A new public beta is now available for testing. It aims to deliver new features in different areas of the mbed ecosystem.

Website

To complete the set of community features, we've added questions and forum discussions for teams, platforms and components, which can be accessed either through their home pages or through the global forums page for faster access. Any activity will be also listed under Activity on mbed home page.

The team pages now also have wiki sections, where team related information can be structured into wiki pages. This can be disabled through the team administration page if needed.

We're planning to announce the team features in a separate blog post.

Repositories can now be redirected to other repository URLs, allowing seamless repository migration from user account to team account without the need for all end-users to update with the new repository URL. This can be controlled through the administration page of a repository.

We've also improved the website load time and responsiveness by packing the top 70 most used 16x16 icons into image collection.

Online Compiler

The Compiler Editor now offers a lightweight markers bar, next to the vertical scroll bar, to visualize compile warnings/errors and user markers/bookmarks, with the latter being remembered across sessions. To bookmark a line simply click the line number or hit F2 for the current line. The displayed markers on the bar will show the compile warning/error or the contents of the bookmarked line when hovered with the mouse, and will scroll to the corresponding line when clicked. These can be removed by clicking the line number/F2 or by using the line numbers context menu to clear them all.

We've also improved white space handling in the Editor, where new lines will be indented based on the indentation of the previous and next lines and also based on the presence of curly braces before the new line.

In a previous release we've added the ability to export programs into ZIP archive that will also include all repository files. We've now extended this for all supported tool chains, so when you export to your favourite tool chain, you will also get all repository files needed for one-click offline setup. You can then easily pull changes from the designated repositories, commit and even push your changes back to them.

Build system

The build system now supports the latest ARM compiler - ARMCC 5.03. Programs compiled with it will be slightly faster and slightly smaller in size. To use the latest ARM compiler, you can either update the mbed SDK build in your program to revision 69 or later, or use the mbed SDK source.

We've also fully integrated the mbed SDK github repository with the mbed build system and the mbed Compiler exporter, so its easier and faster to add new platforms to the mbed ecosystem.

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Note that this post doesn't cover all changes and improvements introduced in this beta, but focuses on the new features instead.

If you're curious what else is there, then enable beta mode on http://mbed.org/betamode/ and explore it yourself! :)

Don't forget to let us know what you think or what can be improved on http://mbed.org/forum/bugs-suggestions.

Happy testing!