Version 4.3

New Features

• image_info: Added image type autodetection, specifying --chip is no longer needed
• image_info: Added the ability to display application info if a valid app image is detected
• write_flash: Added the ability to recover from serial errors when flashing, effectively making data transfers more robust (#182)
• write_flash: Added checks to prevent flashing if an incompatible chip type or chip revision is used, --force can be used to override this restriction
• Added more memory density definitions to cover known flash chips (#769)
• Added parsing of stub flasher error definitions in esptool messages
• Added support for Major.Minor chip revision versioning scheme in the format vX.Y

Bug Fixes

• Listed BLE as an ESP32-C3 feature (#770)
• Included MANIFEST in sdist to fix RPM packaging (#767)
• espefuse.py: Fixed burning of ENABLE_SECURITY_DOWNLOAD eFuse

Internal features

Experimental support for ESP32-C6 has been added (--no-stub only). Burning eFuses is not recommended. This SoC is not generally available, so it is not fully supported in this release. Official support will be added in a later release.

Thanks to @johnboiles, @Jason2866, @Robsteranium, and others for contributing to this release!