bluez - bluetooth stack for Linux

Closing down the mailing lists at SourceForge

Hi Folks,

the infrastructure of the BlueZ project has been undergone significant
changes to accommodate the developers needs. This also results in the
fact that the service providing by SourceForge is not really good enough
for us anymore.

The first big step was to finally switch away from CVS as source code
management system. It was clear that I will not switch to Subversion
since that is as broken as CVS. The only real alternative was GIT. So
starting with the bluez-4.0 release everything has been switched over. I
also decided to move the whole repositories over to kernel.org since
their infrastructure is excellent and works very well.

The next step was to move the download repositories over to kernel.org
since they do a really great job at mirroring and have good enough
bandwidth.

The last step is to close down the mailing list served by SourceForge. I
was always disappointed with their email service. It was slow, full of
spam and sometimes broken for days. I simply don't believe in having
subscriber only mailing lists. This is not how open source should be
done. Some time ago we created linux-bluetooth <at> vger.kernel.org since the
mail admins at kernel.org really know what they are doing. We are
already using this for the kernel development and in the future this
will become the only mailing list.

So it is a good idea to subscribe to linux-bluetooth <at> vger.kernel.org as
soon as possible since the SourceForge mailing lists will close down end
of the year.

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Marcel Holtmann | 18 Jun 18:53

Release of bluez-libs-3.33 and bluez-utils-3.33

Hi Folks,

this is an update release of the new stable versions of the Bluetooth
library and the utilities. This release does a lot of cleanups in the
code base and introduces Simple Pairing support. It will be also one of
the last releases in the 3.x series.

We have done as much cleanups and as much API changes within the 3.x as
possible. The original plan was that the 3.33 release marks finally the
end of the 3.x series and we move it to maintenance mode. So please test
this surely and give feedback to the bluez-devel mailing list. The plan
as of now is that we keep the 3.x open for two more additional releases
to do bug fixing and maybe improve the Simple Pairing support, but after
that it will be the end for the 3.x series.

The 3.33 release has already support for the new 4.x D-Bus APIs and so
please start using them. When releasing 4.0, the old 3.x interfaces will
go away.

With this release with switched over to use the libgdbus API and that
might have introduced some issues like missing D-Bus signals or similar.
So please report these things if you spot them.

And the last big gift of the 3.x series is the Simple Pairing support.
This finally allows us to switch on Extended Inquiry and make use of it.
You will need Bluetooth 2.1 hardware support for it and a few kernel
patches that are currently prepared for the 2.6.27 merge window, but in
general everything is in place now.

Big thanks go to Johan Hedberg, Claudio Takahasi, Luiz Augusto von Dentz

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Marcel Holtmann | 15 Jun 23:18

Release of bluez-hcidump-1.42

Hi Folks,

I released a new version of the hcidump package. This version updates
the HCI decoding support for the link policy settings.

The sources can be found at http://www.bluez.org/download.html

Regards

Marcel

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Marcel Holtmann | 21 May 00:18

Release of bluez-libs-3.32 and bluez-utils-3.32

Hi Folks,

this is an update release of the new stable versions of the Bluetooth
library and the utilities. This release fixes some bugs in the input and
audio support and removes more obsolete code. The Bluetooth helper
library also got more client and server support.

The old service infrastructure has been now completely removed and the
core daemon can no longer be used to start other processes.

The sources can be found at http://www.bluez.org/download.html

Regards

Marcel

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Marcel Holtmann | 6 May 03:51

Release of bluez-libs-3.31 and bluez-utils-3.31

Hi Folks,

this is an update release of the new stable versions of the Bluetooth
library and the utilities. This release fixes various bugs from the
plugin transition and introduces the first attempts of creating a
Bluetooth helper library for GLib.

Currently the full service infrastructure is still available, but with
the next release this might change. So please prepare yourself it.

The sources can be found at http://www.bluez.org/download.html

Regards

Marcel

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Marcel Holtmann | 6 Apr 03:47

Release of bluez-gnome-0.26

Hi Folks,

this is the twenty-sixth release of the gnome package for BlueZ. It
contains a new version of the sendto application and translation
updates.

The sources can be found at http://www.bluez.org/download.html

Regards

Marcel

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Marcel Holtmann | 3 Apr 21:54

Release of bluez-libs-3.30 and bluez-utils-3.30

Hi Folks,

this is an update release of the new stable versions of the Bluetooth
library and the utilities. This release fixes a regression within the
D-Bus API and converts all services into plugins now.

After a long discussion, the consensus was to use plugins instead of
separate processes for the future of BlueZ. This release marks the start
of this change. All existing services have been converted to plugins
while keeping the old D-Bus API. So from an application developer
perspective nothing changed, but the package maintainers have to make
sure to install the plugins and uninstall the old services. It is really
important to remove the old service binaries when updating.

The second big cleanup is that the sdpd binary can no longer be built.
This option has been deprecated for a long time now since the SDP server
is part of hcid. Nobody should have been using sdpd since it is full of
race conditions.

The sources can be found at http://www.bluez.org/download.html

Regards

Marcel

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Marcel Holtmann | 22 Mar 01:20

Release of bluez-libs-3.29 and bluez-utils-3.29

Hi Folks,

this is an update release of the new stable versions of the Bluetooth
library and the utilities. This release fixes an alignment issue in the
SDP server and introduces the new D-Bus API. It marks the start of the
preparation for the 4.x generation of BlueZ.

Currently both D-Bus APIs can be used in parallel, but the new API is
only available if hcid has been started with the -x parameter. The full
documentation of the new API can be found in the doc directory inside
the source code.

Please test and review the new API.

The sources can be found at http://www.bluez.org/download.html

Regards

Marcel

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Marcel Holtmann | 14 Mar 01:31

Release of bluez-gnome-0.25

Hi Folks,

this is the twenty-fifth release of the gnome package for BlueZ. It
contains two additional fixes to avoid crashing of the applet.

The sources can be found at http://www.bluez.org/download.html

Regards

Marcel

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Marcel Holtmann | 7 Mar 20:34

Release of bluez-gnome-0.24

Hi Folks,

this is the twenty-fourth release of the gnome package for BlueZ. It
contains various small fixes and another translation update.

The sources can be found at http://www.bluez.org/download.html

Regards

Marcel

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Marcel Holtmann | 5 Mar 22:41

Release of bluez-libs-3.28 and bluez-utils-3.28

Hi Folks,

this is an update release of the new stable versions of the Bluetooth
library and the utilities. This release fixes some additional issues
with the audio service and adds more SBC optimizations.

And also the support for using libexpat in conjunction with eglib has
been removed. Use the GLib library.

The sources can be found at http://www.bluez.org/download.html

Regards

Marcel

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