This page contains all the notes for the major and minor production releases of the nRF5 SDK for Mesh.
Table of contents
Check Migration guide for mandatory changes to your projects caused by the release of new features and updates.
BLE Mesh v5.0.0
- Release Date: Week 47, 2020
This is a major release that introduces Scene Client and Scene Server models with the respective API and example. It also brings support for the nRF52840 dongle and the nRF52820 device and fixes several bugs. Because of the updates to nRF5 SDK v17.0.2 and the recompilation of the bootloader binaries, it is recommended to upgrade to this version.
New features and highlights
- Implemented Scene Client and Scene Server models with the respective API and the scene client example.
- Implemented the power-down storage.
- Added support for the nRF52840 dongle.
- Added support for the nRF52820 device.
- Added support for the nRF5 SDK v17.0.2, which introduces the new SoftDevice v7.2.0.
Changes
- Removed support for S113 on the nRF52810 device, as the nRF5 SDK for Mesh does not fit on the flash with S113.
- Added support for S112 on the nRF52832 device.
- Added support for more than 32 instances for bearers.
- Expanded serial interface to provide API for setting the IV index and sequence number.
Changes to examples
- Added support for the Scene Server model in the following examples:
- Added support for scene client examples to the static provisioner.
- Added support for scene server configuration to the static provisioner for examples that support the Scene Server model.
Bugfixes
- Fixed a bug where Power OnOff Setup Server would allow setting up publishing. (MBTLE-4176)
- Fixed a bug where the Low Power node would keep scanner running until it issues the first Friend Poll message. (MBTLE-4168)
- Fixed a bug where repeated Friend Request messages were sent without the required waiting period of 1.1 second. (MBTLE-4165)
- Fixed a bug where Light PI regulator was using incorrect scaling for the accuracy factor during the calculation of the final output. (MBTLE-4158)
- Fixed a bug where the default TTL setting value was not stored in the persistent storage. (MBTLE-4148)
- Fixed a bug where the presence of a new mesh configuration file in a firmware that was updated using DFU could cause assertion when
mesh_config_clear() API is used during the initialization of the device. (MBTLE-4143).
- Fixed a bug where a non-zero value of the key refresh flag that was received during provisioning process would not be handled. (MBTLE-4115)
- Fixed a bug where the API for setting TX Power would only set the TX power for
core_tx_adv, and not for LPN and Friend. (MBTLE-4086)
- Fixed a bug where the Generic Power OnOff Setup Server model would not share subscription list with other associated CTL server models. (MBTLE-4077)
- Fixed several other bugs.
Known issue fixes
- Fixed a previously known issue where the replay protection list would not be stored in flash. (MBTLE-1975)
- Fixed a previously known issue where the Mesh Configuration Power-down files would require significant time for storing if defragmentation was in progress. (MBTLE-3467)
- Fixed a previously known issue where the Proxy Server would not propagate a locally generated SNB to the Proxy Client when IV update state or key refresh state is changed. (MBTLE-3945)
- Fixed a previously known issue where Sensor Status Delta Trigger would not consider Status Min Interval. (MBTLE-3968)
Limitations
- If a poll is planned during the delay of another poll, the attempt counter is reset to the default value. (MBTLE-3175)
- It is not possible to use SAR for both request and response by using loopback. Use separate elements for such client-server models instantiated on the same device. (MBTLE-3439)
- The PA/LNA module is supported on nRF52840 and nRF52833, but only verified on nRF52832. (MBTLE-3576)
Known issues
- If the Bluetooth mesh stack is configured with the IRQ priority NRF_MESH_IRQ_PRIORITY_THREAD and runs in the main loop with app_scheduler, there might be delays of ~15 ms. (MBTLE-2624)
- During the provisioning of a device, the Device Name is changed to the default
nRF5x after completion of the PB-GATT connection. The name is later changed back to the correct name when the initial configuration of the device is complete. (MBTLE-3151)
- The app_timer library fails to trigger the timer correctly if no active timer is present for the RTC_MAX/2 value. (A workaround has been implemented for this issue in
app_timer_workaround.c.) (MBTLE-3347)
- After the firmware upgrade, if the composition data has been changed or corrupted persistent data has been found (or both), the device will boot up as unprovisioned device. If the device is provisioned at that point without resetting, it asserts. As a workaround, reset the device once more before the start of provisioning. (MBTLE-3840)
- The device may assert after the application is started after the DFU, when the application is flashed for the first time. This happens when the device has the bootloader and SoftDevice flashed before the booting, but does not have the application flashed at that stage. As a workaround, reset the device after the assert. (MBTLE-3652)
- An SDK coexistence example will assert at the
peer_manager_init() function if it is flashed on top of a previously provisioned example. As a workaround, erase the device before flashing any of the Coexistence examples. (MBTLE-4182)
BLE Mesh v4.2.0
- Release Date: Week 26, 2020
This is a minor release that introduces sensor client and server models with examples, as well as bugfixes. Because of updates to DFU and the recompilation of bootloader binaries, it is recommended to upgrade to this version.
New features and highlights
- Implemented Sensor Client and Server model with the respective API and examples.
- Implemented bugfixes to DFU.
Changes
- Added support for friendship poll timeouts greater than 2100 seconds for both Friend and Low Power nodes. This fixes the previously known MBTLE-3563 issue.
- Added a new flashing target in order to enable sector-only erase.
- Added functionality to clean Bluetooth mesh config files. The files are now cleaned as flash pages and not anymore as separate entries.
- Updated Level, Lightness, and CTL behavioral modules. The state variables for ongoing transitions for these modules are not affected until the delay for newly received message expires.
- Modified the common part for models, so that the device will boot as unprovisioned device if the stack detects the wrong model metadata.
- Bootloader binaries were recompiled because of changes and fixes to DFU.
- Made several minor improvements to the documentation pages. For example, reorganized sections on the Building the Bluetooth mesh stack and examples page.
Example updates
- Added support for sensor server and client examples to the static provisioner.
- Updated the Light LC example to work with the new sensor example.
- Removed a pre-compiled hex file for the sensor example used for evaluating the LC server examples. This is now replaced by the Sensor server example.
Bugfixes
- Fixed an issue where the timer functionality missed the COMPARE event from RTC1 if CC and COUNTER were close enough. (MBTLE-3811)
- Fixed an issue where setting the maximum values for RelayRetransmitIntervalSteps field in the Config Relay Set message and NetworkTransmitIntervalSteps field in the Config Network Transmit Set message would cause an assertion. (MBTLE-3851)
- Fixed an issue where the provisioner example would assert when attempting to reset the device multiple times. (MBTLE-3855)
- Fixed an issue where the PyACI interface time-out would occur after installing nRF Command Line Tools v10.7.0. (MBTLE-3878)
- Fixed an issue where the Light PI regulator code would wrongly assume that the luxlevel_out value is in "lux" instead of "illuminance" characteristic format. (MBTLE-3879)
- Fixed an issue where the Light ON event would not be generated at the boot time. (MBTLE-3880)
- Fixed an issue with documentation for the RX callback section on the Beaconing example page and for the nrf_mesh_rx_cb_set() API. (MBTLE-3881)
- Fixed an issue where a few unit tests would fail when running on Linux. (MBTLE-3933)
- Fixed several other bugs.
DFU bugfixes
- Fixed an issue where a PC-connected device not undergoing DFU would not respond to requests for missing packets. (MBTLE-3686)
- Fixed an issue where the DFU functionality would infinitely send or retransmit the state packets within the network. (MBTLE-3687)
- Updated nRF Util for the proprietary mesh DFU in order to add dynamic delay and additional logging messages. This allows nRF Util to wait for sufficient amount of time to allow full erase of bank area for large DFU transfers. (MBTLE-3813, MBTLE-3823)
- Fixed several other bugs.
Known issue fixes
- Fixed a previously known issue where the DFU segment recovery may get deadlocked. (MBTLE-3423)
Limitations
- The replay protection list is not stored in flash. (MBTLE-1975)
- If a poll is planned during the delay of another poll, the attempt counter is reset to the default value. (MBTLE-3175)
- It is not possible to use SAR for both request and response by using loopback. Use separate elements for such client-server models instantiated on the same device. (MBTLE-3439)
- The PA/LNA module is supported on nRF52840 and nRF52833, but only verified on nRF52832. (MBTLE-3576)
Known issues
- If the Bluetooth mesh stack is configured with the IRQ priority NRF_MESH_IRQ_PRIORITY_THREAD and runs in the main loop with app_scheduler, there might be delays of ~15 ms. (MBTLE-2624)
- During the provisioning of a device, the Device Name is changed to the default
nRF5x after completion of the PB-GATT connection. The name is later changed back to the correct name when the initial configuration of the device is complete. (MBTLE-3151)
- The app_timer library fails to trigger the timer correctly if no active timer is present for the RTC_MAX/2 value. (A workaround has been implemented for this issue in
app_timer_workaround.c.) (MBTLE-3347)
- The Mesh Configuration Power Down files require significant time for storing if defragmentation is in progress. (MBTLE-3467)
- After the firmware upgrade, if the composition data has been changed or corrupted persistent data has been found (or both), the device will boot up as unprovisioned device. If the device is provisioned at that point without resetting, it asserts. As a workaround, reset the device once more before the start of provisioning. (MBTLE-3840)
- If Proxy Server changes the SNB beacon state by itself, this change is not propagated to the Proxy Client. (MBTLE-3945)
- Sensor Status Delta Trigger does not consider Status Min Interval. (MBTLE-3968)
BLE Mesh v4.1.0
- Release Date: Week 14, 2020
This is a minor release that introduces support for new models from the Bluetooth mesh model specification and adds the related examples. It also includes changes to the documentation structure and fixes several bugs.
New features and highlights
- Added support for new models:
- Light Lightness server and client models.
- Light CTL server and client models.
- Light LC server and client models.
- Added new examples:
- Light Lightness server and client examples.
- Light CTL server and client examples.
- Light CTL LC server example.
- Light LC server example.
Changes
- Updated GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain required minimum version to 9-2019-q4-major.
Updated Provisioner
- Added improvements to the static provisioner to include lighting and sensor scenarios.
- The static provisioner example has been updated to support new examples: Light lightness, Light CTL and Light LC server.
- Additionally, provisioner was moved out of the light switch example dependencies and got separate configuration files.
- The node configuration module was made flexible to support complex configuration scenarios like the combination of CTL and LC servers. Servers from the supported examples now publish statuses on group addresses instead of unicast clients' addresses. This allows to combine clients from one example and servers from another example if they support the client-server part of the same model.
- For example, you can combine the EnOcean switch translator (Generic OnOff client) with the light lightness server (Generic OnOff server), and so on.
Documentation
- Changed the structure of the conceptual documentation pages to make it similar to the nRF5 SDK documentation structure.
- The Getting Started section now includes only the pages that are related to starting the work with the nRF5 SDK for Mesh, including the Migration Guide.
- The new User Guide section now includes pages about Bluetooth mesh concepts and architecture, libraries, and other pages that are more advanced than the Getting Started pages.
- Added basic information about Bluetooth mesh packet data flow to the Bluetooth mesh stack architecture page.
- Updated the Supported features section on the main overview page and removed the experimental label from some of the pages.
Bugfixes
- Fixed an issue where the internal state of the bootloader would not reset after DFU completes. (MBTLE-3223)
- Fixed an issue where PyACI would attempt to print byte arrays as ASCII strings. They are now printed as hexadecimal strings. (MBTLE-3577)
- Fixed an issue where the Generic Power OnOff Server would incorrectly respond to messages containing prohibited values. (MBTLE-3608)
- Fixed an issue related to the config_server event callback not being extended for missing events. (MBTLE-3639)
- Fixed an issue when provisionee would send a wrong reason in the Provisioning Failed command when receiving unexpected values from the provisioner. (MBTLE-3712)
- Fixed an issue where invalid DSM metadata would not be deleted from flash. (MBTLE-3714)
- Fixed an issue where LPN Poll Timeout Get would not get handled by config server if the friendship feature was disabled. (MBTLE-3720)
- Fixed an issue where MESH_CONFIG_STRATEGY_ON_POWER_DOWN would prevent NRF_MESH_EVT_CONFIG_STABLE from being emitted. (MBTLE-3723)
- Fixed an issue where the Access layer data in flash would not be validated. (MBTLE-3739)
- Fixed an issue where setting the publish period to certain values would cause a loss of resolution. (MBTLE-3742)
- Fixed the generated raw UUID to match the UUID version 4 format and updated mesh_app_uuid_print() to print the formatted UUID in order to directly match the raw UUID bytes. (MBTLE-3743)
- Fixed an issue where sar_ctx_tx_complete() would not assign a timestamp value. (MBTLE-3774)
- Fixed an issue where the Friend feature support was not set in the composition data. (MBTLE-3820)
- Fixed an issue where the SRC field for the Segmented Acknowledgment message would not be set to the Friend's address when acknowledging a segmented message on behalf of LPN. (MBTLE-3831)
- Fixed outdated links in the SES.md file. (MBTLE-3843)
- Fixed an issue where accessing periodic publication timer would not be stopped after the access layer states are cleared. (MBTLE-3844)
- Fixed an issue where the PB Remote client example would assert in case of incorrect user input. (MBTLE-3848)
Known issue fixes
- Fixed a previously known issue where the
flash_manager API might write to p_manager->internal.state without considering the existing state. (MBTLE-1972)
- Fixed a previously known issue where calling access_clear() when a reliable transfer was ongoing would result in an assert. (MBTLE-3181)
- Fixed a previously known issue where the nRF5 SDK for Mesh bootloader would not turn off UART before switching to the application. (MBTLE-3215)
- Fixed a previously known issue where the PA/LNA module in the BLE SoftDevice stack would not be switched on after the Bluetooth mesh provisioning process. (MBTLE-3279)
- Fixed a previously known issue where the DFU example would back out of a DFU target state to service a relay request. (MBTLE-3376)
- Fixed a previously known issue with the Link Open behavior of the Bluetooth mesh stack provisioner. This was fixed by aligning with the specification v1.0.1. (MBTLE-3547)
Limitations
- The replay protection list is not stored in flash. (MBTLE-1975)
- If a poll is planned during the delay of another poll, the attempt counter is reset to the default value. (MBTLE-3175)
- It is not possible to use SAR for both request and response by using loopback. Use separate elements for such client-server models instantiated on the same device. (MBTLE-3439)
- The PA/LNA module is supported on nRF52840 and nRF52833, but only verified on nRF52832. (MBTLE-3576)
Known issues
- If the mesh stack is configured with the IRQ priority NRF_MESH_IRQ_PRIORITY_THREAD and runs in the main loop with app_scheduler, there might be delays of ~15 ms. (MBTLE-2624)
- During the provisioning of a device, the Device Name is changed to the default
nRF5x after completion of the PB-GATT connection. The name is later changed back to the correct name when the initial configuration of the device is complete. (MBTLE-3151)
- The app_timer library fails to trigger the timer correctly if no active timer is present for the RTC_MAX/2 value. (A workaround has been implemented for this issue in
app_timer_workaround.c.) (MBTLE-3347)
- The DFU segment recovery may get deadlocked. (MBTLE-3423)
- The Mesh Configuration Power Down files require significant time for storing if defragmentation is in progress. (MBTLE-3467)
- Friendship and LPN poll timeouts greater than 2147 seconds are not supported. (MBTLE-3563)
- After the firmware upgrade, if the composition data has been changed or corrupted persistent data has been found (or both), the device will boot up as unprovisioned device. If the device is provisioned at that point without resetting, it asserts. As a workaround, reset the device once more before the start of provisioning. (MBTLE-3840)
BLE Mesh v4.0.0
- Release Date: Week 48, 2019
This is a major release that introduces support for Nordic Semiconductor's nRF52833 device and adds support for the nRF5 SDK v16.0.0 and the new SoftDevice versions. It includes the Friendship feature in production-ready state, introduces major changes to the persistent storage and addresses a number of bugs.
New features and highlights
- Added support for nRF52833.
- Added support for the nRF5 SDK v16.0.0, which introduces the new SoftDevice v7.0.1 and the official support for the SoftDevice S113 v7.0.1.
Changes
- Support for the Friendship feature is now production-ready.
Persistent storage
- Migrated Access, DSM, and Net State modules, and EnOcean and Light Switch Provisioner examples to use the Bluetooth mesh configuration module. Each of these components has a separate file, and the files are handled within the Mesh configuration module. See Migration guide for details about changes required in your application.
- The following APIs have been removed as part of this change:
bool access_flash_config_load(void)void access_flash_config_store(void)const void * access_flash_area_get(void)bool dsm_flash_config_load(void)const void * dsm_flash_area_get(void)
- Added the Registered Fault state of the Health Model to the persistent storage.
Documentation
Other changes
- Added independent, dynamically registered AD listeners for Beacons, Bluetooth mesh core, Provisioning, and DFU.
- Removed the experimental support for the SoftDevice S113 v7.0.0.
- Changed the behavior of how network cache entries are managed. Now, if relaying of a packet fails, the packet is no longer cached by the network layer.
- Increased the default value for MESH_FRIEND_QUEUE_SIZE from 16 to 35. This allows the Friend node to receive at least one full segmented message meant for the Low Power node.
- Changed the location of the BEARER_EVENT_USE_SWI0 option. See Migration guide for details about changes required in your application.
- Added heartbeat event handling to the serial interface.
Bugfixes
- Fixed an issue where the Bluetooth mesh configuration finds corrupted persistent parameters from Access or DSM files during initialization, which causes the persistent areas to be cleaned and the device start as unprovisioned.
- Fixed an issue where resetting a node might cause the node to wait for IV Update timeout again. Now the time to the next IV Update is stored in the flash each 30 minutes.
- Fixed an issue where it was not possible to set the authentication size to 0x00 for the static OOB method.
- Fixed an issue with the action type of the Input and Output requests in NRF_MESH_PROV_EVT_INPUT_REQUEST and NRF_MESH_PROV_EVT_OUTPUT_REQUEST provisioning events.
- Fixed a log message issue in the access layer when a message was about to be sent. Now the correct buffer will be printed.
- Fixed a bug where the Friend node would establish a friendship with the Low Power node, but would not send the NRF_MESH_EVT_FRIENDSHIP_ESTABLISHED event. Now the Friend node will send the NRF_MESH_EVT_FRIENDSHIP_ESTABLISHED event when establishing a friendship.
- Fixed an issue with an unnecessary parameter check in mesh_friend_friendships_get() that would cause this function to always return
NRF_ERROR_NULL. The parameter check is now removed.
- Fixed a bug where the Friend node would send the NRF_MESH_EVT_FRIENDSHIP_TERMINATED event, but would not fill the role field. Now the Friend node will initialize the role field in the nrf_mesh_evt_friendship_terminated_t structure when sending the NRF_MESH_EVT_FRIENDSHIP_TERMINATED event.
- Fixed a bug where the Friend node was not able to send self-generated messages to the Low Power node.
- Fixed a receive delay timeout calculation issue for the Low Power Node which caused the Low Power node to start the Receive Window ~1.9 ms earlier. Now the Low Power node starts the Receive Window at the proper time.
- Fixed a bug where the Friend node might start receiving segmented messages even if they would not fit into the Friend Queue. Now the Friend node will reject segmented messages that cannot be stored in the Friend Queue due to the limit of the queue size.
- Fixed a bug where the Friend node was not able to decode the Receive Window Factor and RSSI Factor correctly, which would cause the Friend node to schedule the Friend Offer earlier. Now the Friend node will correctly decode the factors and schedule the Friend Offer at the right time.
- Fixed several documentation bugs, including broken links in Configuring and performing DFU over Mesh.
- Fixed documentation of the access_model_reliable_publish() function. The user must retain the data provided in access_message_tx_t::p_buffer until the acknowledged transfer has ended (see access_reliable_t::status_cb) or the message is cancelled by access_model_reliable_cancel.
- Fixed a bug where the OOB field in PB-GATT advertisements had the wrong endianness.
- Fixed an issue where pb_remote_server_disable() was always returning
NRF_ERROR_INVALID_STATE. Now pb_remote_server_disable() performs checks correctly and it is possible to disable the PB remote server.
- Fixed an issue where
BOOTLOADERADDR() would check UICR->NRFFW[0], which is no longer used in the BLE bootloader, and which would make the flash_anager_defrag_init() assert when using BLE bootloader. Now BOOTLOADERADDR() does not perform this check.
- Fixed an issue where the internal state of stored entries could brake if an entry was deleted or when it was changed but not stored yet.
- Fixed an issue where the PR remote client or server might lose a message, which might cause the remote provisioning to fail. Now the PB remote models are tolerant to the packets loss between the PB remote client and the PB remote server.
- Fixed an issue where the number of elements reported by the composition data would not match the amount reported in the provisioning capabilities message, leading to a mismatch in the number of elements.
Limitations
- The replay protection list is not stored in flash. (MBTLE-1975)
- When using the GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain
8-2018-q4-major release, building with CMake on Windows is not working correctly because of a bug in this release. (MBTLE-3105)
- If a poll is planned during the delay of another poll, the attempt counter is reset to the default value. (MBTLE-3175)
- It is not possible to use SAR for both request and response by using loopback. Use separate elements for such client-server models instantiated on the same device. (MBTLE-3439)
- When the provisioning is started by the Bluetooth mesh stack provisioner, the Link Open message will be sent for a maximum of 6 times with an interval of about 60 ms (instead of resending it continuously for up to 60 seconds). If a link could not be established within this time, the application should start the procedure again. (MBTLE-3547)
- The PA/LNA module is supported on nRF52840 and nRF52833, but only verified on nRF52832. (MBTLE-3576)
Known issues
- The
flash_manager API might write to p_manager->internal.state without considering the existing state. (MBTLE-1972)
- If the Bluetooth mesh stack is configured with the IRQ priority NRF_MESH_IRQ_PRIORITY_THREAD and runs in the main loop with app_scheduler, there might be delays of ~15 ms. (MBTLE-2624)
- During the provisioning of a device, the Device Name is changed to the default
nRF5x after completion of the PB-GATT connection. The name is later changed back to the correct name when the initial configuration of the device is complete. (MBTLE-3151)
- Calling access_clear() when a reliable transfer is ongoing will result in an assert. (MBTLE-3181)
- The nRF5 SDK for Mesh bootloader does not turn off UART before switching to the application. (MBTLE-3215)
- The PA/LNA module in the BLE SoftDevice stack is not switched on after the Bluetooth mesh provisioning process. (MBTLE-3279)
- The app_timer library fails to trigger the timer correctly if no active timer is present for the RTC_MAX/2 value. (MBTLE-3347)
- The DFU example will back out of a DFU target state to service a relay request. (MBTLE-3376)
- The DFU segment recovery may get deadlocked. (MBTLE-3423)
- The Mesh Configuration Power Down files require significant time for storing if defragmentation is in progress. (MBTLE-3467)
- Friendship and LPN poll timeouts greater than 2147 seconds are not supported. (MBTLE-3563)
BLE Mesh v3.2.0
- Release Date: Week 30, 2019
This is a minor feature release. It adds Friend feature support, the RSSI monitoring model, support for nRF5 SDK v15.3.0, significant changes to the DFU documentation, and fixes to several bugs.
New features and highlights
- Added an experimental support for the Friend feature.
- Added the vendor-specific RSSI monitoring model.
- Added experimental support for the S113 SoftDevice.
- Added support for the nRF5 SDK v15.3.0 and the GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain v7.3.1.
Changes
Documentation
Friendship feature
- Made changes to the transport layer to support the Friendship feature. The layer now has a new RX address logic and additional SAR RX complete logic.
- Modified the network_packet_alloc API to allow packets in the friend queue to be sent without modification to the network metadata fields.
- Introduced a new MESH_FEATURE_LPN_ACT_AS_REGULAR_NODE_OUT_OF_FRIENDSHIP define to the LPN functionality that allows a node with the LPN feature to participate in a mesh network as a regular node when the friendship is not established by keeping scanner and net beacon modules enabled.
- Implemented the core loopback mechanism and modified the upper transport layer as part of the core loopback mechanism, so that the Friend nodes can send messages to LPNs.
- Removed Friend and Low Power RX sources. Scanner source is now used for both.
Provisioning
- Made examples re-generate provisioning private and public keys for every run.
- Updated the static provisioner example to set the Network Transmit count to
2 for newly provisioned devices.
- Added support to only allow secure provisioning if required. This can be enabled by setting NRF_MESH_PROV_FORCE_SECURE_PROVISIONING compile time option to
1.
Other changes
- Aligned the secure network beacon update logic with the latest minor version update of the specification.
- Fixed a bug that would cause asserts in the extended model initialization. Additionally, to maintain integrity of the device composition, new models cannot be initialized during runtime after the Bluetooth mesh stack has been initialized when persistent storage is used.
- Made changes at the scanner level to ignore the non-mesh packets and reduce memory footprint.
- Added APIs to the Config Client model for sending Network Transmit Set and Network Transmit Get messages.
- Started using nRF5 SDK as a backend for static asserts.
- Implemented a change to the bootloader. It now explicitly disables the radio before moving to the application.
- Improved the bank address selection of the Bluetooth mesh DFU example.
- Added the possibility to set CMock and Unity paths through environment variables on Windows and Linux.
- Added a log message to the BLE DFU support module module if the ble_dfu_support_init function fails to initialize the Buttonless DFU Service due to the missing bootloader.
Bugfixes
- Removed outdated information about setting
SDK_ROOT macro from command line.
- Introduced a new NRF_MESH_EVT_PROXY_STOPPED event to fix a bug that would cause the node reset to get stuck when using GATT.
- Fixed a Health Server issue that would cause the server to return from fast period back to regular publish period without taking any configuration server updates into account, or report a wrong publish period value while publishing with fast cadence.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent the Health Server model from supporting subscriptions. See Migration guide for details.
- Fixed wrong opcodes used in the Generic Power OnOff model.
- Fixed a bug that would cause level behavior module to not accept all transition time values provided by the Level Server model for the move speed calculation, and fixed some behavioral corner cases.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the access layer to use a non-zero TTL value when replying to a message received with the TTL set to zero.
- Fixed an issue that would cause the provisioning process to take around 10 seconds more than in the nRF5 SDK for Mesh v2.2.0.
- Implemented a fix that makes the Generic Default Transition Time Server model validate set message parameters.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the nrf_mesh_disable() function to take several seconds to disable the mesh.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent erasing of the application-specific flash data in the EnOcean switch translator client example.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the model_timer_elapsed_ticks_get() function to return a wrong value when called from inside of the callback.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the transport decrypt to hardfault if someone sent a packet to a virtual address with a device key.
- Fixed an issue where the public key was transmitted before rejecting an invalid public key from the peer. The invalid public key is now rejected immediately.
- Added a change to the transport layer that will now reject old, failed SAR sessions.
- Fixed a bug that would break receiving on
ALL_FRIEND_ADDRESS when the Friend feature is active.
- Fixed incorrect DSM API usage in the provisioner example.
- Fixed a bug in PB remote server and client examples that would cause examples to stop working when they were power cycled after provisioning a device.
- Fixed a bug in the Config Server model that would cause the Config Server to send a wrong status code in response to the Config Model Publication Set message when the target model does not support publish mechanism.
- Fixed the pyACI company ID endianness in the opcode parsing.
BLE Mesh v3.1.0
- Release Date: Week 2, 2019
This is a minor feature release. In addition to several minor and major bugfixes, it brings DFU support for the LPN example, publish re-transmission support in the access layer, improvements in the heartbeat module, and a major rework of example documentation.
As part of this release, several files have been modified. See Migration guide for details and update your projects accordingly.
New features and highlights
- Added Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU) support for the LPN example. You can now upgrade the LPN device firmware using the solution from nRF5 SDK.
- Implemented publish re-transmission support in the access layer. You can now re-transmit published messages according to the Publish Retransmit Count and the Publish Retransmit Interval Steps states.
Changes
Identifier changes
- Updated example UUIDs. See the Migration guide page for details and required changes.
- Implemented URI hash usage. All examples now advertise the URI hash in the unprovisioned device beacon, and static provisioner example uses this URI hash during the provisioning process.
Heartbeat module improvements
- The subscription address no longer needs to be owned by any model.
- Moved parameter sanitation from configuration server to Heartbeat.
- Heartbeat now can trigger when friendship is established.
- Fixed upper boundary of publication count value.
OOB-related updates
Documentation
Other changes
- Implemented stricter rules for transaction number handling in PB-ADV to avoid unexpected behavior when paired with misbehaving nodes. See Migration guide page for details and required changes.
- Added support for clearing the state in Bluetooth mesh config.
- Added upper boundaries to the number of keys, models, and addresses to avoid unexpected behavior when configuration messages exceed maximum access layer message size.
- Simplified Generic Power OnOff client initialization API. See Migration guide for details and required changes.
- Made replay protection more flexible and cut its RAM requirements by half.
Bugfixes
Low Power node bugfixes
- Fixed a bug that would cause the LPN to terminate friendship after getting 5 data packets in a row.
- Added missing PB-ADV bearer in the LPN example compilation unit. See Migration guide for details.
Other bugfixes
- Fixed issues related to beaconing interval calculation for secure network beacons.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the relay and originator packets to have the same repeat count by default. They now have different repeat counts once again.
- Fixed a bug with the serial interface. It now propagates the SERIAL_OPCODE_EVT_MESH_TX_COMPLETE events as advertised.
- Fixed a bug in the app_timer that caused the LEDs to stop blinking.
- Fixed an assert when setting the GATT proxy state in the configuration server with the same value twice.
- Fixed a bug with the Health Server attention state. It no longer disables publication if the fast intervals are shorter than 100 ms.
- Fixed the incorrect scaling of advertisement timeout interval parameter provided to the
mesh_adv_params_set() API.
- Fixed the light switch provisioner example. Invalid packets no longer cause the light switch server configuration to fail.
Known issues and limitations
- Stack applies only 20 seconds delay if secure network beacons from the other devices are transmitted unevenly.
- Due to a bug in the GNU ARM Embedded Toolchain
8-2018-q4-major release, building with CMake on Windows is not working correctly when you use this latest version. A warning note was added to Installing the toolchain.
BLE Mesh v3.0.0
- Release Date: Week 48, 2018
This is a major release that brings integration with the latest version of the nRF5 SDK and experimental support for the Low Power feature and GenericOnOff models. It also introduces changes to API, core, and examples, several important bugfixes, and the first step in a major documentation re-work.
As part of this release, several files have been added and removed. See Migration guide for details and update your projects accordingly.
New features and highlights
- Added integration with the nRF5 SDK v15.2. The nRF5 SDK for Mesh is now incompatible with all older releases of the nRF5 SDK. See the Migration guide page for required changes.
- Added experimental support for Low Power node feature. See Low Power node feature and Integrating Low Power node feature for documentation.
- Due to this change, the high frequency crystal is stopped when the Bluetooth mesh is inactive.
- Implemented Low Power node example. See Low Power node example for documentation.
- Implemented experimental support for Generic PowerOnOff models.
Changes
API changes
Core changes
- The Bluetooth mesh stack scheduler now runs on
app_timer.
- Some modifications to the SDK 15.2 version are required. More information can be found in the Migration guide.
- The modified version can be found in
external/app_timer/app_timer_mesh.c.
- The modified implementation is added by default in the example projects.
- There are no changes to the API and existing code using the
app_timer will work without modification.
- Flash Manager now supports reading entries while in the defragmentation state.
- Updated subscription_list_share() to ensure there is only one allocated list at a time.
- When the extended model now shares the subscription list across all of its models, the access deallocates any excess allocated lists.
- Removed all uses of Variable Length Arrays (VLAs). If compiled with ARMCC, the program will use heap allocated memory for the array and will hardfault if the allocation fails.
- Unified all dynamic memory management in the Bluetooth mesh stack into one Mesh memory manager module.
Example changes
- GATT Provisioning and Proxy features are now enabled in the Light Switch Server, Light Switch Client, Dimming Server, Dimming Client, and EnOcean examples.
- Due to this change, the Light Switch Proxy Server and the Light Switch Proxy Client examples were removed.
- Lowered the default Node Identity advertisement interval.
- Lowering the interval allows the provisioner to re-connect to the device more quickly after the provisioning is complete. This in turn makes the provisioning and configuration process faster when using the nRF Mesh mobile app.
- The
mesh_softdevice_init module is replaced with the BLE SoftDevice support module.
- The function ble_stack_init() is used to initialize the SoftDevice Handler and the BLE stack and to register Bluetooth mesh handler for SoC events.
- The functions gap_params_init() and conn_params_init() are used to run GATT Provisioning and Proxy features.
Documentation changes
- Updated the documentation. This is the first step in a longer process of improving the quality of the documentation.
- Modified the structure of documentation on the nRF5 SDK for Mesh documentation website and in the nRF5 SDK for Mesh GitHub repository, including:
- Moved several pages between sections. For example, Setting interrupt priority levels is now featured in the Overview section.
- Removed Scripts section on the nRF5 SDK for Mesh documentation website that contained a duplicated page about Interactive PyACI. This page is now available at Libraries > Serial interface.
- Removed the standalone deprecated list page. Deprecated functions are still marked as
_DEPRECATED in the code.
- Removed the standalone Simple OnOff model page. Its contents are now integrated in the model's header file and the Creating new models page.
- Renamed Introduction to Overview. This section now includes conceptual, descriptive documentation.
- Updated Getting started section. It now includes instructional documentation.
- Grouped experimental examples in the Experimental examples subsection.
- Grouped provisioning-related pages in the Provisioning subsection.
- Created new pages by splitting content on already existing pages. These new pages will be expanded in the future.
- Edited Installing the toolchain page for clarity. It now better lists required tools for each operating system.
- Edited Building the stack and examples page, so that it lists building instructions for both SEGGER Embedded Studio and CMake on one page. The instructions were updated.
- Created new Running examples page. It includes expanded contents from the main Examples page.
- Changed names of several pages for consistency. For example, "How to add PA/LNA support" is now "Enabling PA/LNA support".
- Fixed typos and various language issues on several pages.
- Added table of contents and horizontal section separators to several pages. This formatting will be extended to other pages in the future.
- Edited documentation of several APIs for typos, clarity, and consistency.
Bugfixes
Core bugfixes
- Fixed a bug that could cause the transport layer to not re-schedule retries for segmented messages if the sequence number allocation failed.
- Fixed a bug that would cause Timer Events Scheduler to be unable to reschedule events more than 65536 times.
Flash Manager bugfixes
- Fixed Flash Manager init behavior.
- Timeslots are now started before the calls to flash_manager_add to prevent an init-deadlock.
- Fixed a bug that would report Flash Manager as stable when it wasn't.
packet_buffer now has an additional packet_buffer_is_empty() API for checking whether the queue is completely empty. The flash_manager_is_stable() function makes use of this API to make the flash_manager_wait() correctly start blocking.
- Fixed a bug that would block flash operations that can't fit between two Softdevice events (for example, Proxy connection events).
Model bugfixes
- Fixed a bug concerning Company ID in Vendor Model Opcode (see access_opcode_t). Company ID is now correctly packed in little-endian order.
- Note
- Due to this fix, vendor specific models are now incompatible with BLE Mesh v2.2.0 and older.
- Fixed a bug that would make it impossible to add models that only send messages.
PyACI bugfixes
- Fixed a bug in PyACI that would accept 0xFFFF as a valid subscription address for "Config model
subscription add". Now, Invalid Address error is returned.
- Fixed a bug that would trigger PyACI assert when loading Retransmit values from the provisioning database.
- Fixed a bug in PyACI that caused asserts when unpacking AppKey/NetKey Lists in multiple places.
- Fixed a bug that would cause a PyACI assert when unpacking some status replies in the PyACI Configuration Client.
Assertion and crash fixes
- Fixed a bug that would cause the mesh network devices to hardfault because of misformed packets. Network packets are now subject to length checks.
- Fixed a bug that caused GATT to assert when in connection, if the network ran out of sequence numbers.
- Fixed some rare asserts in the transition from provisioning to configuration when adding a device with the nRF Mesh App.
Known issues and limitations
- If the Bluetooth mesh stack is configured with IRQ priority NRF_MESH_IRQ_PRIORITY_THREAD and run in the main loop with app_scheduler, there might be delays of ~15 ms.
- Publish re-transmission settings are not supported.
BLE Mesh v2.2.0
- This is a minor production release.
New features
- Generic server/client model interfaces for OnOff, Default Transition Time, and Level models
- Sample generic OnOff server behavior implementation
- New Mesh Config module that provides high-level access to persistent storage. This module uses the existing Flash Manager and aims to enable multiple flash backends (including nRF5 SDK fstorage) in the future.
- Moved Bluetooth mesh runtime configuration options to a new, type-safe mesh_opt_* API in their respective submodules. The options are stored in persistent memory through the new mesh_config module.
- Added persistent storage to several internal states:
- Heartbeat publication
- Net beacon
- GATT proxy
Other
- Updated model directory structure:
- Foundation models have been moved to models/foundation
- Generic models are present in models/model_spec
- Vendor specific models have been moved to models/vendor
- Experimental models have been moved to models/experimental
- Updated examples to support Generic OnOff models
- Simplified EnOcean, Light Switch Client, and SDK coexistence examples to use only two Generic OnOff client model instances
- Marked the old
nrf_mesh_opt API deprecated (it will be removed in the next major production release)
- Updated the mesh to use the section variables module from the nRF5 SDK (see the migration guide for details)
- Updated various parts of the documentation (added documentation for GATT Proxy example and for PA/LNA support)
Bugfixes
- EnOcean example was not supporting multiple enocean switches
- Mesh GATT asserted if other services uses HVX (MBTLE-2623)
- Serial interface driver does no longer block on packet allocation (MBTLE-1844)
- Made access address definition explicitly unsigned (MBTLE-2453)
bootloader_verify.py did not recognize nRF52840 (MBTLE-2610)- Fixed parsing error in PyACI
heartbeat_subscription_get() (MBTLE-2690)
Known issues and limitations
- Softdevice S140 v6.0.0 sets the event IRQ priority into the wrong value 6 (should be 7). That might cause an internal stack memory corruption. To avoid the issue the file from Mesh SDK
<Mesh SDK folder>/external/sdk_fix/nrf_sdh.c shall be used. Otherwise the examples which use GATT will generate assertion Mesh error 3 at <address> (examples/common/include/mesh_app_utils.h:100)
- If the Bluetooth mesh stack is configured with IRQ priority NRF_MESH_IRQ_PRIORITY_THREAD and run in the main loop with app_scheduler, there might be delays of ~15 ms.
BLE Mesh v2.1.1
- This is a minor production release.
New features
- Add PA/LNA support for timeslot projects
Bugfixes
- Access loopback needs context switch
- Config server: send_publication_status() always sends status code as ACCESS_STATUS_SUCCESS or it Asserts
- Sending a reliable message via internal loop causes to double sending with opposite results
- Don't allow provisioner to use OOB public key if we don't support it
- Fix static assertions for flash size
- Config server replies to feature set when it shouldn't
- light_switch_proxy_client SES project imports app_error.c twice, leads to compile error
- Light switch client requires all buttons to be configured
- Heartbeat Publication Set message duplicates count value
- Bluetooth mesh GATT asserts on MTU requests
- In-place modification of event list during event handling
- Device page generator outputs file for nrf52832 no matter platform chosen
- Bluetooth mesh timeslot extension is prohibiting softdevice advertising (GATT)
- Bluetooth mesh proxy sets advertising timing in wrong order
- Invalid handling of service changed attribute
- Application defined softdevice settings are lost during GATT dabase reset
- Core TX alloc rejected by GATT proxy bearer
- Provisioner stops provisioning new nodes prematurely
- No support for reserved groups (all-nodes, all-proxies, ...)
- Heartbeat does not include all active features in published message
- Segger Embedded Studio projects have invalid memory configurations
- Connecting and disconnecting from PB-GATT leaves provisioning bearers in undefined state
- Persistent storage is turned off for proxy client
- Bluetooth mesh GATT module does not propagate ADV timeout event
- hal_led_blink_ms call is blocking and used in IRQs
device_page_generator.py key parsing errorsdevice_page_generator.py wrong output filename
Known issues and limitations
- Publish re-transmission settings are not supported
- Some Config server and Health Server model states are not persistent
- Setting device in attention state during provisioning is not supported
- Light switch provisioner example: During the configuration of a node, the static provisioner example may sometimes consider a status response of a previous configuration step as the status response of the current configuration step. This may cause a node configuration to remain incomplete, without the provisioner noticing. If this happens, provisioned client or server nodes will not respond to user inputs as expected. This occurs due to Bluetooth mesh message re-transmissions logic built into the stack causing responses to SET messages to arrive out of order. This scenario is most likely to manifest itself in situations when the Bluetooth mesh stack is not scanning for the majority of the time. For example, while running other BLE connections with a short connection interval.
Verification Notices / Test Errata
- Test Configurations: – nrf52832 || s132_6.0.0 || pca10040 – nrf52840 || s140_6.0.0 || pca10056
BLE Mesh v2.0.1
- This is a minor bugfix release
Bugfixes
- Ignore Config Proxy Set and Config Friend Set messages with invalid parameters
BLE Mesh v2.0.0
- This is a major production release.
New features
- GATT Proxy (experimental)
- PB-GATT bearer (server) (experimental)
- Generic GATT interface for PB-GATT and Proxy (experimental)
- Interactive Configuration client for the Interactive PyACI
- Concurrent provisioning link listening
- Third party BLE device integration example: Integrating EnOcean switch with Bluetooth mesh networks
- Separate Light switch provisioner example
Other
- Integrates with nRF5 SDK 15 (NOTE: nRF5 SDK is now a separate download from nRF5 SDK for Mesh)
- Examples more aligned with the nRF5 SDK examples
- Separated out provisioner role from Light switch client example
Bugfixes
- No SLIP bytes before responses when using SLIP mode for the serial interface
- Buffer handling does not reset head and tail when buffer is empty
- Various asserts in Light switch example
- Stack doesn't send Provisioning Failed PDU in certain cases
- Transport layer sends ACK for timed-out message
- No way to stop IV update procedure in test mode
- Heartbeat subscription does not check destination state
- Provisionee does not sanitize input in provisioning start message
access_reliable_cancel_all() and access_model_reliable_cancel() does not actually cancel pending reliable transfers- Access status codes does not align with Bluetooth Mesh Profile v1.0 values
- Config server doesn't reply to Composition Data Get message requesting page
0xFF
- Config server reports error for duplicate NetKey Add command
- Config server
send_publication_status() always sends status code as ACCESS_STATUS_SUCCESS or it asserts
- Config server resets the device before reset response goes out
- Device key is bound to only one network key (primary)
- Access layer does not allow user to stop periodic publication by setting Unassigned (0x0000) publish address (or any other event which disabled model publication)
- Vendor Model IDs reversed according to the Bluetooth Mesh Profile Specification (MshPRFv1.0.1)
- Redundant advertiser in beacon module
- Wrong IRQ level used for button GPIO and UART
Known issues and limitations
- Publish re-transmission settings are not supported
- Some Config server and Health Server model states are not persistent
- Setting device in attention state during provisioning is not supported
- Light switch provisioner example: During the configuration of a node, the static provisioner example may sometimes consider a status response of a previous configuration step as the status response of the current configuration step. This may cause a node configuration to remain incomplete, without the provisioner noticing. If this happens, provisioned client or server nodes will not respond to user inputs as expected. This occurs due to Bluetooth mesh message re-transmissions logic built into the stack causing responses to SET messages to arrive out of order. This scenario is most likely to manifest itself in situations when the Bluetooth mesh stack is not scanning for the majority of the time. For example, while running other BLE connections with a short connection interval.
device_page_generator.py
- The script will not parse the
public_key property of bootloader_config_default.json when using Python 2. A workaround for the issue is to call bytearray.fromhex() on the public_key in device_page_generator.py:99.
- The script will store the new device page to
bin/device_page_nrf52832_xxAA_s132_5.0.0.hex regardless of SoftDevice and platform setting. A workaround for the issue is to specify the path manually with the --output-file option, i.e., --output-file bin/device_page.hex.
BLE Mesh v1.0.1
This is a hotfix release with documentation/bug fixes.
New features
Bugfixes
- Provisionee support added to Beacon example
- Beacon Example: Fixed beacon enable serial command
- Provisioner: Fixed OOB authentication procedure
- Device Reset: Fixed 1 dropped packet on startup
Other / Documentation
- SDK coexistence guide updated for better explanation of coexistence with other Nordic SDKs for concurrent GATT/GAP (and other usage)
- DFU quick start guide fixed along with device_page_generator.py script
- SDK patch file updated
- Serial Example documentation updated
- Bluetooth mesh Assert cleanup
Verification / Test Errata
- nRF51 platform testing has been put on hold
BLE Mesh v1.0.0
This is the first production release of Nordic's nRF5 SDK for Mesh. This release implements mandatory features for the Bluetooth Mesh Profile Specification (MshPRFv1.0.1) and also some proprietary features (PB-remote and Nordic Advertiser Extensions) in experimental state.
New features
- Key refresh has been implemented
- Heartbeat support has been added
- DFU bootloader source code added
- Support for nRF52840_xxAA
- Proprietary Nordic Advertiser Extensions ("InstaBurst!") feature for improved throughput
- AD-listener module for simplified subscription to advertisement data
- IRQ levels are now aligned with the nRF5 SDK
- All API-functions are expected to be called from
NRF_MESH_IRQ_PRIORITY_LOWEST
- Node de-provisioning supported through the Config Server Node Reset message
Bugfixes
- Fixed beacon advertiser not enabled in example
- Fixed trailing garbage data in Composition Data
- Build fails if the path to the repo has spaces
- Fixed issue where the serial interface gets corrupted memory or hangs on an incoming serial packet that is too long
- Fixed issue where the Config Server used the application key index and not the DSM handle when deleting key
- Removed duplication of Company ID
- Fixed assertion on invalid length for unprovisioned beacons
- Removed warnings and errors from documentation build
Other
- Provisioning API changed slightly to de-couple the upper and lower layers more cleanly
Known limitations
- Optional features of the Bluetooth Mesh Profile Specification (MshPRFv1.0.1) are not part of this release.
Test Errata
- DFU : replacing Softdevice live while running app is not tested.
BLE Mesh v0.10.1-Alpha
This is a hotfix release with no new features.
Bugfixes
- Segger Embedded Studio Projects have devkit BOARD defines now instead of dongles.
- Standard BLE Access Address now used for all binary artifacts (.hex/.lib)
BLE Mesh v0.10.0-Alpha
This is a minor feature release for the experimental nRF5 SDK for Mesh
New features
- Health Model
- Reworked build system
- Support for nRF52840 (but not part of the integration testing)
- Support for new SoftDevices S132 versions 4.0.4 and 5.0.0 and S140 version 5.0.0-3.alpha
- Aligned with the nRF5 SDK version 14. Note: A subset of the nRF5 SDK is included in the nRF5 SDK for Mesh with some minor changes. See
external/nRF5_SDK_14.0.0_3bcc1f7/nRF5_SDK_14.0.0_3bcc1f7.patch for the changes made.
- Refactored Bearer Layer and Core for increased bandwidth and robustness
- Any number of concurrent advertisers
- Custom radio implementations possible
- Improved SAR reliability and throughput
- TX Complete events fully supported
- Significant reduction in packet processing time
- More efficient radio code, major throughput improvements in noisy conditions
- Access Layer loopback, messages sent between models on the same device will now be short-circuited through the access layer
- RSSI and timestamp information is now available in the
access_message_rx_meta_t and used in the Light switch example
- New filter engine for scanner
- Scanner filters: AD type, advertisement packet type, GAP address, RSSI
- Support for user-defined packet filters
- Each example project now has its own Segger Embedded Studio project file
Bugfixes
- SAR receiving segments with TTL=0 should reply with SegAck TTL=0
- Bug in validation of command line options in device_page.py
- "family" undefined in reset_device() in bootloader_verify.py
- Access application key bitfield needs to hold device keys also
- DSM clears regular address when deleting virtual address
- Reliable parameter unset in access:packet_tx()
- Various bugfixes
Document updates
- Revised documentation for better distinction between implementation-specific information and concepts defined by the Bluetooth mesh profile specification, updated references to the latter
- Updated DFU Quick Start guide
- Added more detailed installation instructions
Other
Known limitations
- Heartbeat feature is not supported
BLE Mesh v0.9.2-Alpha
This is a hotfix release, providing critical bug fixes and improvements.
New features
- nrf_mesh_packet_send() now supports the reliable feature. I.e., it is possible to send single segments messages using the transport layer SAR.
- Interactive PyACI has support for an interactive provisioner and provisionee
- New serial interface event "Prov Failed"
Bug fixes
- Provisionee not handling invalid provisioning data properly
- Problems using "Release" configuration in SES examples
- Incorrect usage of hal_led_blink_ms() in light control server
- Serial buffers must be word aligned
- Number of elements not handled in Serial interface's "Capabilities set" command
- S110 build failure
- Default build type is set in CMake
- Word alignment problems caused by high optimization levels when using Segger Embedded Studio
- PB-remote opcodes overlapping with Configuration model opcodes
- Advertisement bearer used timer_scheduler contexts dangerously, potentially corrupting its internal linked list
- PB-remote server would get confused about out-of-order ACKs from the client
- Documentation has been updated
Document updates
- Rename "Bluetooth Mesh SDK" to "nRF5 SDK for Bluetooth mesh"
- How to create a model document updated to current API
- Minor fixes to cryptography section in the "Bluetooth mesh basic concepts" document
- Added installation instructions for CMake, Ninja and ARM toolchain
- Added information on how to select compile target
Other
- Serial handlers split into separate source file
- Fix unit tests to work with the public CMock
- Fix packet formats and application nonce for compliance
- Update unit tests with new sample data
- Several minor bugfixes
- Serial interface "Init Context" command removed. Provisioning context initialization is managed automatically.
Known limitations of this release
- Heartbeat and Health model not implemented
- Source for bootloader must be downloaded from OpenMesh gitHub repo
- No power down state storage
BLE Mesh v0.9.1-Alpha
This is an experimental release for exploration of the Bluetooth mesh stack on the nRF5 device family. It is not intended for commercial use.
Key Features
- Bluetooth mesh software core stack
- Based on Bluetooth 4.0 PHY
- Bearer, network, transport, and access layers
- Foundation models
- Support for Node and Relay Node roles
- Configurable scanning interval and duty cycle (from 3ms-10240ms)
- Configurable advertisement interval (from 20ms-10240ms
- Example applications and proprietary models
- Broadcast flooding mesh
- Theoretically up to 32,000 nodes
- No routing tables
- No single point of failure
- Node-to-node and node-to-group communication
- Two-layer 128-bit AES-CCM network and node-to-node security
- Provisioning support
- Standard "local" provisioning over advertisement bearer
- Proprietary "remote" provisioning via relaying nodes (implemented as proprietary model)
- Persistent (flash) storage of configuration data
- Support for concurrent beaconing (separate API, Eddystone, iBeacon)
- Python shell-based test and demo framework for PC
- Support for over-the-air secure background DFU
- Application and/or stacks
- Cross-platform toolchain support
- Segger Embedded Studio
- GCC and armcc
- Windows, Linux and macOS
Bugfixes in this release
- AD types updated to use Bluetooth SIG allocated numbers
- Proprietary On/Off model example renamed from "Generic On/Off" to "Simple On/Off"
- Minor DFU bugfixes and improvements
Other
- Revised and reorganized documentation.
Compatibility
- nRF51 and nRF52
- Recommended >= 200 kB Flash and >= 32 kB RAM
- nRF5 SDK (v10.0.0 for S110, v12.1.0 for S130 and S132)
- Segger Embedded Studio v3.22
Known limitations of this release
- Packet format in Alpha is not entirely Bluetooth mesh compatible
- Heartbeat and Health model not implemented
- ASZMIC field is missing from application/device nonce for segmented access messages
- Source for bootloader must be downloaded from OpenMesh GitHub repo
- No power down state storage
BLE Mesh v0.9.0
Bugfixes
- DSM for-loop overflow bug. Looped over number of application keys rather than network keys. Caused fault on reception of secure mesh network beacons.
- IRQ level for nRF52 set too low in light control example. Caused hardfault on button press.
- Debounce algorithm for button presses in light control example used
TIMER_OLDER_THAN() when it should have used TIMER_DIFF(). Made buttons unresponsive after ~1h.
- Replay protection cache checking wrong address
- Network cache not caching messages if transport layer fails
- Serial provisioning interface not setting all parameters of the provisioning struct
New features
- Configuration server
- Configuration client
- light control example uses configuration client+server to configure the newly provisioned devices.
- Also supports group addressing
- New host scripts for Serial ACI. Auto-generated the same way as documentation is.
- Persistent storage manager
- Integrates with access layer and the Device State Manager
- Persistent storage integration with examples
- Node configuration module for provisionee applications
- Use asynchronous event flags with bearer event module
Other
- Updated documentation for PB-remote example
- Added README for light control example
- Added Howto for creating proprietary models
Known limitations
- No generated documentation or host scripts for model specific commands in the Serial ACI. This affects mostly the PB-remote client.
- In bootloader mode all DFU transfers will be accepted regardless of the FWID.
- BLE Mesh non-compliance (will be fixed in upcoming releases):
- "Generic OnOff" model example is not complete nor spec compliant
- Opcodes do not follow specification
- Bluetooth SIG assigned numbers for AD_Types, Service UUIDs and Characteristic UUIDs are not up-to-date
- Health Model and Heartbeat features are not implemented
- Packet format changes related to removal of MD bit are not implemented
BLE Mesh v0.8.1
Release notes
- PB-remote server and client updated for new access layer
- Bugfixes for new access layer and device state manager
- Asynchronous event flags
- Serial integration
- Device state manager
- Access layer
- Transport layer device key decryption bug fix
- Adds support for PB-remote server disabling (issue #66)
- Adds a Simple OnOff demo model
- Network beacon initialization added (was missing in v 0.8.0)
Known issues
- Per-beacon TX power settings are not yet functional for the serial interface
- The transport layer still defaults to +malloc()+ to allocate SAR buffers
- IV update will trigger without checking the value of the received iv index
- Interactive_pyaci is not up-to-date with the latest serial interface
BLE Mesh v0.8.0
This release features a preview of the refactored nRF Mesh API and new key modules.
Release highlights
- Device State Manager
- Manages all mesh-related keys and addresses for the user
- Reduces key-storage memory footprint
- Access layer
- Reworked API to fit more usage scenarios
- Reduced memory footprint
- Now takes ownership of the model database, in preparation for persistent storage support
- New application configuration module for the Device State Manager and access layer pool sizes
- Application specified compile-time configuration of memory usage for the upper layers
- Reworked serial interface for use with the Device State Manager
- Added optional SLIP encoding for serial UART packets
- Support for setting custom beacon data over serial
- Improved documentation generator, now including command responses
- Implemented GAP address get command (issue #38)
- Reduced memory footprint
- Improved IV update procedure
- Improved quality of service for mesh messages
- Fully spec compliant
- DFU procedure improvements
- Improved reliability
- Packet loss recovery procedure has lower impact on the rest of the transfer
- Fix for GitHub issue #77: Timeout in DFU ready phase
Known issues and limitations
- Serial opcodes are not backwards compatible
- PB-Remote is not integrated with the new access layer
- It is not supported by the serial interface either
- Per-beacon TX power settings are not yet functional for the serial interface
- The transport layer still defaults to +malloc()+ to allocate SAR buffers
BLE Mesh v0.7.7
- Documentation improvements
- Renamed some modules to prevent using Bluetooth SIG's confidential identifiers
- Bug fixes
- A corner-case bug where the provisioning complete ACK is lost but a successful close packet is sent is now fixed
- Fixed incorrect endianness in address check (issue #74)
Notes
The transport SAR uses +malloc()+ to allocate buffers for SAR transactions. This behaviour can be overridden using +transport_sar_mem_funcs_set()+, otherwise +__HEAPSIZE+ needs to be defined.
WARNING: SoftDevice needs to be Flashed without memory protection