diff --git a/testing/avarice/APKBUILD b/testing/avarice/APKBUILD
index 79bd4fc399d..830aaff22c0 100644
--- a/testing/avarice/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/avarice/APKBUILD
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Marian Buschsieweke <marian.buschsieweke@ovgu.de>
 pkgname=avarice
-_releasever=2.13
-_svnver=375
-_svndate=20160229
-# The latest AVaRICE release doesn't comply on all but history environments.
-# Sadly, new release are no longer created.
-pkgver=${_releasever}_svn$_svnver
-pkgrel=2
+pkgver=2.14
+pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="AVaRICE interfaces with GDB and allows debugging of AVR MCUs"
 url="http://avarice.sourceforge.net/"
 arch="all"
@@ -14,8 +9,11 @@ license="GPL-2.0-only"
 makedepends="binutils-dev libusb-dev libusb-compat-dev hidapi-dev perl"
 depends="gdb-multiarch"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
-source="http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/avarice/avarice_$_releasever+svn$_svnver.orig.tar.xz"
-builddir="$srcdir/$pkgname-${_releasever}svn$_svndate"
+source="
+	https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/avarice/avarice/avarice-2.14/avarice-2.14.tar.bz2
+
+	drop_keyword_unused.patch
+	"
 
 build() {
 	./configure \
@@ -33,4 +31,5 @@ package() {
 	make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
 }
 
-sha512sums="8050948ebea9cc4f9d2e90a1eb97962d6335b5a7b750b92ea16e3add4e9163a9fae10cb8c72ddc303126090472aabff21ea6286ac5e33a21800f09886b63000e  avarice_2.13+svn375.orig.tar.xz"
+sha512sums="e0b23bd02bfa7d4dc05027f0f59ec7da868d8d0c0cd4f66595f6aaa5c335fa4eb64fc47399e51c0ed5112803ee99a3f041812bf4072dc096cc933cd17f9348a0  avarice-2.14.tar.bz2
+8e9faf7eab5807f3b100ba29e7aab857f91947981a25dccc3096c9462d777be9fb19cf410e8634884b3ce9299fe410e24d1cd107c4bdbf0a537b9f9322e7c627  drop_keyword_unused.patch"
diff --git a/testing/avarice/drop_keyword_unused.patch b/testing/avarice/drop_keyword_unused.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d2c48a8ca4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/avarice/drop_keyword_unused.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+Drop __unused keyword, which was used to suppress warnings about unused
+parameters, but which is not recognized by our toolchain.
+--- avarice-2.14.orig/src/jtag2usb.cc
++++ avarice-2.14/src/jtag2usb.cc
+@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@
+ 
+ #ifdef HAVE_LIBUSB_2_0
+ /* USB thread */
+-static void *usb_thread(void * data __unused)
++static void *usb_thread(void * data)
+ {
+   struct pollfd fds[2];
+ 
+--- avarice-2.14.orig/src/jtag3io.cc
++++ avarice-2.14/src/jtag3io.cc
+@@ -350,12 +350,12 @@
+     throw jtag_exception("doSimpleJtagCommand(): too many failures");
+ }
+ 
+-void jtag3::changeBitRate(int newBitRate __unused)
++void jtag3::changeBitRate(int newBitRate)
+ {
+   throw;
+ }
+ 
+-bool jtag3::synchroniseAt(int bitrate __unused)
++bool jtag3::synchroniseAt(int bitrate)
+ {
+   throw;
+ }
+--- avarice-2.14.orig/src/jtag3prog.cc
++++ avarice-2.14/src/jtag3prog.cc
+@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
+ }
+ 
+ 
+-void jtag3::downloadToTarget(const char* filename __unused, bool program __unused, bool verify __unused)
++void jtag3::downloadToTarget(const char* filename, bool program, bool verify)
+ {
+     statusOut("\nDownload not done.\n");
+     throw jtag_exception("Target programming not implemented for JTAGICE3");