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A new IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3 EAP build is here and it comes with highly anticipated improvements. Continuing the trend of eliminating pain-points and resolving issues that affected lots of users, this new EAP build addresses the issues that have received more than 400 votes in total.

Download and try the freshly released new EAP build from our website, or update to it via the Toolbox App.

As usual, the EAP builds for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate are free to use but expire within 30 days of the build date.

MongoDB support

At last, it’s here! The upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3 will provide initial support for MongoDB.

Already in this EAP build, you can view collections and fields in the database explorer.

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We’ve just published a new EAP build of the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3, which focuses heavily on improving the performance and overall quality of the IDE.

Now, when the major performance changes are included in the latest IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3 EAP build, we can tell you about the key changes in detail.

Faster startup

As soon as you launch the IDE, you’ll see one of its major performance improvements – much faster startup.

While we always strive to improve the IDE’s performance, since v2019.2 we have making special efforts to reduce startup times, and this release cycle continues this long-term effort of speeding up the startup time.

This upcoming major version v2019.3 reduces startup times even further by introducing substantial architectural changes to the IntelliJ Platform.

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Our work on the next major version of IntelliJ IDEA is in full swing. We have been checking and polishing the IDE during our IntelliJ Quality marathon, and today we are ready to give you the second EAP build for the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3, which comes with huge pack of highly anticipated fixes and improvements.

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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.

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