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I have my Arduino IDE setup with the github JSON file for the ESP boards. All is working well.

I was just curious how updates are handled. Is that automatic? I did not see a way to have the IDE check for updates.

Are there nightly builds for the Windows Arduino IDE? Or do I need to build it myself?

What is the procedure for updating?

As I understand it in Preferences You put the Json address as you have done . I think it goes there on startup and checks for a revision. If there is one it is downloaded and placed in the packages .

Click on the link at the bottom of preferences.txt (It does not look like a link) and it will take you to where those packages are on your machine. select ESP8266 /hardware and you will see if there are any added .

1.6.4-673-g8cd3697 on 29/5/15 is the latest I think

OK. Thanks for the update. I had found those files, and they are at the version you indicated.

When there is an update are the old versions saved? Or will it overwrite everything in that folder?

I have applied a couple of modifications.

I see that on mine it does not remove the old but I would say only the new are used so your changes would need to be done again