5.0.4

• Added "Core" suffix when showing PlatformIO Core version using pio --version command
• Improved .ccls configuration file for Emacs, Vim, and Sublime Text integrations
• Updated analysis tools:
  • Cppcheck v2.3 with improved C++ parser and several new MISRA rules
  • PVS-Studio v7.11 with new diagnostics and updated mass suppression mechanism
• Show a warning message about deprecated support for Python 2 and Python 3.5
• Do not provide "intelliSenseMode" option when generating configuration for VSCode C/C++ extension
• Fixed a "git-sh-setup: file not found" error when installing project dependencies from Git VCS (issue #3740)
• Fixed an issue with package publishing on Windows when Unix permissions are not preserved (issue #3776)

5.0.3

• Added an error selector for Sublime Text build runner (issue #3733)
• Generate a working "projectEnvName" for PlatformIO IDE's debugger for VSCode
• Force VSCode's intelliSenseMode to "gcc-x64" when GCC toolchain is used
• Print ignored test suites and environments in the test summary report only in verbose mode (issue #3726)
• Fixed an issue when the package manager tries to install a built-in library from the registry (issue #3662)
• Fixed an issue when pio package pack ignores some folders (issue #3730)

5.0.2

• Initialize a new project or update the existing passing working environment name and its options (issue #3686)
• Automatically build PlatformIO Core extra Python dependencies on a host machine if they are missed in the registry (issue #3700)
• Improved "core.call" RPC for PlatformIO Home (issue #3671)
• Fixed a "PermissionError: [WinError 5]" on Windows when an external repository is used with lib_deps option (issue #3664)
• Fixed a "KeyError: 'versions'" when dependency does not exist in the registry (issue #3666)
• Fixed an issue with GCC linker when "native" dev-platform is used in pair with library dependencies (issue #3669)
• Fixed an "AssertionError: ensure_dir_exists" when checking library updates from simultaneous subprocesses (issue #3677)
• Fixed an issue when pio package publish command removes original archive after submitting to the registry (issue #3716)
• Fixed an issue when multiple pio lib install command with the same local library results in duplicates in lib_deps (issue #3715)
• Fixed an issue with a "wrong" timestamp in device monitor output using "time" filter (issue #3712)

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

Professional collaborative platform for embedded development

• 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)