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PyCharm unbundles and stops maintaining a set of low-usage bundled plugins — Data Wrangler, Hugging Face, Google Colab, Spark/PySpark support, AI Playground, AI Agents Debugger, and Databricks
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Quick answers
- Is it true that PyCharm deprecates and unbundles low-usage plugins — Databricks, Hugging Face, Data Wrangler, and more?
- Not confirmed. JetBrains has signalled this but has not committed to a date.
- When does it take effect?
- No date has been announced yet — JetBrains has flagged the change but not set one.
- What should I use instead?
- On PyCharm 2026.2, reinstall any plugin you need from the JetBrains Marketplace (Settings → Plugins → Marketplace) — the compatible version is still published there and works with 2026.2.
What this means for you
Starting with PyCharm 2026.2, JetBrains removes seven bundled plugins from the IDE and stops developing or maintaining them: Data Wrangler, Hugging Face, Google Colab (Jupyter Notebook Colab), Spark including PySpark support, AI Playground, AI Agents Debugger, and Databricks. If you rely on any of them, they no longer ship inside PyCharm — you have to install a compatible version yourself from the JetBrains Marketplace. That compatible version stays available and works with 2026.2, but from PyCharm 2026.3 onward JetBrains stops publishing compatible builds, so the plugin will only continue to exist if the community keeps it alive through the Obsolete Plugins repository. This mainly bites data and ML workflows: teams that open Databricks, run PySpark, browse Hugging Face models, or use Data Wrangler / Google Colab from inside PyCharm rather than a browser.
Where to go
On PyCharm 2026.2, reinstall any plugin you need from the JetBrains Marketplace (Settings → Plugins → Marketplace) — the compatible version is still published there and works with 2026.2. Do this before upgrading to 2026.3, because from that release JetBrains no longer publishes compatible builds. The source for each unbundled plugin moves to JetBrains' public Obsolete Plugins repository, where you (or the community) can build and install it manually with a fixed compatibility range. JetBrains has invited maintainers to adopt individual plugins.
- JetBrains Marketplace — reinstall a compatible plugin version (works on PyCharm 2026.2)
- JetBrains Obsolete Plugins repository — community-maintained source for manual builds
- Use the vendor's own tooling directly (e.g. Databricks / Hugging Face / Google Colab in the browser or CLI)
JetBrains is trimming what ships inside PyCharm. In an official blog post, the PyCharm team says that starting with PyCharm 2026.2 it is unbundling and deprecating a set of low-usage plugins — the goal being a leaner codebase and effort spent where it reaches more Python developers.
Seven plugins are named:
- Data Wrangler
- Hugging Face
- Google Colab (Jupyter Notebook Colab)
- Spark, including PySpark support
- AI Playground
- AI Agents Debugger
- Databricks
JetBrains is explicit that deprecation is not deletion. Each unbundled plugin’s source moves to a public Obsolete Plugins repository, and a compatible version stays searchable and installable on the JetBrains Marketplace — it just stops being rebuilt with every release or maintained by the PyCharm team. “Other low-usage plugins may be deprecated in the same way in future releases.”
The timeline is tied to versions, not a calendar date
There is no single shutdown date, which is why this entry carries no countdown. The change lands across two releases:
- PyCharm 2026.2 — the plugins above are unbundled. The team stops building new features for them. Compatible versions remain installable from the Marketplace and stay compatible with 2026.2, and the source is published in the Obsolete Plugins repository for manual builds.
- PyCharm 2026.3 and later — JetBrains stops publishing compatible versions of these plugins. From here, keeping one working is on you or the community.
What to do
If your workflow depends on any of the seven — most likely the data and ML crowd running Databricks, PySpark, Hugging Face, Data Wrangler, or Google Colab inside the IDE — reinstall the plugin from the JetBrains Marketplace (Settings → Plugins → Marketplace) while you are on PyCharm 2026.2, and pin that version before you move to 2026.3. After that, the Obsolete Plugins repository is the fallback: the code is open, so the plugin can be built and installed manually, but nobody is obligated to keep it current. If you would rather drop the integration entirely, each of these tools works directly outside PyCharm — Databricks, Hugging Face, and Colab all have first-party web and CLI access.
This is a maintenance decision, not a service shutdown: no data leaves, and nothing you have saved is affected. What ends is these plugins riding along in the box and getting JetBrains’ attention.
Entry changelog
- — last reviewed.
- — Entry created from JetBrains' official PyCharm blog announcement (August 2026). Affected plugin list, the 2026.2 unbundling and 2026.3 "no more compatible versions" milestones, and the Obsolete Plugins / Marketplace paths all taken directly from the post. No calendar date is given — the timeline is tied to version releases — so sunsetDate is left null (§3.2) with the version milestones stated in the body.
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