Hello from JetBrains,

We're happy to announce the release of PhpStorm 8, the newest version of our IDE for PHP and web development. PhpStorm 8 brings even more emerging technologies to help you enjoy web development, with deepest-ever code understanding and advanced support for remote environments:

• PHP Language Support: completely re-worked language injections into PHP literals; PHP 5.6 full support; source & test directories for PHP; new intentions and inspections, formatting, type inference, and other major improvements.
• Frameworks: Blade template engine support; WordPress support; Drupal 8 support
• Behat support
• Remote PHP interpreters support
• Debugging & testing improvements, with support for Zend Server Z-Ray

PhpStorm 8 also brings support for some of the most trending web technologies:

• Advanced AngularJS support
• Spy-js, a JavaScript and Node.js tracing tool
• Integration with Grunt, a JavaScript task runner
• PhoneGap/Cordova integration
• Integration with Bower, gulp.js, CucumberJS test framework, Postfix templates for JavaScript, and more.

This release also inherits many features and improvements recently made to IntelliJ Platform, including multiple carets and selections, working with a single file without creating a project, bundled Scratch plugin, EditorConfig support, and more.

For more details please see What's New in PhpStorm 8 and download the IDE for your operating system.

Develop with Pleasure!

JetBrains Team