Federico Fissore —

A new version of the Arduino IDE (1.6.1) is available at the download page!

A month ago we released the version 1.6.0 of the Arduino IDE. We then received lots of feedback: issues on Github, emails on the developers mailing list and, most important, forum messages. We fixed a lot of issues, here is a brief list:

Better Yún discovery mechanism (thanks Ron Guest)

Better SoftwareSerial library (thanks Matthijs Kooijman)

Native dialogs on MacOSX on the Java 7+ experimental version

Improved library name matching, so IRemote library won’t conflict with RobotIRremote library (thanks Paul Stoffregen)

Fixed bug on Windows when attempting to open a sketch by double clicking it

As usual, the complete list of fixes and credits is available here.

Don’t forget to report any issue you find, either on Github or on the Arduino forum: your help is very much appreciated. It doesn’t matter if you are not a tech specialist: every feedback adds value.

We are already working on release 1.6.2, with some very useful features and user experience improvements. Stay tuned!