Zend Studio

Zend Studio is the only Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed for professional developers that encompasses all the development components necessary for the full PHP application lifecycle.

Through a comprehensive set of editing, debugging, analysis, optimization, database tools and testing Zend Studio 5 speeds development cycles and simplifies complex projects.

To reflect varying developers' needs, Zend Studio comes in two editions: Professional and Standard

Zend Studio now includes a free developer license for Zend Platform allowing you to increase the reliability and maximize the performance of your application before deployment.

Performance

• New PHP indexing mechanism based on Apache Lucene, which leads to:
• 3x faster creation of index
• 3x smaller size of index on the file system
• 3x faster searching in the index - finding types, methods, building type hierarchy, code navigation, etc.
• Code assist is no longer blocked by running indexing processes
• Semantic Analysis checks are executed on multiple CPU cores - up to 3x faster
• Run/Debug launches are not blocked by background build jobs
• Fixed performance problem with many assignment operators
• Fixed performance problem with content assist in large array structure

PHP 7

• Default PHP interpreter changed to PHP 7
• PHP 7 Built-in executables with Zend Debugger
• Fixed issue with marking String, Int, Float and Bool as unknown types in function parameters
• Fixed issue with missing @return tag in generated PHPDoc
• Fixed issue with Semantic Analysis skipping checks for return types

PHP Editor

• Content assist windows size is saved
• Hovering over a problem marker shows the available quick fixes
• Improved support for PHPDoc tag content assist
• Format on save always process whole file
• Fixed problem with code folding during typing
• Generated use statements adds empty line
• Inline @var comments are considered by Semantic Analysis
• Added 'class' proposal for "static:"

Debugger

• PHP exception breakpoints (supported only for Xdebug)
• Fixed issue with not stopping on breakpoints when Xdebug is used
• Fixed issue with failing to start PHPUnit tests when using PHP executables without a debugger
• Fixed issue with breakpoints not working for linked resources

Other Improvements and Fixes

• Eclipse Platform updated to version 4.5.2 Mars.2
• EGit is update to version 4.3:
• New in version 4.2: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.egit/releases/4.2
• New in version 4.3: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.egit/releases/4.3
• Zend Framework 1 updated to version 1.12.17
• Zend Framework 2 updated to version 2.4.9
• Apigility updated to version 1.3.3
• The Eclipse Marketplace Client is added
• The Terminal plugin is now part of the main installation package
• Composer console supports ANSI coloring and interactive user input
• CSS3 profile in the CSS editor
• Quick fixes are available in the Problems view. Shortcut: Ctrl+1
• Anonymous classes are displayed in Outline and Quick Outline
• Detection of Local Zend Server is now optional
• The Trial screen is reworked to use only Eclipse RCP widgets, which avoids startup issues if the embedded browser cannot be initialized

Discontinued Features

• Support for Linux 32-bit is discontinued. No installation package will be provided in future.
• PHP 5.x built-in binaries for running and debugging CLI applications are not provided anymore. Only a single PHP built-in binary with the latest PHP version will be provided. Custom PHP binaries can still be added via the preference page.
• The Amazon AWS Toolkit extra feature is discontinued. It was a fork of an old version of the plugin. We recommend to use to genuine plugin provided by Amazon: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSToolkitEclipse/latest/ug/tke_setup_install.html
• The OpenShift integration is discontinued.
• The VMWare Workstation Support extra feature is discontinued.