Meet IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1

Last week we released another major update - IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1 . Earlier, I already wrote in detail about the improvements available in it, and in this post I will only give them a short list, I will give links to new videos, and, of course, I will be happy to answer your questions in the comments.



Among the major improvements:
')

• Debugger
  
  • Groovy expressions in Evaluate Expression and Watches can now be used when debugging Java code.
  • More convenient debugging of multiple threads
  • Warnings when source code does not match running copy
  
  
• Version Control Systems
  
  • Git support worktrees
  • More convenient merge and comparison, thanks to highlighting changes at the level of words
  
  
• Editor
  
  • Shift expressions left and right
  • Automatic import of static methods and constants
  • Support for languages ​​written from right to left (for example, Arabic and Hebrew)
  
  
• Gradle
  
  • Support custom source sets: now each source set is represented by a separate module and may have its own dependencies (as a result, a huge number of problems have been fixed)
  • Automatic configuration of EAR artifacts
  
  
• Java 8
  
  • Inline Method and Change Signature transform method references to lambda expressions
  • Inspections that validate the use of method references, lambda expressions, and optional types
  • Inspections that help migrate code that uses FluentIterable, Function, Optional, and Predicate from the Guava library to the corresponding Java 8 API
  
  
• Kotlin
  
  • Kotlin 1.0 support
  • Kotlin Edu plugin for interactive learning Kotlin
  
  
• Scala
  
  • Auto-completion now takes into account the type of characters, the context and the history of their use.
  • Auto-completion for pattern matching expressions now prompts the names of properties of case classes.
  
  
• Javascript
  
  • Improved hints for ECMAScript 6, TypeScript and AngularJS 2
  • Convenient debugging asynchronous code
  
  
• Spring frameworks
  
  • Expanded tips functionality for Spring Boot
  • Improved support for Spring MVC
  • Many known issues fixed
  
  
• Thymeleaf
  
  • Tips for custom dialects
  • Thymeleaf 3.0 support
  
  
• Android Studio 1.5
  
  • Leak Profiler
  • New lint checks
  
  
• Docker
  
  • Docker Machine Support
  • Separate window (tool window)
  • The right pane now displays logs and interface elements for managing environment variables and port bindings.
  
  

In addition, the entire IntelliJ platform has migrated to Java 8: Java 8 can now be used to develop plug-ins.

Starting with IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1, the versioning scheme of all JetBrains Toolbox products is changing. Now, instead of one big release, it is planned to release several equal releases per year. Learn more about why and how exactly new versioning will work, you can read here .

Download the new version of IntelliJ IDEA on the JetBrains website .