JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog

Today we are excited to announce that IntelliJ IDEA 12 RC is finally available for download.

This is one of the last preview build before the release, and we keep working hard to address your feedback. We encourage you to take in-depth look at what’s new in IntelliJ IDEA 12 and check if everything works fine in the release candidate.

The full list of changes may be found in Release Notes.

Feel free to share your feedback and submit any issues you find to our tracker. Thanks to everyone who helps us with your feedback, we really appreciate it.

“Develop with Pleasure!”

As you may remember, we promised to run the license raffle for attendees of JavaOne 2012 which took place in San Francisco a month ago. There was a delay but with a good reason. If you choose IntelliJ IDEA 11 as your free personal license now, you will also receive an upgrade to IntelliJ IDEA 12 for free when it is released in early December. Patience pays off!

Here are the name the winners, each of whom will get a personal license for any JetBrains product (or its upgrade) for free.

And the winners are….

• Alexey Prohorenko
• Mike Ash
• Arnold Johansson
• Hong Zhu
• Mark Miyashita
• Hyung Park
• Albert de Jongh
• Craig Welch
• Robert McClean
• Linda Gallagher

• Biranchi Kar
• Catherine Li
• Prashant Srinivasan
• Archie Ahmed
• Alex Budt
• Mark Gruszecki
• Michael Santos
• Regina ten Bruggencate
• Kenny Pitt
• Jerry Cooper

If your name is listed above, we will contact you with detailed instructions on how to claim your free license of choice or upgrade.

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all for your support!

“Stay tuned and Develop with Pleasure!”

The new IntelliJ IDEA 12 EAP 123.23 has been released and available for download. This is the final EAP build for upcoming release of IntelliJ IDEA 12 before the release candidate. Hurry up with the feedback!

The full list of changes in the release can be found in Release Notes.

Feel free to share your impressions and submit bug reports to our issue tracker.

Develop with Pleasure!

The new IntelliJ IDEA 12 EAP 123.4 has been just released. This is the next stable build for upcoming release of IntelliJ IDEA 12 with bugfixes and new features.

The major changes in the release include:

• Alphabetization and name-based rules in Java Code Arrangement
• Darcula UI improvements
• Jetty 9 support
• Event handlers support in Android UI Designer
• Ability to name top-row columns in CSV Editor
• Show History for directory for Mercurial

The full list of changes may be found in Release Notes.

Feel free to share your feedback and report bugs in our issue tracker.

Develop with Pleasure!

Thanks to everyone who joined us last week at Devoxx 2012 in Antwerp, Belgium. It was a remarkable event with exciting people and great sessions. It was also a pleasure to see a lot of people from the Java community using IntelliJ IDEA for their presentations. We also had a bit of fun with this poll about people’s favorite IDEs, spontaneously organized in the lobby.

We really appreciate your support and wish you to be able to choose the right IDE for your daily coding.

As you remember, we promised to run the license shuffle when the conference is over. We are happy to name 20 winners, each of whom will get a personal license for any JetBrains product (or its free upgrade) for free.
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As you know IntelliJ IDEA is mostly focused on developer productivity. That’s why we constantly re-think even the basic features to make it more quick and powerful.

In IntelliJ IDEA 12 you are able to use Find Usages without any dialogs and confirmations. You can press Alt + F7 and see the results in a tool window immediately. More results will appear while the search is proceeding.

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Today we have released IntelliJ IDEA 12 EAP 122.813, the next preview build of upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 12 with a bunch of new features.

The major changes in the release include:

• Support for JDK 8’s new extension methods syntax.
• Code assistance for Drools Expert, a rule-based language from JBoss.
• Basic Vaadin support.
• ColdFusion debugger.

The full list of changes can be found in Release Notes.
Important note: You’ve got to perform full rebuild once if your project is compiled with new compiler. Also due to ongoing work to support JDK7 it is no longer possible to update this IntelliJ IDEA build using incremental update on Mac.

Please feel free to share your feedback and report bugs in our issue tracker.
Stay tuned for more details on these new features coming soon in our blog.
Develop with Pleasure!

New IntelliJ IDEA 11.1.5 EAP build 117.1006 is available for download.

The build contains several important fixes for Subversion VCS support related mostly to SVNKit library: checksum mismatch and BUSY exception problem.

The full list of changes can be found in Release Notes.

Please feel free to share your feedback and report bugs in our issue tracker.

Develop with Pleasure!

We invite you to join our November 29th webinar where we will build an IntelliJ IDEA plugin from scratch and discuss the ins and outs of plugin development with JetBrains CTO, Dmitry Jemerov.

This free webinar will take place Thursday, November 29th from 19:00 – 20:00 CET (Central European Time). Space is limited, so please register now.

In a recent blog post we shared some tips and highlighted 200+ open source plugins to serve as examples when getting started with developing plugins. This is a good primer to prepare for the webinar but is not required.

We hope to see you there!

Inspired by support for Cucumber in RubyMine and by Aslak’s suggestions, we’ve added Cucumber support for Java and Groovy.

With IntelliJ IDEA 12 now it’s easy to navigate from a step to its definition, look for a step’s usage and run .feature tests.

Here I’ll briefly describe how you can create a scenario, step definitions in Java and run a Cucumber test.
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