linux-bluetooth Weekly Report - Week 21
Total messages: 300 (179 human, 121 CI/bot)
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linux-bluetooth Weekly Report - Week 20
Total messages: 409 (255 human, 154 CI/bot)
linux-bluetooth Weekly Report - Week 19
182 messages (130 human, 52 bot). SDP overflow fix pushed same day (Martin Brodeur). Meson build v10 16-patch series (Bastien Nocera). Multiple security fixes applied: accept_q serialize, HIDP UAF guard, ecred_reconfigure PDU fix. GIT PULL bluetooth 2026-05-06 merged. Short Connection Interval feature v1-v4 (Luiz). getsockopt_iter 7-patch conversion (Breno Leitao). PCI M.2 power seq v2 (Manivannan). 7.1-rc3 Bluetooth regression reported.
Weekly Report: linux-bluetooth Mailing List - April 27 - May 3, 2026 (Week 18)
A security-focused week with two independent vulnerability disclosures: a use-after-free in l2cap_sock_alloc_skb_cb reported by Safa Karakuş, and an SDP OOB heap read via signed/unsigned confusion (CVSS 8.1H, no pairing required).
Weekly Report: linux-bluetooth Mailing List - April 20 - April 26, 2026 (Week 17)
A landmark week marked by the BlueZ Face-to-Face Meetup announcement (Nice, France, May 30-31) and Bastien Nocera's massive meson build system v9 series (15 patches, 16 messages) proposing a complete build system migration plus HTML documentation generation.
Weekly Report: linux-bluetooth Mailing List - April 13 - April 19, 2026 (Week 16)
A week dominated by Naga Bhavani Akella's extraordinary Channel Sounding iteration — posting v3 through v10 (8 revisions, 32 messages) of the BlueZ Channel Sounding implementation, making her the most prolific contributor by a wide margin.
Weekly Report: linux-bluetooth Mailing List - April 6 - April 12, 2026 (Week 15)
A high-throughput week dominated by Luiz Augusto von Dentz's [GIT PULL] bluetooth-next 2026-04-10 — the fourth bluetooth pull request in five weeks — containing 56 patches from 25 authors covering core fixes, new device IDs, MT7927/MT7902 support, QCA SSR fixes, and Intel Scorpius Peak2 support.
Weekly Report: linux-bluetooth Mailing List - March 30 - April 5, 2026 (Week 14)
A landmark week for both kernel and BlueZ: the MT7927 (MT6639) Bluetooth support series landed in bluetooth-next, the SMP MITM pairing security fix reached v5 and was applied, and Luiz Augusto von Dentz submitted [GIT PULL] bluetooth 2026-04-01 (applied to netdev/net.git).
Weekly Report: linux-bluetooth Mailing List - March 23 - March 29, 2026 (Week 13)
A productive week centered on kernel stability fixes and BlueZ documentation. Luiz Augusto von Dentz submitted [GIT PULL] bluetooth 2026-03-25 (applied to netdev/net.git) and led the week with 47 messages.
Weekly Report: linux-bluetooth Mailing List - March 16 - March 22, 2026 (Week 12)
This was a high-activity week dominated by the bluetooth regression fix saga and Pauli Virtanen's massive functional testing series. Luiz submitted [GIT PULL] bluetooth 2026-03-19 which was applied to netdev/net.git, but not before Thorsten Leemhuis flagged that the L2CAP ident regression fix was "likely to miss -rc5"...
Weekly Report: linux-bluetooth Mailing List - March 9 - March 15, 2026 (Week 11)
This week saw 175 bluetooth-relevant messages. Activity was dominated by Luiz's [GIT PULL] bluetooth 2026-03-12 submission to net-next, a major btmon documentation overhaul (v1 6-patch + v2 7-patch series), and the v4 L2CAP ECRED fix (applied).
Weekly Report: linux-bluetooth Mailing List - March 2 - March 8, 2026 (Week 10)
Active week with 369 messages in the archive (189 human). Key focus areas included critical L2CAP and HIDP use-after-free fixes from Luiz (driven partly by syzbot reports and Pauli Virtanen's analysis), the v4 LE connection timeout patch from Dajid Morel (Volvo) with extensive review discussion, and MediaTek MT7927 enablement from Javier Tia.