JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog

Dear Users,

As you may know, we’ve got quite large piece of important functionality shared  between our products. Namely, you can use the same JavaScript, HTML and CSS support features in IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, PhpStorm and RubyMine. As each product has a separate project in the tracker, it might have been confusing for you when your reports were moved to other project, and was sometimes hard for us to search for related requests that are scattered across different projects and subsystems.

The solution we took is to collect all the Web development requests at one project, so now everyone knows where to search.

The new home is http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/WEB.

Don’t worry, not a single issue will be lost. All your existing links to the requests will work, you just will be automatically redirected to the new page. But if you use queries you need update them now.

We’re sorry for inconvenience, but we believe that in the end it will make everyone’s life easier. Feel free to ask any questions here or at the forums.

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Before the year is over, we are hurry up to release one more preview build for the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 12.0.2 update. Please download the build at IntelliJ IDEA 12 EAP page.

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

You are welcome with your feedback on the discussion forum and our issue tracker.

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Hey guys,

We’ve just uploaded for you the first preview build of the forthcoming IntelliJ IDEA 12.0.2 update. This is if you decide to play with it during the holidays.

You are welcome to download it from the IntelliJ IDEA EAP page as usual.

Check out the release notes for this build.

Our issue tracker is always there for you if you have some feedback to share.

Happy Holidays from the JetBrains Team!

We’ve got great news for those happy users who have already come to the darker side and upgraded to IntelliJ IDEA 12. The first update has been released and available for download now.

The update brings many bug-fixes and optimizations. Find the full list of changes in the Release Notes.

Hurry to upgrade and stay tuned for more exciting news very soon. Doomsday is fast approaching…!

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As you know, IntelliJ IDEA provides built-in database tools with support for many SQL dialects, such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and others.

A while ago we shared this video with a quick overview of how to set up a connection to a database, use smart completion (even for SQL queries within Java), on-the-fly code analysis, navigation (between queries and database), search (for tables and fields), and more cool features.

Now, please enjoy a new video with even more exciting features available in IntelliJ IDEA 12 for working with databases:

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Great news for those, who still haven’t updated to IntelliJ IDEA 12. Today we have released IntelliJ IDEA 11.1.5, the final update with enhancements and bugfixes for IntelliJ IDEA 11.

The major changes in the release include:

• Compatibility with Android SDK Tools, Revision 21
• Support for Annual Subscription Licenses
• Bugfixes and enhancements

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

If you are running IntelliJ IDEA 11, use Check for Update action from the IDE to download and install the patch.

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If you are developing for Android, you probably deal with XML files every day. These are the manifests, layouts, drawables, resource files and many others. That’s why in IntelliJ IDEA 12 we have added a new option for the code formatter, which is aware of Android-specific code styles.

The new option is available in Settings → Code Style → XML and can be enabled via Set From… → Predefined Style → Android.

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In case you didn’t know, the new release of IntelliJ IDEA comes with deployment tools for CloudBees, a rapidly growing cloud platform for Java applications.

At the moment IntelliJ IDEA allows you to connect to your CloudBees account and view/manage deployed applications.

Please follow this quick tutorial to learn how to deploy a simple web application to CloudBees from IntelliJ IDEA.

We hope you’ll enjoy your experience in the clouds with IntelliJ IDEA 12. Feel free to share your feedback with us on the discussion forum and in our issue tracker.

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As you know the new release of IntelliJ IDEA finally comes with support for Play 2.0, a popular Java and Scala framework for web development.

The support brings new project wizard, run/debug configurations and code assistance for Scala templates and routes, with code completion, navigation and on-the-fly code analysis.

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If you haven’t tried the latest version of IntelliJ IDEA yet, there is at least one important reason to do it. While most of the excitement around the new release has to do with Darcula, the new dark look and feel, the most thrilling feature of IntelliJ IDEA 12 is its brand new compiler.

As we mentioned earlier, the new compiler is much faster and provides new options that were previously unavailable.

On the chart below you can see a comparison of compiler performance in IntelliJ IDEA 12 and IntelliJ IDEA 11. In this test we have measured the time of a complete rebuild of IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition project. As you can see, IntelliJ IDEA 12 is more than twice as fast as the previous version.

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