CLI and IDE get better together
This article was written by Silvano Cerza and Ubi de Feo from the Arduino Tooling Team.
Over the past two months our newly established Tooling Team has taken over operations concerning the Arduino CLI and Pro IDE.
We’ve been silent at work in our little rooms, striving to come up with solutions to reported issues and feature requests.
As time went on, the development of the CLI and Pro IDE has been moving forward in a parallel fashion, so here we bring you new versions of both applications for you to play with and build your workflows around.
arduino-cli 0.12.0
The new Arduino CLI is alive and kicking!
Highlights for this release include:
- We introduced high-level update, outdated, upgrade commands to make arduino-cli more package manager like
- Package index is now downloaded automatically at first run
- Custom post-installation scripts can now be executed safely (3rd party cores will issue non blocking warnings)
- Slight but useful UX improvements
- Bugfixes
- Security bugfixes
Remember, we have CLI nightly builds if you want to stay updated on the latest features!
Arduino Pro IDE
The Arduino Pro IDE is now better than ever! The team squeezed out a very juicy release, enough to skip ahead in the version numbers and jump from 0.0.6 to 0.1.0.
Highlights for this release include:
- Updated the bundled CLI version to ‘0.12.0’
- Reworked the menu organization
- Added support for upload using external programmers
- UI bugfixes aplenty
We are pleased to announce that from now on we have nightly builds available if you want to try out the latest features (and bugfixes). They can be found at the links below depending on your preferred operating system: