IDEA 2016.2 EAP

What is Early Access Program

We at JetBrains believe that making tools for developers should greatly involve listening to developers. Our Early Access Program lets development community closely participate in discussions devoted to IntelliJ IDEA and influence development planning, from early stages onwards.
Early Access Program allows you to try pre-release versions of our software to evaluate features that will be added to the next release.

What is IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2?

IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 is update of IntelliJ IDEA to be released in Summer 2016,

Download IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2

IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 EAP (build 162.74.16), released on May 13, 2016

Download IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 Community Edition

Plugin Development Kit: Since the open-source Community Edition was released, we no longer provide the plugin development kit as a separate download. Please see http://www.jetbrains.org/display/IJOS/Writing+Plug-ins for instructions on setting up a plugin development environment.

Recent Changes

IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 162.74.16

• General
  • The installer for Windows now comes with our custom JDK build where we address some issues with focus and font rendering.
• Debugger
  • The Watches views has been merged with Variables for more convenience.
  • Multiline expressions are now supported in breakpoint’s Condition and Evaluate and log, and Data Type Renderers.
  • Try and return statements are supported in Evaluate Expression.
• Version control integration
  • The Commit dialog now shows unversioned files (so you don’t forget to commit something important).
  • Patches can now be applied from the clipboard (the IDE will offer to apply the patch when it obtains focus), or by dragging a file into the IDE.
  • If a file has been moved or renamed since a patch was created for it, the IDE will try to figure that out or let you manually choose the file to apply the patch to.
  • The VCS log continues getting better with a handy loading progress indicator, a shortcut to navigate to the filter field, and tooltips for graph arrows.
• Editor
  • Better spell-checking suggestions based on Damerau–Levenshtein distance.
  • Language injection now works in YML files.
  • Inspections based on Doclint for detecting Javadoc HTML problems.
• Settings
  • Importing color schemes from Eclipse.
• Spring Frameworks
  • Spring 4.3 core features, new inspections and better performance.
  • Better support for Spring Security 4.x.
  • Coding assistance for Spring MVC variables in FreeMarker and Velocity views.
  • Support for generics as qualifiers.
  • A lot of issues related to both Spring and Spring Boot have been fixed.
• Android
  • Android Studio 2.0 features.