Return-Path: Subject: Re: Release of new BlueZ libs and utils From: Stephen Crane To: Marcel Holtmann Cc: BlueZ Mailing List , Max Krasnyansky , Edd Dumbill In-Reply-To: <1071791711.6635.18.camel@pegasus> References: <1071791711.6635.18.camel@pegasus> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1071828905.26243.613.camel@baroque.rococosoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 19 Dec 2003 10:15:06 +0000 List-ID: Hi Marcel, The corresponding RPM packages are now there too. Cheers, Steve On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 23:55, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I don't wanna make big words about it, but after 8 months there are new > releases of the BlueZ libs and utils packages. So let the changelogs > speak for themselfs: > > BlueZ libs 2.5: > Add decoding of Bluetooth 1.2 features. > Add link manager version parameter for Bluetooth 1.2. > Add new company identifiers. > Support for transmit power level. > Support for park, sniff and hold mode. > Support for role switch. > Support for reading the clock offset. > Use R1 for default value of pscan_rep_mode. > > BlueZ utils 2.4: > hcitool changes: > Increase number of inquiry responses. > Support for transmit power level. > Minor updates. > hciconfig changes: > Display all 8 bytes of the features. > Add support for reading and writing of IAC. > Correct decoding class of device. > Use Ericsson revision command for ST Microelectronics devices. > Display AVM firmware version with 'revision' command. > New code for CSR specific revision information. > hciattach changes: > Support for ST Microelectronics specific initialization. > Support for 3Com card version 3.0. > Support for TDK, IBM and Socket cards. > Support for initial baud rate. > Update man pages. > Fixes for some memory leaks. > > For the BlueZ libs I don't plan another release, because the new major > version of the Bluetooth library is making good progress. But for the > BlueZ Utils I want to make another release that addresses the problems > with the pin_helper program. I think the C based bluez-pin is a good > idea and maybe we should also integrate the DBus support into the next > release. So I like to get comments on this and if you have patches, > please resend them. > > Regards > > Marcel -- Stephen Crane, Rococo Software Ltd. http://www.rococosoft.com steve.crane@rococosoft.com +353-1-6601315 (ext 209)