Great news, everyone: we’re opening IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 EAP, a preview of the next IDE update planned for this summer! Besides fixing issues, we’ve also stayed busy working on new features that we hope you’ll like.

New feature highlights include:

• General 
  • The installer for Windows now comes with our custom JDK build where we address some issues with focus and font rendering.
• Debugger 
  • The Watches views has been merged with Variables for more convenience.
  • Multiline expressions are now supported in breakpoint’s Condition and Evaluate and log, and Data Type Renderers.
  • Try and return statements are supported in Evaluate Expression.
• Version control integration 
  • The Commit dialog now shows unversioned files (so you don’t forget to commit something important).
  • Patches can now be applied from the clipboard (the IDE will offer to apply the patch when it obtains focus), or by dragging a file into the IDE.
  • If a file has been moved or renamed since a patch was created for it, the IDE will try to figure that out or let you manually choose the file to apply the patch to.
  • The VCS log continues getting better with a handy loading progress indicator, a shortcut to navigate to the filter field, and tooltips for graph arrows.
• Editor 
  • Better spell-checking suggestions based on Damerau–Levenshtein distance.
  • Language injection now works in YML files.
  • Inspections based on Doclint for detecting Javadoc HTML problems.
• Settings 
  • Importing color schemes from Eclipse.
• Spring Frameworks 
  • Spring 4.3 core features, new inspections and better performance.
  • Better support for Spring Security 4.x.
  • Coding assistance for Spring MVC variables in FreeMarker and Velocity views.
  • Support for generics as qualifiers.
  • A lot of issues related to both Spring and Spring Boot have been fixed.
• Android 
  • Android Studio 2.0 features.

That’s quite a list, huh? More is coming, so stay tuned for additional details on these features soon.

We kindly ask you to give the preview build a try and share your feedback with us. If you see a bug or a missing feature, go ahead and alert us via the tracker. With your help and contributions we’ll make the IDE even better.