Quality is constantly decreasing with each new update
This is a feedback and a rant.
Have a look at the latest Rider update: https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2025/11/27/resharper-and-rider-2025-3-0-3/
8 issues fixed and all 8 are regressions on existing functionalities that worked prior to 2025.3. Functionalities that were stable and broken during a major update. One of them is already re-opened. Recall that plugin updates were also broken with the update. I wouldn't be surprised to see more reopen. See bugs fixed after the 3.0 update: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/RIDER?q=Available%20in:%202025.3.0.* and track how many of those are on the new functionalities and how many are regressions on existing functionalities? Look at the user priority and notice how many are either “Prevents from using Rider” or “Very annoying”. See the opened issue on 3.0 and note how many basic workflow are now broken: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/RIDER?q=Affected%20versions:%20%202025.3.*&sort=user%20priority&order=desc.
This is not a bug report, I do report the bugs I find, when I find them (either through my work or my personal account) but do note many issues are difficult to reproduce and your customers do not have time to spend doing your QA and trying to isolate and properly reproduce and report issues. And in each release it seems more such situations are surfacing.
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Hello Sebastian,
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback—we truly appreciate your honesty. You’re absolutely right to expect better from Rider. We understand how frustrating it is when stable functionality breaks, especially in a major update, and we take this very seriously.
What Happened:
Many of the issues you encountered stemmed from unexpected defects in the IntelliJ platform (which powers Rider’s frontend) and misalignment between frontend and backend components in the 2025.3 release. These gaps led to regressions in features that had previously been stable, and we deeply regret the impact this has had on you and other users.
What We’re Doing Now:
We know this doesn’t undo the inconvenience, but we hope it demonstrates our commitment to improving. Your reports (even the hard-to-reproduce ones) are invaluable. Thank you again for your effort to share the feedback.
Regards,
Tom