2017.2

Endpoints Tab The Run/Debug tool windows for Spring Boot applications now contain an Endpoints tab which will include information retrieved from the application's actuator endpoints Beans, Health, and Mapping. ‘spring-boot-starter-actuator’ must be added as a dependency to the application to enable these endpoints. The Spring Boot Run/Debug configuration option ‘Enable JMX agent’ must be also enabled in order to make new Endpoints tab appear. Initializr For Gradle-based projects: issues with automatic setup for have been fixed, and a run configuration can now be created automatically as well (

An RC build of the IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2.3 update is out and ready to test. Among other things, the update extends the Paste from History action with Paste Simple. You may find this useful when you don't want the IDE to apply formatting or escape characters: In other news, the update rolls the recent HiDPI fixes back because of regressions). As always, your feedback is very much appreciated in our issue tracker. The Drive to Develop!

We're glad to announce the availability of IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2.2, that brings you numerous bugfixes and improvements, most notable of which are: Major performance regression (KT-18921) Crashes that occurred with the use of using custom fonts (JRE-426) Wrong HiDPI scaling on multiple monitors for Windows 10 (JRE-427 and JRE-431) Kotlin plugin has been updated to v1.1.4 and brings new refactorings, inspections, quick-fixes, and more. Also, IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2.2 brings: Support for CSS Modules with LESS and SASS XQuery/XPath with Language Injection Favorites in the Databas

If you haven't yet tried the newly-released IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2, now definitely is the time for that because we've just released a slightly better version of it. Along with better performance and bugfixes, the update finally lets you use the Spring Boot feature that has been announced a while ago: Run Dashboard. This dashboard lets you manage Run configurations and see their Spring Boot specific properties. For the complete list of changes refer to the release notes. If you're using Toolbox App, you will be prompted to install this update. If you don't (but you really should),

Many of the features we're going to talk about in this post have been mentioned elsewhere in this blog, but here we're going to bring them all together and show how to use them. Better Warnings You'll have seen before that IntelliJ IDEA can analyse your code and tell you if something isn't needed, or perhaps doesn't make sense.  IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2 has even better analysis in several areas.  The first we're going to look at is Control Flow Analysis - IntelliJ IDEA can look at the logic in your code and tell you if certain cases just won't occur. For example, if a Collection or String

If you’re following our recent news, you already know that last week we released the new massive IntelliJ IDEA update, 2017.2. However, we didn’t mention its database tools much in the release announcement, so now it’s time to catch up on that, because there’s plenty of new features in that area. Amazon Redshift and Microsoft Azure These cloud database providers are now supported out of the box with dedicated drivers and their specific SQL syntaxes. If you’re already using any of them via the standard SQL Server or PostgreSQL drivers, make sure that you migrate to the new dedicate

IntelliJ IDEA provides support for the upcoming JUnit 5 release. JUnit has pretty much been the standard for Java unit testing for years, and the latest version brings the library right up to date, making use of Java 8 features and bringing in ways of testing that are familiar if you've been using other frameworks like Spock.  IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2 adds support for some of these features, to make the experience of testing code as painless and quick as possible. JUnit 5 supports parameterized tests. These tests let you use the same basic structure of a test with a number of different inputs.

As usual, the newest version of IntelliJ IDEA contains updates to help you debug applications.  Given that we are working more and more with large data sets, IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2 has added the ability to filter arrays and collections in our variables or watches. In this example, I have a variable allWords that's a list of Strings. This is a large list, so when I'm debugging my application I may want to look for specific values, or types of values, in this list.  I can do this by right-clicking on the list and selecting "filter". Then I can enter the criteria to filter. As you'd e

Great news, everyone! 2017.2, a new massive update for IntelliJ IDEA, is out and it’s packed full of new features and important bugfixes. Get a copy of this new release, and see for yourself, but before you do, it is worth spending a couple of minutes reading this summary for ideas on where to look. Smarter code completion and control flow analysis Smart Completion becomes aware of builder classes and suggests chains of method calls on its first call, and the chain suggestions are sorted according to how frequently symbols are used in the current project. Control flow analysis

As Java 9 continues to evolve, so does IntelliJ IDEA's support for it. This screencast shows the new features to support Java 9 development in the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2 release.   In the rest of this blog post we'll break down what's in the video and talk about each feature. As you'd expect, a lot of the improvements are to support the Java Platform Module System. One of the new features to help developers getting up to speed with Jigsaw and Java modularity is the new Java Module Diagram. This diagram shows the modules you've defined in your project in green; any automati

The last couple of months have been a lot of fun as we’ve been working on IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2 which is due out this summer. We appreciate the contributions from all EAP participants and the feedback they’ve shared on the new features. We reached a feature-freeze two weeks ago, and today, with roughly a month before the release, we’re happy to give you a detailed glimpse of what’s noteworthy in the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2. If you can’t wait, download the public preview build right away and try it on your own. Otherwise read on and learn about the major changes. (more…)

Another week of work for us—something new for you to try: have a look at the fresh IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2 EAP build. In addition to bugfixes, it introduces a new, experimental feature called Unloaded Modules. This feature is supposed to help you to deal with large codebases by giving you the ability to select what modules you are going to work on in your project. Modules that you are not working with at the moment are marked as Unloaded and IntelliJ IDEA will not index or otherwise touch any files in these modules, which can help to conserve CPU and memory resources. To access the feature,