Editora 0.9.2: Maven, an AI switch, and a Windows fix

July 8, 2026 · Adrian De Leon · release

Editora 0.9.2 is here, the second tagged release, with native installers for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It’s a focused update: one substantial new feature, a cleanup of how AI is turned on, a couple of Markdown-preview touches, and an important fix for Windows users.

Maven support

The headline addition is Maven support. When the active project has a pom.xml, a Maven button appears on the toolbar (hidden until a pom is actually detected). Click it for a searchable popup, IntelliJ-style, that reads the pom directly:

the standard lifecycle phases (clean, validate, compile, test, package, verify, install, site, deploy),
the pom’s declared profiles, checkable to compose into a run with -P<id>,
each plugin’s explicitly-bound goals as <prefix>:<goal> rows (e.g. spotless:check, jacoco:report), and
a “Run custom goal(s)…” freeform prompt for everything else.

Discovery is pom.xml-only and parsed with the JDK’s own hardened XML parser, so it’s instant and offline, with no call out to mvn help:effective-pom and no third-party XML dependency. Runs prefer the project’s own ./mvnw wrapper when present (falling back to mvn on PATH, or a Settings override) and stream to a dedicated Maven console tool window. It’s on by default, inert until a pom is found, and disabled in Simple UI mode and for remote files. Read the Maven guide.

AI, behind one switch

The AI Agent and AI Actions settings, previously scattered across separate groups, now live together under a new AI sidebar group with a single master Enable/Disable AI switch. It’s off by default, and turning it off disables every AI feature at once, the agent chat, commit-message generation, explain and rewrite, and inline completion, regardless of the individual pages’ settings below it. (The MCP server is a separate feature and is unaffected.) There’s a palette command for it too. A fresh install now has no AI usage until you explicitly turn it on.

Markdown preview

Two smaller touches: a link in the live preview is now clickable, showing a hand cursor and opening in your system browser, and there’s a loading spinner while an AI explanation streams into a preview buffer (the re-render is debounced, so a fast stream could otherwise leave the preview blank until it finished).

The Windows fix

If you tried a Windows build recently and it wouldn’t launch, this release is for you. Since the AOT startup cache landed, every Windows install failed with “Failed to find JVM in …\runtime directory”. The cause: the build strips the bundled runtime’s bin/ after AOT training to reclaim space, which is safe on macOS and Linux, where bin/ holds only launcher executables. But the Windows JDK layout puts the JVM itself inside bin/ (jvm.dll and the bootstrap libraries), which Editora.exe loads from there, so deleting bin/ removed the JVM. The strip is now guarded to non-Windows only; the Windows bin/ is kept intact.

Get it

Download an installer from the releases page. They’re unsigned for now, so macOS wants a right-click → Open and Windows wants “More info → Run anyway” the first time. The full list is on the What’s New page.

Editora is built in the open, and with the help of AI coding tools. Issues and discussion are on GitHub.