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PlatformIO v5.0.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-09-03 // over 3 years ago

  • Professional collaborative platform for embedded development

    🚀 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](https://docs.platformio.org/page/core/userguide/package/index.html) – manage packages in the registry
- [pio access](https://docs.platformio.org/page/core/userguide/access/index.html) – manage package access for users, teams, and maintainers

    Integration with the new Account Management System

    - 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](https://docs.platformio.org/page/projectconf/advanced_scripting.html) – 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](https://docs.platformio.org/page/projectconf/section_platformio.html#projectconf-pio-build-cache-dir) 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"](https://docs.platformio.org/page/projectconf.html)
- 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](https://docs.platformio.org/page/core/userguide/cmd_run.html#cmdoption-platformio-run-list-targets) command ([issue #3544](https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/issues/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

    - 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](https://docs.platformio.org/page/plus/check-tools/cppcheck.html) v2.1 with a new "soundy" analysis option and improved code parser
- [PVS-Studio](https://docs.platformio.org/page/plus/check-tools/pvs-studio.html) 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)

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