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If you are a Grails developer, you'll be happy to know that IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP brings the long-awaited support for Grails 3.  Now you can enjoy both: the latest features of your favorite web framework, and the coding assistance of your favorite IDE: (more…)…

Last week we published IntelliJ IDEA 15 Preview to let everyone explore the new features coming in IntelliJ IDEA 15. This week, we continue our EAP program and publish a fresh EAP build. Among bugfixes, the new build brings several improvements of the TFS integration. Now, when committing your ch…

If you follow the latest news about Kotlin, you may have heard that it hit M13. This is quite an important milestone, because it changes the language syntax and addresses a number of critical issues. If you're using IntelliJ IDEA, be advised that the IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP build we published this week…

While we're busy working on the new and shiny IntelliJ IDEA 15 (expected this fall), we actually don't stop improving the existing IntelliJ IDEA 14.1 version. Today we're happy to let you know about the availability of its new update. Enjoy an even more stable version of your favorite Java IDE. …

To make the upcoming major release feature-rich, we keep adding new features almost every week. Force Early Return in Java Debugger The Java debugger in the new EAP build got a new action called Force Early Return. Now you can force the return from the current method without executing any more…

A fresh IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP build is ready and out. Among the bugfixes and enhancements it ships with, you'll find a small, but useful new feature. Now you can change the scope of your Exclude from Import and Completion preferences from IDE to Project: This will allow you to have differen…

In the new IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP build released yesterday Perforce users may notice a new action in the Local Changes tab in the Version Control tool window: Now you can shelve your changes not only locally but also in Perforce, which might be more convenient and safe in some cases. When you i…

Earlier we mentioned that we're working to make our IDE more friendly for people with color blindness. In the latest IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP build, we've  changed the appearance settings, so now when enabling the Adjust for color deficiency option you have to choose the form of color blindness: …

Those who use Groovy in their projects will be glad to know that the new IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP build comes with the long-awaited support for the @Builder annotation, introduced in Groovy 2.3: The support includes code completion and quick navigation for all 4 strategies. Apart from that we'…

It's been a while since we added the Analyze → Locate Duplicates feature. If you've had a chance to use it, you know how helpful it is: by eliminating duplicates in your code, you make it more concise and stable. If you've never used it, you definitely should; it's truly surprising how many duplicat…

If you're using IntelliJ IDEA 14.1.4 but can't wait when a new update is out, you're welcome to give a try to IntelliJ IDEA 14.1.5 EAP. The latest build, among its numerous bugfixes and enhancements, includes important performance and stability fixes, and SVN 1.9 compatibility. If you decide to upda…

Today we have released a fresh IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP build, as always with lots of enhancements and new features, one of which is the brand new indicator for the running configurations, that I am going to describe in more detail. Usually, running several instances of a run configuration makes litt…