release: 2018-06-R1 -- new BLE sniffing engine

README.md

@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ suitable for Bluetooth experimentation. Ubertooth ships with a capable
 BLE (Bluetooth Smart) sniffer and can sniff some data from Basic Rate
 (BR) Bluetooth Classic connections.
 
-The latest release is [2017-03-R2](https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth/releases/tag/2017-03-R2).
+The latest release is [2018-06-R1](https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth/releases/tag/2018-06-R1).
 The latest firmware build can be found on the release page.
 
-This release is paired with [libbtbb 2017-03-R2](https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/libbtbb/releases/tag/2017-03-R2).
+This release is paired with [libbtbb 2018-06-R1](https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/libbtbb/releases/tag/2018-06-R1).
 
 Instructions for flashing the firmware can be found [on the corresponding Wiki page](https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth/wiki/Firmware).
 Instructions for building libbrbb can be found [on the corresponding Wiki page](https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth/wiki/Build-Guide).

changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+ubertooth (2018-06-R1) unstable; urgency=low
+  * Brand new LE sniffing engine
+  * Support for partial channel maps and channel map updates during connection
+  * Support for connection updates has been lost, but will be re-added in a
+    future release
+  * Packet filtering with ubertooth-btle -t will filter advertising packets in
+    addition to connections
+  * USB API version bumped to 1.03
+
+ -- Mike Ryan <[email protected]>  26 Jun 2018 13:05:00 -0700
+
 ubertooth (2017-03-R2) unstable; urgency=low
   * USB API versioning - We have added USB API versioning to improve the
     experience of failures due to mismatched firmware and host code. You may

host/cmake/set_release.cmake

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # tagged
 
 if(NOT DEFINED RELEASE_STRING)
-	set(LATEST_RELEASE "2017-03-R2")
+	set(LATEST_RELEASE "2018-06-R1")
 
 	execute_process(
 		COMMAND git log -n 1 --format=%h
@@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ if(NOT DEFINED RELEASE_STRING)
 		endif()
 		set(RELEASE_STRING "git-${GIT_VERSION}${DIRTY_FLAG}")
 	endif (GIT_EXIT_ERROR)
-endif(NOT DEFINED RELEASE_STRING)
+endif(NOT DEFINED RELEASE_STRING)

tools/RELEASENOTES

@@ -1,31 +1,42 @@
-Ubertooth 2017-03-R2 Release Notes
+Ubertooth 2018-06-R1 Release Notes
 ==============================
-The Ubertooth host utilities in this release require libbtbb-2017-03-R2
-(https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/libbtbb/releases/tag/2017-03-R2) or
+The Ubertooth host utilities in this release require libbtbb-2018-06-R1
+(https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/libbtbb/releases/tag/2018-06-R1) or
 greater.
 
 Changes
 -------
-**USB API versioning** - We have added USB API versioning to improve the
-experience of failures due to mismatched firmware and host code. You may find
-that Ubertooth tools complain that your firmware is out of date.  Updating
-firmware is simple and reliable, please follow the instructions on the wiki
-https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth/wiki/Firmware
-A release archive with precompiled firmware is available from
-https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth/releases/download/2017-03-R2/ubertooth-2017-03-R2.tar.xz
 
-**Basic Rate PCAP output** - the pcap file produced by the Ubertooth tools
-should all be read by the latest Wireshark versions without the need to install
-plugins.
+**New LE sniffing engine** - The BLE sniffing engine has been completely
+rewritten using interrupts to drive an event-based core. The new
+sniffing engine is considerably more robust than previous versions and
+should have a higher packet capture rate. This code has received less
+testing than previous versions, but in the experience of the author has
+been exceptionally stable and is superior to previous versions in almost
+every way.
+
+**Partial channel map support** - As part of the new BLE sniffing
+engine, there is now support for partial channel maps when an LE
+connection is established as well as support for the Channel Map Update
+Link Layer Procedure. This allows capturing connections from virtually
+all modern BLE devices.
 
-**Kismet plugins** - Kismet is currently under heavy development and it has not
-been possible to continue tracking the master branch.  The legacy Kismet plugins
-should continue to work, but we will wait to track git master until development
-has stabalised.
+**Feature degradation** - Support for Connection Update Link Layer
+Procedure has been lost as of this update. This is a relatively rare
+occurrence, and it will be added in an upcoming release once it has been
+fully debugged. If you encounter a device that uses this feature, please
+file a bug on the project as it will help with our implementation
+testing.
 
-This release rolls up a lot of bug fixes, code tidying efforts, and small
-enhancements, for a complete list of changes since the previous release, see the
-git commit log.
+**USB API version** - As with the previous release, we are using USB API
+versioning to improve the experience of failures due to mismatched
+firmware and host code. As of this release, the USB API has been bumped
+to 1.03. If the Ubertooth tools complain that your firmware is out of
+date, please update your firmware. Updating firmware is simple and
+reliable, please follow the instructions on the wiki
+https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth/wiki/Firmware
+A release archive with precompiled firmware is available from
+https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth/releases/download/2018-06-R1/ubertooth-2018-06-R1.tar.xz
 
 Support
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