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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…

PhpStorm users got a great new refactoring tool in PhpStorm 9 – parameter refactoring. Here's a quick explanation on how to use this cool new tool. (more…)…

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…

  Greetings, everyone! Today we're announcing the arrival of TeamCity 9.1.2, a bugfix to the latest TeamCity version. Build 37168 addresses over 100 problems, and we are thankful to our careful users for reporting issues and helping us make TeamCity better. The problem with updating…

We've recently improved the support for Scala tests in IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP a bit. Read on to find out more details. Statically computed expressions in scalaTest/specs2/uTest2 test names are now supported, which means that along with string constants you can use constructions like immutable strin…

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…

From time to time we receive questions from our users about a setting called "Build System" under Upsource Properties on Project Setting page: The most common ones are: "Why do I even need to specify build system?" and "What does it do?". Sometimes there's also confusion about what exactl…

Wrapping up the work we've done over summer we're releasing MPS 3.3 EAP 3. There are two major new features that we would like to encourage you to try out: Lightweight DSL support -  enables internal DSLs to be embedded inside BaseLanguage classes. Internal DSLs in general are easier and faster …

We have released a new EAP version of the Scala plugin for IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP. Here is a couple of new features we have added: Debugging: stopping at Lambda Expressions When you add a breakpoint to a line that contains a lambda expression, the IDE offers you several options where it should…

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: …

How many agents can be handled by TeamCity server? This is our official reply to the question in the title: The latest TeamCity version is known to work well with up to 300 build agents (300 concurrently running builds actively logging build run-time data). In synthetic tests the server was functi…