IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 Released!
Yeah, IDEA 8.0 has been out almost a week, but I’ve been so busy with the Code Camp preparations, I didn’t have time to focus on it.
I’ve been using 8.0 since the first Early Access builds, and it’s been a very solid product all the way through. There were some regressions in the way things were "painted" (causing background colors to not work properly in some cases) that I’m betting has to do with the fact that IDEA 8.0 ships with the 1.6u10 release of the Sun Java VM. Those bugs are fixed and I’m happily using 8.0 on its 30-day trial until I get my 7.0 license upgraded. I’m bummed that I didn’t win the JetBrains raffle at the Code Camp, but oh well.
I’ll be posting thoughts and information about the new 8.0 features over the next few weeks.
