What's New

What's New in Version 6.0.1

JavaScript Support

• The globals setting in .jshintrc is supported

What's New in Version 6.0

IDE

• %product% can be opened simultaneously with WebStorm
• Editor tabs can be sorted in alphabetical order
• Consolidating bookmarks, breakpoints, and favorites in a single tool window

Code Editing

• Action to restore default font size
• Possibility to copy reference to PHP named elements
• Navigating between custom regions
• Ability to view and change line separators for the existing files
• Action 'Move Caret to Matched Brace' has been added
• Since code completion works after typing any number of characters in the middle of a word, using asterisk wildcard is not required

Languages, Frameworks and Technologies

• Emmet support
• TextMate/SublimeText 2 support
• Emmet support
• Support for FogBugz issue tracking system
• Support for Mantis issue tracking system
• Support for Assembla issue tracking system

Configuring Project and IDE

• Possibility to define fall-back fonts
• Configuring code style for LESS
• Twig: capability to configure code style
• Configuring Closure Linter quality checker
• Option to change font size on the editor tabs
• Darcula theme is available
• Fall-back fonts
• ability to configure Emmet for HTML, XML, CSS
• Enabling notification in console on stderror/stdout for external tools
• Representation of the dollar sign in template variables
• Simplified installation of JetBrains-provided plugins
• Possibility to enable parsing PAC file

Tool Windows

• Possibility to add external files to Favorites by drag'n'drop
• Consolidating bookmarks, breakpoints, and favorites in a single tool window
• Icon 'Export Inspection Results' is added to the toolbar of the Inspection tool window
• REST Client tool window
• HTML 5 outline mode is added

Plugins

• File watchers plugin comes bundled with PyCharm
• Simplified installation of JetBrains-provided plugins
• 'TextMate Bundles support' plugin comes bundled with product

Navigation and Search

• Speed search in Live Templates allows searching for any text in the template abbreviation, body, or description
• Navigating between custom regions

Markup languages and style sheets

• Flexible control over the JetBrains Chrome Extension in the browser
• File Watchers for transpiling SASS, LESS, and SCSS into CSS and for compressing CSS

Version Control

• Possibility to remove untracked files that prevent check-out
• Advanced handling of platform-specific line endings (LF-CRLF).
• TFS 11 (aka TFS 2012) is supported
• Possibility to color-mark directories with the changed descendants

Inspections

• JQuery selector inspection for detecting JQuery selectors anti patterns added

PHP Support

• Creating a Composer project
• Change Method Signature is available for PHP
• PHP Mess Detector supported
• Running PHPUnit without installation from phpunit.phar archive
• Running PHPUnit using autoload.php from the Composer Dependency Manager
• Integration with Composer Dependency Manager for PHP supported

UML

• Change Method Signature is available for PHP

Data Access Support

• Auto sync is now available for databases
• Database access via SSH is supported

JavaScript Support

• New CoffeeScript refactorings
• Advanced configuration settings for JSHint and JSLint code quality tools
• JQuery selector inspection for detecting JQuery selectors anti patterns added
• Flexible control over the JetBrains Chrome Extension in the browser
• File Watchers for transpiling CoffeeScript, TypeScript, and Dart into JavaScript and for compressing JavaScript
• JavaScript libraries are write-protected and excluded from refactoring
• JavaScript libraries determine error highlighting in their scopes
• %product% detects and ignores the minified file if the corresponding debug version is available
• Predefined libraries with JavaScript definitions for standard dom, html5 and ECMAScript API, as well as for node.js global objects
• Viewing the libraries associated with the file opened in the editor
• Downloading an alternative version of JSHint code quality checker
• Running JSHint code quality checker according to a configuration file
• Closure Linter quality checker

Testing Support

• Testing RESTful Web services from a dedicated REST Client tool window

Command Line Tools

• Creating a Composer project
• Integration with Composer Dependency Manager for PHP supported

Miscellaneous Improvements

• ability to manage case of unicode literals
• Managing tasks and context: integration with PivotalTracker, Redmine, Trac, FogBugz, Mantis, Assembla, and Generic Server issue tracking systems is supported
• Use soft wraps option

What's New in Version 5.0

Code Editing

• Hyperlinks to the symbols in the Quick Definition tooltip
• Pinning the Quick Definition tooltip results in showing Documentation tool window
• Pinning the Quick Documentation Lookup results in showing Documentation tool window

Configuring Project and IDE

• Predefined code style for Symfony2 and in accordance with the PSR1/PSR2 PHP coding standards

Tool Windows

• New design of the Database tool window
• New design of the Structure tool window

Navigation and Search

• It is now possible to switch between the find in path and replace in path dialogs
• It is now possible to switch between the find in path and replace in path dialogs

Markup languages and style sheets

• Improved code completion, navigation, code formatting, and support of advanced code constructs in the CSS, SASS, and LESS context
• Viewing changes to HTML and CSS in the actual browser window instantly without page refresh
• Reloading pages in the browser from %product%

PHP Support

• PHAR format is supported: browsing archives, code completion, search, reference resolution, etc
• Syntax highlighting in .ini files
• Navigating through the method hierarchy using overrides/is overridden icons for fields in the gutter area
• Navigating with breadcrumbs in PHP classes
• Using custom coding standards with the root directory outside the default PHP Code Sniffer’s Standards directory
• Running PHP Code Sniffer inspection in batch mode
• Model View Controller for Symfony2 and Yii frameworks
• Associating a keyboard shortcut with a Phing build target
• Configuring Phing build properties externally
• Using %product% macros in externally configured Phing build properties
• Support of Twig coding style: inserting spaces after and before double curvy braces in Twig templates

JavaScript Support

• Viewing changes to JavaScript in the actual browser window instantly without page refresh
• JavaScript libraries can be configured at the project level (project and global libraries)
• Annotating JavaScript for the Closure Compiler is supported
• Debugging JSTestDriver unit tests
• Built-in JSLint code quality checker
• Node.js core module sources can be configured both as a global or as a project library
• The JADE template engine supported

Remote Hosts

• Configuring automatic upload of changed files to the default server so only manually saved files are deployed automatically
• FTPS synchronization

Command Line Tools

• Integration with command line tools is provided at %product% level, so once configured, a tool is available in all %product% projects
• Executing command line scripts automatically after committing changes to the repository
• Reloading Symfony commands from the executable file without re-configuring the tool
• Support of Symfony2
• Integration with the Yii command line tool is supported

Miscellaneous Improvements

• MONTH_NAME_SHORT and MONTH_NAME_FULL variables are available in file templates
• Intention actions to check and edit regular expressions

What's New in Version 4.0

IDE

• ALT+Click editor tab to close other tabs
• Pinch-to-Zoom in the editor tabs
• Possibility to view all editor tabs and choose the active tab

Code Editing

• Sticky selection
• Custom code folding regions
• Emacs actions can be invoked via Go to Action
• More Emacs actions have been added to the platform (kill ring, sticky selection, adjust line); keyboard shortcuts have been added in the Emacs scheme

Languages, Frameworks and Technologies

• Node.js support

Configuring Project and IDE

• New way to access IDE Settings via Go to Action
• Improved code style settings
• Preselect old name
• Possibility to recognize line comments if it starts at the very first position on a line

Tool Windows

• Coverage tool window
• New design of the Project tool window

Markup languages and style sheets

• Generating project stubs from the HTML5 Boilerplate, Twitter Bootstrap, and Express frameworks

Version Control

• Streamlined UI for Git branches
• New merging, deleting, and comparing Git branches
• Ability to switch to Perforce online mode in the Changes tool window
• Integration with Subversion 1.7 is supported
• Local working copies can be created with Subversion 1.7
• Check box for memorizing password
• For Perforce integration, two refresh modes are supported

PHP Support

• Choosing the PHP language level to get coding assistance for
• PHP built-in Web server supported in projects wit PHP interpreter 5.4
• Checking PHP code quality on the fly using PHP Code Sniffer
• Code coverage for PHPUnit testing
• Setting predefined Drupal coding standards as default

JavaScript Support

• Generating project stubs from the HTML5 Boilerplate, Twitter Bootstrap, and Express frameworks
• Code coverage for JavaScript Unit testing
• Switching between JavaScript language versions to choose the one that fits the targeted browser
• JavaScript Strict mode supported
• Ability to configure JavaScript libraries for various scopes
• Node.js: possibility to configure interpreter and sources

Miscellaneous Improvements

• New way of creating and deleting tasks via tasks combo
• Possibility to view task description
• Possibility to show tasks combo in the main toolbar

What's New in Version 3.0

IDE

• Possibility to preserve temporary files
• Possibility to reopen a project from the Welcome screen
• Possibility to drag and drop a project onto the Welcome screen

Code Editing

• Highlighting level of the current file can be configured in the Code menu
• New PHPDoc formatting options in compliance with Zend, PEAR and other standards

Configuring Project and IDE

• ability to copy code style from another language
• Live templates can be created and edited right in the Settings | Live Templates dialog box
• Language-specific code style settings
• Safe write mode

Refactoring

• Search for references option is available for renaming files

Tool Windows

• Tool Windows are now available on the View | Tool Windows menu
• Event Log tool window shows all IDE notifications and allows you to take action where needed
• Dedicated tool window for managing your project favorites
• Dedicated JSTestDriver tool widow for starting the JsTestDriver server for running JavaScript unit tests in the browser

Navigation and Search

• Navigation commands are available on the Navigate menu
• Search functionality is in the Edit menu

XSLT Support

• XSLT 2.0. supported
• XSLT debugger supported

Debugging

• XSLT debugger supported

Version Control

• Reviewing changes to be checked in (Digest view) right in the Commit dialog box
• Viewing local changes from base revision in a dedicated pane on the Local tab of the Changes tool window
• Git Fetch is performed silently, without showing the Fetch Settings dialog box
• Initial support of git gists for sharing code snippets on GitHub
• Possibility to view change details for a file
• Revision graphs for Git

Inspections

• Detecting code duplicates

PHP Support

• New PHPDoc formatting options in compliance with Zend, PEAR and other standards
• Debugging single php http requests supported
• Profiling using integration with XDebug and Zend Debugger
• PHPUnit 3.6 supported
• UML class diagrams for PHP code are supported

Web Resources

• Synchronizing folders in the difference viewer

Data Access Support

• Possibility to change an SQL dialect for an SQL or DDL file open in the editor

JavaScript Support

• The mark object action is available in the JavaScript debugger
• JavaScript unit testing
• Node.js: coding assistance, running, debugging, and unit testing

Testing Support

• PHPUnit 3.6 supported
• Unit Testing for JavaScript. JSTestDriver Assertion, QUnit, and Jasmine frameworks are supported
• Running JavaScript unit tests in browser

Remote Hosts

• Synchronizing local and remote folders in the difference viewer

Miscellaneous Improvements

• Column selection mode
• Macros functionality is in the Edit menu
• Quick hide/show tool window buttons
• Possibility to compare binary files
• Find Action is in Help menu
• Hierarchies built are in the Navigate menu

What's New in Version 2.1

Code Editing

• Moving lines up and down
• CamelHumps in code completion are detected without using the Shift key

Version Control

• Viewing the GitHub version of a file from %product%
• Setting up connection to Perforce server has become highly fail-proof

PHP Support

• Viewing parameter info for methods defined through the @method phpDocumentor tag is available
• Dedicated Command Line Tools tool window
• %product% recognizes .htaccess files and provides syntax highlighting, formatting, code completion and documentation lookup for common directives
• Command Line Tools functionality is provided through a dedicated tool window with the capability to navigate through the list of executed commands and their output and save the output in a text file
• Phing build tool is supported
• Workaround for the XDebug on FreeBSD crash can be enabled

What's New in Version 2.0

Running

• Referencing labeled variables, watches, and objects by labels is available

Markup languages and style sheets

• SASS3 support, with syntax highlighting, indentation-based code folding, and color editor
• LESS support, with compilation and coding assistance

Version Control

• On-the-fly spellchecking in commit messages is available

Inspections

• Running inspections by name
• Renaming, moving, and deleting files and folders on remote hosts

PHP Support

• PHP command line tools are supported. You can use integration with Zend Framework or Symfony or define a custom framework
• Integration with Zend Debugger is supported
• Zero-configuration debugging

Data Access Support

• JDBC drivers are downloaded right from Data Sources tool window
• Operations with database binary large objects (BLOBs) are supported
• Tables can be edited using a graphical Table Editor. The range of records to be displayed can be controlled through filters

JavaScript Support

• The link to documentation detected automatically upon adding a JavaScript library

Miscellaneous Improvements

• Detaching editor tabs