ESp8266 Arduino V2.6.0

[mars000]

I noticed this version just released on GitHub.
Just for my understanding does PlatformIO automatically pick this up as an updated within the PlatformIO GUI in VSC or do I need to wait for someone to publish a PlatformIO file of sorts ?

[Jason2866]

See #180

[Niek]

Also: #167

[Niek]

Thanks @valeros, are you going to release a version on GitHub as well?

[valeros]

If there are no critical issues, it'll be released within a few days. As for now you can try the upstream vesion:

[env:upstream_develop]
platform = https://github.com/platformio/platform-espressif8266.git
board = ...

[dirkmueller]

It looks like tool-esptoolpy is still old, it should be 1.20800.0, with other words it needs to include https://github.com/espressif/esptool/releases/tag/v2.8

[valeros]

Do you experience any issues with the current tool-esptoolpy?

[dirkmueller]

@valeros not yet, however this is not matching the official release.. when you download https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/releases/download/2.6.1/esp8266-2.6.1.zip

and do

$ grep __version__ tools/esptool/esptool.py
__version__ = "2.8"

you can see that it has 2.8, while platformio installs 2.6:

grep __version__ ~/.platformio/packages//tool-esptoolpy/esptool.py 
__version__ = "2.6"