PhpStorm 2017.2, the next major update for PhpStorm, is now available!

Here are some notable highlights of this release:

  • Composer: New Composer actions (update, remove, install, self-update), PhpStorm and composer.json settings synchronization, global installation and easy project creation
  • PHP Runtime: Docker Compose, detection of enabled/disabled extensions from PHP interpreter, preserve state of Start Listening for PHP Debug Connection option
  • PHP Language Support: reworked polymorphic types support, better refactoring for PHP 7/7.1, $this highlighting, new inspections
  • Testing: Automatically run PHPUnit tests, Unified Test Frameworks settings
  • Improved PHP Formatting: new formatting options (spaces around null coalescing operator, new formatter options for blank lines, new parenthesis options for if statements, separate option for brace placement for closures, new Return type on new line option)

For more details please see What's New in PhpStorm 2017.2 and download the IDE for your operating system.