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Amazon Q Developer Changelog

Learn about the latest updates to Amazon Q Developer

Amazon Q Developer Changelog

Learn about the latest updates to Amazon Q Developer

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2024  

Nov 12, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Enhanced Code Transformation with Agentic Workflow

Q Developer now features an intelligent, agentic workflow for code transformations that significantly improves Java modernization success rates. The system maintains full build context visibility across iterations, implements git-based state management, and leverages cross-iteration memory for consistent fixes. This substantial advancement in transformation capabilities delivers measurable improvements, particularly for Java 8/11 to 17 migrations. Try modernizing your Java applications today using /transform in your IDE.

Nov 11, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Q Developer now generates suggestions for all YAML and JSON files

Q will provide suggestions for all YAML files and all JSON “configuration” files. Previously, Q only provided suggestions for CloudFormation YAML/JSON files. Try it out inside a Node.js package.json file, or inside of a Kubernetes manifest.

Nov 11, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Q Developer generates longer inline suggestions for Ruby, Scala, and SQL

Q will now provide longer, multi-line suggestions for Ruby, Scala, and SQL; a frequently requested enhancement. Try it out by typing a comment with an explanation of a longer function or code block that you’d like generated.

Nov 11, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Q Developer generates inline suggestions for Dart, Lua, R, Swift, SystemVerilog, PowerShell, and Vue

The new model adds inline suggestions support for the Dart, Lua, R, Swift, SystemVerilog, and PowerShell languages, along with the Vue.js framework (React is already supported). This brings the total number of languages/frameworks supported by Q inline suggestions to 26.

Nov 09, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Q Developer can now generate per-user activity reports

Both management and member account administrators can enable detailed per-user activity reports in the Amazon Q Developer settings by specifying an Amazon S3 bucket where the reports should be published. When enabled, you will receive a daily report in Amazon S3 with detailed user activity metrics, such as the number of messages sent, and AI lines of code generated.

Oct 29, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Inline chat for seamless coding operations in your IDE

You can now use Amazon Q inline in your IDE, without ever touching the mouse or using copy and paste. Press ⌘+I (Ctrl+I on Windows) to trigger inline chat. Describe a function or feature you’d like to develop and Amazon Q will generate and display a code diff that inserts new code at the cursor position. Press Enter to accept and apply the diff, or Escape to reject it. Alternatively you select a block of code (maybe even the entire file) then press ⌘+I (Ctrl+I on Windows) to provide instructions on how to refactor the selected code. You will see a diff against the selected code and can press Enter to accept and apply the diff.

Oct 16, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Q CLI

When you start a shell interface in the AWS console, you now have automatic access to Amazon Q powered autocomplete suggestions, natural-language-to-code translation, and inline documentation.

Oct 03, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

From console to code with Amazon Q Developer

You can now record your actions in the EC2, VPC, and RDS console, and automatically generate the CLI commands, Cloud Development Kit app, or CloudFormation template to recreate what you did. This new feature will assist with automation and the adoption of infrastructure as code.

Sep 27, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

When chatting with Amazon Q about your AWS resources, you can now click on links to jump directly to the referenced resource or resource list. Try it out by opening Amazon Q in the AWS console and asking a question like “what EC2 instances are running?”

Sep 20, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Longer code snippets when chatting in AWS console and AWS documentation

Amazon Q is now allowed to generate longer code snippets (>20 lines of code) when chatting in the AWS console chat and AWS documentation. This update is accompanied by code references. When generated code appears similar to open source training data, you will now be able to see the attributed reference.  

Sep 19, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Ask questions in IDE chat about specific files from your workspace

When chatting with your workspace you can now ask questions that reference specific files. For example: @workspace what does factory.ts do? To try it out use the @workspace keyword in the IDE chat prompt, while also including a specific file name from your project.

Sep 16, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Amazon Q Developer now supports logging to an Amazon S3 bucket

For software development organizations that require auditing, debugging, analytics, or compliance, you can now enable prompt logging. On each chat or inline code completion, both the outbound prompt content as well as the response content that was returned will be logged into an S3 bucket. To query this data, consider using Amazon Athena.  

Sep 12, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Amazon Q Developer Agent now more capable, more autonomous

Previously, Q Developer Agent required human intervention to review and approve a work plan for how to write the code. We have made a significant internal improvement to how Q Developer Agent functions. It now combines the planning and coding phase, and works in iterations. This allows it to adapt on the fly and autonomously solve problems without direct human guidance. You will see increased accuracy and quality of generated code. Update to the latest version of the Q Developer IDE extension and use /dev to try it out.

Aug 22, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Amazon Q Developer now shows more information about subscribed users

As an administrator of Amazon Q Developer you can now see additional status about subscription status and subscribed applications, when viewing users in the Amazon Q Developer console.

Aug 1, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Faster error remediation recommendations

Amazon Q Developer can help you troubleshoot errors from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and AWS Lambda. Generating these error remediation recommendations is now approximately 4x faster.

July 29, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Improved Amazon Q Developer Agent plan adherence

When you use /dev to describe a feature you want to develop, Amazon Q Developer creates a plan, then a code diff that delivers on that plan. We have made a significant internal improvement to Amazon Q Developer to improve how closely the code diff adheres to the plan. You should now see more complete code diffs, with fewer missed files.

July 19, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Amazon Q Developer now supports security scans for Kotlin, Scala and JSX

You can now receive security scan findings for your Kotlin, Scala, and JSX code, through the Amazon Q Developer IDE extension. We have launched 26 Kotlin, 38 Scala, and 161 JSX rules. 

July 11, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Workspace chat awareness for Amazon Q Developer in IDE

Previously Amazon Q Developer chat in your IDE was aware of your currently open file, but did not consider all project files. You can now add @workspace to chat messages. Amazon Q Developer will then consider all code files in the current project. Try out questions such as “@workspace what does this codebase do?” or “where does this @workspace implement authentication and authorization?”.

July 11, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Chat about your AWS resources with Amazon Q Developer

When you open the Amazon Q chat panel within the AWS console, you can now query resources on your AWS account with statements such as “list the EC2 instances in this region” or “show me the open ports on security group X”

July 10, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Amazon Q Developer Customization for inline code recommendation (GA) and chat (Preview)

Connect Amazon Q Developer to your organization's private code repositories to create customizations that will modify how inline code recommendation and chat function. Amazon Q Developer can now learn your org's coding style, write code snippets that utilize your private internal libraries, and better understand the overall structure of existing internal codebases.

July 10, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Amazon Q Developer now available in Amazon SageMaker Studio

Chat with Amazon Q, generate code, and debug error messages inside of Amazon SageMaker Studio. As a data science or ML engineer you will benefit from Amazon Q assistance throughout the machine learning development process.

July 02, 2024

Visual Studio 2022 

Amazon Q Developer now available in Visual Studio 2022

Amazon Q is now generally available for Visual Studio 2022. Use Amazon Q Chat to help author, explain, refactor, fix, and optimize code. Run security scans on C# code to catch security vulnerabilities.

June 30, 2024

Amazon Q Developer Agent

Amazon Q improves support for C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, and TypeScript

Amazon Q Developer Agent now has increased understanding of the following programming languages: C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, and TypeScript. We have made internal improvements to the syntax parser that allows Q Developer Agent to understand large codebases. This will enable improved code diffs that stick to the feature development plan.

June 18, 2024

Amazon CodeCatalyst

Amazon Q Developer Agent helps bootstrap new projects in CodeCatalyst

When setting up a new project in Amazon CodeCatalyst you can now describe what you want to create and receive guidance about which blueprint to pick. Amazon Q will also create an issue in the project for each requirement that isn’t included in the resources created by the blueprint. You can assign these issues to Amazon Q to turn the initial blueprint into your final project.

June 04, 2024

CLI

Amazon Q now available on the CLI

You can now add Amazon Q to your CLI. Get detailed CLI command completions powered by generative AI, chat with Amazon Q to ask questions, or translate a human readable command into an AWS CLI command or bash script to execute inline.

April 30, 2024

Amazon CodeCatalyst

Amazon Q Developer now generally available

Amazon Q Developer is now generally available across the AWS Console and as a standalone IDE extension for Visual Studio Code, and JetBrains IDE’s. Note: as part of this GA release, Amazon CodeWhisperer is now part of Amazon Q Developer.

2023  

November 28, 2023

Amazon Q Developer available to preview

Amazon Q Developer is now available in the AWS Console, and as part of the AWS Toolkit installed in Visual Studio Code, and JetBrains IDE’s.

April 13, 2023

Inline Code Suggestions

Amazon CodeWhisperer now generally available

Amazon CodeWhisperer, a real-time AI coding companion, is generally available and also includes a CodeWhisperer Individual tier that’s free to use for all developers.

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