Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: Birthday Wishes, Shipaton 2026, and the New Kotlin AI Benchmark - The JetBrains Blog

The month of July marked significant milestones and updates for the Kotlin programming language, celebrating its 15th anniversary with community engagement activities and the introduction of a public benchmark for AI coding agents, which evaluates performance across various engineering tasks. Kotlin 2.4.10 was released, featuring bug fixes, while the Kotlin 2.4.20-Beta2 introduced enhancements like coroutine stack trace recovery and expanded Swift export. Kotlin's integration into BlueJ 6.0 aims to facilitate its use in educational settings, enhancing students’ learning experiences. The RevenueCat Shipaton 2026 event encourages developers to showcase their Kotlin skills by building new apps, with opportunities to win the Ship Kotlin Everywhere Award. The Kotlin community also celebrated individuals contributing significantly to education and community building through the Golden Kodee Community Awards. Additionally, X has fully rebuilt its Android app using Kotlin, showcasing the language’s growing adoption, while JetBrains IDE users can now link their experiences to LinkedIn profiles via a new plugin. The roundup also highlighted the evolution of Kodee, the Kotlin mascot, alongside the spotlight on KMP libraries Ktor, Koin, and Kermit, which support networking, dependency injection, and logging, respectively.

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