Software Update: IntelliJ Idea 2018.2.1

JetBrains releases several development environments such as CLion targeting C and C++, DataGrip targeting SQL, PhpStorm targeting PHP and IntelliJ Idea targeting Java. IntelliJ Idea offers smart code completion, deep static analysis, intelligent refactorings, debugger and a test runner, and can also handle Kotlin, Groovy, Coffee and Actionscript. For an overview of the possibilities, we refer to this page† IntelliJ Idea is available in two flavors, a licensed Ultimate flavor with more functionality and a free open source Community flavor. The Ultimate flavor will require payment for business and home use, but if the software is used for education or non-commercial open source projects, the license is free. JetBrains has released IntelliJ Idea 2018.2.1 with the following announcement:

IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2.1 Update Available

If you haven’t yet updated your IntelliJ IDEA to v2018.2 (release a couple of weeks ago), there’s no excuse to wait any longer. why? Because we’ve just released IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2.1. This fresh update brings important bug fixes and improves performance in a number of areas.

Here’s a quick list of the most important changes:

• Fixed poor performance of VCS repository detection (related to symlinks)
• Fixed broken Android Profiler
• Fixed poor performance experienced when working with Spring projects
• Added support for Java 9’s –upgrade-module-path option
• Improved support for Groovy 3 syntax
• Updated bundled TypeScript to v3
• Minor JavaScript/TypeScript improvements
• Minor Spring Boot and Spring Integration bug fixes
• And many more — please see the release notes†

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The JetBrains Team
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