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Release Highlights Include:
Project Easel: HTML5 Application Development- HTML5 Application project with JavaScript testing support
- JavaScript Editor significantly improved
- Page inspector and visual CSS style editor
- JavaScript Debugger
- Embedded WebKit browser; deep integration with Chrome
- Breadcrumbs: A new navigation bar shows the current embedding in the editor
- Updated Show member and Show hierarchy views
- Set of new hints and refactorings
- Filters for Find Usages results
- Effective POM editor tab in pom.xml editor
- Java Persistence JPQL testing tool
- REST Service Development enhancements
- FXML/Scene Builder Support
- JDK 7u6+ support on Windows, Mac and Linux
- FXML editing greatly improved by providing accurate code completion, error marking and more
- FXML Generate Controller action added on FXML files
- Parsers for Namespaced Annotations (Symfony 2, Doctrine 2, etc.)
- Basic Composer Integration (Dependency Manager for PHP)
- Twig Code Completion (with documentation)
- Smarty Braces Matching for Related Tags
- Smarty Parser Errors of Unmatched Tags
- Groovy 2.0 integration
- Support in Java EE projects
- Groovy JUnit test support
- Basic refactoring implemented (Find Usages, Rename for class type)
- Sampled memory profiling
- CPU snapshots comparison
- Support for Linux ARM machine
- Memory usage reduced by at least half for big projects
- Parser speed improvements
- Parser's index can be kept and relocated with project
- Options dialog contents filtering
- New File / Open Recent File menu, and a new shortcut CTRL+ALT+T
- Main toolbar shows new drop down list for overflow situations
The final release of NetBeans IDE is planned for early 2013.