• Added support for Python 3.12
• Introduced the capability to launch the debug server in a separate process (issue #4722)
• Introduced a warning during the verification of MCU maximum RAM usage, signaling when the allocated RAM surpasses 100% (issue #4791)
• Drastically enhanced the speed of project building when operating in verbose mode (issue #4783)
• Upgraded the build engine to the latest version of SCons (4.6.0) to improve build performance, reliability, and compatibility with other tools and systems (release notes)
• Enhanced the handling of built-in variables in "platformio.ini" configuration file during Interpolation of Values (issue #4695)
• Enhanced PIP dependency declarations for improved reliability and extended support to include Python 3.6 (issue #4819)
• Implemented automatic installation of missing dependencies when utilizing a SOCKS proxy (issue #4822)
• Implemented a fail-safe mechanism to terminate a debugging session if an unknown CLI option is passed (issue #4699)
• Rectified an issue where ${platformio.name} erroneously represented None as the default project name (issue #4717)
• Resolved an issue where the COMPILATIONDB_INCLUDE_TOOLCHAIN setting was not correctly applying to private libraries (issue #4762)
• Resolved an issue where get_systype() inaccurately returned the architecture when executed within a Docker container on a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit userspace (issue #4777)
• Resolved an issue with incorrect handling of the check_src_filters option when used in multiple environments (issue #4788)
• Resolved an issue where running pio project metadata resulted in duplicated "include" entries (issue #4723)
• Resolved an issue where native debugging failed on the host machine (issue #4745)
• Resolved an issue where custom debug configurations were being inadvertently overwritten in VSCode's launch.json (issue #4810)