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Yesterday’s IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 EAP build unfortunately contained a problem in the licensing code that caused users to get “incorrect license” messages when running the build for the first time. We’d like to apologize for the inconvenience caused by the problem, and today we’re publishing a new build that fixes the issue.

Besides this bugfix, the new build contains a couple more new things that landed yesterday, including an initial release of Hibernate 4 support and a new build of SVNKit with better support for merge in SVN 1.7 working copies.

You can download the new build from the EAP page or upgrade from within the IDE. The complete release notes for the new build are also available.

By the way, we now have a new easy to remember URL for all of our Early Access Preview programs. Go to eap.jetbrains.com for the complete list, or to eap.jetbrains.com/idea/ for the IntelliJ IDEA EAP.

We’re happy to announce the beginning of the Early Access Preview program for the next feature update of IntelliJ IDEA, version 11.1. This version will be released in a couple of months and will be a free upgrade for existing users of IntelliJ IDEA 11.

A brief list of features already implemented in the new EAP includes:

• Continued work on UI changes (Project View, run/debug toolwindows UI redesigned);

• Subversion 1.7 support (work in progress);
• Performance improvements in Git and Perforce integration;
• New Coverage view;
• New tree-based File Structure Popup;
• Improved popup for controlling Git branches (checkout, compare, delete, multi-root support);
• Highlighting of unused public members in Groovy code;
• Extract Closure refactoring for Groovy;
• New Flex project structure UI (work in progress);
• Spring support improvements;
• Gradle project synchronization support (work in progress);
• Android lint tool integration;
• Magic Constant inspection and code completion;
• Possibility to run JUnit or TestNG tests for any selection of classes or methods

In the coming weeks we plan to publish blog posts describing each of the new features in more detail. And for the time being, you can download IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 EAP try them out for yourself.

As always, your feedback is welcome in the issue tracker.

Note that this EAP cycle does not include 30-day time-limited licenses in each build. In order to use these builds, you need to have a valid license for IntelliJ IDEA 11.

This week we’re releasing a new Early Access Preview build for IntelliJ IDEA 11.0.2, which is also the Release Candidate for the new version. Besides the usual amount of bugfixes, a noteworthy change is support for new versions of Google Chrome in the JavaScript debugger plugin.

You can download IntelliJ IDEA 11.0.2 Release Candidate from the EAP page.

Today we’ve published the first Early Access Preview build for the next bugfix update of IntelliJ IDEA 11. The main highlights include:

• Perforce integration uses ‘p4 move’ command for moves and renames when available;
• Spring integration performance improvements;
• Other bugfixes listed in the release notes.

You can download the new build from the EAP page.

What could be a better way for the IntelliJ IDEA team to conclude the year 2011 than to release a bugfix update? And that’s exactly what we’re doing.

To upgrade to the new version, simply use the “Check for Update” action if you’re already running version 11, or grab the complete installer from the download page. And of course, the release notes for the new build are also available.

Happy New Year, and see you again in 2012!

The release candidate for the first bugfix update of IntelliJ IDEA 11, build 111.123, is available today. Notable changes include a new UI for entering Subversion credentials and support for Spring 3.1 when creating a new project.

The complete release notes for the new build are available in the usual place.

We’ve received a number of questions related to the support for Subversion 1.7 in IntelliJ IDEA 11 and related IDEs. With this post, we’d like to provide an update regarding the current status of the support and our future plans.

As you may know, IntelliJ IDEA relies on the SVNKit library for its Subversion support. Subversion 1.7 is a huge release in terms of the internal changes, and although the SVNKit team started work on it a long time ago, this work is unfortunately not yet finished.

We’ve been working closely with the SVNKit team and providing them feedback regarding the open issues that need to be resolved before we can fully rely on the new SVNKit in our integration. We’ve also included an experimental SVN 1.7 plugin in one of the beta releases of IntelliJ IDEA 11. However, due to major performance problems discovered during our testing, we’ve had to remove the plugin from the final release. Therefore, IntelliJ IDEA 11 and other IDEs based on the same version of the platform (PhpStorm/WebStorm 3.0, PyCharm 2.0) do not support Subversion 1.7.

However, we’re confident that the remaining open issues are going to be resolved in the coming months, and we plan to include full Subversion 1.7 support in the forthcoming IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 update, planned for release in late Q1/early Q2 2012. The Early Access Preview testing for IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 will begin early next year. Updates for PyCharm and PhpStorm/WebStorm will also be released around that time.

If you can’t wait for the IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 EAP to begin, you can build the plugin from source today. In our GitHub repo, the svn4idea plugin is the new plugin updated for SVN 1.7 compatibility and bundling the new SVNKit, and svn4ideaOld is the plugin currently shipped with IntelliJ IDEA 11.

Note that if your main reason for upgrading to SVN 1.7 is better update performance, you can achieve this with the exising IntelliJ IDEA integration and older SVN versions. In order to do that, please enable the “Update administrative information only in changed subtrees” option under Settings | Version Control | Subversion.

Also note that we do not currently plan to release SVN 1.7 compatible updates for IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 or older releases.

We’ve recently been gathering assorted open-source projects that exist in our company under a single roof — the JetBrains organization on GitHub. One of the latest additions to the organization is an official mirror of the IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition codebase.

You’re welcome to fork the codebase and send us pull requests with your contributions. We’ll review them and merge them if they’re accepted. Please don’t forget to follow our code conventions and sign the contributor agreement if your contributions are non-trivial.

We’re happy to announce the release of a new Early Access Preview build of IntelliJ IDEA 11. You can download the EAP build and check the complete release notes.

As usual, your feedback is welcome in the issue tracker.

Today we’re publishing the Release Candidate for the next bugfix update of IntelliJ IDEA, version 10.5.2. The release notes since the previous EAP build include a couple of significant performance fixes and a number of other bugfixes.

If you run into any problems when using this build, please report them to our issue tracker.