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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.

Develop with pleasure!
Team JetBrains