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Exciting news: IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2, our second update in this year’s series of releases, is out and ready for you to try. We’ve stayed busy the last four months to bring you these improvements and new features:

• Debugger
  • Variables merged with Watches
  • Multiline expressions in breakpoint Condition and Evaluate and log, and Data Type Renderers
  • Try and return statements in Evaluate Expression
• Version control
  • Log for Git and Mercurial now loads data in the background, gets a handy loading progress indicator and a shortcut to navigate to the filter field
  • Unversioned files in Commit dialog
  • Case-only rename in Git for Windows and OS X
  • Patches can now be applied from the clipboard or by dragging a file into the IDE; and IntelliJ offers help when applying patches with conflicts
• User interface
  • Font ligatures
  • Breadcrumb for Java
  • Notification popups got compact and moved to the right-bottom corner
  • Background Image in Editor and IDE Frame
  • The Inspection tool window now displays editable code for each problem and provides controls to apply a quick-fix or suppress the inspection
• Java
  • JUnit 5 support
  • A warning when you instantiate new objects inside equals, hashCode, compareTo or Comparator.compare methods
• Spring Frameworks
  • Spring 4.3 core features, new inspections, and better performance
  • Improvements for Spring Security 4.x
  • Code completion and navigation in FreeMarker and Velocity templates for variables
  • Coding assistance for Spring Caching
• JavaScript
  • A quick-fix to convert JavaScript functions to ES6 arrow functions
  • More postfix templates such as .let and .const
  • Smarter code completion for enum types
  • Better coding assistance for React; support for AngularJS 2
  • Grunt, gulp and npm tasks as Before launch tasks in a Run/Debug configuration
  • Code style preference over single quotes, double quotes or none at all
• Database Tools
  • Code completion for database names in Data Sources and Drivers
  • Auto-scroll from Editor in the Database tool window
  • Surround With a function
  • More context-aware SQL code completion
  • Completion for column values in Table Editor
  • Resizing columns via shortcuts
  • Schema Search Path, Range types and types with TimeZone for PostgreSQL
• Android
  • Faster Emulator
  • GPU Debugger
  • Code generation and testing for App Indexing
• Installer
  • The Windows installer bundles our custom JDK build

To read about the new features in more detail and to download the update, proceed to the IntelliJ IDEA website.