Release of BlueZ 5.47
This release contains various fixes to GATT, A2DP and BR/EDR vs LE bearer handling. There’s also a notable SDP fix for CVE-2017-1000250 (part of the recently announced BlueBorne vulnerabilities).
Feature-wise, there’s now support for adding the appearance and local name to advertising data through the Advertising D-Bus interface. The btmon tool is now also able to better decode most Bluetooth 5.0 HCI commands and events.
The Bluetooth Mesh Profile specification was released recently, and this BlueZ release comes with initial support for it in the form of a new meshctl tool. Using this tool it’s possible to provision mesh devices through the GATT Provisioning Bearer (PB-GATT), as well as communicate with them (e.g. configure them) using the GATT Proxy protocol.