Get Improved Performance and Increased Usability
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Arduino IDE* v1.6.0 Includes the Following Updates:
Performance
- Improved speed for build process
- Hardware serial improvements
- Upgrades to tools and toolchains
- Increased USB stability and performance
- Serial monitor improvements, including a faster serial library, backed by modern jSSC, compared to the previous RXTX
Usability
- Upgrades to the command line interface
- Scrollable menus for multiple entry display
- Definable sub-menus with board configuration
- Addition of line numbers to the editor
- Ability to find and replace over multiple tabs
- Autosave capabilities while compiling or uploading sketches
- Enhancements to IDE reports, including sketching of size and static RAM usage
Libraries
- Improvements to the Arduino API libraries, including the String, Serial, and Print libraries
- Improved support for transactions in the SPI library for better interoperability with multiple SPI devices
- Debugged and improved bundled libraries, specifically the Bridge, TFT, Ethernet, Robot_Control, SoftwareSerial, and GSM libraries