From b83a378ed22db70b7ddfce660b1476f34937b845 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cristian Maglie Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:53:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Updated docs --- docs/package_index_json-specification.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/package_index_json-specification.md b/docs/package_index_json-specification.md index bd6f1ec658f..c07cfa59aa5 100644 --- a/docs/package_index_json-specification.md +++ b/docs/package_index_json-specification.md @@ -350,7 +350,11 @@ Here is the Boards Manager entry created by the example: ![Boards Manager screen ## Installation archive structure -The installation archives contain the Board support files. Supported formats are .zip, .tar.bz2, and .tar.gz. +The installation archives contain the Board support files. + +Supported formats are `.zip`, `.tar.bz2`, and `.tar.gz`. Starting from Arduino CLI >=0.30.0 support for `.tar.xz`, and +`.tar.zst` has been added, by the way, if you want to keep compatiblity with older versions of Arduino IDE and Arduino +CLI we recommend using one of the older formats. The folder structure of the core archive is slightly different from the standard manually installed Arduino IDE 1.5+ compatible hardware folder structure. You must remove the architecture folder(e.g., `avr` or `arm`), moving all the