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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

Zeppelin is a web-based notebook for data engineers that enables data-driven, interactive data analytics with Spark, Scala, and more. The project recently reached version 0.9.0-preview2 and is being actively developed, but there are still many things to be implemented. One such thing is an API for getting comprehensive information about what's going on inside the notebook. There is already an API

The first pre-release build of IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3 is now available in the Early Access Program. This new round of updates will make your coding experience smoother and more customizable. Please join the program to test the new features and help us make IntelliJ IDEA better for you. As always, you can download the new EAP from our website, get it from the free Toolbox App, or update using snaps

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 introduces new Docker and Kubernetes features that simplify day-to-day work and offer more flexibility with customization. Let’s have a more in-depth look at the updates in this release. Docker Use Selenoid for cross-browser testing of web applications Selenoid (available only in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate) is an implementation of the Selenium hub for Docker, which allows you to e

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 is packed with an amazing set of features, including more advanced support for GitHub pull requests, a new Inspections Widget that displays the number of warnings and errors in an opened file and allows you to quickly navigate between them, the Problems tool window that offers details of the issues in your current file and allows you to fix them fast, and the Related Problems

IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 has now reached the Beta milestone. All the major features have already been implemented, so this is the perfect time to download and try the upcoming version if you haven’t yet! What will you check out first? Take your pick: More advanced support for GitHub pull requests. A new tool window and new widget for going over problems in your code. An HPROF memory view

The new EAP build for IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 is here! Let’s take a closer look at what the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2020.2 has in store for Jakarta EE, Quarkus, HTTP Client, Micronaut, Amazon SQS API, and OpenAPI and Swagger. Jakarta EE 9 support Jakarta EE 9 has now reached the M1 phase and is scheduled for release this September. The upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2 is already fully prep

We’re happy to announce a new webinar on Productive Web Development in Java with IntelliJ IDEA, Spring Boot, and Vaadin. Join us Tuesday, June 30, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CEST In this webinar, we cover tips and tricks to help you become a more productive web app developer. We build a small web app using Vaadin's Java API and Spring Boot. We show you how to set up IntelliJ IDEA to automatically reload y