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Now that IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2, JetBrains’ second update planned for this year, has been released, it’s time for IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2.1 EAP. This EAP build updates the bundled Kotlin plugin version to 1.0.3. Stay tuned for more updates!

Kotlin 1.0 is now available in beta mode after 14 milestone releases. JetBrains’ JVM language, developed over a period of four years, packs in Java interoperability, changes to the language itself as well as IDE improvements. Test it now!

Community outrage against the new JetBrains subscription model shows that the IntelliJ IDE creators are not aligning their business with customer needs, says Tom Radcliffe, Director of Engineering at ActiveState, the company behind polyglot IDE Komodo.

“Whether the industry will come to accept this model as a standard, I don’t know,” says JetBrains Developer Advocacy Team Lead Hadi Hariri of the new subscription model. While many rough edges of the new model have been smoothed out, it remains uncertain if the price is right.

JetBrains users have been loudly voicing their disapproval at the new “JetBrains Toolbox” SaaS payment model, announced this week by the makers of the Java IDE IntelliJ IDEA.

Early bird preview now available, with Code Coverage tool and Type Migration refactoring access now to open to Community Edition users.

From a subversive Git to Comic Sans at CERN, a roundup of our favourite tech pranks from around the web.

JetBrains ships out IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 Release Candidate 2 with final improvements for Java 8 support.

Company behind IntelliJ tell JAXenter about their experimental new platform that’s cleverer than it looks.

Company behind IntelliJ tell JAXenter about their experimental new platform that

With Google’s new Android IDE based on IntelliJ IDEA, we caught up with the JetBrains CTO to get his thoughts on the selection fo their IDE

The latest version of JetBrains’ popular IDE gets a moodier ‘Darcula’ interface, support for Play 2.0 and an Android UI designer.

A milestone has arrived for Kotlin after hard work over the summer

We speak to the winner of the Top Java Ambassador award and a representative of JetBrains, the winners of the Most Innovative Java Company award in the JAX Innovation Awards.