Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: Shipaton 2026 Winners, Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta2, and KotlinConf 2027 - The JetBrains Blog

Kotlin’s latest roundup highlights the Shipaton 2026 results, where BoatBrawl, AfterFade, and Lumeo won the Ship Kotlin Everywhere awards from nearly 4,000 submissions, demonstrating varied uses of Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform. It also announces Kotlin Toolchain 0.13 improvements for creating and configuring multiplatform projects, while the State of Kotlin in 2026 report notes Kotlin’s 15-year growth, widespread backend use, and high adoption of AI coding tools among surveyed developers. KotlinConf 2027 will take place in Kraków on April 21–23, with speaker submissions open until November 27 and a multiplatform contest offering top student and graduate entrants trips to the event. Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta2 introduces features including name-based destructuring, return-value checking, Java 28 support, expanded Swift export, and default incremental compilation for Apple targets, while upcoming releases will require JDK 17 or newer to run the compiler. The roundup additionally points developers toward Klibs.io resources for comparing multiplatform libraries and discovering tools such as Ktorfit and the Klibs.io MCP server.

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