Please give a warm welcome to IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3 – this year’s third and final major release of our flagship IDE! With this major version of IntelliJ IDEA, we’ve focused on the performance and overall quality of the IDE. We held a quality-marathon, during which the IntelliJ IDEA team rallied together with several other JetBrains developer teams, to work specifically on polishing the IDE and make performance improvements, UI responsiveness fixes, usability enhancements, improvements in the existing functionality, and more. To better define our priorities for this release cycle, we’ve be

We are approaching the release date and today we are ready to give you the second Beta for IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3! IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Beta builds are free to use but they expire within 30 days of the build date. We are putting the finishing touches on the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3, and this build comes with some notable changes. Firstly, just so you are not caught off guard, the timeline for GitHub Pull Requests will not be included in this upcoming release version. We’ll continue enhancing our support of GitHub Pull Requests, and we plan to make it available in one of our futur

The new IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3 EAP build focuses on small fixes and improvements to various parts of the IDE. The new build comes with fixes for several regressions in Gradle support, polishes the Services tool window, fixes memory leaks, improves support for SpringBoot 2.2, improves Docker terminal, introduces the new Kubernetes View, and includes changes from Android Studio 3.5. Give it a try. (more…)

We have a fresh EAP build for the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3. Come and have a look at the new improvements this new build has to offer! As usual, the EAP builds for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate are free to use but expire from 30 days of the build date. Version Control To resolve a bunch of usability issues, we removed ‘Checkout as’ and introduced a new unified Checkout action for remote branches and the ‘New Branch from Selected’ action for both remote and local branches. (more…)

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 in

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

Today we’ve launched the new EAP build for the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3 with lots of improvements. As usual, EAP builds for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate are free to use, but they will expire within 30 days of the build date. Improved mismatched types tooltip Continuing the work of polishing IntelliJ IDEA, we have reworked the mismatched type tooltip to improve its readability. Normally, you’ll see the mismatched types tooltip when an argument type does not match the parameter type in a method call, or if the actual type doesn’t match the expected type in assignments Previously, it w

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. As usual, the EAP builds for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate are free to use, but they will expire within 30 days of the build date. (more…)

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

Last month we released IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2 with a load of awesome new features such as Java 13 Preview features, Profiling Tools, Services Tool window, and much more. Actually, the first bug-fix update for it – IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2.1 – is already available for you to download. Now it’s time to shed some light on what we are planning to do next. The upcoming major release of IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3 is going to be different from all of our previous major releases. It will be focused more on things like performance and quality, rather than adding new functionality. (more…)