How to Download Release 1.6.5?

[rei-vilo]

There have been important changes ultimately but the available package is 1.6.1-esp8266-1 dated Mar 27, 2015. The Releases page also mentions that there are 1070 commits to esp8266 since this release.

Do you plan to make release 1.6.5 available through the Releases page or is the Tools > Board > Boards Manager with http://arduino.esp8266.com/package_esp8266com_index.json the new official way of getting the ESP8266 plug-in?

I've downloaded the source code and built my own Arduino for ESP8266 using ant. Problem is, other users have different versions of the Arduino for ESP8266, and we don't know how to identify them.

Thank you!

[igrr]

Boards manager is now the official way to install ESP8266 support into
Arduino.

You can always build from git if you want latest changes, but this is the
way mostly for people who develop the core itself or libraries.

There is some confusion with version numbers because I have accidentally
pushed 1.6.5 tag from upstream Arduino repository here.

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015, 20:17 Rei Vilo [email protected] wrote:

There have been important changes ultimately but the available package is
1.6.1-esp8266-1 dated Mar 27, 2015. The Releases page
https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/releases also mentions that there
are 1070 commits to esp8266 since this release.

Do you plan to make release 1.6.5 available through the Releases page
https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/releases or is the Tools > Board >
Boards Manager with
http://arduino.esp8266.com/package_esp8266com_index.json the new official
way of getting the ESP8266 plug-in?

I've downloaded the source code and built my own Arduino for ESP8266 using
ant. Problem is, other users have different versions of the Arduino for
ESP8266, and we don't know how to identify them.

Thank you!

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[scryb3]

Would it be possible to do a latest/nightly board manager URL for those
that want to live on the edge? i.e.
http://arduino_dev.esp8266.com/package_esp8266com_index.json

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Ivan Grokhotkov [email protected]
wrote:

Boards manager is now the official way to install ESP8266 support into
Arduino.

You can always build from git if you want latest changes, but this is the
way mostly for people who develop the core itself or libraries.

There is some confusion with version numbers because I have accidentally
pushed 1.6.5 tag from upstream Arduino repository here.

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015, 20:17 Rei Vilo [email protected] wrote:

There have been important changes ultimately but the available package is
1.6.1-esp8266-1 dated Mar 27, 2015. The Releases page
https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/releases also mentions that there
are 1070 commits to esp8266 since this release.

Do you plan to make release 1.6.5 available through the Releases page
https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/releases or is the Tools > Board >
Boards Manager with
http://arduino.esp8266.com/package_esp8266com_index.json the new
official
way of getting the ESP8266 plug-in?

I've downloaded the source code and built my own Arduino for ESP8266
using
ant. Problem is, other users have different versions of the Arduino for
ESP8266, and we don't know how to identify them.

Thank you!

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[reaper7]

+1 for "latest/nightly" as scryb3 wrote

[igrr]

Related: #324 (there is a somewhat fresher version of the boards manager package).
The reason I don't want to update the staging build every night is that the latest version git is very frequently broken — and I don't want this issue tracker to explode from issue reports related to nightly builds.

[ghost]

But could we have something like a monthly build? Or what is the currently proposed deployment schedule?

As far as i can see in my Arduino IDE (1.6.4) there have been two packages up until now:

1.6.4-628-g545ffde dated may 19th
1.6.4-673-g8cd3697 dated may 22nd

Or is my IDE missing something here, should I pull/reset or otherwise do something to get a more recent build?

Other question, the Adafruit json link that i've tried before gave the option to select between different builds. Will that option be there when a newer build is available? Or will the IDE automatically select the most recent version?

[igrr]

Stable package has been updated to 1.6.5-947-g39819f0.