Plugin don't work on IntelliJ 15.0.4

[Former user]

When IDEA startup I receive follows message:

Cannot load project: com.intellij.ide.plugins.PluginManager$StartupAbortedException: com.intellij.diagnostic.PluginException: com/atlassian/bitbucket/linky/discovery/VcsRepositoryDiscoverer : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 [Plugin: com.atlassian.bitbucket.references] [Plugin: com.atlassian.bitbucket.references]

And It stuck at this point don't open current project.

[Daniil Penkin]

Hello,

Sorry about that :(

You see this error because Bitbucket Linky 2.x is compiled against JDK8 and is not compatible with JRE7 or older. I expected IDEA 15 (which is set as minimum version for Linky 2.x) to be run on JRE8 (which is what you get with the default setup AFAIK).

Unfortunately, I don't plan to downgrade it back to JRE7: a lot of new stuff is used from Java 8 now.

So, there are two options for you to solve the current problem:

• either run IDEA on JRE 8
• or downgrade Bitbucket Linky to the latest version on 1.x branch, which is 1.6 at the moment — you can download it using this link

To remove Bitbucket Linky 2.0 without switching to JRE8 you can find and remove it's directory — should be something like ~/Library/Application\ Support/IntelliJIdea15/Bitbucket\ Linky on Mac OS X, ~/.PyCharm50/config/plugins/Bitbucket\ Linky on Linux or %HOME%\.IntelliJIdea15\config\plugins\Bitbucket Linky on Windows.

Sorry again and thank you for your understanding.

P.S. A big update is on the way so I hope switching to Java 8 is worth it.

Regards, Daniil