Release Date
April 7, 2021 (Final)
February XX, 2021 (Planned)
New Features
Support for PHY on Dialog Configurable MAC (CMAC)
This adds support for fully open source radio driver for Dialog CMAC. This allows to run complete NimBLE controller on Dialog DA1469x MCU
family. 1M and 2M PHYs are supported.
Support for PHY on Nordic nRF5340
This adds support for radio driver on Network core of Nordic nRF5340 dual-core chip. Support for HCI transport over IPC is also available.
Support for Apache NuttX port of NimBLE
It is possible not to use NimBLE stack on Apache NuttX RTOS https://nuttx.apache.org/
Controller-to-host flow control support
Support for USB transport
It is now possible to use USB for HCI transport when building blehci application. This allows to use it with standard btusb driver from Linux kernel (no btattach needed).
Enhancement/Fixes to existing features
- Qualification related bugfixes
- BLE Mesh improvements - fixes and resync with latest Zephyr code
- Support for Enhanced L2CAP CoC in bttester application
- big-endian fixes
- host code size optimization when building with features disabled
- documentation improvements
Known Issues and Limitations
- GATT Long Write is failing on nRF51