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Today is a big day for us – IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1, our first release of the year, is available! Download it from our website or using the Toolbox App. You can also upgrade from inside the IDE or use snaps if you are an Ubuntu user. This version has solved some troubling issues and introduced many new features. You can now work with your Java projects in WSL 2, use integrated Space, arrange v

The IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 RC is available, meaning this could be the last chance for you to try out our updates before the major release is officially announced. Download the latest build from our website or via the Toolbox App, upgrade to it from inside the IDE, or use snaps if you’re a Ubuntu user. Please note that to use this build will require you to have an active subscription to IntelliJ IDE

IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 Beta 4 is ready for download! You can get the latest build from our website or via the Toolbox App, upgrade to Beta 4 from inside the IDE, or use snaps if you’re an Ubuntu user. It is the final week before the release candidate will be delivered, meaning you have the last chance to test fixed issues, report bugs, and get familiar with what’s new. Last week we shared some info

IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 Beta 3 is out! We encourage you to download the latest build from our website or via the Toolbox app. You can also upgrade to Beta 3 from inside the IDE or use snaps if you’re an Ubuntu user. While we are ticking the remaining boxes on our pre-release checklist, you still have time to test the new features and fixes. Before the release goes live, we hope to collect as much fe

IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 Beta 2 is out and ready to be downloaded. You can update to it from inside the IDE, or get it from our website or via the Toolbox app. The release is approaching fast, so don’t miss this opportunity to test the new features and fixes. Before diving in, you might want to browse through our previous EAP blogs. As usual, for those who want to see the complete list of what’s been

We’ve got great news to share with you today! After almost five weeks of the EAP, the Beta version of IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 is now available! Major fixes and new features have been implemented, and we are now putting the finishing touches on the IDE for its release in mid-March. You can download the Beta build from our website, get it from the free Toolbox App, or update using snaps if you’re an U

Week five of the EAP brings us to the final v2021.1 build before we introduce the release preview. In this build, you can test WSL 2 support for Maven and Gradle projects, SSL support in the HTTP client and its UI updates, a possibility to query JSONPath, and more. To try out all the updates, you can download the latest build from our website, get it from the Toolbox App, or update using snaps i

The EAP continues with a fourth build for IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1! You can download it from our website, get it from the free Toolbox App, or update using snaps if you’re an Ubuntu user. This time we’ve introduced the ability to adjust font weights, support for a Git commit template, faster highlighting of code problems in Kotlin, embedded shared indexes in IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, and more.

JetBrains IDEs are well known for their ability to understand code. They can track declarations, check references and types, and collect possible execution paths. Thanks to all this static analysis, you are able to rename and move things around safely, get appropriate code completion, and get warned with a message saying “hey, this won't run” from the code inspection if you are adding something th

This year, your favorite IDE, IntelliJ IDEA, turns 20. We are celebrating this momentous milestone by hosting our first ever IntelliJ IDEA Conf on February 25–26, 2021! We invite you all to attend this two-day event, hosted by the creators and developers of IntelliJ IDEA. You'll get the inside scoop on the evolution of IntelliJ IDEA; its features and how to use them; tips, tricks and best practice

New year – new Early Access Program! We are primarily treating IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 as a quality release that will enhance the product’s usability and its UI. We’ll also be focusing on the pain points identified by you in our issue tracker, and we have plans to deliver several new features as well. Follow this series of EAP blog posts to get the latest information about the changes coming in Intel

IntelliJ IDEA has reached an incredible milestone – its 20th anniversary. Can you believe it's been 20 years already? Just think about it: we launched our product when smartphones and social media were not present in our daily lives, we had to watch movies on DVDs, and the Java virtual machine hadn’t even become open source. Twenty years ago, IntelliJ IDEA was created out of a desire to make deve

Today is the day! It is time to announce the release of our final major release of this year – IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3. Download it from our website, install it using the Toolbox App, upgrade from inside the IDE, or, if you are an Ubuntu user, upgrade using snaps. IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3 offers a multitude of useful features, like interactive hints while debugging, Git staging support, extended support

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3 Release Candidate is now available! This is the final build before the major release and your last chance to test IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3 before it is officially unveiled. Please note that this build requires a license for IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate. If you want to learn more about the new features and useful improvements included in IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3, you can check out our seri

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3 Goes Beta! Today we hit a big milestone – the Beta version of IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3 is available! This means all the new features are out and we are now working on fixing bugs and getting IntelliJ IDEA ready for the major release in December. You can get the Beta build from our website or via the Toolbox app. While we're busy putting on the finishing touches, you can download