BlueZ

A message to the BlueZ mailing list from Scott James Remnant from Google announced that Chrome OS with BlueZ 5.x has successfully passed Bluetooth 4.0 + Low Energy qualification. Congrats to Scott and the Chrome OS team. Nicely done.

With this release the SBC library now allows to enable a high precision encoding and also support special setup functions to initialize the encoder and decoder for A2DP streams. sbc-1.2.tar.gz

As far as user visible features are concerned the biggest highlight of this release is the improved/fixed support for PS3 remote controls as well as the added support for PS4 remote controls (DualShock 4). Besides this we’ve got various fixes here and there, much more Android functionality as well as more complete automated test tools [...]

This release consists mostly of further features added to the various Android HALs (Core, Socket, PAN and HID), but a few non-Android changes have crept in too: Fix issue with PS3 controller detection HCI event decoding improvements to btmon bluez-5.13.tar.xz

This is mostly a bug-fix release, but also contains several notable additions: PS3 (sixaxis) controller support smp-tester for LE Security Manager Protocol testing AVDTP qualification test cases (unit/test-avdtp) LE Connection Oriented Channel test ... [More] support with l2test (LE CoC is a feature of the newly released Bluetooth 4.1 specification) btmon decoding support for LE CoC signaling [...] [Less]

This release contains numerous fixes in many places of the stack, including SDP, AVRCP and OBEX. The btmon HCI analyzer tool also received updates to fully encode a few missing HCI commands. This is also the first release where have some basic parts of the Android Bluetooth HAL implemented. Things like GAP (device discovery, pairing, [...]

This release contains various bug fixes identified and fixed at the latest UnplugFest. The main profiles concerned are AVRCP and MAP. Other notable changes include more comprehensive protocol decoders in the btmon tool as well as a nice interactive command line client for OBEX (obexctl). bluez-5.10.tar.xz

To avoid unnecessary questions and confusion I thought it’d be good to give a quick overview of Android related code that will be going into bluez.git in the near future. Since Android 4.2 there exists a well standardized HAL interface that the Bluetooth stack is expected to provide and which enables the easy replacement of [...]

This release comes with all sorts of fixes and updates to OBEX related profiles. There is also more complete HCI decoding support in btmon as well as some improvements to our user space HCI emulator code. One notable, though completely backwards compatible, API change is the removal of the Profile1.Cancel method. This was mainly used [...]

Here’s a new BlueZ release with mostly bug fixes to audio and OBEX related profiles. One notable feature addition is a low-priority SDP based service discovery that’s always done after connecting known profiles. The intention of this feature is to allow refreshing the list of remote services as there doesn’t exist any kind of explicit [...]