PyBluez CHANGELOG file this file contains a list of changes through the different versions of PyBluez. changes from 0.21 to 0.22(August 05, 2015) ------------------------- GNU/Linux: Features: - experimental support for Bluetooth Low Energy, based on pygattlib implementation Bugs: - l2cap options issue #88 - When cancelling device discovery, DeviceDiscoverer does not call inquiry_complete() #85 - No way to select device id for device discovery #77 - _get_available_port() should try to bind() with a supplied address instead of "" #45 Windows: Bugs: - No adapter detected - WP8.1 #72 - Non-blocking sockets and blocking sockets with a timeout do not work correctly when using WinSock backend #40 - Need to setsockopt in Windows #10 changes from 0.20 to 0.21(Apr 05, 2015) ------------------------- GNU/Linux: Bugs: - No way to select device id for device discovery #77 - RSSI info not passed on by DeviceDiscoverer #74 - Warnings during compilation on linux #73 - python3 UnicodeDecodeError in DeviceDiscoverer find_devices #67 Windows: Bugs: - Problem with iqnuiring unicode names on windows8.1 with python3.4 #76 - warnings during build for windows (ms visual studio 2010 express) #60 changes from 0.19 to 0.20(Jan 13, 2014) ------------------------- GNU/Linux/Windows: Python 3 is now supported. Python 3.3 uses Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition for build on windows. changes from 0.18 to 0.19 ------------------------- Added option to return the class of device in discover_devices() (Lukas Hetzenecker) GNU/Linux: Added setl2capsecurity() method to BluetoothSocket Fixed get_l2cap_options(), set_l2cap_options(), set_l2cap_mtu() Added abovementioned functions as socket methods Added BT_SECURITY_*, L2CAP_MODE_* constants Added support for the "Extended Inquiry Response" event in the asynchronous DeviceDiscoverer (Lukas Hetzenecker) Fixed problems with kernel 3.x windows: Allow threads during the initialization of the inquiry in widcomm (Lukas Hetzenecker) changes from 0.17 to 0.18 (Nov 25, 2009) ---------------------------------------- windows: support Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition for Python 2.6 (this should add support for Windows Vista and Windows 7) (Lukas Hetzenecker) include widcomm/util.h in source distribution changes from 0.16 to 0.17 (Oct 15, 2009) ---------------------------------------- GNU/Linux: bugfix for linux 2.6.30+ zero out struct sockaddr DeviceDiscoverer may specify bluetooth device_id (roelhuybrechts) DeviceDiscoverer do not override duration parameter (roelhuybrechts) changes from 0.15 to 0.16 (Feb 5, 2009) --------------------------------------- fix variable naming in example/simple/inquiry.py (M. Harris Bhatti) windows: only import msbt if widcomm fails fix memory error in MSBT stack widcomm comment out debugging statements GNU/Linux: fix examples to import bluetooth._bluetooth changes from 0.14 to 0.15 (Jan 21, 2008) ---------------------------------------- GNU/Linux: don't hardcode duration in discover_devices() to 8 (Gustavo Chain) win32: search for wbtapi.dll before trying to import widcomm changes from 0.13 to 0.14 (Nov 12, 2007) ---------------------------------------- GNU/Linux: fix device class parsing bug in inquiry-with-rssi (Pepe Aracil) changes from 0.12 to 0.13 (August 30, 2007) ------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux: Oops, stupid bug introduced from last bugfix changes from 0.11 to 0.12 (August 29, 2007) ------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux: fixed _checkaddr bug (reported by Giovanni) changes from 0.10 to 0.11 (August 25, 2007) ------------------------------------------- win32: fixed bug preventing MSBT stack from loading when Widcomm not present changes from 0.9.2 to 0.10 (August 10, 2007) -------------------------------------------- win32: better searching for Platform SDK path (Ren� M�ller) proper Py_{BEGIN,END}_ALLOW_THREADS (Ren� M�ller) added experimental Broadcom/Widcomm support. All the basics should be supported: RFCOMM sockets L2CAP sockets Device Discovery, Name Lookup SDP search on remote devices SDP advertisement (RFCOMM, L2CAP) Widcomm stack notes: 1. BluetoothSocket.accept () always returns 0 for the port, as the RFCOMM channel/L2CAP PSM of the client device is not exposed by the Widcomm API 2. Not all fields of advertise_service are supported. The following parameters are currently not supported: description, protocols 3. The following methods of BluetoothSocket are not supported: gettimeout, dup, makefile, settimeout 4. The following parameters to discover_devices are not supported: duration, flush_cache (cache always flushes) 5. The timeout parameter of lookup_name is not supported 6. Once a listening socket has accepted a connection, it is not put back into listening mode. The original listening socket essentially becomes useless. 7. SDP search/browse operations on the local host are not yet supported GNU/Linux: fix segfault on trying to SDP advertise when sdpd not running (reported by Eric Butler) changes from 0.9.1 to 0.9.2 (Dec 29, 2006) ------------------------------------------ GNU/Linux: fixed endian-ness error in L2CAP psm field. only affects big-endian machines. changes from 0.9 to 0.9.1 (Sep 14, 2006) ---------------------------------------- GNU/Linux: fixed missing #include that prevents PyBluez from compiling with newer version of BlueZ (reported by Priyank Gosalia) changes from 0.8 to 0.9 (Sep 9, 2006) ---------------------------------------- added protocols optional parameter to advertise_service (bluez: Bea Lam) refactor: merged bluez/bluetooth.py and msbt/bluetooth.py GNU/Linux: added _bluetooth.hci_devid (Mikael Lindqvist) added _bluetooth.SCO_OPTIONS constant added Py_{BEGIN,END}_ALLOW_THREADS guards around sdp_connect (spotted by Rostislav Belov) win32: send() now returns the number of bytes sent (spotted by Keith O'Hara) sdp search no longer raises an exception when no records are found and no other error occurred. changes from 0.7.1 to 0.8 (July 31, 2006) ---------------------------------------- win32: added settimeout, gettimeout, setblocking methods (David Conolly) GNU/Linux: fixed DeviceDiscoverer device class byte swap bug (spotted by Bea Lam) changes from 0.7 to 0.7.1 (May 13, 2006) --------------------------------------- win32: discover_devices() no longer raises an IOError when no devices are detected lookup_name() sort of works (consistently on some machines, not at all on others) advertise_service() fully supported changes from 0.6.1 to 0.7 (May 5, 2006) --------------------------------------- - fixed some docstring errors - added lookup_names parameter to discover_devices() If set to True, discover_devices() returns a list of (address, name) pairs. If set to False (default), returns a list of addresses - added constant PORT_ANY. bind to port PORT_ANY for dynamic port assignment. get_available_port() is now deprecated. - added support for Microsoft Windows Bluetooth API. This comes standard on Windows XP SP1, and Windows Vista. The following features are supported: RFCOMM sockets (bind, listen, connect, accept, send, recv, close, getsockname, fileno) discover_devices() find_service() advertise_service() - with limitations. See code for details The following features are not yet supported in Windows XP: DeviceDiscoverer class lookup_name() changes from 0.6 to 0.6.1 (Feb 24, 2006) ---------------------------------------- fixed UUID parsing again (byte swap error) added parsing of 32-bit reserved UUIDs fixed rfcomm-client and rfcomm-server examples to use the same UUID addded service-id to find_service result changes from 0.5 to 0.6 (Feb 18, 2006) -------------------------------------- fixed examples/basic/l2-mtu.py [sock -> client_sock] fixed hci_send_req [keywords bug] fixed UUID parsing (Cezar S Espinola) changes from 0.4 to 0.5 (Dec 16, 2005) -------------------------------------- added service-classes and profiles keys to find_service result added service class list and profile list support to advertise_service (Elvis Pf zenreuter) fixed do_search response_list (Richard Moore) BluetoothError now inherits from IOError (Elvis Pf�tzenreuter) added CHANGELOG added COPYING changes from 0.3 to 0.4 (Nov 9, 2005) ------------------------------------- fixed DeviceDiscoverer name request parsing (Alastair Tre) fixed set_l2cap_mtu bluetooth module error (simo salminen) changes from 0.2 to 0.3 (Sep 20, 2005) -------------------------------------- fixed invalid free() in bt_hci_inquiry (ted wright) fixed endian error for RFCOMM sockets (Ted Wright) no longer using SDP_RECORD_PERSIST changes from 0.1 to 0.2 (Apr 4, 2005) ------------------------------------- Support for SDP service advertisement and searching added. Support for easy asynchronous device discovery added (DeviceDiscoverer). fixed hci_send_req. added a bunch of constants for ioctl on hci sockets renamed most things from bluez* to bt* or bluetooth* changed module name from bluez to _bluetooth changed bluezsocket to btsocket New API is incompatible with 0.1. version 0.1 (Dec 16, 2004) -------------------------- Support for HCI, L2CAP, and RFCOMM sockets. No support for OBEX or SDP.