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@cschramm cschramm released this 09 Jun 19:01
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With 47,200 additions and 51,876 deletions in 885 commits, a lot has changed in blueman's codebase since version 2.0.8.

Most notable changes are updated dependencies and integrations:

  • Support for BlueZ 4 and Python 2.7 and 3.2 got dropped
  • dbus-python and libnotify aren't dependencies anymore
  • libnm is now used for interaction with NetworkManager (>= 1.0)
  • Compatibility with gnome-icon-theme, mate-icon-theme, adwaita-icon-theme, elementary-xfce, and Papirus

Notable new features and changes:

  • Information dialog on devices' services
  • Compose and send notes to devices
  • Default PIN code database
  • Support for the ip command
  • udhdpd support
  • Lots of improvements for blueman-sendto
  • Lots of bug fixes and smaller or invisible improvements

See https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/blob/2.1/CHANGELOG.md for a complete list of changes.

2.0 will get further updates with no specific end-of-life timeline for now but we highly recommend switching to 2.1.

2.2 will require Python 3.6. For features and other plans see https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/milestone/4