Software Update: PhpStorm 2021.3

JetBrains releases several development environments, such as IntelliJ Idea targeting Java, CLion targeting C and C++ and DataGrip targeting sql. PhpStorm focuses on PHP and provides on-the-fly error prevention, autocompletion, code refactoring and debugging, and also handles HTML, CSS, Coffee and JavaScript. For an overview of the possibilities, we refer to this page† To use PhpStorm, 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 version 2021.3 of PhpStorm and the main changes and improvements made to it can be found below:

Full support for PHP 8.1

• enums
• Read-only properties
• Intersection types
• New return type: `never`
• Final constants
• `new` operator in initializers
• First-class callables
• Deprecations

Generics in PHP

• Improved support for Doctrine Collections
• Support for future Laravel 9 collections
• Infer generic types from constructor
• Support for the phpstan-* annotation for templates

Improved refactoring

• Drag and drop support for the Move Class refactoring
• Inline function or method
• inline variable
• Introduce (extract) variable

Remote Development Faster and better deployment

• Support for `rsync†
• Retry for failed uploads
• Speedup for SFTP/FTP/FTPS with multithreaded connection
• Upload all opened files
• Quickly switch default server for project
• Proxy support for SSH connections

HTTP Client

• Support for text streams and JSON streams
• Binary responses
• Output redirection to custom file or directory
• Support for HTTP request identifiers

UI Updates

• New Bookmarks tool window
• Source preview for Show Usages
• Improved Markdown support

VCS

• Align diff highlighting
• Checkout and Rebase onto Current for remote branches
• Reorganized VCS settings
• New ‘Push All up to Here’ action