Re: [avrdude-dev] AVRDUDE 6.2 released

[Randy Perkins]

Thanks Joerg for releasing a new version of avrdude. I will check into
getting this release into debian/ubuntu

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Joerg Wunsch <address@hidden> wrote:

> As promised a couple of days ago, I just released AVRDUDE version 6.2.
>
> This is basically the "state of affairs" of right now.  I figured
> trying to bring in any viable patch, or fix any bug worth
> consideration before releasing would risk to indefinitely defer the
> release.  Many things have been added, fixed, or restructured since
> the last public release, the code base is quite stable and usable –
> and it won't be the final release anyway.
>
> Here's the relevant section of the NEWS file (aka. the release notes):
>
>   * Major changes compared to the previous version:
>
>     - The stk500v2 implementation now uses its own higher-level
>       command implementation for byte-wide access, rather than the
>       historic SPI_MULTI command where all the low-level ISP
>       implementation had to be assembled manually inside AVRDUDE.  In
>       addition to the traditional STK500, this implementation is also
>       used by all the more modern Atmel tools (AVRISPmkII, JTAGICEmkII
>       in ISP mode, STK600 in ISP mode).
>
>     - The -B option can be suffixed with "Hz", "kHz", or "MHz", in
>       order to specify a bitclock frequency rather than period.
>
>     - Print part id after signature (patch #8440 )
>
>     - buspirate: Also support "cpufreq" extended parameter
>       in binary mode (patch #8504 )
>
>     - The "-P net:" syntax (forwarding of serial data over TCP) is now
>       also implemented for Win32 systems.
>
>     - Allow for arbitrary serial baudrates under Linux (OSX and *BSD
>       could already handle it).
>
>
>   * New devices supported:
>     - AT90PWM216 (bug #42310: New part description for AT90PWM216)
>     - ATmega32M1 (patch #7694 Add support for the atmega32m1)
>
>   * New programmers supported:
>     - ftdi_syncbb
>       + uncompatino, ttl232r (FTDI TTL232R-5V with ICSP adapter)
>         (patch #8529 2 more ftdi_syncbb devices)
>
>   * Bugfixes
>     - bug #45727: Wrong atmega8u2 flash parameters
>     - bug #46020: Add TIAO TUMPA to the conf file.
>     - bug #46021: Please add read in the memory lock section of ATtiny85
>     - bug #42337 avrdude.conf updates for UM232H/CM232H
>     - bug #42056: double free or corruption triggered at exit
>     - bug #42158: Linux GPIO - Source Typo
>     - bug #42516 spelling-error-in-binary
>     - patch #8419 fix ftdi_syncbb hang with libftdi 1
>     - bug #43002 usbasp debug output typo
>     - patch #8511 Fix reset on FT245R
>     - bug #40142 Floating point exception on Ubuntu 10.04
>     - bug #22248: Read efuse error (partial fix)
>     - bug #42267: jtag3isp fails to read lock and fuse bytes directly
>                   after changing lock byte
>     - bug #41561: AVRDUDE 6.0.1/USBasp doesn't write first bytes of
>                   flash page
>     - bug #43078: AVRDUDE crashes after sucessfully reading/writing eeprom
>     - bug #43137: Writing and reading incorrect pages when using jtagicemkI
>     - bug #40870: config nitpick: ATtiny25/45/85 have 1 calibration byte
> not 2
>     - bug #42908: no external reset at JTAGICE3
>     - patch #8437: [PATCH] Serial-over-ethernet for Win32
>     - patch #8380: adds 500k 1M 2M baud to ser_posix.c
>     - bug #44717: avrdude creates empty flash dump
>
>   * Internals:
>     - Removing exit calls from config parser
>     - bug #42662 clang warnings under FreeBSD 10.x
>
> --
> cheers, Joerg               .-.-.   --... ...--   -.. .  DL8DTL
>
> http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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