1.99.alpha1

This is the first in a series of alpha releases on our journey to version 2.0. The most notable new feature is partial support for BlueZ 5. See issue #13 for thing that will NOT work yet.

Please note that the list of contributors shipped with the alpha releases does not represent the current state (issue #47).

New features

• dhcpcd client support (@teknocrat / Harvey Mittens)
• Partial support for BlueZ 5 (see #13 for the current state)

Changes

• Switch to GTK+ 3 (using introspection)
• Update autoconf to support aarch64 (Dennis Gilmore)
• Migrate from Pyrex to Cython (@teknocrat / Harvey Mittens)

Bugs fixed

• Fix nautilus integration
• Fix pulseaudio version check
• Add missing icons
• Fix initial applet state if bluetooth is disabled
• Fix blueman startup when .cache dir doesn't exist (@asdil12 / Dominik Heidler)
• Fix thunar fallback (Jan Hutař)
• Do not power new adapters despite rfkill (@LKR / Leesa)
• Fix handling of network devices (especially fixes DhcpClient plugin)
• Update translations (too many to list them)
• Fix nonexistent dbus exception (Martín Ferrari)
• Fix a rare problem when the manager device menu cannot get the current selection (@kolen / Konstantin Mochalov)
• Fix pulseaudio device discovery (see #64 and the linked Ubuntu bugs for details and contributors)