Feature changed by: Frederic Crozat (fcrozat) Feature #315090, revision 6 Title: Upgrade to Bluez 5 Requested by: Jeffrey Cheung (jeffreycheung) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: BlueZ 5 come with numerous new features, API simplifications and other improvements. With this release BlueZ only supports the new Bluetooth Management kernel interface that was introduced in Linux 3.4, so essentially this is the minimum kernel requirement for BlueZ 5. For Low Energy support at least kernel version 3.5 is needed. The new major version indicates that the API is not backwards compatible with BlueZ 4, which means that any applications, agents, etc will need to be updated. The BlueZ internal test scripts and tools have naturally already been updated to support the new API. The BlueZ version in SLE11 SP3 is BlueZ 4.99 which mean that regardless of new features, and improvements, we have to upgrade definitely. Discussion: #1: Frederic Crozat (fcrozat) (2013-06-25 16:26:22) Bluez 5 can be installed in parallel with Bluez4, allowing applications not ported to BlueZ 5 API to work properly + #2: Frederic Crozat (fcrozat) (2013-07-02 16:53:42) (reply to #1) + it looks like I was a bit optimistic. You can only have one BlueZ + installed (4 or 5) and they aren't API compatible, which requires + having all BT applications moved to BlueZ 5.. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/315090