JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Blog

Great news for those waiting for new exciting features from the upcoming IntelliJ IDEA 12, which is going to be released in December, 2012!

Today we make IntelliJ IDEA 12 Public Preview available for download and evaluation, and today, November the 8th starts our regular free upgrade program. It means you can buy a personal license for IntelliJ IDEA 11 and get IntelliJ IDEA 12 for free when it is released!

Check out what’s new coming in IntelliJ IDEA 12 on the preview page.

We very much appreciate your feedback on the public preview. Don’t hesitate to share your impressions with us and submit bug reports directly to our issue tracker.

Stay tuned for more details on the new features in our blog!

Develop with Pleasure!

If you are using IntelliJ IDEA 11 Beta, here is a recommended update for you — Beta 2.

Download IntelliJ IDEA 11 Beta 2, check out the release notes for this build and submit your feedback to the issue tracker.

Call to action for all plugin developers: it is the best time now to ensure the compatibility with the forthcoming IntelliJ IDEA 11.

If you had missed it — our “free upgrade” offer is still working — buy IntelliJ IDEA 10 now and get v.11 free.

As a side note: we’ve just annouced PhpStorm 3.0 release, the first one in the line of IntelliJ-based IDE releases. IntelliJ IDEA 11, PyCharm 2 and RubyMine 4 will follow.

Develop with pleasure!
IntelliJ IDEA Team

We’re getting closer and the finish line is just ahead. Please welcome the Beta build.

The IntelliJ IDEA 11 Beta has new streamlined UI for tabs, tool-windows and navbar. We’ve added an experimental plugin for Subversion 1.7 support for early adopters and JDK 1.6_29 is bundled inside Windows distribution.

Download IntelliJ IDEA 11 Beta, check out the release notes for this build and submit your feedback to the issue tracker. There’s still time to make IntelliJ IDEA 11 better.

If you are developing plugins for IntelliJ IDEA, it is the best time now to ensure the compatibility with the forthcoming version 11.

Develop with pleasure!
IntelliJ IDEA Team

It finally happened! IntelliJ IDEA 9 is now publicly available in its official Beta state.

In this release you will find almost everything we have prepared for IntelliJ IDEA 9:

• Faster environment with background-enabled indexes
• Improved code understanding, including dead code detection and extended folding options
• Cleaner and more productive coding thanks to improved completion, intention actions, and more efficient UI
• Full Java EE 6 support plus GlassFish 3, EJB 3.1, JPA 2.0, Servlet 3.0, JSF 2.0
• Language polyglot arsenal extended with PHP, Scala and La Clojure, and improved Groovy
• New Web frameworks support: Tapestry, GAE, GWT 1.7 and Spring 3.0 with Spring Security
• OSGi Application Development
• Enhanced Maven support
• Android development facilities,
• Better Flex Development, and more.

You can read more about improvements, get the fresh release, try it all for yourself, and submit your feedback via YouTrack, our brand-new issue tracker: http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issues/IDEA

Also, don’t forget that our Free Upgrade Program is still effective and you can buy IntelliJ IDEA 9 even before it’s out!

Develop with Pleasure!