Yesterday in our company blog we announced the plans to move to a single versioning scheme for all our products under the JetBrains Toolbox. As it affects the way we version and release IntelliJ IDEA, we recommend you to thoroughly read about it. Having said that, we're happy to let you know that we've just released an RC build for IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1, the first update planned for 2016 (previously known as IntelliJ IDEA 16).  To learn more about IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1 and to download the RC build, visit our website. Help us make the release better by sharing your feedback with us–here in

It’s been wonderful (and busy) 3 months since we announced IntelliJ IDEA 15. Exciting, because we’ve been working on new features, and busy, because we promised more frequent updates. We’re proud of what we managed to accomplish during that time, and without any further ado, we’re happy to present you the first IntelliJ IDEA 16 public preview. If you want all the details about its new features, or get yourself a copy to try right away, visit our website. Here's a brief overview of its most notable highlights. (more…)

A new IntelliJ IDEA 16 EAP build is now available for download. Take a look at the release notes to see which bugfixes are included. Spring Boot Those who work with Spring Boot projects should give this build a try because we've added a number of improvements in this area, including better coding assistance. Find usages for configuration properties Now you can find usages of your custom configuration properties in your application configuration files and additional metadata files. To do that, click the gutter icon (equal to Navigate → Related Symbol) or simply call Show Usages via Alt+

Great news, everyone! A fresh weekly IntelliJ IDEA 16 EAP is out and ready, packed with bugfixes and new features as usual. The noticeable changes affect the debugger, VCS integrations, and user interface. Debugger Now when debugging a Java application, you can use Groovy expressions with Evaluate Expression and Watches. Previously you could do that only when debugging Groovy code. This is good because Groovy expressions are much shorter and more expressive (especially when you work with collections.) This feature requires a Groovy runtime library in the classpath. Also, we've

Every week we publish a fresh IntelliJ IDEA 16 EAP. Today's build, among bugfixes that address issues you reported, brings a few improvements to Git integration and IntelliJ IDEA heart, the code editor. Move elements right and left We already have a way to move code statements up and down: Ctrl + Shift + Up/Down (Cmd + Shift + Up/Down for OS X.) They come in handy when you're rearranging code statements. Sometimes, however, it might be useful to move them left or right (when you're, for example, changing the order of attributes of an XML element, method parameters, or elements in an arra

Meet the fresh IntelliJ IDEA 16 EAP build, addressing a number of issues, and bringing several improvements. A minor, yet helpful improvement in the new build is better handling of static imports. Previously IntelliJ IDEA provided a quick-fix to import static methods. Now it suggests to add static imports in the very same way as it does with regular ones: Static constants are suggested, too: If the Add unambiguous imports on the fly option is enabled in Settings → Editor → General → Auto Import, IntelliJ IDEA will import unambiguous static members on the fly. As always,

Good news, everyone! A fresh IntelliJ IDEA 16 EAP build is out and ready. As always, it comes with various bugfixes, but that's not all: there's a couple of new features as well. Built-in inspections that detect issues with use of concurrency annotations now support javax.annotation.concurrent.*: Previously such problems were reported only for net.jcip.annotations.*. Kotlin plugin has been updated to Beta 4. This brings better incremental compilation performance along with minor changes to the language, libraries, and improved coding assistance. More details can be found in this p

If you've already tried IntelliJ IDEA 16 EAP announced last week, you'll be glad to know that we've just released a new build. With this build IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to Java 8. Users won't be able to launch the IDE under a JDK older than Java 8. It means plugin developers now can use Java 8 features in their code. This change affects the master branch (144.* builds) and further major releases in Spring, 2016. The bugfix updates (143.*builds) will remain compatible with Java 6. The inspection that finds code duplicates now has an option to ignore generated

With Christmas around the corner, we have prepared a small gift for you: a sneak peek at IntelliJ IDEA 16. Starting today we’re switching to the cycle that includes several "average" releases per year, supported by bugfix updates (instead of having one major release per year followed by one minor update). To start things off, we’re opening the IntelliJ IDEA 16 EAP which brings you a few goodies to make you a little happier. (more…)