PlatformIO Core 3.5.0

[ivankravets]

We are pleased to announce the release of PlatformIO Core 3.5.0.

What is new

PlatformIO Core 3.5.0 introduces many new features and performance improvements. The notable changes are as follows:

• PlatformIO Home - interact with PlatformIO ecosystem using modern and cross-platform GUI:
  • Library Manager:
    • Search for new libraries in PlatformIO Registry
    • “1-click” library installation, per-project libraries, extra storages
    • List installed libraries in multiple storages
    • List built-in libraries (by frameworks)
    • Updates for installed libraries
    • Multiple examples, trending libraries, and more.
  • PlatformIO Projects
  • PIO Account
  • Development platforms, frameworks and board explorer
  • Device Manager: serial, logical, and multicast DNS services
• Integration with Jenkins CI
• New include folder for project’s header files (issue #1107)
• Depend on development platform using VCS URL (Git, Mercurial and Subversion) instead of a name in Project Configuration File “platformio.ini”. Drop support for *_stage dev/platform names (use VCS URL instead).
• Reinstall/redownload package with a new -f, --force option for platformio lib install and platformio platform install commands (issue #778)
• Handle missed dependencies and provide a solution based on PlatformIO Library Registry (issue #781)
• New setting projects_dir that allows to override a default PIO Home Projects location (issue #1161)
• Library Dependency Finder (LDF):
  • Search for dependencies used in PIO Unit Testing (issue #953)
  • Parse library source file in pair with a header when they have the same name (issue #1175)
  • Handle library dependencies defined as VCS or SemVer in Project Configuration File “platformio.ini” (issue #1155)
  • Added option to configure library Compatible Mode using library.json
• New options for platformio device list command:
  • --serial list available serial ports (default)
  • --logical list logical devices
  • --mdns discover multicast DNS services (issue #463)
• Other bug fixes and performance improvements.

See PlatformIO 3.5 Release Notes for details.

Upgrade

• PlatformIO IDE:
  - Atom: Menu: PlatformIO > Upgrade PlatformIO Core
  - VSCode: ctrl+alt+t, Run Other Tasks > Upgrade PlatformIO Core
• PlatformIO Core: Please run pio upgrade command.

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Regards,

The PlatformIO Plus Team

[Dr-Emann]

This seems to have broken clion development for me, it looks like it tries to add a lot of definitions to CMakeListsPrivate.txt, may of which contain spaces, parens, etc.

[ivankravets]

Fixed in development version and PIO Core 3.5.1 will be released soon. Sorry.

[tegeack]

Not sure what happened, but windows just did an update.
now I cannot open the serial monitor, looks like
" The ‘platformio==3.5.1a1’ distribution was not found "

( I changed my folder name to get rid of the long path )

Windows PowerShell
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PS C:\Users\dave\Documents\PlatformIO\Projects\171210-005108-uno> pio device monitor --port COM9
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Users\dave.platformio\penv\Scripts\pio-script.py”, line 6, in
from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
File “c:\users\dave.platformio\penv\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources_init_.py”, line 3037, in
@call_aside
File "c:\users\dave.platformio\penv\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources_init.py", line 3021, in call_aside
f(*args, **kwargs)
File "c:\users\dave.platformio\penv\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources_init.py", line 3050, in _initialize_master_working_set
working_set = WorkingSet.build_master()
File "c:\users\dave.platformio\penv\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources_init.py", line 657, in _build_master
return cls._build_from_requirements(requires)

File “c:\users\dave.platformio\penv\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources_init_.py”, line 670, in build_from_requirements
dists = ws.resolve(reqs, Environment())
File "c:\users\dave.platformio\penv\lib\site-packages\pkg_resources_init.py", line 855, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The ‘platformio==3.5.1a1’ distribution was not found and is required by the application
PS C:\Users\dave\Documents\PlatformIO\Projects\171210-005108-uno>

[ivankravets]

@tegeack

c:\users\dave.platformio\penv

Please remove a folder above and restart IDE.

[tegeack]

I wish that every problem was so simple to fix.

deleted penv,
restarted, let the program do it’s thing,
started again.
things are working again.