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A new update to IntelliJ IDEA 11 was just released — version 11.1.3.

Some noteworthy changes include:

• support for latest Android 4.1 SDK with some additional fixes
• ensured Mac OS X 10.8 compatibility + retina screens support
• fixed GitHub compatibility
• Subversion 1.7 fixes
• some JPA/Hibernate QL console improvements
• improved grails 2.1.0 compatibility
• fixed data flow analysis algorithm (fewer ‘Method is too complex to analyze’ warnings)
• better AIR applications packaging
• and many more

Check the complete release notes for detailed information.

Install the update directly from the IDE using the “Check for Updates” action or download the full installer from our web site.

Working on an XML document, for having additional code assistance such as error highlighting or completion, you need to specify an XML schema (e.g. XSD or DTD). In the previous versions of IntelliJ IDEA, you had to work with Schemas and DTDs section in Settings or fetch schema from external resource with help of Fetch External Resource intention.

IntelliJ IDEA 12 Leda introduces new way to configure schema for your XML file, based on detecting schemas located locally in project sources or libraries. The IDE tries to match schema by information available in the document, including namespace, system id, etc. If auto-detection fails for some reason, you can adjust the schema with Manually Setup External Resources intention.

This action shows the dialog with a list of all schemas found in your project.

Now you don’t need to browse folders and jars to find schema manually.

You can try this feature now in IntelliJ IDEA 12 EAP.
Please feel free to give us feedback in comments here or submit bug reports in our issue tracker.

Develop with Pleasure!

As the development of IntelliJ IDEA 12 progresses, we’ve released a new EAP build. You can check out the list of new features, improvements and bugfixes in the new build, download it, or upgrade from within the IDE using the “Check for updates” feature.

Please try our latest RC2 build of IntelliJ IDEA 11.1.3 (build 117.747). The new build is OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) compatible, its code editor renders fonts properly on Mac Retina displays and it contains other fixes.
This is hopefully our last stop before IntelliJ IDEA 11.1.3. Looking forward for the feedback in YouTrack.

A few weeks ago we received some good news in that we were nominated as finalists for the JAX Innovation Awards. These awards celebrate the culture of innovation that makes the Java^TM ecosystem prosper and be successful. To reach the stage of finalist, the Java community nominates companies, technologies and people that feel deserve recognition for their innovation and contributions towards the platform. A jury then makes a shortlist of finalists for each category, and finally the community votes on these.

The finals took place on the 10th of July in San Francisco during the celebration of the JAX San Francisco Conference. We are excited to announce that JetBrains won the first prize in the category of Most Innovative Java Company for 2012.

We are extremely grateful for this award, and like to thank the Organization, the Jury, as well as everyone that voted for us. Most importantly however, we’d like to thank you, our users, our customers, for believing in us during the past decade and helping shape our products.

We still have a lot more in us and many surprises up our sleeves to continue to help developers, well, develop with pleasure!

Thank you all!
JetBrains Team

As you know code completion in IntelliJ IDEA constantly evolves. Here’s a few new features coming in IntelliJ IDEA 12:

• Middle matching
• Class Name Completion in Basic Completion
• Completion statistics in Productivity Guide
• Other minor improvements

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Have you ever thought about using some custom DSLs for your tasks? Great news! With the new MPS 2.5 feature you can use DSLs created in MPS in your projects within IntelliJ IDEA with amazing special code editors and all the stuff. Once you create your language in MPS, to enable them in IntelliJ IDEA you just need to install core MPS plugins and plugins with your languages, add MPS facet to your project and select the languages.

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We’ve prepared RC build of IntelliJ IDEA 11.1.3 (build 117.728). The new build is compatible with latest Android 4.1 SDK. All fixed issues are listed here. Please test drive the new build from the EAP page or update from the IDE using “Check for updates”.
Update: Original EAP build 117.721 contained patch application problem. We released updated EAP build 117.728.

One of the features added in the last IntelliJ IDEA 12 EAP is Spring Web Flow support. This post is a quick overview of the enhancements.

Watch Spring Web Flow Support in Action

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Last week we have announced start of Early Access Program for IntelliJ IDEA 12 Leda. Good news for those who have already tried to play with it. Today we make available next more stable IntelliJ IDEA 12 EAP Build 120.11, which includes a bunch of bug fixes and some new features. (more…)