How do I ensure I have the latest ESP-32 in PlatformIO?

[jaley95630]

N00b question: I recently moved from Arduino IDE to VSCode+PlatformIO+Arduino. Board is LilyGo T-Display S3.
I'm also new to git and GitHub.
I've run into upload problems that seem to match issue #9660. If I read correctly, this issue is already fixed, so if I upgrade to the latest release (v3.2.0 at the time of this message), I should be fine.
Question 1: How do I know what release I am using currently?
Question 2: How do I update to the latest release?
Thanks in advance for your help!

[Jason2866]

By using the fork pioarduino https://github.com/pioarduino/platform-espressif32

[jaley95630]

Thanks Jason2866! Please forgive a further n00b question: is pioarduino a different environment? Is this an alternative thing (which fixes my problem), or is this what "everyone" uses?

[Jason2866]

pioarduino is a fully compatible Platformio fork to make latest espressif32 Arduino available :-)
Afaik it is the only complete working fork. It is friendly seen from espressif

[jaley95630]

Thanks again! I've realized that I can't upgrade to 3.2.0 yet because I'm using TFT_eSPI (not compatible with 3.x). I need to get a different graphics library (I'm trying LovyanGFX) to work with my code first. Then I'll be able to convert to pioarduino. Whew!