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Great update, but still no support for Java 7 only in OS X. :(

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I take that you mean running IntelliJ under Java 7? JDK 7 and 8 work fine for development!

Exactly. I should've mentioned that. You can't run IDEA with only Oracle JRE 7. You need to install Apple's JRE 6 too.

I think it has to do with retina display support in the Oracle JRE 7.

I remember searching for retina display stuff in JDKs and saw a post from the people from JetBrains post differences between the JDK 6 from Apple and JDK 7 from Oracle. It was also a very informative post as well.

there is IntelliJ IDEA distribution with bundled JDK 7 (replace ideaIU-13.dmg with ideaIU-13-jdk-bundled.dmg in download link) but it isn't recommended because of JDK related issues

They did have RC builds that did, but those had some nasty bugs w.r.t. font rendering: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-117324

(Not really sure if it's Oracle's or JetBrains' fault)

There were lots of problems running IntelliJ 13 under JDK7 on the Mac, many of them related to focus. Popups appearing behind the main window, keystrokes going to the editor when a modal dialog is visible, that kind of thing. Also none of the key bindings that include the alt key worked. It definitely wasn't ready.

Works brilliantly with JDK6 though, I can't recommend it enough.

You can edit the Info.plist file (you probably already know this!) to get the IDE to launch under JDK 7 in OS X.

A recent EAP release actually had a bundled JDK 1.7 for OS X, although it seems the final version's download doesn't have it

this doesn't actually work. editing the plist doesn't do anything on IntelliJ 13 mac.

Are you sure? I just installed the community edition of IntelliJ 13 and changed the JVMVersion to 1.7* and IntelliJ is definitely running under the Oracle 1.7 JDK

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