Released: Mar 18, 2016

Updates in this release

Updates in 2016.1

PHP Language and Editing Experience

• Better PHP Language Support - Improved type inference, completion and support of traits.
• Support for Group Use Statements
  • Reuse of group use statements during auto-import.
  • Support for group uses during refactoring (move method, class, namespaces refactorings).
  • Handy intentions to group or split use statements.
• Make Static Refactoring - Easily make methods static in any situation, by converting all invocations and by adding an object as a parameter or adding parameters for fields if needed.
• New Intentions
  • Convert switch to if.
  • Convert if to switch.
  • Flip if/else branches.

New Debugging Experience

• Zero Configuration Debugging - PhpStorm will automatically provide complete information and fixes to help you get started with debugging.
• XDebug for REST Client - Debug your RESTful Web Service right from within the REST Client, without leaving the IDE.

Frameworks and Tools

• Keep-Alive - PhpStorm now includes the Keep-Alive feature for SFTP/FTP/FTPS servers and Remote Interpreters.
• Project-Level Interpreters - Configure interpreters not only at application level, but also at project level.
• Mappings for Remote Interpreters - All detected and inherited path mappings are shown in one place, and you can add custom mappings and disable detected ones easily.
• Rerun Failed Tests for PHPUnit/Behat - If you have failed tests to fix, you don’t have to rerun your whole test suite, just use the Rerun Failed Tests feature.

Web Technologies

• Improved Angular 2 Support
  • Coding assistance for event and property bindings, as well as completion inside any data binding.
  • Code insight and navigation are available for directives, variables defined in templates, custom event handlers, paths in templateUrl and styleUrls fields.
• Better TypeScript Support
  • New refactorings including Create method, Extract method, Inline method and Introduce field.
  • New intentions including Make class abstract, Make public/private and Remove modifier.
  • Unused imports inspection.
  • Support for the latest TypeScript 1.8 features.
• New Features in JavaScript Debugger
  • Debug asynchronous client-side code and arrow functions in ECMAScript 6, and stop at breakpoints set in Web workers.
  • You can now debug an app’s main process in a built or packaged Electron application, by using Node.js run/debug configuration.
  • Debug a render process by using Chromium remote debug configuration.

IDE Improvements

• Version Control
  • By-word change highlighting when merging and comparing revisions with Git and other VCS.
  • Compare revisions between branches (for Mercurial).
  • New actions available in Git.
  • Work with multiple working trees (introduced in Git 2.5) as you do with regular repositories.
• Right-to-left Languages Support - PhpStorm adds support for right-to-left languages to the editor, such as Arabic and Hebrew.
• Speed Search
  • Matches are highlighted for easier navigation.
  • Use the speed search in the Terminal Tool window.
• JSON Schema - PhpStorm now provides coding assistance for certain types of JSON files.

Docker

• Support for Docker Machines.
• Dedicated tool window for Docker.
• The right-side panel now allows you to see logs, manage environment variables and port bindings.
• The lists of containers and images are now separate and more readable.