JetBrains Newsletter

April 2021

JetBrains Toolbox 2021.1 Released

JetBrains Toolbox 2021.1 has been released! It includes JetBrains Space integration, collaborative development out of the box, built-in HTML preview, and more. Check out this summary of the updates and improvements we've made to the IDEs and .​NET tooling.

YouTrack 2021.1 With the Notification Center

Stay up to date on the tasks and articles you are following without leaving YouTrack. We've also added Time Tracking to YouTrack Lite and made improvements to search, imports, and user management.

Code With Me Reaches Public Release

Code With Me, the ultimate tool for remote pair programming and collaborative coding, is going public. Three types of subscriptions are available: Community Plan, Premium Plan, and Enterprise Plan. Learn more about pricing and special offers.

JetBrains DataSpell, Our New Data Science IDE

JetBrains DataSpell, the new IDE for data science, begins its EAP! It's a completely new experience designed to make data scientists more productive and efficient. Visit the landing page and apply today.

Join JetBrains .NET Days Online 2021

Free Virtual Event Focused on .​NET

We invite you to join a free virtual event on May 11 and May 12. Community speakers will be covering topics on C#, F#, GraphQL, Blazor, gRPC, Hedy, working with databases, debugging, and more. Register to be a part of this year's event.

Release and Company News

IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1: Built-in Code Reviews Powered by Space — You can now use any IntelliJ-based IDE to browse code reviews, assign, manage, view, and submit comments, and accept changes! Read this blog post to learn more.

Get PyCharm and Support Django — Until April 29, you can purchase PyCharm at 30% off and the full purchase price will be donated to the Django Software Foundation.

IntelliJ IDEA Rust Updates for 2021.1 — The plugin introduces Rust debugging in GoLand and PyCharm Pro, a structured view for the compiler's output, and initial support for procedural macros. It also received editor updates and enhancements in name resolution and conditional compilation support.

Big Data Tools Plugin 1.0 — Welcome the first version for general use after a year and a half of the Early Access Preview program.

Kotlin Plugin 2021.1 — Enjoy an improved developer experience with faster code completion and highlighting, and change signatures with better IDE support.

JetBrains Academy's New Projects and Educational Topics — It's time for the JetBrains Academy content updates. We've prepared 28 new projects and 90+ new educational topics. Thanks to your feedback, we also released 2 projects from Beta and updated 10 existing projects.

WebStorm Under the Hood: How We Build Our JavaScript IDE — Have you ever wondered how we build IDEs at JetBrains? What does our release process look like? How does being a part of the IntelliJ Platform family affect WebStorm? Find the answers to these and other questions in our interview with Ekaterina Prigara, WebStorm Product Manager.

Early Access Programs

Kotlin 1.5.0 RC Is Out — The release candidate is now available with all of the features planned for 1.5.0. Those include new stable language features, standard library updates, an improved testing library, and many more changes.

TeamCity 2021.1 EAP — EAP2 brings more than 40 improvements including the new Kotlin Script build runner, multipart upload to Amazon S3, and on-the-fly node switching in multiserver setup.

Technology Highlights

Java Annotated Monthly: April '21 — April's JAM edition is huge, including links to more than 150 articles, tutorials, and videos! Learn more about the Java 16 and IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 releases as well.

.​NET Annotated Monthly: April '21 — This month's featured content includes an excellent Dapr series by Laurent Kempe and a blog post by Khalid Abuhakmeh to help folks migrate from Visual Studio to Rider. You'll also find lots more .​NET news, tips, and great content on interpersonal skills.

C++ Annotated Monthly: March '21 — In this edition we cover Contracts and Preconditions, a new name for std::colony, the Russian Coat Check algorithm, and will we ever get rid of macros in C++?

PHP Annotated Monthly: March '21 — Catch up on the proposals for PHP 8.1, releases of xdebug.cloud, RoadRunner 2.0, and the newly proposed PSR ClockInterface.

Video and Podcast Series

JetBrains Connect — DSLs: Bringing the Experts Into Development — What role do subject matter experts play in development? Join us on YouTube as we dive deep into the world of DSLs with our host Paul Everitt, and our two guest experts, Markus Völter and Václav Pech.

Talking Kotlin: Kotlin Multiplatform With John O'Reilly — In this episode, John shares his multiplatform development journey. He takes us back to his roots, discusses his experiences with developing for multiple platforms, explains how Kotlin Multiplatform helps with productivity, and shares his open source projects.

CI From the Trenches: How MIT's Rockets Are Built — Have you ever wanted to know how real rockets are being built? What's involved in bringing hardware and software to space? How to write unit tests for them? Marco Behler speaks with Luka Govedič, a student at MIT and part of the MIT Rocket Team where they are developing a two-stage rocket capable of surpassing the Kármán Line — the boundary of space.

Early Access PyCharm: PyCharm's Past, Present, and Future — In this episode Nafiul Islam chats with Andrey Vlasovskikh, the PyCharm Team Lead, and discussed with him where PyCharm is now, and where it plans to go into the future.

Webinars and Online Events

IntelliJ IDEA Conf Videos are Out — If you missed any sessions during our IntelliJ IDEA Conf, now is an excellent time to come back to them – all the recorded talks are now available! Catch up on what you missed and learn more about our debugger, dataflow analysis, Code With Me, and more.

Building Your First Python Slackbot, April 29 — Join Mason Egger for this live coding session and learn how to create and deploy a Slackbot.

Upcoming Webinars and Recordings — Find all of our upcoming webinars and recording archive.

Learning Resources

Bringing the Dark Theme to Space — The dark theme is now available in Space across all apps. Read this blog post to get a behind-the-scenes look at how we developed the dark theme and to learn more about how to enable it in the various apps.

Advanced Search in TeamCity With SearchQL — The new TeamCity SearchQL plugin provides a simple yet expressive query language for searching TeamCity projects, build configurations, build configuration templates, and VCS roots.

Revamped Get Started With Kotlin — New onboarding scenarios for different cases.

CLion Debugger: Beyond the Basics — In this series of blog posts we introduce advanced debugging features in CLion. Learn about non-suspending breakpoints, watchpoints, various debugger views, and more.

ASP.​NET Core Route Templates in ReSharper and Rider — Take a look at how you can work with routes and route templates in ASP.​NET in the latest 2021.1 versions of ReSharper and Rider.

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