IntelliJ IDEA 14 Preview is Available!

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Many of you, together with the IntelliJ IDEA team, have been waiting for this moment for some time: today we can finally reveal what we’ve been working on during the year to make your Java development even more of a pleasure. We’re extremely happy to announce that IntelliJ IDEA 14 is now available as a preview.

Everyone is welcome to download it and give the new features a try right away!

As always, IntellIJ IDEA 14 is better in every way: the UI, the editor, built-in developer tools, and coding assistance across all the supported frameworks. The major changes include:

Built-in Decompiler for Java classes

Displaying of variable values next to their usages in the Editor when debugging

The new Debugger action Show Referring Objects

Evaluation of lambda expressions and anonymous classes in Evaluate Expression and Watches

Evaluation of operator expression via mouse when debugging

Faster project opening

Smarter behavior of the Backspace key in the Editor, according to Code Styles

The new Code Folding option that displays parameter names of literal arguments

Improved Multiple Selections

The new Scratch Files

A Change Signature refactoring for Scala along with better support for SBT and faster performance

The new Android Studio Beta‘s features

The advanced coding assistance for Thymeleaf

Better Gradle support

The built-in SceneBuilder for editing JavaFX layouts

Improved support for Git and Mercurial

Developer tools for PhoneGap, Cordova and Ionic

Postfix code completion for JavaScript

Updated Database Tools

And, of course, there’s more, so check out the official preview page for more details and download links.

The final release of IntelliJ IDEA v14 is planned later this fall.

Develop with pleasure!