A fresh bugfix update for PhpStorm 2020.2 is now available. You can update to the new version from inside the IDE, with the Toolbox App, or using snaps if you are an Ubuntu user. It is also available for download from our website. (more…)

Greetings everyone, I hope you are all ready for September’s installment of PHP Annotated! In it, we have the additional PHP 8 beta 4 release, the PHP community’s momentum with the generics discussion in Internals, and the Community Synergy Initiative. There are some interesting releases like Laravel 8, Composer 2.0 RC 1, and PoC for PHP support for GraalVM. And as usual, we’ve got a load of useful articles, tools, videos, and podcasts for you too. (more…)

PhpStorm tips with Christoph Rumpel is a video series where you can learn how to improve your Laravel experience in PhpStorm. In this episode, Christoph demonstrates how to use the code snippets already provided, how to create custom ones, and how to add dynamic features to make them context-aware. (more…)

As an experiment, we recorded an interview with Nikolas Grekas, Symfony principal engineer, in which Nikolas answers Nikita Popov’s question and describes the problems the Symfony team encountered in preparing the framework code for the upcoming PHP 8 release. The release of PHP 8 is coming very soon. Just the other day the Beta 3 was published, and the first release candidate will go out on September 17. Besides the new features in PHP 8, there are also quite a few changes that affect backward compatibility. In fact, a huge list of all the backward compatibility breaks is available in the

The first bug-fix update for PhpStorm 2020.2 is now available! You can update to it using the Toolbox App or right from inside the IDE. You can also download PhpStorm 2020.2.1 from the website. Notable changes New inspection: missing parameter type (WI-49595 +3) Fixed: Don't consider variables as undefined based on DFA reachability (WI-54713 +8) Fixed: Method argument is not highlighted when cursor is on a variable in the method body (WI-54558 +8) Fixed: Trait collision false positive in case of usage of insteadof conflict resolution (PHP >= 7.3) (WI-54284 +5) Fixed: Unused

The release candidate build for PhpStorm 2020.2.1 is available. (more…)

Greetings everyone, Please welcome the August installment of PHP Annotated! (more…)

We've just released PhpStorm 2020.2, and today we are ready to give you a preview of the first bugfix update. (more…)

PhpStorm 2020.2 is now available! This major release includes support for PHP 8 Union Types, a new control flow engine for PHP, full GitHub pull requests workflow support right inside the IDE, a brand-new Inspection widget, OpenAPI support via a plugin, and more. Download PhpStorm 2020.2 Read on to check out all the new features and significant updates, along with a ton of GIFs! (more…)

PhpStorm 2020.2 Release Candidate is available! The release of 2020.2 is fast approaching. PhpStorm 2020.2 RC is the final build before the major update of PhpStorm, which means this is the last chance for you to submit feedback before the release and help us make sure any outstanding issues get cleaned up. The most notable new features of the upcoming release are listed in the 2020.2 Beta announcement. We have posted more detailed overviews in a series of videos on our JetbrainsTV YouTube channel. A list of all the changes that have been introduced since the Beta in this particular build is a

PhpStorm 2020.1.4 is now available! This a bug-fix update for PhpStorm 2020.1. (more…)

The PhpStorm 2020.2 Beta release is the last one in the EAP cycle, and so our What's coming in 2020.2 video series is drawing to an end as well. In this final episode of the 2020.2 season, you can learn all about PHP 8 Union Types support in PhpStorm. (more…)