PyBluez CHANGELOG file

this file contains a list of changes through the different versions of PyBluez.

changes from 0.9.1 to 0.9.2 (Dec 29, 2006)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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- 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)
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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)
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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)
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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 Pfützenreuter)
added CHANGELOG
added COPYING


changes from 0.3 to 0.4 (Nov 9, 2005)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Support for HCI, L2CAP, and RFCOMM sockets.
No support for OBEX or SDP.