We’ve been working for a while now on the next major release, IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3, which is due out by the end of this fall.
Today we have great news to share – we’ve just launched the Early Access Program (EAP) for IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3 and now you can download and try v2019.3 before it’s officially released. You can download EAP builds from our website, get them from the Toolbox App, or update to them using snaps if you’re an Ubuntu user. As usual, the EAP builds for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate are free to use but expire within 30 days of the build date.
We never stop working to boost your development experience in IntelliJ IDEA, and with each release we devote a lot of effort to making improvements and fixing bugs. If you keep an eye on our blogs though, you may know that, rather than introducing new features, with the upcoming 2019.3 release we’re almost exclusively targeting performance and quality.
To this end, we’ve organized a quality marathon. Most of the IntelliJ team is now working on fixing problems that affect the most users, as well as eliminating performance issues and enhancing usability.
Please keep in mind that v2019.3 is still in a stage of heavy development and therefore the EAP builds might be unstable. If you encounter any bugs please report them to our issue tracker.
The release notes list all the changes that have been addressed up to this moment. In this post, we’ll take a look at the most interesting improvements and notable fixes.
