BlueZ

We had unfortunately a couple of pretty severe regressions that had crept into 5.6 so we’ve released 5.7 earlier than planned. If you’ve started using 5.6 please switch to 5.7 as soon as possible, and if you haven’t yet picked 5.6 just ignore that release The regressions in question were related to remote service discovery [...]

This is mostly a bug fix release with improvements to AVRCP, A2DP and OBEX. There is also a new command line tool for controlling remote media players (through AVRCP). This release also further improves our user space Bluetooth controller and host ... [More] emulation which is mainly used for L2CAP end-to-end tests (tools/l2cap-tester). The btmon tool has [...] [Less]

Again, mostly a bug fix release with fixes to SDP, AVRCP, NFC and name resolving during discovery. There are also some new features: New passthrough operations for AVRCP Auto-pairing (PIN lookup) support Proper HID reconnection support Besides these ... [More] externally visible changes there was also a rather big refactoring patch-set that went in to establish a [...] [Less]

With this release the SBC library now supports encoding and decoding of the mSBC codec used with Handsfree 1.6  Wideband Speech feature. sbc-1.1.tar.gz

It has been a fairly quiet period since BlueZ 5.3 (hopefully meaning the current tree is in a pretty good shape and doesn’t have any major issues) but the amount of fixes and minor feature additions has now grown big enough to justify a new release. So here we go with BlueZ 5.4! It consists [...]

This is mostly a bug fix release with several fixes and improvements to A2DP and AVRCP. There’s also a fix to the local adapter name setting, some fixes to SDP processing (thanks to newly implemented unit tests for the SDP library) as well as an update to the latest neard API to support NFC based [...]

This release fixes some issues with LE pairing and re-connections and also enables the possibility of connecting LE through the Device1.Connect D-Bus method. There is also a fix to the Profile interface where bluetoothd now waits for reverse SDP to ... [More] complete before accepting a connection and calling the NewConnection D-Bus method (important so that the right profile [...] [Less]

This is mostly a bugfix release covering issues that were discovered since 5.0, but there are also a couple of new feature additions: Integration with systemd’s hostname daemon. The local Bluetooth adapter name will automatically be set through this ... [More] (if available). New test tools: tools/mgmt-tester: Test cases for the kernel Management interface. Depends on the [...] [Less]

After more than a half year of development the BlueZ project is proud to announce the release of BlueZ 5 with numerous new features, API simplifications and other improvements. With this release BlueZ only supports the new Bluetooth Management kernel ... [More] interface that was introduced in Linux 3.4, so essentially this is the minimum kernel requirement [...] [Less]

The BlueZ 5 D-Bus API contains significant changes compared to BlueZ 4. The bulk of the changes are due to the following features in BlueZ 5: Transformation to use standard D-Bus Properties and ObjectManager interfaces (available in the D-Bus ... [More] specification document) Introduction of interface versions (e.g. org.bluez.Adapter1). When new versions are introduced we’ll try to [...] [Less]