[a-wu]

> With v2020.1 EAP we are fully moving to JetBrains Runtime 11 (JBR11), and will no longer distribute builds with JetBrains Runtime 8 (JBR8). Please note that all the IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1 updates both in the IDE and the Toolbox App are coming with JBR11.

Does this mean I need to have JDK 11 installed too? We're still using JDK 8 because Spark 2.x doesn't support JDK 11, and having multiple JDKs sounds like a pain.

edit: nvm. Looks like JBR doesn't have a JDK dependency.

[dtech]

No, they include their own JDK with the installation where the IDE run on.

[iSnow]

>having multiple JDKs sounds like a pain.

If I may, I'd like to recommend jabba for JDK switching, it's not my project, but it's really making my life easier: https://github.com/shyiko/jabba

[ilikehurdles]

Thanks, haven't heard of jabba. I use sdkman! and others I know use jenv.

[paulddraper]

> Looks like JBR doesn't have a JDK dependency.

That is, JBR includes a JDK.

Almost every "serious" broad market desktop app bundles its own runtime: JRE, QT, Chromium, etc.