Software Update: PhpStorm 2019.2.2

JetBrains releases several development environments, such as IntelliJ Idea targeting Java, CLion targeting C and C++, DataGrip targeting SQL and PhpStorm targeting PHP. PhpStorm offers on-the-fly error prevention, autocompletion, code refactoring, and debugging, and can also handle HTML, CSS, Coffee, and JavaScript. For an overview of the possibilities, we refer to this page. To use PhpStorm is a license required. For business and home use you will have to pay for it, but if the software is used for education or non-commercial open source projects, the license is free. JetBrains has released PhpStorm 2019.2.2 and the most important changes made to it are listed for you below.

PhpStorm 2019.2.2 has been released

PhpStorm 2019.2.2 build 192.6603.42 is now available! In this second minor update for PhpStorm 2019.2, we are happy to bring you improved type inference and parameters info tooltip, as well as a bunch of other bugfixes and improvements for PHP, the Web, and all the latest improvements made to the IntelliJ Platform.

Improved Type Inference

We’ve made a lot of changes in the PHP type inference system, which affect the handling of $this/self/static return types. The following long-standing issues, as well as many others, are now fixed:

• WI-28728 +18 Fixed: No code completion in foreach loop if array of object is generating from static method with static array type hint
• WI-18067 +18 Fixed: Late Static Bindings errors on calls in non-static context
• WI-38803 +13 Fixed: PHP 7 self return type incorrectly analyzed in chained method calls
• WI-29051 +12 Fixed: $this[]|static[] as return type breaks chained type hinting for variable with element access

Other notable changes:

• Fixed: IDE opens on a last known location when external monitor is detached: outside of screen (IDEA-153291 +36)
• Fixed: Stretch left key binding doesn’t work (IDEA-218926 +14)
• Fixed: Nested sources folder not showing in Project view after updating to 2019.1 (IDEA-215752 +14)
• Fixed: Enter Full Screen & Exit Full Screen does not execute when invoked via find action (IDEA-192504 +13)
• Fixed: Exception occurs on applying “Show F1, F2, etc. keys on the Touch Bar” option (IDEA-202927 +12)
• Automatically escape special symbols for “Find” and “Find in Path” dialogs if “Regex” (“Regular Expression”) is checked (IDEA-109899 +12)
• Fixed: Xdebug 2.6.1 Profiler snapshot not opening (WI-44833 +8)
• Fixed: Docker exec tab does not wrap correctly (IDEA-179900 +8)
• Fixed: Freeze on project opening (IDEA-220475 +6)

You can find the full list of bug fixes and improvements in the release notes.