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One of the major features in the upcoming release of IntelliJ IDEA 12 Leda is a completely revised approach to compilation of a project. We have rebuilt it from the ground up to bring a new user experience and a better performance.

There are following key principles for this new compilation approach:

• All compilation tasks are performed in a separate process, fully independent from the main IDE’s process, to get rid out of memory and other resources contention.
• Java compiler is used “in-process” via Java API for better performance and more flexible annotation processors management.
• Java classes dependency management completely rewritten for faster and more accurate search of dependent classes.
• Compilation is automatically triggered (“auto-make”) by events from the file system of the IDE if such option is enabled.

As a result of these improvements we have:
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Great news for those who wait for new exciting features from IntelliJ IDEA. We are happy to announce that Early Access Program for IntelliJ IDEA 12 has officially started. The code name for new IntelliJ IDEA 12 is Leda. You’re welcome on the cutting edge!

To try new features of IntelliJ IDEA Leda just download EAP build for your platform.

The major features of the release include:
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Today we have exciting news for all Android developers who use IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate or IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition as their IDE of choice — Android UI Designer, one of the most desired features, is finally coming with the release of IntelliJ IDEA 12.

Once IntelliJ IDEA 12 EAP opens later this week, you can start playing with it. Those who want to get it sooner may build IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition from the source code right now.

Here we would like to highlight the major features of Android UI Designer you will get with the new release:
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We’ve got a fresh EAP build 117.622 of IntelliJ IDEA 11.1. The new build includes an important code completion fix, Subversion 1.7 fixes and some JPA/Hibernate QL console improvements. All fixed issues are listed here. You can download the new build from the EAP page or update from the IDE using “Check for updates”.
Update:Original EAP build 117.616 contained performance regression. We released updated EAP build 117.622.