Checkout and Rebase onto Current for remote branches

Checkout and Rebase onto Current for remote branches

What's New in GoLand

GoLand 2021.3 has native support for Go projects in WSL,

the Inline Function refactoring,

and support for remote development in Beta mode.

Starting from this version, on save is enabled by default.

GoLand 2021.3 has some improvements for the debugger,

such as Delve for ARM64, the

Show Types option, and more.

There are two new postfixes for converting strings to numbers,

a new template for table tests with assertions and better completion for values in struct tags.

As usual, the new GoLand version brings web development enhancements

and a variety of new features for working with databases.

If you prefer an interactive approach to learning,

complete the What's New in GoLand 2021.3 tutorial from the Welcome screen.

WSL support

　　We’ve added the ability to open a project in WSL and specify an SDK located there. 　　If you create a new project (or open an existing one) in WSL, GoLand will tell you that for this project you have to use a Go SDK in WSL. You can download a Go SDK or choose an existing one in the subdirectory. 　　Formatter 　　 　　on save 　　The Reformat code option, which lets you run and GoLand’s own formatter on save, is now enabled by default. 　　This change might take some users by surprise, so we’ve added a notification that will be displayed once in every project. You can turn it off by clicking Don’t show again. 　　You can click Edit actions on save, and the IDE will open Settings | Tools | Actions on save where you can manage the settings. 　　Refactorings 　　 　　Inline Function and Inline Method 　　The Inline refactoring for functions and methods is now available. To try it out, place the caret on a function, method, or invocation and then press Ctrl + Alt + N. 　　When you invoke the Inline refactoring, a popup window opens with several options. From this popup, you can also open the Refactoring Preview, which helps you find all of the invocations of a method or function. 　　Completion 　　 　　Better handling of value styles in struct tags 　　We’ve improved the way different types of compound words – camelCase, snake_case, etc. – are handled when you add tags in struct fields. 　　When you fill out a tag, GoLand suggests a list of several options. After you’ve chosen one, the IDE remembers your choice and it will suggest the same style first in the list for other fields in this struct. 　　Postfix completion 　　 　　New postfixes for string-to-number conversion 　　We have a couple of new postfixes for converting strings to numbers. Just type a number inside double quotes, then type a dot, and GoLand will suggest two options for parsing the number: and . 　　Show usages 　　 　　Source preview 　　The Show Usages feature has been improved – you can now turn on the source code preview for a found usage by clicking the square icon. 　　Run targets 　　 　　Configure folders for sources and executables 　　You can now give meaningful names to the folders on the remote machine where the sources and executables for your project are stored. To configure the folders, go to Run | Manage targets | Additional Settings. 　　Project-wide default run target 　　It is now possible to set a project-wide default run target. Go to Run | Manage targets. A window will open containing the Project default target option. If you choose a particular target for the project, all new configurations will be created with this target. 　　Proxy support for SSH connections 　　We’ve added the new HTTP/SOCKS Proxy section to SSH Configurations for you to specify a proxy server. You can find this section in Settings | Tools | SSH Configurations. Alternatively, from the opened project go to Run | Manage Targets | ... 　　Debugger 　　 　　Better representation of interfaces 　　Interfaces in Go have two components, a type and a value of that type. For an interface to be , both of these components must be . 　　If you have an interface with a value containing a pointer to an , that interface will not be equal to , because the inner type is not (it’s ). This can be confusing. 　　To detect such cases, we changed how interfaces are represented in the Variables tab of the Debug tool window. For instance, if you have an interface with inner type , and value , it will be shown like this: . 　　Short package names in the Variables tab 　　GoLand no longer displays the full package name in the debugger’s Variables tab. You will now see only the last part of the full name. 　　Hide/show object types 　　If object types take up too much space in the Variables tab, you can right-click in the tab area and deactivate the Show Types option in the menu that appears. You can turn it back on by selecting it again in the same menu. 　　Delve for Linux ARM64 　　Starting from this version, GoLand bundles Delve built for the ARM64 architecture and debugging on Linux ARM now works out of the box. 　　We’ve also improved error messaging when GoLand doesn’t bundle Delve for specific architectures. The IDE now explicitly tells you what’s wrong. 　　Testing 　　 　　A template for assertions 　　We’ve added a new template for table tests with assertions. If you have already used in your package, GoLand will generate some code with assertions when you press Alt + Ins and choose the necessary option. 　　New quick-fixes 　　 　　Quick-fix for error string formatting 　　GoLand now has a quick-fix for an inspection that warns you about incorrect formatting of error strings: “Error strings should not be capitalized or end with punctuation”. Press Alt + Enter, and GoLand will suggest fixing the string format. 　　Export type quick-fix 　　If you have written an exported function that returns an unexported type, GoLand will suggest a quick-fix to export that type. 　　Other Go-related changes 　　 　　inspection 　　We’ve added an inspection that highlights the usages of . You can enable it in Settings | Editor | Inspections. The inspection will serve as a reminder to change if it was unclear which should have been used at the time of writing. 　　comment 　　We’ve added the comment for the templates generated when you use the Implement Methods action. These special comments are highlighted in the editor, indexed, and listed in the TODO tool window, allowing them to serve as reminders about unimplemented methods. 　　Remote development 　　 　　GoLand now supports a Beta version of remote development workflows. 　　You can set up remote development workflows right from GoLand’s Welcome screen. Alternatively, you can use JetBrains Gateway, our new application that serves as an entry point to all your remote backends. 　　Find instructions on how to get started with remote development on this page. 　　HTTP client 　　 　　Support for gRPC requests 　　GoLand’s HTTP client now supports gRPC requests and provides completion for them. Start your requests with the keyword, and the HTTP client will treat them as gRPC requests. 　　You can automatically generate a gRPC request in the HTTP client by clicking on the gutter icons in your files. 　　Currently, the HTTP client can execute unary and server-streaming RPCs. Like in ordinary HTTP requests, the request body and responses are plain JSON files. 　　There are several other HTTP client improvements which you can read about here. 　　VCS enhancements 　　 　　Checkout and Rebase onto Current for remote branches 　　The Checkout and Rebase onto Current action allows you to check out the selected branch and rebase it on top of a branch that is currently checked out. Now it’s available for remote branches. 　　New Push All up to Here action 　　Sometimes, you may have several commits that are ready to ship while others are still works in progress. In such cases, you may want to push only the ones you are confident about. 　　You can now push commits up to the one you have selected in the Log tab of the Git tool window. To do so, pick the commit you want to stop at, right-click on it to call the context menu, and select the Push All up to Here action. 　　Reorganized VCS settings 　　We’ve made the VCS settings more discoverable and structured. The Version Control node in Settings now lists all the available settings. 　　UI improvements 　　 　　Evaluate expression in the Variables tab 　　Evaluate expression functionality is now available in the Variables tab in the Debug tool window. 　　Split tabs in the Run tool window 　　You can now split the Run tool window by dragging and dropping the tabs to the highlighted area. To unsplit the window, right-click the top pane and select Unsplit from the context menu. 　　New Bookmarks window 　　We have a new Bookmarks tool window. From now on, all the files and folders that you mark as important with the F11 shortcut will be located in this window. 　　Profiler 　　 　　Visualize differences in snapshots 　　You can visualize the difference between the two snapshots on a flame graph. Press Shift twice and type "Open Profiler Snapshots" in the search bar. Open a snapshot from the list, repeat the same actions, and open another. 　　Then click the Compare With Baseline button in a tab of one of the snapshots. From the menu, select the snapshot that you want to compare against. A separate Diff tab will open with the results of the comparison. 　　Terminal 　　 　　ConPTY 　　GoLand’s terminal supports the new ConPTY API on Windows. We addressed several problems users were having with the old implementation, which was based on winpty, and enabled PTY on Windows by default. 　　With ConPTY, 24-bit colors are supported in the built-in terminal. 　　Typeahead 　　Previously, when you were typing characters in GoLand’s terminal while working on a remote machine, the IDE couldn’t display the characters as fast as it would on a local machine because of latency. 　　This is no longer an issue because we’ve introduced typeahead support. Our built-in terminal predicts text modifications and instantly displays them in light grey. 　　Web development 　　 　　Support for URLs in statements 　　You can download remote ES6 modules using a quick-fix on the import path in ES6 files. The module will be downloaded with all its dependencies. To try it out, place the caret on the import path, then press Alt + Enter and select Download module. 　　Improved code completion for HTML 　　We’ve improved the way code completion works in HTML. Whenever you type a tag name or an abbreviation in the editor or invoke code completion, GoLand will show you relevant suggestions right away. 　　Previously, it would only show them if you typed the opening angle bracket () first. Code completion for character entity references has been improved as well. 　　New inspection for updating dependencies 　　You can update your npm packages to the latest version right from the editor. Open your file, place the caret on the package version you want to update, then press Alt + Enter and select Update … to the latest version. 　　Put elements on multiple lines 　　GoLand has been updated with an intention action for JavaScript projects that lets you quickly put comma-separated elements on separate lines, and, if needed, back on one line. 　　Database improvements 　　 　　Aggregate view for a range of cells 　　We’ve added the ability to display the Aggregate view for a range of cells. Select the cell range you want to see the view for, then right-click and select Show Aggregate View. One aggregate value is displayed in the status bar, and you can choose which value you’d like it to be. 　　Independent editor tabs 　　If you split the editor and open the same table, the data editors will be completely independent. You can set different filtering and ordering options for them. 　　Check for boolean expressions 　　We have a new inspection for boolean expressions in and clauses. 　　If the expression doesn’t seem to be explicitly boolean, we highlight it in yellow and warn you before you run such a query. 　　It works for ClickHouse, Couchbase, Db2, H2, Hive/Spark, MySQL/MariaDB, Redshift, SQLite, and Vertica. In all other databases, this will be highlighted as an error. 　　Foreign key navigation using several values 　　In the data editor, you can select several values and navigate to the corresponding data. 　　Automatic column types in CSV files 　　GoLand detects column types in CSV files, and now you can sort data by a numeric value. Before, data in columns was treated as text and sorting did not work as expected. 　　MongoDB: Completion for and 　　Code completion now works when filtering data in MongoDB collections. 　　Custom font for the data editor 　　You can set fonts for the data editor separately from the rest of the IDE. To choose the font, go to Settings | Tools | Database | Data views | Use custom font. 　　Accessibility updates 　　We’ve addressed some accessibility issues to make working with the screen reader more comfortable. We’ve disabled the tool window widget pop-up and the quick documentation pop-up that used to appear on a mouseover. 　　Accessibility support on macOS has also been improved. We’ve resolved several issues with voiceover focus and made it possible to create projects using a screen reader. To minimize distractions while you're coding, we've reduced the number of help tooltips that play sounds.