5.0.1

• Added support for "owner" requirement when declaring dependencies using library.json
• Fixed an issue when using a custom git/ssh package with platform_packages option (issue #3624)
• Fixed an issue with "ImportError: cannot import name '_get_backend' from 'cryptography.hazmat.backends'" when using Remote Development on RaspberryPi device (issue #3652)
• Fixed an issue when pio package unpublish command crashes (issue #3660)
• Fixed an issue when the package manager tries to install a built-in library from the registry (issue #3662)
• Fixed an issue with incorrect value for C++ language standard in IDE projects when an in-progress language standard is used (issue #3653)
• Fixed an issue with "Invalid simple block (semantic_version)" from library dependency that refs to an external source (repository, ZIP/Tar archives) (issue #3658)
• Fixed an issue when can not remove update or remove external dev-platform using PlatformIO Home (issue #3663)

5.0.0

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• Migration guide from 4.x to 5.0

Release Notes

• Integration with the new PlatformIO Trusted Registry

  • Enterprise-grade package storage with high availability (multi replicas)

  • Secure, fast, and reliable global content delivery network (CDN)

  • Universal support for all packages:

    • Libraries
    • Development platforms
    • Toolchains

  • Built-in fine-grained access control (role-based, teams, organizations)

  • New CLI commands:

    • pio package – manage packages in the registry
    • pio access – manage package access for users, teams, and maintainers

• Integration with the new Account Management System

  • Manage organizations
  • Manage teams and team memberships

• New Package Management System

  • Integrated PlatformIO Core with the new PlatformIO Registry
  • Support for owner-based dependency declaration (resolves name conflicts) (issue #1824)
  • Automatically save dependencies to "platformio.ini" when installing using PlatformIO CLI (issue #2964)
  • Follow SemVer complaint version constraints when checking library updates issue #1281)
  • Dropped support for "packageRepositories" section in "platform.json" manifest (please publish packages directly to the registry)

• Build System

  • Upgraded build engine to the SCons 4.0 - a next-generation software construction tool

    • Configuration files are Python scripts – use the power of a real programming language to solve build problems
    • Built-in reliable and automatic dependency analysis
    • Improved support for parallel builds
    • Ability to share built files in a cache to speed up multiple builds

  • New Custom Targets

    • Pre/Post processing based on dependent sources (another target, source file, etc.)
    • Command launcher with own arguments
    • Launch command with custom options declared in "platformio.ini"
    • Python callback as a target (use the power of Python interpreter and PlatformIO Build API)
    • List available project targets (including dev-platform specific and custom targets) with a new pio run --list-targets command (issue #3544)

  • Enable "cyclic reference" for GCC linker only for the embedded dev-platforms (issue #3570)

  • Automatically enable LDF dependency chain+ mode (evaluates C/C++ Preprocessor conditional syntax) for Arduino library when "library.property" has "depends" field (issue #3607)

  • Fixed an issue with improper processing of source files added via multiple Build Middlewares (issue #3531)

  • Fixed an issue with the clean target on Windows when project and build directories are located on different logical drives (issue #3542)

• Project Management

  • Added support for "globstar/**" (recursive) pattern for the different commands and configuration options (pio ci, src_filter, check_patterns, library.json > srcFilter). Python 3.5+ is required
  • Added a new -e, --environment option to pio project init command that helps to update a PlatformIO project using the existing environment
  • Dump build system data intended for IDE extensions/plugins using a new pio project data command
  • Do not generate ".travis.yml" for a new project, let the user have a choice

• Unit Testing

  • Updated PIO Unit Testing support for Mbed framework and added compatibility with Mbed OS 6
  • Fixed an issue when running multiple test environments (issue #3523)
  • Fixed an issue when Unit Testing engine fails with a custom project configuration file (issue #3583)

• Static Code Analysis

  • Updated analysis tools:

    • Cppcheck v2.1 with a new "soundy" analysis option and improved code parser
    • PVS-Studio v7.09 with a new file list analysis mode and an extended list of analysis diagnostics

  • Added Cppcheck package for ARM-based single-board computers (issue #3559)

  • Fixed an issue with PIO Check when a defect with a multiline error message is not reported in verbose mode (issue #3631)

• Miscellaneous

  • Display system-wide information using a new pio system info command (issue #3521)
  • Remove unused data using a new pio system prune command (issue #3522)
  • Show ignored project environments only in the verbose mode (issue #3641)
  • Do not escape compiler arguments in VSCode template on Windows.

4.3.4

• Added PlatformIO CLI Shell Completion for Fish, Zsh, Bash, and PowerShell (issue #3435)
• Automatically build contrib-pysite package on a target machine when pre-built package is not compatible (issue #3482)
• Fixed an issue on Windows when installing a library dependency from Git repository (issue #2844, issue #3328)

4.3.3

• Fixed "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte" when non-Latin chars are used in project path (issue #3481)

4.3.2

• New Account Management System (preview)
• Open source PIO Remote client
• Improved PIO Check with more accurate project processing
• Echo what is typed when send_on_enter device monitor filter is used (issue #3452)
• Fixed PIO Unit Testing for Zephyr RTOS
• Fixed UnicodeDecodeError on Windows when network drive (NAS) is used (issue #3417)
• Fixed an issue when saving libraries in new project results in error "No option 'lib_deps' in section" (issue #3442)
• Fixed an incorrect node path used for pattern matching when processing middleware nodes
• Fixed an issue with missing lib_extra_dirs option in SRC_LIST for CLion (issue #3460)

4.3.1

• Fixed a SyntaxError "'return' with argument inside generator" for PIO Unified Debugger when Python 2.7 is used
• Fixed an issue when lib_archive = no was not honored in "platformio.ini"
• Fixed a TypeError "super(type, obj): obj must be an instance or subtype of type" when device monitor is used with a custom dev-platform filter (issue #3431)

4.3.0

• Initial support for an official PlatformIO for CLion IDE plugin:

  • Smart C and C++ editor
  • Code refactoring
  • On-the-fly code analysis
  • "New PlatformIO Project" wizard
  • Building, Uploading, Testing
  • Integrated debugger (inline variable view, conditional breakpoints, expressions, watchpoints, peripheral registers, multi-thread support, etc.)

• Device Monitor 2.0

  • Added PlatformIO Device Monitor Filter API (dev-platforms can extend base device monitor with a custom functionality, such as exception decoding) (pull #3383)
  • Configure project device monitor with monitor_filters option
  • Capture device monitor output to a file with log2file filter (issue #670)
  • Show a timestamp for each new line with time filter (issue #981)
  • Send a text to device on ENTER with send_on_enter filter (issue #926)
  • Show a hexadecimal representation of the data (code point of each character) with hexlify filter

• New standalone (1-script) PlatformIO Core Installer

• Initial support for Renode simulation framework (issue #3401)

• Added support for Arm Mbed "module.json" dependencies field (issue #3400)

• Improved support for Arduino "library.properties" depends field

• Fixed an issue when quitting from PlatformIO IDE does not shutdown PIO Home server

• Fixed an issue "the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'" when PIO Home is used with Python 3.5 (issue #3396)

• Fixed an issue when Python 2 does not keep encoding when converting ".ino" (issue #3393)

• Fixed an issue when "libArchive": false in "library.json" does not work (issue #3403)

• Fixed an issue when not all commands in compilation database "compile_commands.json" use absolute paths (pull #3415)

• Fixed an issue when unknown transport is used for PIO Unit Testing engine (issue #3422)

4.2.1

• Improved VSCode template with special forceInclude field for direct includes via -include flag (issue #3379)
• Improved support of PIO Home on card-sized PC (Raspberry Pi, etc.) (issue #3313)
• Froze "marshmallow" dependency to 2.X for Python 2 (issue #3380)
• Fixed "TypeError: unsupported operand type(s)" when system environment variable is used by project configuration parser (issue #3377)
• Fixed an issue when Library Dependency Finder (LDF) ignores custom "libLDFMode" and "libCompatMode" options in library.json
• Fixed an issue when generating of compilation database "compile_commands.json" does not work with Python 2.7 (issue #3378)

4.2.0

• PlatformIO Home 3.1:

  • Project Manager
  • Project Configuration UI for "platformio.ini"

• PIO Check – automated code analysis without hassle:

  • Added support for PVS-Studio static code analyzer

• Initial support for Project Manager CLI:

  • Show computed project configuration with a new platformio project config command or dump to JSON with platformio project config --json-output (issue #3335)
  • Moved platformio init command to platformio project init

• Generate compilation database "compile_commands.json" (issue #2990)

• Control debug flags and optimization level with a new debug_build_flags option

• Install a dev-platform with ALL declared packages using a new --with-all-packages option for pio platform install command (issue #3345)

• Added support for "pythonPackages" in platform.json manifest (PlatformIO Package Manager will install dependent Python packages from PyPi registry automatically when dev-platform is installed)

• Handle project configuration (monitor, test, and upload options) for PIO Remote commands (issue #2591)

• Added support for Arduino's library.properties depends field (issue #2781)

• Autodetect monitor port for boards with specified HWIDs (issue #3349)

• Updated SCons tool to 3.1.2

• Updated Unity tool to 2.5.0

• Made package ManifestSchema compatible with marshmallow >= 3 (issue #3296)

• Warn about broken library manifest when scanning dependencies (issue #3268)

• Do not overwrite custom items in VSCode's "extensions.json" (issue #3374)

• Fixed an issue when env.BoardConfig() does not work for custom boards in extra scripts of libraries (issue #3264)

• Fixed an issue with "start-group/end-group" linker flags on Native development platform (issue #3282)

• Fixed default PIO Unified Debugger configuration for J-Link probe

• Fixed an issue with LDF when header files not found if "libdeps_dir" is within a subdirectory of "lib_extra_dirs" (issue #3311)

• Fixed an issue "Import of non-existent variable 'projenv''" when development platform does not call "env.BuildProgram()" (issue #3315)

• Fixed an issue when invalid CLI command does not return non-zero exit code

• Fixed an issue when Project Inspector crashes when flash use > 100% (issue #3368)

• Fixed a "UnicodeDecodeError" when listing built-in libraries on macOS with Python 2.7 (issue #3370)

• Fixed an issue with improperly handled compiler flags with space symbols in VSCode template (issue #3364)

• Fixed an issue when no error is raised if referred parameter (interpolation) is missing in a project configuration file (issue #3279)

4.1.0

• PIO Check – automated code analysis without hassle:
  • Potential NULL pointer dereferences
  • Possible indexing beyond array bounds
  • Suspicious assignments
  • Reads of potentially uninitialized objects
  • Unused variables or functions
  • Out of scope memory usage.
• PlatformIO Home 3.0 and Project Inspection
  • Static Code Analysis
  • Firmware File Explorer
  • Firmware Memory Inspection
  • Firmware Sections & Symbols Viewer.
• Added support for Build Middlewares: configure custom build flags per specific file, skip any build nodes from a framework, replace build file with another on-the-fly, etc.
• Extend project environment configuration in "platformio.ini" with other sections using a new extends option (issue #2953)
• Generate .ccls LSP file for Emacs cross references, hierarchies, completion and semantic highlighting
• Added --no-ansi flag for PIO Core to disable ANSI control characters
• Added --shutdown-timeout option to PIO Home Server
• Fixed an issue with project generator for CLion IDE when 2 environments were used (issue #2824)
• Fixed default PIO Unified Debugger configuration for J-Link probe
• Fixed an issue when configuration file options partly ignored when using custom --project-conf (issue #3034)
• Fixed an issue when installing a package using custom Git tag and submodules were not updated correctly (issue #3060)
• Fixed an issue with linking process when $LDSCRIPT contains a space in path
• Fixed security issue when extracting items from TAR archive (issue #2995)
• Fixed an issue with project generator when src_build_flags were not respected (issue #3137)
• Fixed an issue when booleans in "platformio.ini" are not parsed properly (issue #3022)
• Fixed an issue with invalid encoding when generating project for Visual Studio (issue #3183)
• Fixed an issue when Project Config Parser does not remove in-line comments when Python 3 is used (issue #3213)
• Fixed an issue with a GCC Linter for PlatformIO IDE for Atom (issue #3218)