RELEASE NOTES

16 July 2019 - Apache NimBLE v1.2.0

For full release notes, please visit the Apache Mynewt Wiki.

Apache NimBLE is an open-source Bluetooth 5.0 stack (both Host & Controller) that completely replaces the proprietary SoftDevice on Nordic chipsets.

New features in this version of NimBLE include:

• Perdiodic Advertising support with up to 1650 bytes of data (scanner and advertiser)
• Support for scan request notification in GAP API
• Updated host qualification ID
• Qualification related bugfixes
• GAP API doxygen documentation update
• BLE Mesh improvements - fixes and resync with latest Zephyr code
• RIOT OS port fixes and improvements
• btshell sample application improvements
• improvements for bttester application
• Controller duplicates filtering improvements
• Memory and CPU usage optimizations in controller

If working on next-generation RTOS and Bluetooth protocol stack sounds exciting to you, get in touch, by sending a mail to the Apache Mynewt Developer's list, dev@mynewt.apache.org.