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📦 Kotlin 1.5.21, minor fixes for 1.5.20 Changelog
Ⓜ️ Multiplatform Gradle Plugin Improved for Connecting KMM Modules – New way to connect KMM module to Xcode
🧩 Solving Advent of Code Puzzles in Idiomatic Kotlin – Svetlana Isakova sharing sollution for Advent of Code 2020 Day 1
📹 Kotlin Features Survey Webinar (1h 34m) – Svetlana Isakova and Roman Elizarov discussing features presented in Kotlin Features Survey Edition #2
🆕 Useful Kotlin Idioms You Should Know – Introductory post about kotlin features (data classes, named/default arguments, etc)
🛠 JetBrains Toolbox now built with Compose for Desktop
Compose Multiplatform goes Alpha

🔧 Compose for Desktop and Compose for Web now are aligned under common Compose Multiplatform umbrella.
🧩 New plugin for IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio enables @Preview support for Desktop.
🎯 Compose for Desktop uses composable window API, and also supports Linux on ARM64 target, including Raspberry Pi
🕸 Compose for Web further improves DOM and CSS API coverage

Learn more about unification of Compose APIs across platforms, watch The Compose Story from different perspectives, and read further on mentioned changes in the article!
🎉 Kotlin 1.5.30-RC With Java Toolchains in Gradle, JS IR Backend in Beta, Stdlib Improvements, and More

· Updated opt-in requirement mechanism, more consistent and less error-prone
· Experimental instantiation of annotation classes
· Kotlin/JS IR backend is promoted to Beta and ready for migration
· Support for Java toolchains in the Gradle plugin
· Improvements to the Regex and Duration API

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Note: the latest version of IntelliJ IDEA – 2021.2 – doesn’t support Kotlin 1.5.30 previews. If you have already upgraded to this version, you can easily install the previous version (2021.1) using the JetBrains Toolbox App and try Kotlin 1.5.30-RC in that version.
Time to upgrade to IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2, Kotlin Plugin 1.5.30 is released!
📦 Ktor 1.6.3 Released with a number of bugfixes

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