ESP32 Boards Manager 3 for the Arduino IDE offers a wealth of improvements and new features, but it renders a lot of older code incompatible. Today, we’ll look at Boards Manager 3 and see the changes you’ll need to make to update your old sketches.
Hi there,
So I made it through Robot man 's mono tone schpiel. 
…and Have been speaking to this debacle IMO for a while now as it creates a dev support problem for many.
what a nice way to say Espressif “GAVE it to US” with not even the courtesy of reach-around 
LOL
ALL in the name of ESP-IDF 5.3 I say F.U. 
to that strong arm 
-. 
- tactic. I hope everyone switches to PlatformIO… "Ride the Back of ARDUINO IDE too fame and fortune $$ then DUMP them for some PIE (no pun intended) in the SKY vision that will NEVER be! 
Leaving 100K dev’s “SOL” 
with no other choices… That SUX ! Some of the 3rd party LIB’s will never be updated and can’t those authors are DEAD! 8266 ring a bell you clowns…
I will continue to test and play with them, but I will NEVER put them in a production product because there are WAY better options available. (NORDIC)
HTH
GL 
PJ 
they are just so CHEEEEP! 
yes it is a very bone head move… why not just rename the API from LED-C to LED-D
I guess blod progress requires bold moves… like my new iPhone 16 Pro Max has a new USB-C cord… what da?
LOL,
I guess… and you know the only reason your Iphone has the USB-C jack now is?
The EU sued there ass , siting NOT wanting another WACKO standard with another Charger cable and brick BS. Finally someone called their bluff and they capitulated…
espressif, a.k.a. protectionistic… They bought M5 STACK too, won’t be long before there pushing that stuff down our pie hole, (pun intended) I see what they are trying to do moving forward and IMO it is NOT good for makers but great for Profits.
HTH
GL PJ
oh" and the stuff about the Lightning cable catching fire on connect…YMMV
someone should sue Microsoft… the new update does not turn laptops off, only sleep and many batteries are failing and if your fan makes noise like my and it fails and burns your house down because it is trying to download your hard drive to the cloud… what da?
LOL, Get in Line PAL!
also the run your hard drive at 100% usage uploading to the cloud until it fails so you can upgrade to SSD