'Update All' deletes STM32 upstream version toolchain

PlatformIO Core
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Hello, new user with couple of questions/comment…
First of all a huge thank you to all of the developers/contributors.

Ubuntu 18.04
VSCode 1.42.0

Arduino STM32 Bluepill project
Using the latest upstream version ST STM32 development platform:
platformio.ini:
[env:upstream_develop]
platform = GitHub - platformio/platform-ststm32: ST STM32: development platform for PlatformIO

Today I did an ‘Update All’ and noticed that it deleted the toolchain-gccarmnoneeabi version used by the upstream version ST STM32 development platform:
Terminal:
Uninstalling toolchain-gccarmnoneeabi @ 1.90201.191206: [OK]

After that happened I built the project and it had to re-download that same toolchain version.

Did the ‘Update All’ work as intended?
Is there a way to prevent deleteting the toolchain-gccarmnoneeabi version used by the upstream version ST STM32 development platform?

I have everything backed-up so could I just manually restore the toolchain directory or would that corrupt anything?

Also - I upgraded to Core 4.2.0 but the Home screen still shows 4.1.0 (I did restart IDE a few times)

Thanks again!

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Do you have your VSCode extensions settings set to to not use the built-in core?

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No I didn’t - sorry…

But after un-checking that nothing changed so I restarted VSCode but now it’s stuck in a loop, every time I restart VSCode I get the following:

Installing PlatformIO Core…

Please do not close this window and do not open other folders until this process is completed.

PlatformIO IDE installed successfully.

Please restart VSCode.

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Yikes. Can you reselect “use built-in core” and “use dev version”?

5

OK selecting those 2 no more loop and now I see Core 4.2.1a1.

Do you recommend using the dev version?

6

Do you have stable version of this dev-platform?

This is a bug of VSCode, it does not call “deactivate” when user closes the editor. As a result, we can’t kill the previous instance of PIO Home server. It will be killed autoamtically after 1 hour timeout.
You can also kill it manually opening system task manager and killing all python.exe processes.

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Thanks for the reply.
I initially built with the stable version but switched to the upstream version by adding to the ini file:

[env:upstream_develop]
platform = GitHub - platformio/platform-ststm32: ST STM32: development platform for PlatformIO