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AVR Dudes and Dudettes,

We are pleased to announce AVRDUDE Version 5.0.  AVRDUDE is open
source software for programming Atmel AVR microcontrollers and
supports Unix (MacOS X, Linux, FreeBSD, etc) and Windows.

This release includes several significant enhancements including:

  * Support for JTAGICE MkII device

  * Support for STK500 Version 2 Protocol

  * New devices supported:

      - AT90CAN128
      - ATmega329x/649x
      - ATmega164/324/644
      - AT90PWM2/3,
      - ATmega164/324/644
      - ATmega329x/649x
      - ATtiny25/45/85

  * Support for serial bit-bang adapters: Ponyprog serial, UISP DASA,
    UISP DASA3.

  * DAPA programmer pinout supported

  * New "safemode" feature where fuse bits are verified before exit
    and if possible recovered if they have changed.  This is intended
    to protect against changed fuses which were not requested which is
    reported to sometimes happen due to improper power supply or other
    reasons.

  * Various fixes for avr910 and butterfly programmers

  * Full support for AVR109 boot loaders (butterfly)

  * Adding -q -q suppresses most terminal output

For more information and downloads, please see the AVRDUDE project
page here:

    http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/avrdude

See the above URL for the AVRDUDE source code and instructions for
building.  For a native Windows binary executable, see the link below:

    http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/avr/avrdude-5.0-w32.zip

This ZIP file is intended to be extracted over top of your WinAVR
install location, usually C:\WinAVR.  Note that by installing this way
one will likely lose uninstall support from the WinAVR package.

Special thanks go to all those who contributed by reporting bugs,
submitting new part definitions, programmer definitions, and code
improvements.

Enjoy!

-Brian
-- 
Brian Dean
ATmega128 based MAVRIC controllers
http://www.bdmicro.com/