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

Marcel Holtmann <[email protected]> Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:54:07 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bluez.announce
Message-ID <1207252447.18442.11.camel@californication>
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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