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 …

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 …

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 monitor…

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 ag…

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 nee…

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. …

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 o…

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 vari…

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 lo…

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…

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 rough…

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 abilit…