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

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

What’s New

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


Regards,
Your friends at PlatformIO.

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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?

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