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We've just released a minor bug-fix release for the IntelliJ IDEA 9 — version 9.0.4. Check the list of changes in this version and download it if you are using IntelliJ IDEA 9.x. Please note that the free Upgrade offer is effective now and if you haven’t had a chance to upgrade to IntelliJ IDEA 9 yet, do it now and get IntelliJ IDEA 10 free of charge. Develop with pleasure! -The JetBrains Team

The summer is hot not only because of the sun. Today we have even 3 breaking news to share: 1. IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.3 is available with fixes for many reported issues and some improvements, namely: New UI for merging Subversion branches New Password Safe tool for encrypted storing of passwords for VCS, proxy server etc. Initial support for HTML 5 Support for Grails 1.3.x Improved Flex debu

It's not a secret that IntelliJ IDEA has a fully functional interactive debugger for Flex and AIR applications. Here's a list of features added or improved in upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.3 release: XML and XMLList runtime value view Smart Step Into: select a function to step into if more than one available (Shift+F7) (more…)

Creating AIR installer (*.air), unsigned intermediate AIR package (*.airi) as well as generating self-signed certificate is possible in IntelliJ IDEA via Tools menu, Flex group, Package AIR Installation File action. (more…)

IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2, is now available with a significant number of improvements in addition to a great deal of fixes. Frameworks and technologies support Stacktrace folding for Groovy code GWT 2.0 UiBinder feature support Action to package Adobe AIR applications Improved support for CSS 3 Grails 1.2 Ivy dependencies tracking Support for Zen-coding HTML/XML features Live templates fo

Make sure you try the extended JSF components support in the latest IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2 EAP. Completion, error highlighting and basic refactorings have been added for RichFaces 3.x (a4j and rich) and standard (html and core) component libraries. Write us about your favorite JSF library and we'll add support for it asap.

When you look at a typical Groovy stack trace, you usually see something like this: This is not terribly helpful, since there are only three lines from the actual source code. Everything else refers to Groovy's internals. From now on, though, reading Groovy stack traces will be much easier:

If you work on large projects with dozens of Flex modules (or facets) you'll like this new feature of IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2, which lets shorten project build time by compiling several independent Flex modules (facets) in parallel. To enable this feature go to Settings (Ctrl+Alt+S), Compiler node and then Flex Compiler page: Let's have a closer look at this feature. (more…)

Writing JavaScript/ActionScript/Flex code becomes easier with IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2. New set of live templates (see Settings dialog (Ctrl+Alt+S), Live Templates, JavaScript/ActionScript group), allows to avoid tedious typing when you need to define a function, variable or constant, to loop over an Array, Vector or anything else. Luckily, some abbreviations are the same as with Java: iter, itar, rita

The first IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.2 EAP build will add support for UiBinder, new functionality introduced in GWT 2.0. IntelliJ IDEA will understand tags and attributes in ui.xml files: Inconsistencies between ui.xml file and associated Java class will be highlighted: You can jump from field to the corresponding tag by using icon on the gutter: Also IDE provides actions to quickly create new ui.xml fi

Since IntelliJ IDEA is so much loved by keyboard addicts, here is a tiny yet helpful feature introduced in version 9.0.2: you can change size of a tool window by means of your keyboard. Say, you're doing "find usages", the tool window is popping up and it's too small for you to comfortably look at the usages tree. Now you don't have to grab a mouse to stretch it up, just hit Ctrl-Shift-Up (Meta-S

IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.1, the first bugfix update for IntelliJ IDEA 9, is now available. With almost 200 resolved issues in such areas as Flex support, version control integration, Groovy support and others, it's a strongly recommended upgrade for all users of both Ultimate and Community editions of IntelliJ IDEA 9. Download IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.1 now, and check the release notes for the new update.