Atmel AVR dev/platform v3.0.0: updated Arduino cores, support for AVR GDB stub

[valeros]

We are pleased to announce the next release v3.0.0 of Atmel AVR development platform.

What’s New

• Updated cores:
  • Arduino AVR v1.8.3
  • MightyCore v2.0.6 (release notes)
  • MiniCore v2.0.7 (release notes)
  • MegaCore v2.0.4 (release notes)
  • MajorCore v2.0.3 (release notes)
  • MicroCore v1.0.7 (release notes)
• Added initial support for avr-stub debug tool based on avr_debug GDB stub (special thanks to @msquirogac)
• Improved support for more flexible fuses and bootloader programming. More information with examples in the docs
• Minor fixes and improvements

Note

This release deprecates the program target used for uploading firmware via an external programmer. Instead a custom upload_command option should be used.

See Release Notes for details.

Documentation

See Atmel AVR — PlatformIO latest documentation

Examples

See project examples platform-atmelavr/examples at develop · platformio/platform-atmelavr · GitHub

Update

• PlatformIO IDE – please navigate to PIO Home > Platforms > Updates
• PlatformIO Core – please run a next CLI command $ pio update

Demo of AVR GDB stub with Arduino Uno

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Regards,
Your friends at PlatformIO.

[maxgerhardt]

Great, I’m really keen to try this!

Btw, the release notes at Release 3.0.0 · platformio/platform-atmelavr · GitHub probably want to refer to PR avr-debugger support by msquirogac · Pull Request #205 · platformio/platform-atmelavr · GitHub not issue 207?