Hello everyone, it has been a yearly tradition to have a X-mas release. So it is with great pleasure to announce that this year, the X-mas release is actually the start of our next major development cycle. Please join me in welcoming our BlueZ 5.0 release. The 5.0 release has been 6 month in the making and a lot of things have changed. The BlueZ package grew significantly over the last few month since we consumed obexd and hcidump packages into it. This will deliver a one stop experience for Bluetooth. While including obexd and hcidump allows for better sharing of code and deeper integration, we also took code out. The SBC codec support became a separate library and has its own tree now. And we pushed the GStreamer plugin into GStreamer upstream. We switched the whole D-Bus API over to use the D-Bus Properties and ObjectManager standard interfaces. This should make its usage a lot simpler for client applications. In addition the new D-Bus API comes with interface versions. This allows us to support multiple APIs at the same time in the future. Reflecting back at the 4.x development cycle, we released BlueZ 4.0 on 6th of August 2008 and BlueZ 4.101 on 22nd of June 2012. This means we actually did 102 releases within 4 years. On average that is 2 releases per month. The 4.x cycle saw patches from 139 contributors and I like to thank everybody who contributed fixes and features (in alphabetical order): Adam Gołębiowski, Alex Elsayed, Alok Barsode, Anderson Briglia, Anderson Lizardo, André Dieb Martins, Andre Guedes, Andrei Emeltchenko, Andrzej Kaczmarek, Angela Bartholomaus, Ankush Bansal, Antti Julku, Arek Lichwa, Arik Nemtsov, Arnaud Mouiche, Arun Kumar Singh, Arun Raghavan, Balamurugan Mahalingam, Bartlomiej Grzeskowiak, Bastien Nocera, Bea Lam, Brian Gix, Bruna Moreira, Bruno Dilly, Burt Silverman, Chan-yeol Park, Chen Ganir, Christian Hoene, Claudio Takahasi, Colin Didier, Daniel Orstadius, Daniel Wagner, David Herrmann, David Scherba, David Stockwell, David Vrabel, David Woodhouse, Denis Kenzior, Dmitriy Paliy, DoHyun Pyun, Elvis Pfützenreuter, Filippo Giunchedi, Forrest, Forrest Zhao, Francisco Alecrim, Frédéric Dalleau, Frédéric Danis, Grant Erickson, Gustavo F. Padovan, Harri Mahonen, Hemant Gupta, Ido Yariv, Ilia Kolomisnky, Ilya Rubtsov, Inga Stotland, Jaganath Kanakkassery, Jaikumar Ganesh, Jefferson Delfes, Jeff Hansen, Jiafa Liu, João Paulo Rechi Vita, Johan Hedberg, Johan Hovold, John Crosbie, Joohi Rastogi, Jorge Fernandez Gonzalez, José Antonio Santos Cadenas, Kay Sievers, Keith Mok, Lennart Poettering, Lucas De Marchi, Luiz Augusto von Dentz, Lukasz Pawlik, Lukasz Rymanowski, Łukasz Stelmach, Maarten Bosmans, Marc-André Lureau, Marcel Holtmann, Marco Sinigaglia, Mario Limonciello, Matthew Wilson, Michael Brudevold, Michal Labedzki, Mika Linnanoja, Mikel Astiz, Mike Lockwood, Nick Pelly, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu, Ohad Ben-Cohen, Olli-Pekka Salin, Pacho Ramos, Patrick Ohly, Paul Fertser, Paulo Alcantara, Pavan Savoy, Pavel Raiskup, Pawel Wieczorkiewicz, Pekka Pessi, Peter Hurley, Peter Krystad, Peter Zotov, Radoslaw Jablonski, Rafael Fonseca, Rafal Michalski, Raymond Liu, RISKÓ Gergely, Santiago Carot-Nemesio, Scott James Remnant, Scott Talbot, Sheldon Demario, Siarhei Siamashka, Slawomir Bochenski, Smriti Gupta, Stefan Seyfried, Steve Grubb, Steve Langasek, Steven Luo, Suraj Sumangala, Syam Sidhardhan, Szymon Janc, Tedd Ho-Jeong An, Till Kamppeter, Timo Gienger, Tom Gundersen, Tommi Keisala, Tom Rini, Uwe Kleine-König, Ville Tervo, Vinicius Costa Gomes, Vishal Agarwal, Vladimir Botka, Vladimir Davydov, Wade Brown, Waldemar Rymarkiewicz, Yegor Yefremov, Zhenhua Zhang, Zhu Lan, Zhu Yanhai, Zygo Blaxell Enjoy the holidays and Happy New Year. Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
