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Arduino 1.6.1

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What's new in this version:

- Improved Yun detection for upload via network
- In platforms.txt "objcopy" recipe is no more tied to the "hex" format
- Ports in ports list are now grouped by type
- Upgraded avr-gcc toolchains to 3.4.5
- Fixed: wrong parsing of boards.txt when using submenu and boards id with underscores
- Windows: updated bundled JVM to latest 8u31
- Windows: JVM memory settings can be customized editing arduino.l4j.ini and arduino_debug.l4j.ini files
- "new" button now behaves as "File -> New..." menu: a new window with an empty sketch is created
- Windows: opening a lonely sketch caused the IDE to crash. Fixed with a bounty on bountysource
- Bridge: fixed bug with multiple and failing YunClient.connect calls @sngl
- Translations updated
- Improved SoftSerial library and optimized its memory usage
- Fixed: status board was not changing when using custom menu
- Fixed: better error message when using a busy serial device
- Fixed: missing bool operator on EthernetClient
- Fixed: missing bool operator on SoftSerial
- Improved library name matching. Avoids conflicts with libraries that bundle files equally named

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