What is Early Access Program
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Early Access Program allows you to try pre-release versions of our software to evaluate features that will be added to the next release.
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What is IDEA X?
"IDEA X" is the codename for IntelliJ IDEA version 10.
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IntelliJ IDEA 10.0.3
You need to have a valid IntelliJ IDEA 10 license in order to use this EAP build.
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Release Notes
IntelliJ+IDEA+10.0.3+Release+Notes
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91 Comments
comments.show.hideJul 06, 2010
Vincent
What is the roadmap and features of IDEAX?
Aug 10, 2010
Fredrik
Please tell us that "IDEAX" is just the IDEA 10 codename and that you're not adopting the silly Corel Roman version numbering.
Aug 24, 2010
Eugene Toporov
Aug 13, 2010
Mike Hanafey
Why don't you give version number in base 2? Then X becomes 1010
Aug 24, 2010
Eugene Toporov
We're just in EAP, things may change. Thanks for the idea.
Sep 01, 2010
Dennis Haupt
you could let the community suggest names like you did for diana (and selena?)
and even let them vote. i'll just start a thread, maybe something good will come out of it
Aug 23, 2010
Alexander Orlov
I appreciate the built-in Mercurial support very much because the hg plugins provided in the past were all broken.
Aug 27, 2010
Mikhail Fedko
hi, IDEA lost ANT tasks assigned shortcuts and does not allow to assign them any more
The builds affected are IU-96.1020 and the previous one.
Aug 27, 2010
Dmitry Jemerov
Please report bugs to http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/
Sep 01, 2010
Fredrik
When do you expect to release IDEA 10? Will the feature gap between the Ultimate and Community editions widen or narrow?
Sep 01, 2010
Dmitry Jemerov
IDEA 10 will be released in the end of 2010. So far we don't plan to move any functionality which was previously available only in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate to Community Edition. New plugins will appear both in the Community Edition (Mercurial) and in Ultimate (tc Server, dm Server etc.)
Sep 04, 2010
NetSurfer
How come IDEA X doesn't start on JVM7? Java 7 is almost released, I've long ago use it as a main JRE, all progs run like a snap. Idea 9 runs too. But IDEA X doesn't, even idea.no.jdk.check=true makes no difference
Sep 06, 2010
Dmitry Jemerov
Java 7 is nowhere near "almost released". At the moment we are not doing any compatibility testing of IntelliJ IDEA with JDK 7 builds, and haven't investigated why it doesn't work. When Java 7 is officially released as beta or RC, we'll perform such testing and fix the compatibility problems if any are found.
At the moment, you're welcome to investigate the problem yourself using the Community Edition source code, and if you find the problem and send us the patch that fixes it, it's quite likely that we'll accept it.
Sep 06, 2010
NetSurfer
>Java 7 is nowhere near "almost released"
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/calendar/ It's M10 and sheduled to RC in october I presume
Sep 07, 2010
Alexander Orlov
I suppose OpenJDK != Oracle JDK like Sun's JDK never was the same as OpenJDK.
Sep 07, 2010
Dmitry Jemerov
This timetable was published a long time ago. The actual state of JDK 7 development (in particular the coin-dev and lambda-dev projects) is very much different from what it says.
Sep 07, 2010
NetSurfer
OK, OK.
But t'snot the point. The point is why IDEA9 starts when I put idea.no.jdk.check=true in idea.properties and runs but IDEA X doesn't even start but fails silently. Since it's EAP it's in non-production state too and mustn't run compatibility testing anyway but people would already send automatical bugreports to your QA group
I presume IDEA X doesn't use advanced Java7 closures, lambdas and other improvements so it uses only Java6-comatible subset of JDK7. And java programs I use like sweethome3D, aquadatastudio, Rssowl, eclipse run well under java7
Sep 07, 2010
Nate
No, the point is that JDK 7 is not out, is not even in Beta yet. So, the IntelliJ people can either spend their time tracking down issues that may very well be bugs in the new JDK, or they can spend their time working with JDK versions that are at least in Beta. So file a JIRA that the EAP version of IntelliJ doesn't work with the pre-beta version of the JDK.... if that seems like a good use of anyone's time.
Sep 08, 2010
Alejandro Gomez
As Dmitry said and as posted today here JDK 7 is still far away from being released.
Jan 18, 2011
Sam Pullara
Hi Dmitry, I'm on the Lambda JSR-335 and would love to see support for the new syntax that we are working on. Where would I start if I wanted to try and add that to IDEA? IDEA X does a fine job running with the early builds of JDK7 and compiling the code but the editor complains about the new syntax which makes it painful to use.
Jan 18, 2011
Dmitry Jemerov
Thanks for your offer to contribute! In fact we'll be working on the Java 7 syntax support ourselves during the coming months, so I don't think we really need external help all that much.
Jan 18, 2011
Sam Pullara
Well, if you need alpha testers for defender methods, method references, etc. Send them my way.
Sep 07, 2010
Alexander Orlov
If you are running Apple's JDK dev preview 1.6.0_21 there is a new alternative JVM you'll get by passing the following args: -XXaltjvm=bsdserver (you'll get more info on Apple's download site: http://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/wo/5.1.17.2.1.3.3.1.0.1.1.0.3.8.3.3.1) I've tried it but I cannot say whether it's really faster. Is it possible for you guys to investigate it?
Sep 13, 2010
Aleksey Solntsev
I have a question about one very important Flex feature that isn't available for IDEA but exist in FlexBuilder 3/4.
Are you going to implement "Flex Profiler" in this release?
Sep 21, 2010
Maxim Mossienko
We have some early preview bits of AS/Flex profiler plugin for IntelliJ IDEA http://tinyurl.com/2vc3e7p
Sep 17, 2010
Rik
Build 96.1190 has poor responsiveness compared with previous build. After almost each key stroke I have to wait and compile errors (red symbols) take some time to disappear.
MacOSX 10.6.4
JDK 1.6.0_20
Sep 17, 2010
Francesco Bellomi
Same here.
Francesco
Sep 17, 2010
Dennis Haupt
same here, but it was worse in the previous eap
Sep 17, 2010
Dmitry Jemerov
Late disappearing of red highlighting is a known issue. For other performance problems, please file a CPU snapshot as described in http://devnet.jetbrains.net/docs/DOC-192
Sep 18, 2010
Vincent
Why license expired and could not set my own license?
Sep 18, 2010
Dmitry Jemerov
Please make sure that your system clock is set correctly. EAP builds now expire for 30 days after the release date, because we do not want people to use old EAP builds.
Oct 01, 2010
Dennis Haupt
does that mean there will be another eap build before the previous one runs out?
Sep 22, 2010
Gordon Tyler
Can we get a Windows ZIP for the Community Edition?
Sep 23, 2010
Dmitry Jemerov
Every additional distribution format of IntelliJ IDEA has a non-negligible cost to us (more time to upload each build, more money to pay for the storage space on a CDN). Because of that, we'd really like to avoid adding additional distribution formats unless there are really compelling benefits for that.
Oct 28, 2010
Stefan Scheidt
Hi,
currently I'm using IDEA 9.0.3 on Mac OS X 10.6.4 and IdeaX 98.187 is the first IDEA EAP Build I use in parallel to 9.0.3.
Now 98.231 is out and I'm wondering, if there are any advices on how to switch / update the EAP.
Currently I'm downloading 98.231 and I guess I can simply install it, but are there any hints on how to delete 98.187 in addition to delete the app itself.
I would like to keep my Mac OS X clean and don't won't to accumulate stuff from previous EAP installs.
Is there any recommended procedure on how to update EAP builds?
See also http://devnet.jetbrains.net/message/5276019#5276019
Regards
Stefan
Oct 28, 2010
Christofer Dutz
I would really like to download the current EAP version, unfortunately I allways get a "Connection reset by Server" at about 99.9% (Tried this in several browsers and several computers).
Update: Seems to only affect the two windows files (IntelliJ X EAP Ultimate) ...
Nov 05, 2010
Nate
Seems like code completion is way faster in this EAP so-far.... nice work! Though I do get quite a few errors from it in daily use (been submitting them), looking forward to a build with less issues, it's looking good.
Nov 09, 2010
Dennis Haupt
someone made a typo in some property file. idea thinks it is build 98.311, but tells me that 98.331 is the newest version that i can download.
Nov 10, 2010
Dmitry Jemerov
Fixed already.
Nov 11, 2010
Darrin E
I'm working on Android - and this is the first release that feels really solid to me. When I started development on Android I made the painful shift to Eclipse - which I endured before shifting back to Intellij. Even with the earlier product you guys produced a much faster if a bit quirky environment to work in. Now what you have is absolutely compelling. I signed up for confluence to tell you: "Awesome job guys".
Nov 12, 2010
Eugene Toporov
Thank you Darrin!
Nov 15, 2010
melaraj@gmail.com
Any word on adding GWT designer integration. GWT Designer has now been acquired by Google and is freely available. It makes life quite a bit a better.
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/tools/gwtdesigner/index.html
Nov 16, 2010
Dmitry Jemerov
GWT Designer is based on the Eclipse platform, so integrating it with IntelliJ IDEA would mean a very significant rewrite. Also, as far as I know, it has not been released as open-source.
Nov 17, 2010
Nate
One annoying thing I've noticed (still present in 98.382) is that the popup for CTRL-N and CTRL-SHIFT-N seems to disappear almost immediately once something is found. For instance, I hit CTRL-N, the dialog pops up, then I type the start of a class name. The search results shows up, but if my mouse cursor isn't in the area covered by that list, the list will disappear immediately. This does not happen all the time.
Nov 20, 2010
Nate
So it looks like (as of 98.402) this will happen if I hit CTRL-N to get the "Enter Class Name" diaglog, then I type something where I get a lot of hits, and the list of candidates then overlaps my cursor. Then if I type a little more to narrow down the list. As the list narrows the size of the list decreases and once my cursor is no longer covered by the list, the list and dialog go away. Does that make sense?
Nov 30, 2010
Nate
This is still a problem in 98.486.
Dec 02, 2010
Nate
Still a problem in 98.510
Dec 04, 2010
Oleg Aleshko
vote here http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/IDEA-61092
Nov 19, 2010
Hugo Palma
I think this last release(98.382) is the buggiest since the start of this EAP. I can't do anything without getting an exception.
Nov 19, 2010
Dennis Haupt
try invalidating the caches. sometimes, for some reason, they won't automatically get invalidated and refreshed completely when they should be. not sure when this happens, but if it does, you'll get tons of exceptions. experienced this a few times with the scala plugin. can't reproduce it, but invalidating the caches always fixed it.
Nov 20, 2010
Hugo Palma
Yep, that helped. Thanks.
Nov 20, 2010
S.M.J. Mowlanezhad
maybe silly question; but, any support for objective c/iphone development planned in the future?
Nov 20, 2010
Alejandro Gomez
You'll find your answer here
Nov 29, 2010
Gilberto Ribeiro Olimpio
It seems that the link to 98.402 version for mac is broken:
Not Found
The requested URL /idea/ideaIC-98.402.dmg was not found on this server.
Nov 30, 2010
Dmitry Jemerov
This was a transient problem with our downloads host. Please try again.
Nov 30, 2010
Norris Shelton
AVG is detecting Trojan horse Generic20.KYW in idea.exe. This has never happened before.
Nov 30, 2010
Axel Guicking
Same here. Tried with exe installer and zip archive. Both are reported by AVG SBE 2011 to be infected.
Dec 01, 2010
Dmitry Jemerov
The problem is caused by our upgrade to a new version of exe4j. The exe4j developers have confirmed that the report is a false positive. In the final release, we'll use a different version of exe4j that doesn't trigger the report.
Dec 02, 2010
Dennis Haupt
i can't find a download link on http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/index.html
there's a download icon, but it just points to http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/index.html
Dec 04, 2010
Julia Beliaeva
Can't download http://download.jetbrains.com/idea/ideaIC-98.520.tar.gz, same for tar.gz of IU version.
Dec 07, 2010
Artyom Loenko
Hi.
today Android team announced SDK Tools, Revision 8 (and some other updates http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/12/android-23-platform-and-updated-sdk.html). some very important features were added such as easy debug builds, proguard integration, library projects. it would be very nice if you can implement that features at current IDEX X EAP and include it to release. and I hope that you do it. personally thanx.
Dec 07, 2010
Nate
License expired on 99.5 ? No more EAP license now that it's an RC?
Your license is not valid for use with this version of IntelliJ IDEA. For information on how to upgrade your license please go to http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/upgrade.html
Dec 07, 2010
ian pojman
click enter new license, then evaluate for 30 days
Dec 07, 2010
Nate
Heh, thanks. Should have thought of that.
Dec 08, 2010
Chuck Canning
It appeared as if this wasn't working under Ubuntu 8.04LTS. It took several minutes for the window to reappear after clicking "Enter License"
Dec 09, 2010
Dmitry Jemerov
The hang before showing the license dialog has been fixed, and the fix will be included in the final release. Thanks for mentioning the problem!
Dec 08, 2010
Maarten Coene
Is idea64.exe no longer included? It was included in previous EAP builds...
Dec 08, 2010
Dmitry Jemerov
As of right now it's not fully functional. We'll fix it and bring it back in a post-10.0 update.
Dec 09, 2010
Alejandro Gomez
http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/IDEA-56464
What about this issue? Most voted critical issue, will it be fixed before Idea 10 is released?
I'm getting tired of entering my SVN username and password everyday and I don't want to store them in plain text.
Dec 09, 2010
Dmitry Jemerov
The support for storing the credentials in encrypted format needs to be implemented in the underlying SVNKit library. The release schedule of SVNKit is unfortunately outside of our control.
Dec 09, 2010
Alejandro Gomez
Totally understand that, but there's a workaround: you can use Idea's password safe to store passwords, like Git integration plugin does.
Dec 22, 2010
NetSurfer
Am I wrong or Groovy 1.7.6 isn't supported by the groovy facet plugin? It can't find groovy library
Dec 22, 2010
Peter Gromov
What do you mean by 'can't find'? How do you add it?
Jan 23, 2011
NetSurfer
>How do you add it?
Like this http://keep4u.ru/full/be15baf79992e0d43941e982a1d34782.html And Idea doesn't see groovy***.jar nowhere path I give to it
Jan 24, 2011
Peter Gromov
Which exactly directory do you choose when clicking to 'Select...'? Which jars with which relative paths does it contain?
Feb 03, 2011
NetSurfer
Exactly herec:\Programs\Sun\Groovy\lib\groovy-1.7.6.jar.%groovy_home% is c:\Programs\Sun\Groovy\. ">groovy" in the cmd works perfectly.
Today installed EAP 103.14, the same bug. The Scala facet on the other way found its libs perfectly
Feb 04, 2011
Peter Gromov
Could you please file a YouTrack request and attach the zipped c:\Programs\Sun\Groovy there?
Mar 08, 2011
NetSurfer
Well, it now werks fine with groovy-1.7.8-installer.exe
Maybe I did smthing wrong.
Jan 27, 2011
Peter Jacobsen
Please provide release notes for 103.14.
Thanks and Regards,
Peter
Jan 27, 2011
Dmitry Jemerov
Please wait until the EAP release process is complete.
Jan 27, 2011
Christophe Bismuth
Hi,
Is it possible to make the IDE automatically prompt EAP patch download?
Or is the installation process mandatory to install each EAP build?
Thanks,
Chris
Jan 28, 2011
Alejandro Gomez
It's ok if you don't want my comment to appear in the blog but at least you can answer to my email (I filled it when leaving my comment).
So, any progress on storing svn credentials under linux?
Feb 01, 2011
Irina Chernushina
Hello, svnkit now supports storing credentials on Mac OS, and it will be included into coming IntelliJ IDEA 10.0.2;
For Linux: storing in GNOME Keyring is in progress - svnkit people say, it would take about a mounth; and works with KWallet are planned though it is not clear when they they will be completed.
Feb 02, 2011
Alejandro Gomez
thanks
Feb 16, 2011
Wolf Paulus
Is anyone watching what's currently happening with ADT Eclipse Android Dev Tools? http://tools.android.com/recent
Is Intellij trying to keep up or rather giving up?
Mar 03, 2011
Vincent
When I run build 103.161. I says "The JDK version is 1.7.0-ea IDEA requires JDK 1.5or1.6".
Mar 03, 2011
Dmitry Jemerov
This is expected. Running IDEA under JDK 7 will be supported in version 10.5; it's not supported in 10.0.3.
Mar 03, 2011
Vincent
But I have got jdk 6 installed.And IDEA 10.0.2 run pretty well.
Mar 04, 2011
Dmitry Jemerov
Do you have IDEA_JDK or JDK_HOME environment variables defined? Where do they point?
Mar 04, 2011
Vincent
OK
Only works after I set the correct IDEA_JDK.
JAVA_HOME or JDK_HOME have no effect.
Mar 08, 2011
NetSurfer
U put a line idea.no.jdk.check=true into idea.properties file and it werx fine