BlueZ

Here’s the first BlueZ release in 2015. Most of the changes since the last one are bug fixes, but there’s actually quite many of them this time, including: Fixes to GATT service discovery & probing Fix for bearer selection with dual-mode devices Fix potential crash when removing devices Fix issue with incomplete names in EIR [...]

Here comes the traditional x-mas release! BlueZ 5.27 consists mostly of bug fixes to areas such as GATT and mgmt (the interface through which bluetoothd talks to the kernel). The emulation framework has also received many new features, paving the way ... [More] for more extensive test automation. On the Android side we’ve continued perfecting 5.0 (Lollipop) [...] [Less]

The Bluetooth Core Specification 4.2 was released December 2nd and it brings with itself several new features for Bluetooth Low Energy. Perhaps the most interesting one (and also the biggest) of these has been merged to the Bluetooth subsystem and submitted for inclusion in the 3.19 kernel release. The feature is called Low Energy Secure [...]

This release is for the most part a bug-fix release with fixes in A2DP and OBEX related functionality, but there’s also an added features for get/set reports for HID over GATT as well as Phonebook Access Profile 1.2 support On the Android side the 5.0 (Lollipop) support is now starting to be fairly mature with [...]

This release contains various improvements to MAP and PBAP support. There are also various GATT related fixes. We’ve also got a fix for a race condition which could occasionally cause LE connection/pairing failures. The fix will work for kernels from ... [More] 3.13 onward  (for older kernels a proper fix isn’t really feasible). The Android Lollipop (5.0) [...] [Less]

This release fixes a bug with frame length calculation for dual-channel mode operation. It also includes a fix for preventing an overflow of an internal frame length variable. sbc-1.3.tar.gz

This release consists for the most part of cleanups and minor fixes, however there are some new additions too in the form of Phonebook Access Profile 1.2 and Message Access Profile 1.2 features. On the Android side we’ve got improved automated test ... [More] coverage as well as several new Android system properties for Bluetooth customization. bluez-5.24.tar.xz [Less]

BlueZ 5.23 release also provides updated documentation for Bluetooth qualification using PTS 5.2 test system. Documentation about PICS, PIXIT and test cases instructions are provided. The current set contains 944 test cases for BlueZ for Android.

This is mostly a bug-fix release with fixes for concurrent authorization attempts (for untrusted devices), HID, uHID, OBEX, MAP and AVRCP. We now also have better support for AVCTP/AVRCP decoding with btmon. On the Android side a notable enhancement ... [More] is the ability to take advantage of kernel whitelist support to enable LE passive scanning (something [...] [Less]

The BlueZ 5.x stack used in Tizen has achieved Bluetooth 4.1 + Low Energy qualification. The listing is made by Samsung. It coves SDP, L2CAP, GAP, RFCOMM, SPP, AVCTP 1.4, AVDTP 1.4, MCAP, GAP, ATT and SM protocols and profiles.