What’s new in v4.2.0
v4.2.0 is a feature and maintenance release of Espressif-IDE focused on improving overall UI/UX, enhancing project creation workflows, and increasing stability across core components such as the terminal and editors. It also includes performance optimizations, platform updates, and internal tooling improvements.
This release integrates the ESP-IDF project wizard directly into Eclipse’s native New Project dialog, improves startup performance, and resolves several UI resource and stability issues. Additionally, it updates the target platform to Eclipse 2026-03 (4.39) and streamlines internal configurations.
What's Changed
- v 4.1.0 by @sigmaaa in #1391
- IEP-1691 Terminal throws error after IDE restarted by @sigmaaa in #1390
- chore: bump version to v4.2.0 (IEP-1700) by @github-actions[bot] in #1395
- IEP-1707: workflow to sync the pr link to jira issue as a comment by @alirana01 in #1399
- IEP-1709 Remove Copying OpenOCD Rules in the IDE by @sigmaaa in #1402
- IEP-1695 Remove the JRE from the category.xml by @sigmaaa in #1393
- IEP-1723: Improve New Project dialog initial startup time by @sigmaaa in #1409
- IEP-1724: SWT resource leaks and disposal crashes in IDF Size Analysis Editor by @sigmaaa in #1410
- IEP-1722 Integrate ESP New Project Wizard into Eclipse New Project dialog instead of opening a separate window by @sigmaaa in #1408
- IEP-1728: Fix shell expansion issue by @alirana01 in #1416
- fix: set permissions for ci workflow by @sigmaaa in #1418
- IEP-1701 Improve UI/UX of esp-idf manager view by @sigmaaa in #1400
- IEP-1721 Refactor Tab Groups to declare tabs in plugin.xml by @sigmaaa in #1407
- IEP-1687 Verify all the screenshots in the IDE document and Update by @sigmaaa in #1405
- Automate Update Site verification by @AndriiFilippov in #1397
- IEP-1727: Update target platform to Eclipse 2026-03 (4.39) by @sigmaaa in #1415
- IEP-1694 esp-idf manager view: version number not shown by @sigmaaa in #1421
- fix(hints): Handle merged hints.yml with the esp-idf v6.0 by @kolipakakondal in #1419
Full Changelog: v4.1.0...v4.2.0
How to get the latest version?
Installing IDF Plugins using the Update site URL:
https://dl.espressif.com/dl/idf-eclipse-plugin/updates/latest/
Installing IDF Plugins using the local archive file:
https://dl.espressif.com/dl/idf-eclipse-plugin/updates/com.espressif.idf.update-v4.2.0.zip
Espressif IDE
https://dl.espressif.com/dl/idf-eclipse-plugin/ide/Espressif-IDE-macosx-cocoa-aarch64-v4.2.0.dmg
https://dl.espressif.com/dl/idf-eclipse-plugin/ide/Espressif-IDE-macosx-cocoa-x86_64-v4.2.0.dmg
https://dl.espressif.com/dl/idf-eclipse-plugin/ide/Espressif-IDE-4.2.0-win32.win32.x86_64.zip
https://dl.espressif.com/dl/idf-eclipse-plugin/ide/Espressif-IDE-4.2.0-linux.gtk.x86_64.tar.gz
https://dl.espressif.com/dl/idf-eclipse-plugin/ide/Espressif-IDE-4.2.0-linux.gtk.aarch64.tar.gz
