IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 is packed with an amazing set of features, including more advanced support for GitHub pull requests, a new Inspections Widget that displays the number of warnings and errors in an opened file and allows you to quickly navigate between them, the Problems tool window that offers details of the issues in your current file and allows you to fix them fast, and the Related Problems inlay hint that notifies you when your changes break other files. There is also a bunch of new features for a number of frameworks and technologies including Jakarta EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, Amazon SQS

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 Release Candidate is ready. This is the final build before the major release, and your last chance to catch any issues before they make it into the official release. Just to give you quick heads up! This build requires a license for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate. IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 is fast approaching. Soon your IDE will support Java 15, allow you to fully control GitHub pull requests, provide a set of new and enhanced tools to help you solve complex code problems, and enable you to work with the full scope of Jakarta EE technologies. For now, you can try these updates out o

The IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1.4 bug-fix update is now available. Get the new version directly from the IDE, with the Toolbox App, or using snaps if you are an Ubuntu user. You can also download it from our website. This update brings the following important fixes: Please take a look at the full list of changes in the release notes. Happy developing!

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 Beta 2 is here, which means that the release of IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 is getting closer. IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Beta builds are free to use but they expire within 30 days of the build date. We are putting some finishing touches on the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 – fixing bugs and other issues in various parts of the IDE and getting it ready for the big day! You’ll find all the fixed issues in our release notes. Don’t forget that there is still time to raise a ticket in our issue tracker if you encounter any problems with v2020.2. You are welcome to download th

Indexing is one of the key features under the hood of IntelliJ IDEA. It is designed to simplify your work by teaching the IDE the ins and outs of your code even before you start applying any changes. The IDE indexes classes, methods, and other code elements to create a virtual map of your project. At JetBrains, we believe that the time you spend indexing at startup will save you precious hours when you are busy coding and want nothing to disturb your creative flow. It’s better to have your project fully indexed before you need contextual help with code completion, or have to navigate somewher

IntelliJ IDEA integrates with many different tools used for software development. Most of these tools run in the system shell under the hood. Sometimes you don’t even realize that instead of running a command in the integrated terminal and reading console output, you can use the relevant IDE feature, like a tool window or a dialog that implements this functionality. For example, the diff viewer actually runs the diff command in the system shell to produce results. Another example is the Log tab in the Git tool window, which is based on the output of the git log command. (more…)

I'm finishing off this newsletter while also hosting the JetBrains Technology Day for Java, so this newsletter is sadly too late for you to join the live stream! But, you're in luck, because the videos will be available to view on YouTube by the end of the month. However, just because we were busy with this event doesn't mean the rest of the world stopped. You can find a summary of the interesting Java, JVM and community news here in your July Java Annotated Monthly. (more…)

At the end of June, we had a live coding webinar hosted by our developer advocate Trisha Gee and presented by Marcus Hellberg, who leads the developer community team at Vaadin. During his screen-cast, he created a full-stack Java app using a combination of Spring Boot and Vaadin's Java API. We recorded it for you, so if you missed it, now you can watch it and learn how to boost your productivity with the useful shortcuts and fun tricks Marcus shares. Watch the recording below to see the whole workflow of app development with Vaadin and IntelliJ IDEA. Here’s the Q&A follow-up.

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 has now reached the Beta milestone. All the major features have already been implemented, so this is the perfect time to download and try the upcoming version if you haven’t yet! What will you check out first? Take your pick: More advanced support for GitHub pull requests. A new tool window and new widget for going over problems in your code. An HPROF memory viewer. A new UI for Java run configurations. Java 15 support. New features for a number of frameworks and technologies including Jakarta EE, Quarkus, Micronaut, Amazon SQS API, and OpenAPI/ Swag

Starting today, IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1.3 is available with a few bug-fixes. You can get this new version from the Toolbox App, our website, or use snaps if you are an Ubuntu user. The most important fixes are: JBR 11 is updated to v11.0.7+10-b765.64 and the following issues are fixed: Learn more about these and other fixes in the IDE and JBR release notes. You can give us your feedback on this build in the comments below, on Twitter or using our issue tracker. Happy developing!

Spellchecking is a pretty standard feature in most of today’s IDEs because it can be really helpful to catch typos in your code in the natural language constructs, such as variable names, strings, comments, and so on. Not so long ago, we introduced Grazie, a built-in grammar and style checker. Grazie is evolving and improving with every release and getting better and better at catching discrepancies in natural language. We decided it’s now about time we turned our attention to some of the long-standing issues with spellchecking and put the expertise gained from creating our powerful grammar an

The new EAP build for IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 is here! Let’s take a closer look at what the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2020.2 has in store for Jakarta EE, Quarkus, HTTP Client, Micronaut, Amazon SQS API, and OpenAPI and Swagger. Jakarta EE 9 support Jakarta EE 9 has now reached the M1 phase and is scheduled for release this September. The upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 is already fully prepared for this release. All the features that were available for Java EE are now available for Jakarta EE as well. The IDE now supports the following Jakarta EE technologies: CDI, JPA, Batch, Bean V