Hi @U6VPZS1EK, it’s actually under Settings | Build, Execution, Deployment | Build Tools | Maven | Repositories. There, you can select the repos you want to update and click “Update” on the right-hand side. It take a while for Maven central though! Although it will happen in the background.

Holy cow — I read that IntelliJ manual page 5-10 times, and I never navigated to the right place. At first, I saw a blank page for repos, with only local .m2 directory. (See screenshot #1). I finally figured out what all those maven pom.xml files are for — that’s apparently where all the repo information is stored per project, not a global setting in IntelliJ. I made a new one using clj -Spom, and then added it to the project, And now screenshot #2 shows all the repos from the pom.xml file. Hooray! Thank you, @U0567Q30W! Note for Google and other searchers (and future me) — this is how to get IntelliJ to know which maven artifact repositories to scan, which will help it suggest updated versions.

(Now I understand what all those pesky pom.xml files are for, which @U04V70XH6’s clj-new program generates — I always wondered about that!)

Hang on, I’m confused - why are you generating pom files? Are you managing your project using deps?

For sure — using deps.edn for everything now. But I didn’t have any maven repos listed except ~/.m2.

Roughly, pom.xml files correspond to lein’s project.clj, or deps’s deps.edn files.

That’s definitely your problem then, the deps support should add those repos without needing a pom file.

When you create a new project with deps, how do you do it?

I use clj-new (which also generates a pom file, if I recall correctly). (The real answer, I suppose: I copy the project directory, and rename them 😂)

I also don't see repos there like clojars for my deps.edn projects

@U08BJGV6E that’s bad, then, you definitely should.

FWIW, I used to see maven and clojars — but it mysteriously disappeared sometime in last 1.5 years. I know because I used to get messages like “do you want to update your maven repos?” (Memorable, because I used to see them on airplane wifi, and anguish about not being able to do the update then. 🙂

@U6VPZS1EK Once you have the project generated via clj-new, how do you get it into IntelliJ? Something like this? https://cursive-ide.com/userguide/deps.html#quick-project-import

Ok, it looks like that might have broken recently, then. I know it must have been recently, since I’m updating my doc at the moment and those popups definitely appeared in recent versions.

Let me try that.

Holy cow, @U0567Q30W — I’ve never used Quick Import before! I’ve always done this: https://cursive-ide.com/userguide/deps.html#import-an-existing-deps-project (Usually because I’ve gotten in habit of having one IntelliJ project with multiple deps.edn files, which show up as multiple modules…)

for the record I usually open my projects with the idea cmdline tool idea deps.edn

Yeah, if you have multiple deps.edn files, then the full import process is generally a better bet. Although, if you have a root project which transitively refers to the others (e.g. using :local/root) then they’ll all be pulled in automatically.

@U08BJGV6E Interesting, I’ll have to try that, I’ve not used it.

So indeed, I just created a new deps project, and those repos are not present. I’ll file a bug for that and get it fixed in the next build.

@U0567Q30W tools -> create command line launcher

Super! A (for me) longstanding mystery solved! 🎉 Thank you!

There have been some changes in both the Clojure CLI and deps.clj recently, which might have caused that, or it might be a bug in Cursive itself (shocking, I know).

https://github.com/cursive-ide/cursive/issues/2873

Is there any functionality for dep.edn projects to highlight older versions of dependencies, like this? https://www.jetbrains.com/guide/java/tutorials/managing-dependencies/update-dependencies/

So, not right now. Cursive did actually integrate with Package Search, but then JetBrains had some internal conflict over it, rewrote it entirely and broke it out from IntelliJ itself. I’ve got the details for the new version but haven’t got around to re-doing the support for it yet. But I definitely want to do it soon, it’s super nice when it works.

It’s now a plugin you have to install separately, which is a little annoying, it seems like something that would be nice to have there by default.

Anyway, support will hopefully be back soon.

Ah, it’s another one of those “so, I’m not crazy and misremembering things” moments! I thought I had some vague recollection of being able to do this in lein or deps.edn — whew! 😂 (I may just make the pom.xml files and use IntelliJ functionality — gosh, it does make it so easy to do!) PS: was just thinking about emailing you one of these days, to ask for a tour of what it’s like working inside of IntelliJ — I saw a video of a JetBrains engineer who mentioned that there’s some parts of IntelliJ that’s over 20 years old. Over the years, I know you’ve mentioned many stories of things breaking internally — sounds… inconvenient at times. 🙂

Sure, I’m happy to show you around sometime! And yes, APIs change, but JetBrains are much better at handling it these days (mostly, there’s actually a big thread complaining about it in the JetBrains plugin dev slack at the moment, so it’s obviously not entirely fixed).