'serialVersionUID' field not declared 'private static final long'

Reports Serializable classes whose serialVersionUID field is not declared private static final long.

Example:

  class SampleClass implements Serializable {
    private long serialVersionUID = 1; // field of a Serializable class is not declared 'private static final long'

    public SampleClass() {
        System.out.println(serialVersionUID);
    }
  }

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

SerialVersionUIDWithWrongSignature

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Serialization issues

Inspection ID: SerialVersionUIDNotStaticFinal

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection SerialVersionUIDWithWrongSignature

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025