Release of bluez-libs-3.15 and bluez-utils-3.15

Hi Folks,

this is an update release of the new stable versions of the Bluetooth
library and the utilities. This release adds support for the A2DP
profile to stream high quality audio over Bluetooth. It also allows to
create RFCOMM based proxy services to export physical serial ports over
Bluetooth.

The new A2DP support has been tested with various headsets. It works
best with CSR based ones. The Broadcom or Zeevo based headsets have some
timing problems. It is acceptable, but from time to time they might
produce some gaps.

Currently only an ALSA plugin is provided. Some application like xmms
and vlc use ALSA in a strange way that is not feasible for virtual sound
cards like the A2DP support. Most of the time they work, but from time
to time there can be jumps or gaps.

Most tests have been done using Beep Media Player or GStreamer based
application like Totem, Rhythmbox and Banshee.

To use the new A2DP support it needs to be setup once. This still
involves some manual steps. The BlueZ Wiki has an audio section that
describes this in detail.

All package maintainers should be aware of an important change to the
handling of service classes. The class of device value has 8 bits that
indicate different service classes. These service classes are now set
automatically based on the registered SDP records. Any previously set
values from hcid.conf will be ignored. So patching hcid.conf with
service class values makes no sense anymore.

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

Regards

Marcel



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