diff --git a/embassy-executor/Cargo.toml b/embassy-executor/Cargo.toml
index d7dcd75693..f51c2c1dcc 100644
--- a/embassy-executor/Cargo.toml
+++ b/embassy-executor/Cargo.toml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ wasm-bindgen = { version = "0.2.82", optional = true }
 js-sys = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
 
 # arch-avr dependencies
-avr-device = { version = "0.5.3", features = ["critical-section-impl", "rt"], optional = true }
+avr-device = { version = "0.6", features = ["critical-section-impl", "rt"], optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 critical-section = { version = "1.1", features = ["std"] }
diff --git a/examples/avr/Cargo.toml b/examples/avr/Cargo.toml
index 6140ef1ace..5992b5ec59 100644
--- a/examples/avr/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/avr/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 
 [dependencies]
-avr-device = { version = "0.5", features = ["atmega328p"] }
+avr-device = { version = "0.6", features = ["atmega328p"] }
 embassy-executor = { version = "0.7.0", path = "../../embassy-executor", features = ["arch-avr", "executor-thread", "nightly"] }
 panic-halt = "1"