IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3 EAP brings support for Local-Variable Type Inference. A long-awaited Java 9 has been released just a few weeks ago, but we’re already looking forward to the new goodies Java 10 is going to bring. Though the chances are it might not be called Java 10. Oracle has proposed moving Java to releases every six months, so we might have the next release already as early as March 2018, and will probably be named Java 18.3. We’ll see. The upcoming release of Java is going to bring Local-Variable Type Inference according to the JEP 286. This specification aims to reduce the boil