{"id":402,"date":"2015-02-09T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T22:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoyodynemonkeyworks.org\/?p=402"},"modified":"2015-02-09T22:22:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T04:22:38","slug":"arduino-v-1-6-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yoyodynemonkeyworks.org\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Arduino v 1.6 is available!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Arduino.cc\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.arduino.cc\/2015\/02\/09\/arduino-ide-1-6-is-released-download-it-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">From Arduino.cc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After almost two years \u201cin the making\u201d we\u2019re thrilled to announce the\u00a0<a title=\"Arduino IDE 1.6\" href=\"http:\/\/arduino.cc\/en\/Main\/Software\">availability of the Arduino IDE 1.6.0.<\/a>\u00a0The latest version of the development environment used by millions of people across the globe brings about a lot of improvements.<\/p>\n<p>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!\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.arduino.cc\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":-)\" \/><span id=\"more-10986\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>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>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for multiple platforms<\/li>\n<li>Boards are detected and listed on \u201cports list\u201d menu together with the serial port<\/li>\n<li>Drivers and IDE are now signed for Windows and MacOSX<\/li>\n<li>Improved speed of build process<\/li>\n<li>Autosave when compiling\/uploading sketch<\/li>\n<li>A lot of improvements of the serial monitor (faster, backed by modern JSSC serial library instead of old RXTX)<\/li>\n<li>Find\/replace over multiple tabs<\/li>\n<li>Improved lots of Arduino API libraries (String, Serial, Print, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Tools &amp; toolchains upgrades (avr-gcc, arm-gcc, avrdude, bossac)<\/li>\n<li>Command line interface<\/li>\n<li>IDE reports both sketch size and static RAM usage<\/li>\n<li>Editor shows line numbers<\/li>\n<li>Scrollable menus when many entries are listed<\/li>\n<li>Upload via network (Y\u00fan)<\/li>\n<li>HardwareSerial has been improved<\/li>\n<li>USB has got some stability and performance improvements<\/li>\n<li>SPI library now supports \u201ctransactions\u201d for better interoperability when using multiple SPI devices at the same time<\/li>\n<li>Better support to 3rd party hardware vendors with configuration files (platform.txt and boards.txt)<\/li>\n<li>Submenus with board configuration can now be defined<\/li>\n<li>Fix for upload problems on Leonardo, Micro and Y\u00fan.<\/li>\n<li>Libraries bundled with Arduino have been improved and bugfixed, in particular: Bridge, TFT, Ethernet, Robot_Control, SoftwareSerial, GSM<\/li>\n<li>A lot of minor bugs of the user interface have been fixed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is still lots of room for improvement, of course. 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