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By mrburnette
#55522 Igrr constantly is testing and upgrading the ESP8266 core, the install json, and the ArduinoIDE intergration. With every change, the IDE version is spelled-out for you here:

https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino#installing-with-boards-manager

As you can see, today the recomended version is 1.6.8

Ray