JetBrains releases IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3 update

“Happy development” is wished to everyone by the guys from JetBrains, who rolled out a new release of our beloved IDE IntelliJ IDEA the day before. The update supports Java EE 8, auto-completion has changed, tools for working with Git and databases ... And now - in more detail.

Java

• Now "smart" code completion Smart Complection takes into account type casting;


• Many new and improved inspections: inspection of redundant declarations, quick fix for deprecated code, inspection of possible nullability issues in Stream API method calls and others;


• Improved support for JUnit 5 (running tests inside the Run Dashboard window and other innovations is available );


• Custom Command Line Shortcut: A new convenient way to specify the method used to shorten the command line for each configuration;


• The Run Dashboard tool now allows you to add different types of configurations.

Java EE 8

• Navigation for Asynchronous CDI Events between start and receive events;


• Navigation between Injection Point and Injected Beans, Disposes and Produced and so on.

JVM Debugger

• A new Overhead tab has appeared to account for the cost of computing resources in the debugger window;


• The new On-demand Data Renderers feature helps reduce resource consumption. To activate it, you need to select the Mute Renderers item in the context menu;


• Now the Async Stacktraces option works out of the box and consumes much less resources;


• The Java Stream Debugger plugin has been included in the IDE.

Working with databases

• Now you can group data sources;


• Any tables/views can be exported to a file or copied to clipboard;


• Added support for Foreign Data Wrappers in PostgreSQL;


• Schema selection when executing the SQL file;


• Added quick switching between created consoles.

Spring

• Spring Beans Diagram has received a new Neighborhood Mode feature. For ease of reading, you can switch to Borderless View;


• Added ability to auto-detect Spring facets .

spring boot

• Support for Spring Boot 2.0 Actuator Endpoints;


• In Spring Boot configuration files, values ​​are highlighted based on their type;


• Autodiscover MVC context in Spring Boot MVC web applications.

User interface

• There is a new Preview panel for the SVG editor;


• Adding multiple visual border options in the editor;


• An expandable input field adds the ability to display arguments on a new line after the field has been expanded.

Docker Plugin

• Updated Run/Debug Configurations interface. Docker Deployment Run Configuration now has three different run configurations: Docker Image, Dockerfile and Docker Compose;


• Docker can set files with environment variables in the container during docker build for DockerFiles.

Other changes affected VCS, work with Gradle, Kotlin, JavaScript and TypeScript. Source: Jetbrains