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IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1.4: Four Fixes That Matter More Than They Look
Patch releases are easy to scroll past. "Just bug fixes," we tell ourselves, and move on.
But if you've ever been bitten by a Git panel that won't refresh after a branch switch, or spent twenty minutes trying to figure out why your Gradle sync "failed" when it actually didn't — you know how much a quiet little fix can mean for your daily focus.
IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1.4 dropped on July 2, 2026, and it's available now through the IDE itself, the Toolbox App, or via snap on Ubuntu.
What's Fixed
1. The Active Git Branch Finally Updates Correctly
After running a Git update, the active branch display in IDEA's Git panel sometimes wouldn't refresh — it would sit there showing the old branch name even after you'd switched. Small, but disorienting when you're juggling multiple active branches at once.
Fixed: [IJPL-240184]
2. Docker Compose pull_policy No Longer Blocks PHP Interpreter Creation
A very specific one, but a hard blocker if you hit it: defining pull_policy in a Docker Compose file could completely prevent the PHP interpreter from being created. Now resolved.
Fixed: [IJPL-189121]
3. Gradle Sync on WSL No Longer Shows False Failures
This is the one I'd argue matters most on a day-to-day basis. On WSL with Gradle 9.5.0 and above, a sync that completed successfully would still be reported as failed by the IDE. No real error, no real problem — just a misleading status that pushed you to re-sync unnecessarily, and worse, undermined your confidence in the build tool entirely.
Fixed: [IDEA-388949]
4. Dev Container Connections No Longer Fail With "Unknown Docker Endpoint Schema"
If you're using Dev Containers, you may have seen connections fail with a cryptic Unknown Docker endpoint schema error message — no helpful context, hard to debug. That's been squashed.
Fixed: [IJPL-240184]
Should You Update Now?
If you're actively using any of the above — Git-heavy workflows, Docker Compose on WSL, or Dev Containers — yes, update now. The Gradle false-failure fix in particular is significant if you have CI/CD pipelines or team processes that depend on reading sync status correctly.
If none of these scenarios touch your current setup, the update is still low-risk and worth taking. Patch releases like this tend to be stable with minimal regression surface.
- How to update:
- From inside the IDE — Help → Check for Updates
- Toolbox App — the update should already be available
- Ubuntu (snap) —
sudo snap refresh intellij-idea-ultimate - Manual download — jetbrains.com/idea/download
A Quick Note
Working in Android and Kotlin development day to day, the Gradle-on-WSL fix is the one I feel most directly. A hybrid Windows + WSL development environment is pretty common in enterprise setups, and "sync succeeded but IDEA says it failed" is exactly the kind of silent confusion that makes you distrust your own tools. Good to have that gone.
Full release notes are available on the official JetBrains announcement.
Summarized from the official JetBrains Blog post, July 2, 2026, by Maria Kosukhina.