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IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.4 is released

We're happy to announce the release of IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.4!

Though this is a regular maintenance release, we have some cool stuff (besides performance improvements and bug-fixes - things you can typically find in any maintenance release) up our sleeve for you:

  • Reworked Ruby, JRuby and Rails support
  • Way better smart Maven integration
  • Version control with Subversion 1.5
  • and more

For the complete list of what has been added, fixed and improved, read Release Notes.

Get this fresh update now. Traditionally available for Windows, MacOS and *NIX.

August 12, 2008

IntelliJ IDEA 8 Milestone 1 is released

It is really a lucky concourse of circumstances that today, 8/8/08, we're releasing IntelliJ IDEA 8 Milestone 1!

This Milestone Release is a preview of IntelliJ IDEA 8, which is due out by the end of Fall 2008. A number of major new features of the next release are already available for you to use today! Milestone 1 greatly extends support for modern technologies, frameworks and languages, as well as broadening the possibilities for developing rich, complex solutions. Smooth, fast and effective development is made possible thanks to IntelliJ IDEA's famous productivity-boosting features and native support of every technology and language you need, all tied together in a robust, extensible IDE.

Here's a list of the most remarkable features introduced in this release:

  • JBoss Seam Integration
  • Javascript/Flex Debugger
  • Greatly improved performance
  • Spring 2.5
  • FreeMarker, Velocity, GWT 1.5
  • Great support for REST WebServices
  • Struts 2
  • Multi-dialect SQL Console
  • Reworked project configuration
  • New automated refactorings
  • Improved coding assistance
  • Numerous new code inspections
  • and many more

Read more about all the new features, watch them in live action, and get your copy of the fresh release to try it all for yourself.

August 8, 2008

ReSharper 4.0 is released

Greetings from JetBrains!

We are pleased to announce the general availability of ReSharper 4.0!

This release brings you the most up-to-date support for C# 3.0, including LINQ, and Visual Studio 2008 in general. The major upgrade also features multiple new usability and productivity-boosting tools, such as standard class library annotations, solution-wide analysis (for C#), versatile code cleanup, new automated refactorings, new and improved code-editing capabilities, and more.

Complete product information about JetBrains ReSharper is available at http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper.

ReSharper 4.0 is available for a 30-day free trial download at http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/download. No evaluation licenses are required.

New customers can purchase ReSharper 4.0 online at http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/buy.

Please NOTE: All those who have purchased ReSharper 3.0 or ReSharper 3.1 after December 21, 2007 qualify for a free upgrade!

June 10, 2008

ReSharper 4.0 Beta is available!

JetBrains heralds a happy release of ReSharper 4.0 Beta, a state-of-the-art productivity tool for .NET developers!
ReSharper 4.0 introduces a substantial pack of new features and improvements, of which the following are presumably the most delicious:

  • Comprehensive support for Visual Studio 2008 and C# 3.0, including LINQ, implicitly typed locals and arrays, extension methods, automatic properties, lambda expressions, object & collection initializers, anonymous types, expression trees, and partial methods.
  • Solution-wide analysis, a feature that looks for erroneous C# code in your whole solution on-the-fly, without compiling it first.
  • .NET Framework classes annotated with custom attributes to make ReSharper analyze your code even better than before - for instance, to let it know where format strings should be passed or where null values can or can not be assigned.
  • Code Cleanup - a powerful successor to Reformat Code. By simply running Code Cleanup, you can instantly apply a dozen of actions, including arranging 'this' qualifiers, removing code redundaicies, migrating to auto-properties, optimizing using directives, and many more.
  • All ReSharper's refactorings now support C# 3.0. New members of the refactoring family are available, including a pack of C# 3.0-specific refactorings.
  • Multiple new productivity features. This is to mention just a few:
    • Complete Statement. This is a new feature that inserts necessary syntax elements (braces, semicolons etc.) and gets you to the position to start the next statement.
    • CamelHumps in Code Completion. In ReSharper 4.0, all three completion features - Symbol Completion, Smart Completion, and Import Symbol Completion - let you complete any symbol by entering only its uppercase characters.
    • Live Templates Editor is a redesigned set of tools to view, manage, and edit ReSharper's three types of templates. From now on, you can manage and classify your templates in a special-purpose dialog box, and edit them right in a Visual Studio code pane.
    • Recent Edits - a drop-down list similar to existing Go To features that shows files and symbols that you recently modified.
  • Smoother interaction with Visual Studio ecosystem. The quality of interaction with frameworks, add-ins, version control clients and other members of the Visual Studio ecosystem is brought to a new level. The list includes .NET Compact Framework, BizTalk, and Silverlight.
  • ASP.NET Speedup. ReSharper 4.0 significantly speeds up analysis of ASP.NET pages, to enable more web developers benefit from the great toolset that ReSharper provides.

As before, ReSharper comes in three editions: Full, C# and VB.NET, which are called on to bring every customer precisely what they need - and enjoy the savings.

Download the beta version of ReSharper 4.0 to test the power of new capabilities and help us put the finishing touch on the product. Whatever edition you want, whatever version of Visual Studio you use, there's a single download file for all.

May 21, 2008

dotTrace 3.1 released

On this beautiful spring day, JetBrains announces dotTrace 3.1 — the new minor release of the simple and super-fast profiling tool for .NET developers!

We keep working on a major upgrade that will represent a big step in terms of functionality and scalability, but as an intermediate release, we'd like to introduce dotTrace 3.1. The highlights of this new version include:

  • Support for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.x. You can now launch dotTrace from Visual Studio 2008 and profile solutions running under latest versions of .NET Framework
  • Support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
  • Support for web-based JetBrains License Server, a utility that serves as a central source of license tickets and distributes them between workstations seamlessly
  • A new floating license that any member of your development team can use
  • Stability and performance improvements

As usual, you can download a 10-day evaluation copy. Current dotTrace 3.0 customers can upgrade for free.

For more details on changes in dotTrace 3.1 as compared to 3.0, see Release Notes.

May 5, 2008

Announcing Rake Runner Plugin for TeamCity

We are glad to announce the Early Access Program of Rake Runner plugin for TeamCity (www.jetbrains.com/teamcity). The plugin in conjunction with TeamCity brings the following features and benefits for Rake development:

  • Continuous changes integration and testing under Test::Unit and RSpec testing frameworks
  • Possibility to run tests under different database environments
  • User-friendly web UI and easy projects administration
  • Support of industry-leading version control systems, including Subversion
  • Smart reporting on the builds and tests results with different notification means and customizable rules
  • Intelligent tracking of tests status and visual statistics charts
  • Taking responsibility for integrating incorrect changes
  • Instant and easy access to the builds' artifacts, intelligent artifacts management and much more

To take a look at a Rake Runner plugin in action, please visit our public demo server at http://teamcity.jetbrains.com/viewType.html?buildTypeId=bt103&guest=1 The server doesn't require any registration or configuration.

The plugin is open-source, developed in Java and Ruby, and, of course, everyone is welcome to contribute. All the plugin-related information is available at our Confluence page at http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/TW/Rake+Runner

We urge you to give TeamCity a try and download a Professional edition which brings innovative productivity- and quality-enhancing features for FREE at http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/download/

And we would also like to familiarize you with Ruby, JRuby and Ruby on Rails support provided by our flagship product IntelliJ IDEA.

April 25, 2008

JetGroovy 1.5 released

We're glad to announce the general availability of the new release of JetGroovy Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.

Version 1.5 brings yet more of IntelliJ IDEA's smart, advanced features to Groovy and Grails developers:

  • Multiple new Groovy-aware refactorings
  • Extended Groovy coding assistance with support for dynamic properties and methods
  • Groovy-ready debugger that handles mixed Java and Groovy code
  • Smart GroovyDoc browser
  • Support for automatic testing with JUnit/TestNG
  • Improved Grails coding assistance with support for JavaScript and custom tags
  • Complete support for Grails plugins

To learn more about JetGroovy, visit the Groovy and Grails feature page.

JetGroovy supports all of IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 releases, including 7.0.2 and 7.0.3. You can download the plugin from http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=1524 or via the IntelliJ IDEA Plug-in Manager.

April 15, 2008

TeamCity 3.1.1 released

We're glad to announce the availability of TeamCity version 3.1.1

This new release brings several enhancements, including:

  • Better and more stable performance
  • StarTeam integration-related fixes
  • Numerous bug-fixes, cosmetics and exception fixes

Download a new version of TeamCity 3.1.1.

March 31, 2008

IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3 released

We're glad to announce the availability of IntelliJ IDEA version 7.0.3
This new release brings multiple new features, improvements and bug-fixes, including:

  • Improved performance and usability
  • Improved Flex support
  • Totally new, reworked debugger UI
  • Multiple Maven integration improvements
  • Numerous bug-fixes, cosmetics and exception fixes

For the complete list of what's been added and fixed, see Release Notes.

Download the fully-functional, 30-day, no-key evaluation version of IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3.

March 17, 2008

TeamCity 3.1 Release

We are glad to announce the release of TeamCity 3.1 - a new version of our innovative solution for continuous integration and build management.

This version brings a number of improvements and fixes to existing features, plus several new features you might enjoy (to name just the most noteworthy ones):

  • Visualization of Build Agents' workload
  • "Time to fix tests" statistics graph for monitoring the project health
  • Improvements in 3rd party .NET tools integration
  • More types of notification options
  • Improved external database support (Oracle and MS SQL 2005)
  • Scope filter for Code Duplicates and Inspections browsers
  • New options for builds triggering

And of course, this release has multiple user interface enhancements, performance improvements, and bugfixes.

We encourage you to download TeamCity 3.1, to give it a try for yourself.

To find out more about new features of TeamCity 3.1, surf to the "What's new" page.

March 4, 2008