The latest changes to gcc/gdb mostly do not affect the barebone environments, hence we are not updating our default ARM toolchain regularly. If you are looking for a newer GCC/GDB combination, please try installing the official ARM toolchain. VisualGDB should recognize it out-of-the-box as a drop-in replacement for our default toolchain. The path issue reported by @Kenzi affects all gcc versions, so there should be no difference.