Re: Testers and reviewers are welcome for avrdude

[Xiaofan Chen]

Quite new features have been updated since my last post along
with some bug fixes. You are welcome to give it a try.
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/blob/main/NEWS

Next major new feature will be the support of the new urboot bootloader
https://github.com/stefanrueger/urboot
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/pull/1171

Best regards,
Xiaofan

On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 1:05 PM Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:

> BTW, if you look at the NEWS file you will be excited about the
> new development of avrdude post 7.0 release.
>
> https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/blob/main/NEWS
>
> Quick highlights.
> 1) USBtinyISP now supports 128KB/256KB flash parts.
> 2) FT232R/FT245R now supports ATmega2560 or similar
> 3) avrftdi now supports ATmega2560 or similar
> 4) PICkit 2 now supports ATmega2560 or similar
> 5) EEPROM write fix for Optiboot and other stk500v1
>  compatible bootloaders
> 6) Improvement for terminal mode
> 7) Development option to describe parts
> 8) Quite some improvements for avrdude.conf
>
> Best regards,
> Xiaofan
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 1:59 PM Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ref:
> > https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/issues
> > https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/discussions/1008
> >
> > Hopefully more people can go to the avrdude github
> > and review the issues. For example, there are quite
> > some unconfirmed issues with ATxmega parts.
> >
> > --
> > Xiaofan
>