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If Welcome panel is not explicitly closed it's opened after each IDE restart as the only window, no matter what was opened in the editor in last session. Welcome panel has "null" as tab name.
Welcome screen has been removed from projects module. It will be provided by someone else (perhaps the core).
Verified.