Even if you're already waiting for IntelliJ IDEA 14 with its all new awesome features, you still might be glad to know that we've just released a fresh update for IntellIJ IDEA 13.1 packed with lots of important fixes. If you're running IntelliJ IDEA 13.1, then click "Check for updates" and install a patch. Otherwise go to the official website and download the new version from there. Develop with Pleasure!

We're glad to announce that IntellIJ IDEA 13.1.5 RC is available. This EAP build brings you, among other fixes, the two important changes: creating new Grails projects and OS X 10.9.5 compatible application signature. Hurry up to share your feedback on our discussion forum and report bugs to the issue tracker. If no critical problems are found, this build will become the IntellIJ IDEA 13.1.5 update. Develop with Pleasure!

In case you haven't noticed, yesterday we released IntelliJ IDEA 133.1081, which, in case nothing goes wrong, will become IntelliJ IDEA 13.0.3. The complete list of bugfixes can be found in Release Notes. Feel free to share your feedback on our discussion forum or submit bug reports directly to the tracker. Develop with Pleasure!

In the past couple of months we've been talking a lot about what new features users can find in IntelliJ IDEA 13. Today we'd like to take a break from that and speak a little bit about what it brings to the plugin authors, so this post will give you an overview of notable changes in the Plugin DevKit. Everything marked with (13.1) is already available in the freshly released IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 EAP. plugin.xml editor It's faster and has new code highlighting and inspection features. For example, you can now see the usages of deprecated extension points: Code completion, usage searc

In the year 2013 much has changed in the world of web development: new languages, frameworks and libraries, and even test runners and frameworks. JetBrains continues to provide the best tools for all web developers, no matter what language or technology they’re using, and in today's post we'll freshen your memory up with what new web development features IntelliJ IDEA 13 has (which is a good thing to do while waiting for 13.1 to come out.) (more…)

We are happy to share with you that IntelliJ IDEA 13.0.3 update is now available for early preview. The new build fixes the critical Flex performance issues as well as the out-of-memory exceptions on the startup. To give the preview a try, download the new IntelliJ IDEA 133.818 build from our official EAP page. Find the full list of changes in Release Notes. Feel free to share your feedback on our discussion forum or submit bug reports directly to the tracker. Develop with Pleasure!

Great news for those who can't wait for IntelliJ IDEA 13.0.2 update. Today we have released its RC build: IntellIJ IDEA 133.672. The build is likely to become IntelliJ IDEA 13.0.2 if there are no critical problems. The full list of changes is available in Release Notes. Hurry up to share your feedback on our discussion forum and submit bug reports to the issue tracker. Develop with Pleasure!

Some of you may have missed the fact that IntelliJ IDEA 13.0.2 is already available for early preview. If so, that's not such a problem because today we're announcing IntelliJ IDEA 133.609, the new fresh build with bugfixes and enhancements. Make sure you read previous build release notes as well, because in addition to bugfixes we have brought in many new features merged from Android Studio. As always, you're welcome to share your feedback on the discussion forum and submit bug reports to our issue tracker. Develop with Pleasure!

We hope you had enough time during the holidays to play with IntelliJ IDEA 13 and now want to try something new, like Database Tools, which has been so greatly improved in version 13 that you can now ditch your third party database client and perform all database operations right from IntelliJ IDEA (and it doesn't matter what server you are using, you get the same user experience with all of them.) Data Source Configuration The data source configuration is no more a nightmare, thanks to the new Data Source and Drivers dialog. Just type a host, port, credentials and IntelliJ IDEA will tak

As you know, one of the features introduced in IntelliJ IDEA 13 is the long-awaited support for Subversion 1.8. Let's have a closer look at it. Unlike its earlier versions, Subversion 1.8 support uses the native command line client instead of SVNKit to run commands. This approach is more flexible and makes the support of upcoming versions much easier. Now, IntelliJ IDEA offers different integration options for each specific Subversion: 1.6 - SVNKit only 1.7 - SVNKit and command line client 1.8 - Command line client only If you opt to the command line client, make sure you have i

As you already know, the Navigate actions is the fastest way to find anything you need: classes, files, or even symbols. Just start typing the search expression, and IntelliJ IDEA displays the cleverly arranged list of suggestions that you can then very quickly narrow down, and in moments of time make the final jump to what you've been looking for. Now, you may think it’s absolutely impossible to make navigation even faster than this, but when we say "Better performance", we're not just making an empty promise. You might have noticed that in IntelliJ IDEA 13 the Navigate actions are much more

The recording of our December 9th webinar is now available on IntelliJ IDEA YouTube Channel. The webinar features Yann Cébron (JetBrains), our special guest Josh Long (Pivotal), Spring 4.0 and IntelliJ IDEA 13. In this session, Yann and Josh highlight the new features included in both of these major releases that will help you to be more productive. (more…)

At JetBrains we're always listening to developers, and Android developers are no exception. Based on this tight feedback loop, we've made a long list of changes to our award-winning IDE which will hopefully make development of Android apps an even bigger pleasure. Here’s what IntelliJ IDEA 13 has to offer you. (more…)

We hope you are excited to try the freshly released IntelliJ IDEA 13 if you haven't already. As announced, the new release comes with support for Java EE 7, the new version of Java enterprise platform released this year by Oracle, along with GlassFish 4.0, an update to the popular open-source application server. IntelliJ IDEA 13 support for Java EE 7 is a lot more than just the new specs and versions. Together with overall user experience improvements, it brings in a new set of helpful productivity-boosting features: (more…)

Today we are thrilled to announce that IntelliJ IDEA 13, the next version of our award-winning Java IDE, is finally available for download. This year the IntelliJ IDEA team worked on building stronger ties with the companies behind many leading development technologies like Android, Spring, Scala and Gradle. As a result, we are able to stay ahead of the curve and bring you the best possible tools to work with these cutting-edge technologies. (more…)

This weekend is going to be interesting, because today we've published IntelliJ IDEA 13 RC3. This is really very last chance to share any feedback you may have. If nothing is seriously wrong with the RC3, it soon will have become IntelliJ IDEA 13. The complete list of changes is, as always, in Release Notes. Enjoy the weekend!

Join us Monday, December 9th, 15:00 – 16:00 GMT(7:00 – 8:00 AM PST) for our free live webinar, Spring 4.0 and IntelliJ IDEA. In this webinar, Yann Cébron (JetBrains) is joined by our guest Josh Long (Pivotal). Together, they will highlight the new features for Spring support included in these major releases that will help you to be more productive. We will be performing hands-on demonstrations so you'll be able to pick up some useful productivity tips & tricks for your daily work. Last but not least, we will share some insight into future plans for Spring support in IntelliJ IDEA.

We hope you've already enjoyed the first release candidate for IntelliJ IDEA 13, because IntelliJ IDEA 13 RC2 is coming up, with even more bugfixes and enhancements. Most notably, it includes a preview version of the new Mac installer with bundled JRE 1.7. The full list of changes is available in Release Notes. The release is coming next week, so this is your very last chance to submit the feedback, so don't hesitate to report any issues in the issue tracker. Develop with Pleasure!  

If you've already tried IntelliJ IDEA 13 Beta, you are most certainly going to like this: the first release candidate of IntelliJ IDEA 13 has just been released and is available for download. The new build brings bugfixes and enhancements, including better type inference for Java 8. For the complete list of what's new, see Release Notes. Less than two weeks remaining before the IntelliJ IDEA 13 release, so submit your feedback while you can! You're welcome at the discussion forum, and in our issue tracker. Develop with Pleasure!

Today we released IntelliJ IDEA 132.1045, one more preview build for the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 13. As always the build brings a new bunch of bugfixes and enhancements. Find the full list of changes in Release Notes. You are welcome with your feedback on the discussion forum and bugs reports in our issue tracker.