/Ktor ecosystems, Android Gradle Plugin, Compose Hot Reload, and catalog/build tooling optimization.

In August 2025, Amper delivered significant business‑value improvements across the repository by enabling faster Android multi-module development, safer dependency management, and a modernized project structure. Key outcomes include multi-module mockable JAR support with testing, automation of Spring Boot catalog generation, improved Maven Local handling for Compose hot-reload, and a refreshed project structure with validation test projects.

July 2025 monthly summary for JetBrains/amper: Delivered two high-impact features with significant business value and reliability improvements. Implemented Compose Hot Reload Enhancements with a refactored extension point, integrated into the Amper build system, added a recompiler extension module, and updated dependencies and task configurations to enable seamless hot reloading. Cleaned release artifacts by removing an accidentally committed logback.xml. Added real-time Task Log Streaming via Server-Sent Events (SSE), including a new logging writer and updates to server logging and command logic to support live log streaming. These changes improve developer iteration speed, observability, and reliability in production-like environments.

June 2025 (JetBrains/amper): Delivered core runtime and testing improvements, plus CLI observability enhancements, spanning JVM runtime behavior, Android test infrastructure, and tracing tooling. The changes emphasize faster developer feedback loops, more reliable test environments, and stronger extensibility of the CLI pipeline. Key features delivered: - Runtime Classpath Mode for JVM Modules: Introduced runtimeClasspathMode to switch between using JARs or class folders for the runtime classpath, enabling faster hot-reload for Compose apps and refactoring related tasks. - Android Test Support with Mockable Platform JAR: Added capability to include a mockable Android platform JAR in the runtime classpath for tests; introduced AndroidMockablePlatformJarTask and a dedicated test project. - Jaeger/Telemetry CLI Enhancements: Enhanced tracing integration in Amper CLI with automatic loading of traces to Jaeger, improved telemetry naming, dynamic log paths, port readiness cleanup, and an option rename for preload traces. Bug fix: - CLI API Visibility Restore: Restore visibility of createProjectContext in CliContext.kt to enable usage by other CLI tooling. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Accelerated development cycles via faster hot-reload and more capable test environments. - Improved observability and debugging through enhanced Jaeger tracing and CLI telemetry. - Increased tooling extensibility and integration capability by restoring critical API visibility for external tooling. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Kotlin and Gradle-based multi-platform development, CLI tooling improvements, Java/Kotlin tracing with Jaeger, enhanced test infrastructure, and modernized file traversal (Path.walk) for robustness.

May 2025 monthly summary for JetBrains/amper. Key features delivered include Java Annotation Processing Support in Amper (enabling Lombok/MapStruct usage via dependency resolution and building the processor classpath, standardizing generated sources handling, and documenting annotation processing and Lombok configuration), Server-Side Templates and Scaffolding (Ktor and Spring Boot templates with tests for template initialization and cleanup), Compose Hot Reload Support (demoable scheme with updated dependencies and server command improvements for real-time code updates in Compose Desktop apps), Dependency Version Updates for Spring PetClinic Kotlin (latest compatible versions in libs.versions.toml), Test Cleanup for Integration Tests (removing main methods from PetClinicIntegrationTests and PostgresIntegrationTests), and Packaging Documentation (docs on executable JAR packaging for JVM applications).

April 2025 performance summary for JetBrains/amper: Delivered core platform features and reliability improvements across server-side, Spring, Ktor, and Compose ecosystems; advanced dependency management and testing practices; improved developer experience with hot-reload server and test modernization; updated docs and packaging alignment; and continued housekeeping to keep catalog healthy. Key work includes enabling all-open/no-arg compiler plugins with strict JSr305 checks, Spring Boot/Spring Cloud integration with Petclinic support, Ktor compatibility improvements, introduction of Amper server for Compose hot-reload, and JUnit 4 migration across tests, along with targeted bug fixes such as removing explicit AI/Cloud schema hooks and Android/KSP/Parcelize test project fixes.

March 2025: JetBrains/amper monthly summary highlighting delivery of packaging, server support, tooling upgrades, and reliability improvements across the build system. The month delivered executable JAR packaging via Amper CLI, Ktor server integration, Compose hot reload enhancements, DSL documentation improvements, and tooling upgrades, while stabilizing the platform by enforcing Gradle version compatibility and Windows cleanup.

February 2025 monthly summary for JetBrains/amper: - Key features delivered include a Gradle build performance improvement by increasing the Gradle wrapper heap size to 256m, and a Kotlin 2.1.x upgrade with dependency alignment to stabilize tests and modernize the codebase. A Spring/Zip archive directory entries fix was also implemented to ensure correct startup and component scanning. - Major bugs fixed: Ensured directory entries are included in zip archives to support Spring Boot component scanning and proper startup behavior. - Overall impact: Faster, more stable builds; more reliable test outcomes after Kotlin upgrade; improved startup reliability and ecosystem alignment; easier future maintenance through dependency stabilization. - Technologies/skills demonstrated: Gradle memory tuning, Kotlin 2.1.x upgrade and test stabilization, dependency alignment, zip/archive handling, Spring Boot startup robustness, codebase modernization.

2025-01 monthly summary for JetBrains/amper: Delivered stability and performance enhancements, focusing on test stability, build performance for large projects, and groundwork for IDE hot-reloading. These efforts reduce flaky tests, speed up large-project builds, and prepare for future IDE plugin integration, delivering measurable business value and improved developer productivity.

December 2024 monthly summary focusing on delivery, quality, and impact across two JetBrains projects (amper and compose-hot-reload).

November 2024 — JetBrains/amper (Android focus): Focused on strengthening Android onboarding, run/launch reliability, and dependency management to deliver a smoother developer experience and more stable builds. Key features delivered: Google Services Integration for Android (Amper) with documentation and automatic consumption of google-services.json by both standalone and Gradle-based projects. Major bugs fixed: Android run/launch CLI now surfaces adb output for easier debugging; activity launch path corrected to honor applicationId, improving run consistency across builds. Build/dependency stability: Gradle version catalog usage refactored for Android tools and AGP dependencies; libs entries updated to ensure correct version references. Impact: faster, more reliable Android feature delivery, reduced configuration errors, and improved CI/CD compatibility. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Android Gradle Plugin, Gradle Version Catalog, adb tooling and CollectingOutputReceiver, google-services integration, build configuration and documentation.