Rider Releases

Released: Sep 4, 2025

Updates in 2025.2.1

Features

  • Optimized CPU usage of the Monitoring tool window process on macOS.

Fixes

  • The Unit Test Explorer no longer shows duplicate entries when discovering tests, including for xUnit projects.
  • Edit and Continue once again works correctly when using embedded debug symbols.
  • Fixed an issue where the debugger stopped at exceptions without allowing execution to resume.
  • The Encapsulate Field refactoring shortcut is now available again in the Keymap settings.
  • GDScript files are now correctly...

Released: Aug 14, 2025

Updates in 2025.2

Features

Key Updates

  • Junie comes to Rider (Beta) - Explore a new way to code with Junie, an AI coding agent designed to reduce your workload and increase your end-to-end productivity.
  • Reworked Monitoring tool window - The reimagined Monitoring tool window makes performance optimization for .NET applications a breeze. It now features interactive charts for CPU usage, memory consumption, and garbage collection activity, and lets you start performance or memory profiling sessions for deeper...

Released: Jun 30, 2025

Updates in 2025.1.4

Fixes

  • Rename hangs forever without cancel option.
  • Gutter Icons not showing for Tests with TUnit 0.21.7 or later.
  • Backend functionality failure and missing highlights.
  • Rider link cannot be compiled with clang-cl.
  • Sticky selection not working with some editor actions.
  • JS function name auto-completion not working with Razor.
  • Rename file freezes Rider.
  • Edit run configuration: No projects to run.
  • Allow editing in debug mode stopped working for C++.
  • Regression: Context actions icon hides the checkbox...

Released: Jun 12, 2025

Updates in 2025.1.3

Features

  • Rider now supports .aiignore files, helping you manage which files are included in the AI Assistant's scope when working on your solution.
  • Semantic search is now enabled for both Search Everywhere and the AI Assistant, making it easier to find classes, methods, parameters, and other code elements even when your query differs in case, punctuation, or formatting.

Fixes

  • Step over and Step into actions now work as expected when debugging ASP.NET projects with Docker Compose.
  • Sticky...

Released: May 8, 2025

Updates in 2025.1.2

Features

  • Mixed mode debugging [Beta]
    • This update introduces a beta version of mixed mode debugging - a capability that lets you debug both .NET and C/C++ code in a single session. The current implementation supports only the Mono Windows x64 scenario.

Fixes

  • Rider no longer fails to create an IIS virtual directory when starting an IIS Run/Debug configuration.
  • Resolved an issue where rider.stacktrace.filters lead to excessive CPU usage and made the IDE unresponsive.
  • Resolved an exception where the...

Released: Apr 28, 2025

Updates in 2025.1.1

Fixes

  • Correct syntax highlighting for Unity identifiers and classes has been fixed.
  • Rider no longer freezes when editing Razor .cshtml files in .NET 8 MVC applications.

Released: Apr 16, 2025

Updates in 2025.1

Features

Key Updates

  • Rider Goes AI
    • JetBrains AI Assistant has received a major upgrade, making AI-powered development more accessible and efficient. With this release, AI features are now free in JetBrains IDEs, including unlimited code completion, support for local models, and credit-based access to cloud-based features. A new subscription system makes it easy to scale up with AI Pro and AI Ultimate tiers.
    • This release introduces major enhancements to boost productivity and reduce repetitive...

Released: Apr 3, 2025

Updates in 2024.3.7

Fixes

  • 'Generate UT with AI' stuck when sending request in Rider.

Released: Feb 28, 2025

Updates in 2024.3.6

Fixes

  • Resolved an issue where debugging sessions required several attempts to start.
  • Fixed macOS freezes related to Metal rendering in an updated JetBrains Runtime, addressing an issue with 'MTLRenderQueue.flushNow'.
  • Fixed a bug where duplicate items would appear in the Go to Symbol search results in Rider.
  • Fixed a problem with xUnit v3 tests resulting in 'Inconclusive: Test has not run' when executed in Rider's Test Explorer under .NET Framework.
  • Resolved an issue where Qodana would hang...

Released: Feb 7, 2025

Updates in 2024.3.5

Features

  • New in-house models for C# cloud completion - Cloud completion powered by AI Assistant now features new in-house models for C#. You'll notice significantly improved reliability and higher-quality code suggestions, tailored to your .NET projects.
  • Support for Claude Models in AI Assistant - Added support for the latest Claude models, including Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku.

Fixes

  • Addressed an issue in the 2024.3.4 release where the Go to Class feature (Ctrl+N) did not display...