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Document history for Amazon Q Developer User Guide

The following table describes the document history for the Amazon Q Developer User Guide. For notifications about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to the RSS feed.

ChangeDescriptionDate

New test generation agent

You can use Amazon Q test generation feature to generate unit tests.

December 3, 2024

Large-scale transformation

Amazon Q can transform .NET, mainframe, and VMware workloads in bulk.

December 3, 2024

GitLab Duo with Amazon Q

Information about GitLab Duo with Amazon Q, including concepts, getting started procedures, and troublehsooting.

December 3, 2024

Documentation generation in the IDE

Amazon Q can generate READMEs for your code in supported IDEs.

December 3, 2024

Code reviews in the IDE

Amazon Q code reviews, previously security scans, can detect and address issues in your code in supported IDEs.

December 3, 2024

.NET transformation in the IDE

Amazon Q can port your .NET applications to Linux-compatible cross-platform applications in Visual Studio, available in preview.

December 3, 2024

Transformation on the command line

You can transform Java applications on the command line, available in preview.

November 27, 2024

Multiple diffs for transformation in the IDE

You can choose to receive transformation changes from Amazon Q in multiple diffs.

November 27, 2024

Amazon Q in Eclipse

The Amazon Q plugin is available in preview in Eclipse.

November 27, 2024

Cost analysis

The cost analysis capability, previously available in preview, is now generally available.

November 26, 2024

Transformation for embedded SQL code

You can convert embedded SQL code in your Java applications with Amazon Q transformation in the IDE.

November 22, 2024

Dashboard update

The Amazon Q Developer Pro dashboard has been update with new metrics.

November 22, 2024

CodeConnections repositories

When creating a customization using a CodeConnections connection, you can now choose the repositories you want to use.

November 22, 2024

Amazon Q command line now supports Linux

Amazon Q command line supports Linux environments. It supports Ubuntu 22 and 24, and may otherwise work with GNOME v42+ or environments where the display server is Xorg and the input method framework is IBus.

November 21, 2024

Subscribing users

The instructions for subscribing users in Setting up access to the Amazon Q Developer Pro tier have been updated to reflect new user interface (UI) elements.

November 20, 2024

Changes to customizations

The Customization in chat feature is now generally available. Also, customizations can now be trained with the following file types: .md, .mdx, .rst, and .txt.

November 20, 2024

Supported IAM Identity Center Regions

A section has been added with information about the Regions where you can set up IAM Identity Center instances for Amazon Q Developer Pro subscriptions.

November 18, 2024

Languages added

Support has been added for Dart, Lua, R, Swift, SystemVerilog, and Powershell, as well as expanded support for JSON and YAML.

November 18, 2024

Customer managed key support

Information about using customer managed keys and the features that can be encrypted with them has been added to the Data encryption topic.

November 18, 2024

Cross-region inference

A topic on cross-region inference in Amazon Q Developer has been added.

November 18, 2024

Amazon Q Developer Pro quotas

A Pro tier quotas section has been added.

November 18, 2024

Updated managed policy: AmazonQFullAccess

Additional permissions have been added to the AmazonQFullAccess policy.

November 13, 2024

Updated managed policy: AmazonQDeveloperAccess

Additional permissions have been added to the AmazonQDeveloperAccess policy.

November 13, 2024

Amazon Q plugins

Plugins enable users to chat with Amazon Q about metrics provided by third party tools.

November 13, 2024

User activity reports

You can now enable user activity reports.

November 8, 2024

Customizations section update

The Preparing your data section now describes file and directory naming limitations.

November 5, 2024

Clarified the Amazon Q Developer Pro section

The instructions for subscribing users to Amazon Q Developer Pro have been clarified.

November 1, 2024

Inline chat

You can transform code using the new inline chat feature.

October 29, 2024

Updated managed policies: AmazonQFullAccess and AmazonQDeveloperAccess

Additional permissions have been added to the AmazonQFullAccess policy and AmazonQDeveloperAccess policy.

October 28, 2024

Customizations section correction

The Creating your customization section now indicates that your codebase must reside in a folder in Amazon S3, not the bucket's root.

October 28, 2024

Prompt logging section clarification

The Enabling prompt logging section's wording was clarified.

October 24, 2024

Amazon S3 bucket policy fix

The Amazon S3 bucket policy shown in Enabling prompt logging contained a JSON syntax error that was fixed.

October 22, 2024

Expanded features chapter

The chapter describing various Amazon Q Developer features has been significantly expanded.

October 3, 2024

Console-to-Code

Console-to-Code, previously available in preview as a feature of Amazon EC2, is now generally available as a feature of Amazon Q Developer. It integrates with Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, and Amazon RDS.

October 3, 2024

New policy: Use Amazon Q CLI with AWS CloudShell

Identity-based policy allows users to use Amazon Q CLI with AWS CloudShell.

October 2, 2024

Prompt logging

You can log your users' IDE prompts in an Amazon S3 bucket.

September 16, 2024

Setup content updated

The Getting started chapter has been significantly simplified and restructured.

August 15, 2024

CodeWhisperer endpoint needed for IDE VPC access

Access from a Amazon VPC must include both q and codewhisperer endpoints.

July 18, 2024

New endpoint

Endpoints can now use the string q instead of codewhisperer.

July 12, 2024

Customizations are GA

The customizations feature is generally available.

July 10, 2024

Chatting about customizations (Preview)

In Preview, you can use the customizations feature to ask questions related to your codebase.

July 10, 2024

Updated managed policy: AmazonQFullAccess

Additional permissions have been added to the AmazonQFullAccess policy.

July 9, 2024

New managed policy: AmazonQDeveloperAccess

The AmazonQDeveloperAccess managed policy provides full access to enable interactions with Amazon Q Developer, without administrator access.

July 9, 2024

Updated Amazon Q Developer admin policy

The policy for empowering Amazon Q Developer administrators has been updated to include sso:ListProfiles.

June 19, 2024

Trusted access section

A new section more clearly explains how a Amazon Q Developer administrator can share settings with member accounts.

June 19, 2024

Updated setup procedures

There's an improved Getting started chapter that includes support for account instances.

June 6, 2024

Updated code examples

The code examples now include C and C++, and have improved examples for C#.

June 6, 2024

Updated managed policy: AmazonQFullAccess

Additional permissions have been added to the AmazonQFullAccess policy.

April 30, 2024

New service-linked role: AWSServiceRoleForUserSubscriptions

The AWSServiceRoleForUserSubscriptions service-linked role provides access for User Subscriptions to your IAM Identity Center resources to automatically update your subscriptions.

April 30, 2024

New service-linked role: AWSServiceRoleForAmazonQDeveloper

The AWSServiceRoleForAmazonQDeveloper service-linked role grants permission to access and emit data, and to create reports.

April 30, 2024

New managed policy: AWSServiceRoleForUserSubscriptionPolicy

The AWSServiceRoleForUserSubscriptionPolicy allows principals to track IAM Identity Center directory and AWS Organizations changes.

April 30, 2024

New managed policy: AWSServiceRoleForAmazonQDeveloperPolicy

The AWSServiceRoleForAmazonQDeveloperPolicy allows Amazon Q Developer to call CloudWatch and CodeGuru on your behalf.

April 30, 2024

GA release

Amazon Q Developer is available for general audiences.

April 30, 2024

Amazon CodeWhisperer merge

Amazon CodeWhisperer is now a part of Amazon Q Developer.

April 30, 2024

New guide name

This service and accompanying user guide have been renamed Amazon Q Developer.

March 29, 2024

New permission

The ListConversations action is required to chat with Amazon Q in the console.

March 5, 2024

New data protection topic

Amazon Q now uses content for service improvement purposes.

January 25, 2024

New topic

Added instructions for how to add Amazon Q to Slack and Microsoft Teams channels that are configured with AWS Chatbot.

January 18, 2024

Preview release

This is the initial preview release of the Amazon Q Developer User Guide.

November 28, 2023