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In PhpStorm 2016.2, we've introduced a new "automatic" live template that makes it easier to complete the parameters passed into functions, methods, or class constructors. Let's take a look at how this works. (more…)…

The last four months passed quickly, yet they were very productive. Today we give you IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2, our second update in the series of this year’s releases. As usual, it brings both useful new features and important fixes. Read on to learn what kept us busy and download the update to try all…

PHP 7 is gaining traction, and we've been working hard to try and make PhpStorm 2016.2 the best tool around for working with PHP 7. (more…)…

Greeting, everyone! The impatiently awaited TeamCity 10.0 EAP3 is here  and it comes with a bunch of new really amazing features! For starters, here are a few of them: Managing the workload for large TeamCity installations can be made more efficient with the 2-node TeamCity server configur…

Writing docblocks is slow and tedious, so any help that your IDE can give you is always useful. PhpStorm 2016.2 has improved the way that the `@throws` annotation is detected and generated to save you having to create these annotations yourself. (more…)…

Often in web development, we want to start a new project from a skeleton application that has all the scaffolding we need to get quickly started with coding. PhpStorm bundles with some of these templates, but in 2016.2 we've added the ability to create your own project templates. (more…)…

We've made some improvements in the way that unused `use` statements are detected in PhpStorm 2016.2. (more…)…

At JetBrains, we make a lot of effort to help reduce the amount of boilerplate work that our users have to deal with. Even though code review is a process requiring human's attention, there's still room for automation. A brand new feature in the latest major release is aimed to take responsibility f…

Fresh IntelliJ IEA 2016.2 EAP build is out and ready. Among the usual bugfixes it also brings something special: Breadcrumbs for Java code. Until now breadcrumbs were only available in HTML and XML code, where they have proven to be super handy for tracking of the editing position as well as trav…

Since we released Hub 2.0 a few months ago, the team has been busy delivering updates for the current version. Today we are excited to share the roadmap for Hub 3.0, the upcoming version of Hub. Please note that this is just an approximate plan and subject to change. As usual, we’ve divided the l…

You may have noticed recent versions of the Composer dependency manager has come with a warning if you have Xdebug enabled: Jordi added this warning because Xdebug does wondrous things when you are developing, but it slows down execution of PHP scripts massively. Turning Xdebug on and off dep…