JetBrains releases new updates and fixes for ReSharper and Rider 2025.2

JetBrains has announced the first set of updates focused on bug fixes for Resharper and Rider, dubbed version 2025.2.1. Let's discuss the most notable.

Starting with ReSharper, the popular extension for Visual Studio, JetBrains has made a significant addition for game developers. JetBrains says you can now take advantage of Unity-specific inspections and cleanup rules, which have been added to the Command Line Tools.

This brings some consistency when you add code analysis to your CI server, like Jenkins and TeamCity, because the command line results will now match what you see in the IDE. For C++ developers, ReSharper C++ now runs in its own Out-of-Process (OOP) mode, even when installed without the full ReSharper suite.

The Out-of-Process mode itself was introduced as a public preview back in 2025.2, and this update builds on it by allowing C++ unit tests to run in that mode. JetBrains also restored the proper behavior of IDE shortcuts and fixed a Visual Studio freeze that could happen when opening the extensions menu.

Moving on to the standalone IDE for .NET devs, Rider, the team fixes an issue where the debugger would halt on exceptions without allowing execution to continue. In the previous version, there was an issue where the AI Assistant could get confused in a C# project and send the wrong C++ code snippets instead of the correct C# code. That has now been fixed.

If you use Godot, you'd be pleased to hear that GDScript files are now properly recognized as part of the solution, so they will appear in search results as expected. Other fixes include the Unit Test Explorer no longer showing duplicate entries for tests, and Edit & Continue once again functions correctly when you are using embedded debug symbols. Dynamic Program Analysis on Windows will also correctly clean up its snapshot files now.

In case you missed it, JetBrains recently made RubyMine, the company's IDE for Ruby, free for non-commercial use. This joins a host of other IDEs from the company that have free, non-commercial options, like CLion and WebStorm. A non-commercial license is valid for one year and renews automatically if you have used the IDE in the last six months of your subscription.

You can learn more from the official JetBrains blog.

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Posted Friday 5 September 2025 at 2:09 pm AEST (my time).

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