intellij-idea-oss 2026.1 (new cask)

[brunovieira97]

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• AI was used to generate or assist with generating this PR. Please specify below how you used AI to help you, and what steps you have taken to manually verify the changes, including zap stanza paths.

AI-based chat used to assist with Ruby language syntax, more specifically for livecheck regular expression matching and for URL conditional concatenation.

Tests performed manually:

• All commands specified above: audit, style, install and uninstall
• Validated file paths with brew uninstall --zap --force intellij-idea-oss
• Validated version resolution with brew livecheck intellij-idea-oss

Ensured there is no conflict with IntelliJ IDEA's unified release (distributed on JetBrains' website and also available as cask intellij-idea).

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This cask is for the open-source release of IntelliJ IDEA, only available on the official GitHub repo, and therefore was named intellij-idea-oss.

As announced in a december 2025 blog post, IntelliJ IDEA has moved to a unified release, replacing previous Community and Ultimate editions. However, these CI builds available on GitHub are not the same as the unified releases obtainable from JetBrains' website or intellij-idea cask.

The open-source builds, as detailed in this blog post and the FAQ, are the basis for the new unified release and do not contain any license management, paid features or trial requests for free accounts (migrated users from Community Edition). Other missing features are AI plugins, settings sync, and account management. Plugins can still be installed from the Marketplace, allowing paid or proprietary features to be added on demand.

I have opened an issue a while ago, where we discussed if the original intellij-idea-ce should be marked as deprecated or point to these new open-source builds, and the decision was to keep it deprecated as "Community Edition" had officially ceased to exist in the upstream, so Homebrew should follow that.

Therefore, I am proposing we add this new cask as an option for users that value the open-source-only version, such as me, for privacy, ethical or any other reason or preference.

[chenrui333]

• intellij-idea-ce should not be marked as deprecated #250407

[brunovieira97]

Thank you for the tips, @krehel!

[brunovieira97]

Sorry about the force push, realized there was a misconfiguration in my .gitconfig that resulted in wrong address for my commits.