Update to bluez 5.50

The update has some new features and it's a bit late in the cycle now, that sounds rather SRU material at this point ... Daniel, Konrad, what do you think?

I think we're waiting for version 5.50 or later (for bug 1759628). And even if that was available today we'd still not introduce it till 18.10.

I'd like to keep bluez and pulseaudio in a maturing state, which means they haven't changed in a long time when 18.04 is released.

Oh it looks like bug 1759628 is fixed in v5.49, but still, same plan.

We also discussed 5.49 at the last Bluetooth meeting, and came to the same conclusion.

Now available for testing:

https://launchpad.net/~bluetooth/+archive/ubuntu/bluez

Only cosmic is expected to get 5.49 but the above PPA also provides it for bionic if you want to try it out without changing the whole OS :)

I think we will make this 5.50 now.

Sorry for the delay. I have updated the PPA to BlueZ version 5.50 today. If nobody finds any problems then that will be proposed as the version for cosmic.

https://launchpad.net/~bluetooth/+archive/ubuntu/bluez

This bug was fixed in the package bluez - 5.50-0ubuntu1

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bluez (5.50-0ubuntu1) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release 5.50:
    - Fix issue with GATT and reading long values.
    - Fix issue with GATT and reading multiple includes.
    - Fix issue with GATT and service changes when offline.
    - Fix issue with handling secondary service discovery.
    - Fix issue with handling persistency of CCC values.
    - Fix issue with handling Mesh session on disconnection.
    - Fix issue with handling Mesh proxy PDU SAR message length.
    - Fix issue with handling Mesh default heartbeat TTL value.
    - Add support for Mesh node-reset operation handling.
    - Add support for GATT authorization request handling.
    - Add support for GATT minimum key size requirements.
    - Add support for GATT server and included services.
    - Add support for handling additional advertising data.
    - Add support for handling separate discoverable state.
    - Add support for enabling HFP version 1.7 features.
    - Add support for dedicated Bluetooth logging daemon.
  * Refreshed debian/patches to work with 5.50 and apply cleanly.
  * Fixed lintian errors:
    - dpkg-maintscript-helper missing in postinst and postrm.
    - Synchronized (some) man pages from Debian.
  * New upstream release 5.49 (LP: #1759961):
    - Fix issue with configuring discoverable advertising flag.
    - Fix issue with bearer selection and single mode controllers.
    - Fix issue with Connect and ConnectProfile returning in progress.
    - Fix issue with missing Paired property change when not bonded.
    - Fix issue with storage for controllers without public address.
    - Fix issue with handling AVCTP disconnecting the channel queue.
    - Fix issue with not clearing connectable setting on power off.
    - Fix issue with creating multiple mgmt socket instances.
    - Fix issue with GATT server and BR/EDR only devices.
    - Fix issue with InterfaceAdded event ordering. (LP: #1759628)
    - Add support for generic ConnectDevice method call.
    - Add support for Mesh heartbeat client functionality.
  * Drop upstreamed patch:
    - fix-lp1750308-upstream-commit-1bf03369.patch

 -- Daniel van Vugt <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:26:40 +0800

Hi all,

I've encountered Heart rate profile connection error of bluez-5.48 in Bionic. It can be resolved in bluez 5.49 version from below commit.

- Fix issue with Connect and ConnectProfile returning in progress.

Do you have a plan to upgrade the bluez version to 5.50 for Bionic as well? If not, could you pick the patch for Ubuntu bionic's bluez version. If you want to create a ticket for this release, I can make it.

Chanho,

Yes we can do that, and the patch [1] appears to be compatible with 5.48. However, please start by logging a new bug describing the problem you are facing. Just run this command on the affected machine to open the new bug:

  ubuntu-bug bluez

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=b916c9dec