Release of bluez-libs-3.33 and bluez-utils-3.33

Hi Folks,

this is an update release of the new stable versions of the Bluetooth
library and the utilities. This release does a lot of cleanups in the
code base and introduces Simple Pairing support. It will be also one of
the last releases in the 3.x series.

We have done as much cleanups and as much API changes within the 3.x as
possible. The original plan was that the 3.33 release marks finally the
end of the 3.x series and we move it to maintenance mode. So please test
this surely and give feedback to the bluez-devel mailing list. The plan
as of now is that we keep the 3.x open for two more additional releases
to do bug fixing and maybe improve the Simple Pairing support, but after
that it will be the end for the 3.x series.

The 3.33 release has already support for the new 4.x D-Bus APIs and so
please start using them. When releasing 4.0, the old 3.x interfaces will
go away.

With this release with switched over to use the libgdbus API and that
might have introduced some issues like missing D-Bus signals or similar.
So please report these things if you spot them.

And the last big gift of the 3.x series is the Simple Pairing support.
This finally allows us to switch on Extended Inquiry and make use of it.
You will need Bluetooth 2.1 hardware support for it and a few kernel
patches that are currently prepared for the 2.6.27 merge window, but in
general everything is in place now.

Big thanks go to Johan Hedberg, Claudio Takahasi, Luiz Augusto von Dentz
and Alok Barsode for making this release happen.

The sources can be found at http://www.bluez.org/download.html

Regards

Marcel



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