blueman

Changes

• Use GDBus and drop dependency on dbus-python
• Small improvements for LE devices
• Removed NetworkManager 0.8 support from NetUsage plugin
• Handle invalid directory for incoming file transfers
• Quit blueman-sendto when no file was selected
• Use build-time python executable for shebangs
• Ask user for initial auto-power-on setting

Bugs fixed

• Streamlined icon usage so that blueman now supports gnome-icon-theme, mate-icon-theme, adwaita-icon-theme, elementary-xfce, and Papirus
• Handle corrupt network configuration file
• The menu bar did not get updated correctly

Bugs fixed

• Fix name resolution of unknown device classes

Changes

• Added default polkit rules file that allows users in group wheel to perform administrative actions
• Use context managers for opening files
• Replace deprecated os.popen with subprocess
• Reimplement NetworkManager integration for DUN and PANU connection with libnm
• Disable DNS on dnsmasq
• Avoid authorization check
• Use GtkWindow for instead of a GtkDialog when there is no parent
• Stop using and remove TimeHint

Bugs fixed

• RFCOMM channel detection for DUN service failed
• Fix DUN support though blueman and NetworkManager. We love to get feedback if this works for people
• Use correct name network-transmit-receive for icon (ManagerDeviceMenu)
• For a few GLib warning related to signals in ManagerDeviceMenu
• Fix Generic connect not showing in certain situations
• Many fixes in PPPSupport and PPPConnection
• Wait for Modemmanager longer to finnish probing a bluetooth modem
• Fix iconname typo in ErrorDialog
• Use returncode to check if DhcpdHandler started correctly

Changes

This release fixes DUN support in blueman through NetworkManager and bluemans own implementation with pppd. It has been broken due to lack of hardware as DUN is usually not available on newer devices. We now have an old phone and an Android app to get thing working but we would love to get some feedback if bluemans DUN support works for you or not.

We also added default polkit rules file that allows users in group wheel to perform administrative actions. Note that the administrative group might have a different name (e.g. sudo in the Debian family) and there might be additional groups that are appropriate for the actions (e.g. netdev in the Debian family), so it still makes sense for distributions to adapt the configuration.

Support iproute2 and make it the default

Bugs fixed

• Fix icon name in the device menu
• Several commits backported from master for various RFCOMM and Serial related bugs.
• Fix icon and caption in manager for LE devices

This release adds authorisation checks for the commands blueman runs as root

We added the following policykit authorisation checks

• org.blueman.network.setup
• org.blueman.pppd.pppconnect
• org.blueman.rfkill.setstate

See https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/wiki/PolicyKit

Another snapshot on the way to 2.1. Note that it drops support for Python 2.7.

New features

• blueman-adapters is now (Xfce-)pluggable
• Allow users to copy data from the Info manager plugin
• Add connman support to KillSwitch plugin
• Implement a new standalone tray app
• Add support for HiDPI in the UI
• Add command line option to blueman-mechanism to stop timer
• Add support for, and prefer, the ip command to configure network devices
• Implement new plugin virtual on_delete function using weakref.finalize

Changes

• Show "Proprietary" instead of "Unknown" for services with non-reserverd UUIDs
• Generic connect and disconnect
• blueman-services: rework dhcpd handler radio buttons
• Implement a ServiceUUID class
• invoke _NotificationDialog.callback with 1 argument (@dakkar)
• Drop support for Python 2.7
• RecentConns: Store items in a gsettings array of dict
• Migrate from EventBox to InfoBar
• Reintroduce GtkImageMenuItem
• Sendto: Replace progressbar with spinner and always discover
• Add a generic ErrorDialog combining various dialogs classes
• ManagerDeviceMenu: set certain setvice insensitive when not paired
• ManagerDeviceList: Only update signal levels if they changed
• Drop unused obex.Errors
• Use GObjectMeta to handle singleton in out BlueZ classes
• Various UI cleanups
• Remove various python2/3 compatibility workarounds

Bugs fixed

• Icon disappeared when switching off bluetooth
• Revert "bluez manager: Subclass from GDBusObjectManagerClient"
• Icon briefly vanished when turning on bluetooth
• Fix DBus signal emission
• blueman-services: Fix radio button group
• Fix InfoBar animation
• Fix Drag&Drop in blueman-manager
• Use Appearance device property for bluetooth LE devices
• AppIndicator: Properly set title on indicator
• Implement function to retrieve rfcomm channel (serial devices)
• TransferService: Do not unregister when dbus name disappears
• Fix Obexd autostart in our BlueZ classes
• Properly update ui when unblocking adapter with rfkill

Bugs fixed

• PPPSupport: Correct binary name for ModemManager
• PPPSupport: Exclude grep process from process list
• GameControllerWakeLock: Check for Class property before using it
• SerialManager: Properly check for None
• NetConf: Treat UnicodeDecodeError as if there was no file
• Notification: Also check if notification daemon supports body
• Correct bold tag in portugese translation (thanks @andreyluiz)
• Properly check for None in SerialManager
• GameControllerWakeLock: Check for Class property first
• Fix bugs in NetworkService ui
• NetConf: fix writing PID file for dhcpd(3)
• Notification: Make sure x and y hint are in screen geometry

This is a very early alpha release for version 2.1. While it should "feel" pretty much like 2.0 a lot of improvements took place under the hood. Note that some legacy support has been removed, especially for BlueZ 4 and NetworkManager 0.8.

New features

• Information dialog on device's services
• Compose vNotes
• --delete option for blueman-sendto

Changes

• Drop support for BlueZ 4
• Drop browse feature
• Add title to status icon
• Add systemd service units (@smcv / Simon McVittie)
• Set widget names so they can be used to style blueman.
• Replace deprecated use of Gtk.VBox and Gtk.HBox.
• Replace deprecated GtkTable with GtkGrid and also use it replace GtkBoxes used to layout.
• [dhcp] udhcpd (busybox) support
• [sendto] Do not try to send a file during a discovery
• Migrate the BlueZ classes from dbus-python to GDBus
• Limit who can run blueman's mechanism with polkit
• Use GtkListStore builtin sorting functionality
• Turn the BlueZ classes into singletons
• Update Sdp class id's
• Rework Adapter menu in ManagerMenu
• Rework and cleanup DeviceList class
• Drop headset service and plugin
• Merge the two property changed functions in PropertiesBase
• Remove main.Device
• Fix building with musl libc
• Add generic device-added/removed functions for plugins
• Drop legacy NetworkManager and ModemManager support
• Port AppletService proxy to GDBus
• Port Polkit client code to GDBus
• [ManagerDeviceMenu] Make disconnecting and opening plugin dialog asynchronous operations
• Implement default pin (RequestPinCode) database for BluezAgent
• Bluez, Subclass from Gio.DBusProxy and properly handle properties
• Bluez managers, Subclass from GDBusObjectManagerClient
• Notification: Use dbus for notifications and drop the libnotify dep
• Port NMPanSupport applet plugin to GDBus

Bugs fixed

• Codepoint issues when connecting to serial service
• Infinite loop if RecentConns has only invalid items
• Unblock rfkill in Python 3
• Valid adapter may not be found
• Do not load RfKill plugins when device is not available.
• Always set codeset for gettext to utf8 (@mgorny / Michał Górny)
• Support legacy devices without a Name property
• (Covered) Crash in agent's passkey / pin code methods
• Fix fading in GtkAnimation TreeRow(Color)Fade and CellFade classes.
• Do not explixitely destoy DeviceSelectorDialog blueman-sendto.
• gui: Call the sub-classed widgets init function instead of GObject's
• Do not block manager with plugin dialog
• Exception in Tee class at exit
• Stop dhcpd handler removing all content of the config file
• Only return devices belonging to adapter
• Fix SerialManager plugin
• Close Notification when pair is successful
• Properly unregister NAP when unloading Networking plugin

Changes

• Do not try to send a file during a discovery

Bugs fixed

• Listing rfcomm devices was broken
• Serial devices where not properly disconnected
• Close confirmation dialog on cancelation
• Handle transfer errors correctly
• Show devices of the current adapter only
• Local network service did not work
• PyGI warnings
• Call custom scripts for serial services
• Disconnect serial services on device disconnect

Security release

Fixes a privilege escalation in blueman-mechanism.

Bug fix release

• Exception on device property change
• Backport fix for #345 - rename random pass pairing button
• Exception at exit (#391)
• Clarify wording of tray applet's option to turn off bluetooth
• Do not block manager with plugin dialog (#383)
• blueman-adapters: Set hidden in the ui when timeout is reached
• Functions: Catch specific error in get_icon function
• Stop Game Controller plugin from blocking
• Use absolute filename provided to blueman-sendto on the cmd line

Bug fix release

• Codepoint issues when connecting to serial service
• Infinite loop if RecentConns has only invalid items
• Unblock rfkill in Python 3
• Valid adapter may not be found
• Handle when rfkill subsystem is not available gracefully
• RfKill: open /dev/rfkill r+b to avoid creating
• Resolve codepoint issues in several places

Finally a stable release. blueman is back on track. 😃

2.0 has its own branch - 2-0-stable - in which it will get fixes with the primary focus on BlueZ 4 related issues. New features and such go into the master branch for version 2.1 which will not support BlueZ 4 anymore.

Just one minor code change to 2.0.rc1.

blueman 2.0 is feature complete! 🎆 🎉 🎈 OBEX should work reliably with BlueZ 5 now and Python 3 support has arrived.

Note that receiving files will not work with BlueZ 4 if obexd is started with a custom root path option as blueman cannot find out the effective root path and expects it to be the default /tmp.

Changed dependencies since 1.99.alpha2:

• obex-data-server is not needed anymore
• startup-notification is not needed anymore
• Python 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4 are supported
• the server part of obexd is required for receiving files
• GTK+ is no longer a build dependency

New features

• Support for Python 3
• [dhcp] udhcpc (busybox) support

Changes

• [ui] Button to reset device alias
• [bluez] Agent capability KeyboardDisplay (@kemnade-uni / Andreas Kemnade)
• New configuration option to disable the use of a notification daemon
• [sendto] Removed nautilus-sendto plugin (deprecated and broken)
• [nm] Use API instead of GConf to create new connections
• [nm] Enable IPv6 on created connections
• Use GAppInfo to launch applications
• [bluez] Auto power on adapters; can be disabled in PowerManager settings
• Remove Gtk+, GLib and Gio as build time dependencies
• [obex] Migrate receiving files from obex-data-server to obexd
• [ui] Plugins and local services items in manager's View menu

Bugs fixed

• [assistant] Crash (@duganchen)
• [pulseaudio] Support for audio profiles
• Generic disconnect method did not work
• [bluez] Handsfree service crashed with BlueZ 4

Another snapshot release that especially addresses BlueZ 5 and NetworkManager 0.9 / 1.0 support. Version 2.0 is close. A big thank you to all contributors!

Changed dependencies since alpha2:

• Python 2.6 is not supported
• obexd is required for sending files

New features

• [docs] Add FAQ file and install doc files (@rworkman / Robby Workman)
• [sendto] Add sendto integration for Thunar (@GreenLunar)
• [sendto] Make thunar sendto integration optional (@rworkman / Robby Workman)
• Add optional settings manager integration with Xfce and MATE
  (@rworkman / Robby Workman)
• [nm] Add support for NetworkManager 0.9 / 1.0 to NMPANSupport
• [bluez] Implement keyboard pairing support
• [nm] Add support for ModemManager 1.x to NMPANSupport
• [plugins] Add GameControllerWakelock plugin (@bwRavencl / Matteo Hausner)
• Add blueman-report to create commented logs for bug reports
• [bluez] BlueZ 5 support for audio, serial, recent connections, and setup
  assistant
• Use Gsettings for configuration storage and remove the config plugin system.

Changes

• [obex] Switch to obexd for sending files
• [browse] Use system's default browser for obex URI if no browse command is set
• [pulseaudio] Make blueman-applet run if pulseaudio is not available
• [ui] Re-implment menu icons
• [ui] Replace / remove deprecated icon names (@Teknocrat / Harvey Mittens)
• [ui] Drop status icon customization (@Teknocrat / Harvey Mittens)
• Drop HAL Support (@rworkman / Robby Workman)
• [configure] Rename --enable-sendto to --enable-nautilus-sendto
  (@rworkman / Robby Workman)
• Fix compatility with Fedora's dbus-python package
• Remove settings for local audio services
• Add function to rename known devices

Bugs fixed

• [ui] Make some UI elements expand again (@infirit / Sander Sweers)
• Fix crash in PluginManager (Martín Ferrari)
• Avoid crash in transfer service setup dialog
• Make blueman-applet respond to SIGTERM (@Teknocrat / Harvey Mittens)
• Allow setting friendly adapter name in BlueZ 5
• Look for both dhcpd and dhcpd3 and add sbin paths (@infirit / Sander Sweers)
• [libblueman] Fix memory leak (@monsta)
• [libblueman] Add missing includes (@posophe)
• [ui] Move some icons to pixmaps directory (@rworkman / Robby Workman)
• [ui] Fix fallback for notification daemons not capable to handle actions
• [ui] Fix "Shared Folder" widget in Transfer plugin.
• [ui] Fix service disconnect icons

This is the first in a series of alpha releases on our journey to version 2.0. The most notable new feature is partial support for BlueZ 5. See issue #13 for thing that will NOT work yet.

Please note that the list of contributors shipped with the alpha releases does not represent the current state (issue #47).

New features

• dhcpcd client support (@Teknocrat / Harvey Mittens)
• Partial support for BlueZ 5 (see #13 for the current state)

Changes

• Switch to GTK+ 3 (using introspection)
• Update autoconf to support aarch64 (Dennis Gilmore)
• Migrate from Pyrex to Cython (@Teknocrat / Harvey Mittens)

Bugs fixed

• Fix nautilus integration
• Fix pulseaudio version check
• Add missing icons
• Fix initial applet state if bluetooth is disabled
• Fix blueman startup when .cache dir doesn't exist (@asdil12 / Dominik Heidler)
• Fix thunar fallback (Jan Hutař)
• Do not power new adapters despite rfkill (@lkr / Leesa)
• Fix handling of network devices (especially fixes DhcpClient plugin)
• Update translations (too many to list them)
• Fix nonexistent dbus exception (Martín Ferrari)
• Fix a rare problem when the manager device menu cannot get the current selection (@kolen / Konstantin Mochalov)
• Fix pulseaudio device discovery (see #64 and the linked Ubuntu bugs for details and contributors)