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Bluetooth SIG Board of Directors Plan for Specification Deprecation and Withdraw
发布日期：【2018-01-25】 / 浏览次数：【2948】次
The Bluetooth Board of Directors (BoD) and SIG want to ensure the highest level of interoperability and quality of implementation. Since the latest Bluetooth specifications are the highest quality, incorporating the latest error corrections and clarifications, on December 19, 2017 the BoD agreed on a plan to deprecate and withdraw the following Bluetooth specifications.
Withdrawal of the following on July 1, 2018:
· BLUETOOTH SPECIFICATION Version 2.0 + EDR
Deprecation of the following on July 1, 2018 and withdrawal on January 1, 2020:
· BLUETOOTH SPECIFICATION Version 2.1 + EDR
· Bluetooth Core Specification Addendum 1
· BLUETOOTH SPECIFICATION Version 3.0 + HS
· BLUETOOTH SPECIFICATION Version 4.0
· Bluetooth Core Specification Addendum 2
· Bluetooth Core Specification Addendum 3 rev. 2
· Bluetooth Core Specification Addendum 4
Deprecation of the following on January 1, 2019 and withdrawal on July 1, 2020:
· BLUETOOTH SPECIFICATION Version 4.1
The BoD also decided how deprecated and withdrawn specifications will be treated. Effective July 1, 2018, once a specification is deprecated, it will not be maintained (Errata and TSEs will not be processed for that specification) and members will only be permitted to complete Qualifications/Declarations that refer to, or use, existing qualified products that use that specification. Once a specification is withdrawn, it will not be maintained (Errata and TSEs will not be processed for that specification) and members will not be permitted to complete Qualifications/Declarations for any product using that specification and will not be able to add new models to existing Qualification/Declarations that use that specification.
The BoD also decided to cancel the current policy allowing for qualification of new designs under deprecated specifications for a fee of $25,000, effective as of July 1, 2018.
For clarification purposes, none of the above changes the qualification status of previously qualified member products. Nor does it change the ability of members to ship products that have already been qualified to specifications that have since been deprecated or withdrawn.
