<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="http://blog.arduino.cc/2015/02/09/arduino-ide-1-6-is-released-download-it-now/">http://blog.arduino.cc/2015/02/09/arduino-ide-1-6-is-released-download-it-now/</a></font><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#0000ff"><b>73 Karl W4KRL</b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#0000ff"><b><br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:auto auto 1.1em;padding:0px;direction:ltr;color:rgb(79,78,78);font-family:'TyponineSans Regular 18';font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:22.3977603912354px">After almost two years “in the making” we’re thrilled to announce the <a title="Arduino IDE 1.6" href="http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software" style="color:rgb(184,91,90);text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit">availability of the Arduino IDE 1.6.0.</a> The latest version of the development environment used by millions of people across the globe brings about a lot of improvements.</p><p style="margin:auto auto 1.1em;padding:0px;direction:ltr;color:rgb(79,78,78);font-family:'TyponineSans Regular 18';font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:22.3977603912354px">Since the day we started developing the first 1.5 version we have received a lot of feedback, suggestions and contributions from our vibrant community and we would like to thank you all for your passion and good will: thank you everyone, you rock! <img src="http://blog.arduino.cc/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="" style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-top: 0.4em; height: auto;"><span id="more-10986"></span></p><p style="margin:auto auto 1.1em;padding:0px;direction:ltr;color:rgb(79,78,78);font-family:'TyponineSans Regular 18';font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:22.3977603912354px">We are glad to say that 1.6.0 includes a lot of new features. Here is a not so brief list of them:</p><span style="color:rgb(79,78,78);font-family:'TyponineSans Regular 18';font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6"><ul><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Support for multiple platforms</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Boards are detected and listed on “ports list” menu together with the serial port</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Drivers and IDE are now signed for Windows and MacOSX</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Improved speed of build process</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Autosave when compiling/uploading sketch</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">A lot of improvements of the serial monitor (faster, backed by modern JSSC serial library instead of old RXTX)</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Find/replace over multiple tabs</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Improved lots of Arduino API libraries (String, Serial, Print, etc.)</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Tools & toolchains upgrades (avr-gcc, arm-gcc, avrdude, bossac)</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Command line interface</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">IDE reports both sketch size and static RAM usage</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Editor shows line numbers</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Scrollable menus when many entries are listed</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Upload via network (Yún)</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">HardwareSerial has been improved</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">USB has got some stability and performance improvements</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">SPI library now supports “transactions” for better interoperability when using multiple SPI devices at the same time</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Better support to 3rd party hardware vendors with configuration files (platform.txt and boards.txt)</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Submenus with board configuration can now be defined</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Fix for upload problems on Leonardo, Micro and Yún.</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">Libraries bundled with Arduino have been improved and bugfixed, in particular: Bridge, TFT, Ethernet, Robot_Control, SoftwareSerial, GSM</span><br></li><li><span style="font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:1.6">A lot of minor bugs of the user interface have been fixed</span><br></li></ul></span><p style="margin:auto auto 1.1em;padding:0px;direction:ltr;color:rgb(79,78,78);font-family:'TyponineSans Regular 18';font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:22.3977603912354px">There is still lots of room for improvement, of course. Don’t forget to report any issue you find, either <a title="Issues" href="https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/issues" style="color:rgb(184,91,90);text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit">on Github</a> or <a title="Forum" href="http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?board=2.0" style="color:rgb(184,91,90);text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit">on the Arduino forum</a>: your help is very much appreciated. It doesn’t matter if you are not a tech specialist: every feedback adds value.</p><p style="margin:auto auto 1.1em;padding:0px;direction:ltr;color:rgb(79,78,78);font-family:'TyponineSans Regular 18';font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:22.3977603912354px">We are already working on release 1.6.1, with some very cool features we will announce in the coming weeks.</p><p style="margin:auto auto 1.1em;padding:0px;direction:ltr;color:rgb(79,78,78);font-family:'TyponineSans Regular 18';font-size:15.9983997344971px;line-height:22.3977603912354px"><a title="Arduino IDE" href="http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software" style="color:rgb(184,91,90);text-decoration:none;line-height:inherit">The IDE is available from the newly redesigned Download page.</a></p></div></div></div>
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