
Instead of running a full IDE on Windows, your IDE backend will launch directly in WSL 2 itself.
IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2022.3 offers an alternative way to work with projects running in WSL 2 file systems. For more details about the new Settings Sync plugin and the migration process, refer to this article. The new solution is capable of syncing most of the shareable settings from the platform, bundled plugins, and some third-party plugins. The new Settings Sync plugin is now available for all IntelliJ-based IDEs (except Rider), both the free and paid editions. Learn more about our plans concerning this change in this blog post. In IntelliJ IDEA 2022.3 you can switch to the new UI using a setting and preview the IDE’s completely reworked look and feel while working on your projects. This blog post covers these and other noteworthy updates introduced in IntelliJ IDEA 2022.3. Additionally, IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate offers a new way to work with projects in WSL 2, new actions for Spring beans autowiring and OpenAPI schema generation, and long-awaited Redis support. It also brings a new Settings Sync solution for synchronizing and backing up your custom user settings.
In this new version you can preview the completely reworked look and feel of the IDE by switching to the new UI using a setting. You can download the new version from our website, update directly from the IDE or via the free Toolbox App, or use snaps for Ubuntu. IntelliJ IDEA 2022.3 is now available with numerous improvements and cool new features!