New Debugging Experience: We’ve made the Zero-Configuration Debugging mode easier to discover for new users. PhpStorm now also fully supports group use statements, offers the “Make Static” refactoring and provides some new handy intentions such as “Convert switch to if” and “Convert if to switch” or “Flip if/else branches”. PHP Language & Editing Experience: A number of serious and long-awaited improvements have been made in the PHP language support, such as improved type inference, completion, support of traits, and more. Here are some notable highlights of PhpStorm 2016.1: Read all about the new features and improvements on the PhpStorm website. Along with new features, bugfixes and usability improvements, in this release we made a special focus on long-awaited improvements in support of PHP language, and development tools. This is the first update in the series of releases planned for 2016, as indicated by the new version numbering. PhpStorm 2016.1, the next major release of our professional PHP IDE, is now available for download!
