After a very long break, we are pleased to announce a new release of Ubertooth and libbtbb code. Release notes are given below but for those short on time, the summary is: a major update with complete rewrites of the libbtbb API, greatly improved BTLE support and a migration to GitHub. You can find the release here.

Release Notes

The Ubertooth host utilities in this release require libbtbb-2014-02-R2 or greater.

The release archive is ubertooth-2014-02-R2.tar.xz, it contains binary firmware images and PCB layouts as well as the project source code. The source code links do not include the binary files.

These are just the highlights, for a complete list of changes since the previous release, see the git commit log.

• Bluetooth Smart (Low Energy) Support

  • Promiscuous and follow modes
  • Pcap format packet logging
  • Pairing / encryption support when paired with crackle
  • Credit for BLE features goes to Mike Ryan

• Unified host tool for monitoring Basic Rate

  • ubertooth-rx replaces -lap, -uap, -hop tools
  • Once UAP is discovered, ubertooth-rx automatically tries to find clock values and begin hopping
  • Thanks to Will Code for working on this

• Survey tool - ubertooth-scan

  • Combining both Ubertooth and a standard Bluetooth dongle
  • Ubertooth scans for non-discoverable master devices
  • Dongle probes devices for piconet information and features

• Cmake now used for the build system

  • Improves support for non-Linux operating systems
  • More sensible handling of dependencies
  • New build instructions

• Packaging (Experimental)

  • Early stage support for packaging systems
  • libbtbb in Homebrew repository, Ubertooth coming soon
  • MacPorts availability is under test
  • Release already available in Pentoo

• GitHub migration

  • libbtbb, Ubertooth and gr-bluetooth all hosted on GitHub
  • Allows for more open development and collaboration model
  • Already seeing an increase in issue reporting and pull requests