In this post, we will see how we can add the Spring Intilializr and Assistant plugin and how we can use it to set up our Spring Boot development environment, based on IDEA IntelliJ.

However, if you don’t like to go for the paid version, a solution is to install and use the Spring Intilializr and Assistant plugin. Though, the free Community Edition lacks built-in support for the Spring Boot framework, something that is true for the paid versions. If you find a bug, please report it via our issue tracker.In one of my posts, I sow how you can set up VS Code as your development environment for the Java Spring Boot framework As I’ve mentioned there, the IntelliJ IDEA from JetBrains is also an awesome IDE to work with your Java Projects. The full list of all the changes is available in the IDE release notes and the JRE release notes.

Fixed the regression, caused by the fix for picking characters in the Find in Path popup from the input method: JRE-981.

Some system DLLs will be shipped with the JFX builds due to JFX building being switched to Visual Studio 2017: JRE-991.

In other news, the JDK has been updated to 1.8.0_152-release-1248-b19, with the following fixes integrated:

The ‘Replace in Path’ / “Find in path” dialogs don’t lose focus: IDEA-198588, the problem still exists on Windows 7, but we are working on this issue right now, please follow JRE-994 for updates.

Fixed the IDE freezes when editing adle script files: IDEA-198816.Fixed an issue with GitHub account addition, where the IDE was unable to register a new token: IDEA-198120.The Java 11 language level is not treated as experimental anymore: IDEA-199809.This minor update includes a series of bug fixes and improvements: The new IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2.5 bug-fix update is ready for you to download.

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