Thank you for the recommendation.
So what happened to SoftSerial?
I can't find anything in the Release Notes, about SoftSerial being removed.
SoftSerial is listed in the libraries:
and it does not say it is obsolete/deprecated/dead/...
NewSoftSerial is listed on the libraries but not as a replacement, just an improvement.
How are folks supposed to figure this out?
Based on the libraries documentation, I'd expect to see it. I'll go raise this as a bug.