Downloading Apache NetBeans 15

Apache NetBeans 15 was released on August 31, 2022. Go here on GitHub for a list of fixed issues for Apache NetBeans 15.

Apache NetBeans 15 is available for download from your closest Apache mirror.

Officially, it is important that you verify the integrity of the downloaded files using the PGP signatures (.asc file) or a hash (.sha512 files). The PGP keys used to sign this release are available here.

Apache NetBeans can also be installed as a self-contained snap package on Linux.

  • Tip: Linux users: use the binary zip, Snap, or our community installers (there is a .deb without JDK too). This has been discussed on dev@ a little while back. Linux installer is a little broken and no-one has fixed it yet.

Community Installers

Individual NetBeans committers may provide additional binary packages as a convenience. While built using the Apache NetBeans release, they are not releases of the Apache Software Foundation. They may include other contents (eg. JDK) under additional license terms.

  • Codelerity / Gj IT packages - Windows, macOS and Linux (.deb / .AppImage) built with NBPackage. Most include a local JDK runtime for the IDE to run on, for a self-contained out-of-the-box experience (other JDK’s may be used for projects).

Deployment Platforms

The Apache NetBeans 15 binary releases require JDK 11+, and officially support running on JDK 11 and JDK 17.

The current JDKs have an issue on macOS Big Sur, that causes freezes on dialogs. That could be fixed by applying the workaround described at NETBEANS-5037 .

Building from Source

To build Apache NetBeans 15 from source you need:

  1. A distribution of OpenJDK 8 or 11.

  2. Apache Ant 1.10 or greater (https://ant.apache.org).

Once you have everything installed then:

  1. Unzip netbeans-15-source.zip in a directory of your liking.

  1. cd to that directory, and then run ant to build the Apache NetBeans IDE. Once built you can run the IDE by typing ./nbbuild/netbeans/bin/netbeans

Community Approval

As in any other Apache Project, the Apache NetBeans Community approved this release through the following voting processes in our mailing lists:

Earlier Releases

Please visit the Apache NetBeans Download page for further details.