pc-ble-driver v4.0.0

Release notes

Combined release for all SoftDevice API versions

• Support SoftDevice API version 2, 3, 5 and 6 in the same release

Library/API

• Improved stability
• Changed serial port library from Boost to ASIO
• Added vcpkg package manager to get dependencies
• Updated Library/API codecs to use codecs from nRF15.2 SDK with additional patches (SDv3 and up)
• Removed support for 32-bit Linux
• Added custom SD RPC error codes (breaking change). Previously NRF_ERROR_INTERNAL was returned for all transport errors.
• macOS: added support for 1M-baud

Connectivity firmware

• Implemented a new build framework
  • based on cmake (requires GNU Make since nRF5 SDK use that)
  • automatically merges SoftDevice and creates DFU packages
  • downloads SDKs (v11.0 and v15.2) and patches them automatically
• Compiler changed from Keil µVision 3 to GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain (7-2018-q2-update/7.3.1)
• Compilation supported on macOS, Linux and Windows

Tests

• Improved test coverage
• Created targets for programming development kits and running tests

Bug fixes

• Fixed nRF52840 open close reset issue
• Fixed bugs in GAP state when using two or more BLE adapters:
• BLE security keys were overwritten
• Advertisement data received were blocked (SDv6)
• Invoking a different adapter in another adapter's callback made encoding/decoding confused
• Fixed/SEGGER J-Link-OB hardware flow control detection
• Fixed deadlock issue that may happen if open/close is called repeatedly
• Fixed segfault on reception of ACK packet
• Fixed segfault issue related to packet states without exit criteria