Why two new versions of IDE in a month

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) General Frequently-Asked Questions
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Version 18 came in the spring and now first 19 and then 20 soon after.

I hope I am not rude but this makes me curious. This is probably because of the new hardware or something similar, but with for instance MS software this could mean bugs.

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Thanks, but that did not answer my question.

There is always something to fix, so a couple of bug fixes is not very special. So is it the new boards.

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Certainly it was to support the new UNO board announced this last weekend.

Lefty

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So is it the new boards.

yes of course. You can read the release notes as "Version 19: the usual assortment of bugfixes and improvements. Version 20: Support for the Uno Hardware."

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What new IDEs? What new Board? There's nothing about any of them in the General / News Forum where you supposedly can "Read about the latest happenings to Arduino "

Don

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There's nothing about any of them in the General / News Forum where you supposedly can "Read about the latest happenings to Arduino

You usually get news from direct source, not forums:

www.arduino.cc
http://arduino.cc/blog/
http://twitter.com/arduinoteam

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You usually get news from direct source, not forums:

Sorry. I mistakenly thought that I could get news from a forum that deals with news.

Don

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yep, but they don't update often often.
(For exemple, I don't read newspaper in a forum, I go to online website of the newspaper and I grab an online copy, but I could surely read about some article in the official board if somebody want to speak about it)

Forum are updated if users (Mods and Admins are still considered users :p) are willing to do it.
Forums are just a place to discuss.

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then why have this on the forums in the first place

News
Read about the latest happenings to Arduino

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then why have this on the forums in the first place

My point - exactly. I'm glad I'm finally getting some help here.

Don

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Forum are updated if users are willing to do it.

This user saw the Arduino Uno and Mega news item on http://slashdot.org/ but this user could not post this cool news on the news forum. There simply is no 'Start new topic' on the news forum. :-?

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If you want guys, lets all post to :
"Arduino Forum ? Web/Forum/Email/Spam ? Forum"

and ask if they can regulary update the "News" section.
Until then, I recommand you look at the main page www.arduino.cc for News, if you don't want to miss anything.

edit: http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1285798014

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Huh. Apparently normal users can no longer post "news" in the "News" forum:

"You cannot start new Topics in this Board."