IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2 released. How to Install the Latest IntelliJ IDEA in Ubuntu. IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2 brings Java 13 preview features, profiling tools, services tool window, and more.
IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2
Java
- Java 13 is coming out in September, and, as usual, IntelliJ IDEA is ready for it. The IDE provides support for the Switch Expressions preview feature (JEP 354) and its new syntax, and for the Text Blocks preview feature (JEP 355).
- The IDE can perform the Inline method refactoring even when the return statement interrupts the execution flow.
- The new Find cause action for issues detected by dataflow analysis can navigate you to the questionable piece of code.
- We’ve improved the code duplicates detection and extended it to many other languages.
- Code completion can now understand typos and will provide the most probable suggestion for a mistyped pattern.
- While working with the structural search, the IDE will instantly highlight all the found occurrences of your structural search pattern in the editor.
Profiling Tools
- A welcome change! IntelliJ IDEA 2019.2 now integrates with Java Flight Recorder on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and with Async profiler on macOS and Linux.
Services tool window
- The brand new Services tool window provides a single place to view all connections and run configurations that you’ve configured to report to the Services View.
- The IDE displays the file system of the running Docker container in the Files tab of the Docker node in the Services tool window.
Performance
- This release comes with much-improved startup times.
Editor
- Manage all code style per scope via the EditorConfig file. Learn more.
- Syntax highlighting for over 20 different programming languages thanks to the built-in integration with the TextMate text editor.
- The default behavior of the Move Caret to Next Word action has been changed, and now the IDE moves the caret to the end of the current word.
- As you type, the Tab key navigates the caret outside the closing brackets or closing quotes, by default.
- Surround a selection with a quote or brace is on by default.
- IntelliJ IDEA now works smoothly with large files.
- The new default keymap on macOS is macOS 10.5+, instead of Mac OS X.
- To make code easier to read, we’ve changed the line spacing and now 1.2 is the default value. You can always change the line spacing in Settings / Preferences | Editor | Color Scheme | Color Scheme Font
Appearance
- To make quick-fixes more discoverable, we’ve given the inspection tooltip a new look, so now it not only displays the problem description, but also instantly provides you with the first available fix.
- The New Class dialog gets a new look and it now shows a preview of the list of all the possible choices straight away.
- The code completion popup has been given a fresh new look.
- There’s a new modern borderless UI on Windows 10.
- The new View | Appearance | Descriptions option in Tree Views adds additional information, such as file sizes and modification time, for elements in lists and trees in the Project View.
- The editor and tool windows tabs including debugger tabs have undergone a bit of a makeover to look the same in the Light and Darcula themes.
- While we are on the subject of uncluttering the UI – we’ve cleaned up the toolbar in the Find Usages tool window and removed or grouped together all the icons that were rarely used. We’ve also cleaned up the context menus.
For further details on these new features, please visit https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2019/07/intellij-idea-2019-2-java-13-preview-features-profiling-tools-services-tool-window-and-more/
Insall IntelliJ IDEA in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install snapd
sudo snap install intellij-idea-community --classic