Year 2017 Changes

Common changes

• Fix Fixed the bug when a manufacturer-specific Bluetooth LE advertisement frame was parsed twice.
• Fix Fixed the deadlock bug that appeared in the wclMessageBroadcaster class when the wclMessageReceiver class tried to close itself inside the OnMessage event handler.

Bluetooth Framework

Common changes

• Fix Fixed the deadlock bug that appeared in the wclMessageBroadcaster when the wclMessageReceiver tried to close itself inside the OnMessage event handler.
• Fix Error parsing during Wi-Fi Direct SoftAP startup.
• Fix Fixed the freezing bug that appeared when an application stopped Wi-Fi Direct SoftAP after a Wi-Fi hardware had been removed.

Wi-Fi Framework

Common changes

• Fix Fixed the deadlock bug that appeared in the wclMessageBroadcaster class when the wclMessageReceiver class tried to close itself inside the OnMessage event handler.
• Fix Fixed the bug when the OnDisconnect event was not called when a serial device (COM port) had been removed.

Serial Framework

Common changes

• New The new wclBluetoothLeProximityBeacon class has been added. The class switches your PC to advertise as a Bluetooth LE proximity beacon (iBeacon).

Bluetooth Framework

Common changes

• Fix Fixed the bug that caused a memory leak in the wclBluetoothLeBeaconWatcher class (the Watcher connection was not freed).
• Fix Fixed the bug when a wrong error code was returned when trying to start the already running Bluetooth LE Beacon Watcher.
• Fix Fixed the freezing bug in the wclBluetoothLeBeaconWatcher class.
• Fix Fixed the bug in discovering Bluetooth devices.
• Fix Fixed the bug that caused an error when creating vCOM if it already exists.

Bluetooth Framework

Common changes

• Improved The Wireless Communication Library messaging subsystem was updated.
• Improved The Bluetooth Framework files structure was updated; the new wclBluetoothConnections and wclBluetoothComponents files were added.
• Fix Fixed the bug with heap corruption when closing the connection (for any reason).
• Improved The help files were updated.

Bluetooth Framework

Common changes

• Improved The Wireless Communication Library messaging subsystem was updated.
• Improved The help files were updated.

Wi-Fi Framework

Common changes

• Improved The Wireless Communication Library messaging subsystem was updated.
• Improved The Wireless Communication Library communication subsystem was updated.
• Improved The Serial Framework files structure was changed; the new wclSerialConnections and wclSerialComponents files were added.
• Improved The help files were updated.

Serial Framework

C++ Edition

• Fix The critical memory leak has been fixed.

Wi-Fi Framework

C++ Edition

• Fix The critical memory leak has been fixed.

Bluetooth Framework

Common changes

The new Serial Framework has been released.

• New Enumerating serial devices (COM ports and modems).
• New Monitoring changes in the connected serial hardware.
• New Exchange data with serial devices.
• New Receive COM events.
• New Receive modem events.
• New Full serial port control.
• New Support for Bluetooth virtual COM ports.
• New Support for USB virtual COM ports.
• New Support for com0com virtual COM ports.

Serial Framework

Common changes

• New The new wclThread class has been added. The class helps to use the Wi-Fi Framework in threads, console, and service applications.

Wi-Fi Framework

Common changes

• Improved The Bluetooth LE beacon monitoring code has been reworked to protect access to the feature from more than one thread (including different applications).
• Improved The Bluetooth devices discovering code has been reworked to protect access to the feature from more than one thread (including different applications).
• Fix Fixed the bug that caused A/V when stopping Bluetooth LE beacon monitoring or at the end of discovering Bluetooth LE devices when used with the Microsoft Bluetooth driver.
• New The new wclThread class has been added. The class helps to use the Bluetooth Framework in threads, console, and service applications.
• New The new Console demo project has been added to show how to use the wclThread class in a console application.

Bluetooth Framework

Common changes

• New Eddystone Beacon URL frame support.
• New Eddystone Beacon UID frame support.
• New Eddystone Beacon TLM frame support.
• Improved iBeacon support updated.
• New Raw frames processing.
• New Raw manufacturer-specific frames processing.

Bluetooth Framework

Common changes

• Improved The GetRemoteDeviceType method has been reworked for better BLE device detection.
• Fix Fixed the access violation bug that appeared during BLE device discovery, and a mixed Bluetooth device was found.
• Fix Fixed the access violation bug that appeared in the GetRemoteDeviceName method.

Bluetooth Framework

Common changes

• Improved Compatibility update.

Wi-Fi Framework

Common changes

• New Added a new way to read a remote Bluetooth device type using the new Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709) API.
• Fix Fixed the bug that appeared during data receiving from a connected remote Bluetooth device when the Bluetooth driver returns a zero read buffer size.
• New Bluetooth LE beacons monitoring and information reading support have been added (Windows 10 only).

Bluetooth Framework

Common changes

• Fix Fixed the bug that appeared during read-only characteristic values reading (Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10; the Microsoft Bluetooth drivers).
• Fix Fixed the bug that appeared during characteristic values reading (Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 platforms; the Microsoft Bluetooth driver).
• Fix Fixed the bug that appeared during subscribing for characteristic change notifications (Windows 8 and Windows 8.1; the Microsoft Bluetooth driver).
• Fix Fixed bug that appeared during descriptor value reading and writing (Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 platforms; the Microsoft Bluetooth driver).

Bluetooth Framework

Common changes

• Improved OS version checking for the Wi-Fi Direct SoftAP to prevent trying to run it on unsupported platforms.

C++ Edition

• Fix Fixed the critical bug in the wclWiFiSoftAP class that appeared when running on the Windows 8 platform.
• Fix Fixed the critical access violation and memory leak errors that appeared on the Windows 8 platform.

Wi-Fi Framework

Common changes

• New The new Kind flag was added to the Discover method of the wclBluetoothRadio class. The flag indicates which devices should be discovered (classic or BLE).
• Improved OS version checking to prevent BLE usage on unsupported platforms.
• New Connecting to Bluetooth LE GATT-enabled devices without pairing is now possible on the Windows 10 platform.

C++ Edition

• Fix Fixed the critical error that caused the access violation and memory leak errors on the Windows 8 platform.

Bluetooth Framework

Common changes

• New The OnClientConnected and OnClientDisconnected events have been added to the wclWiFiSoftAP class.

Wi-Fi Framework

Common changes

• Fix Fixed the deadlock error that appeared in the Wi-Fi Direct SoftAP implementation.

Wi-Fi Framework

Common changes

• Fix Fixed the deadlock bug in the BlueSoleil Bluetooth driver support implementation.

.NET Edition

• Fix Fixed the bug that appeared during characteristic value writing longer than 4 bytes.
• Fix Fixed the bug with the wrong Data.Length value receiving in the wclRfCommClient and wclRfCommServer classes.

Bluetooth Framework

Common changes

• Fix Fixed the bug in the Wi-Fi Sniffer error codes decoding.
• New The legacy Hosted Network support for Wi-Fi Direct (Wi-Fi Direct SoftAP) has been added.
• Improved The documentation files were updated.

Wi-Fi Framework

Common changes

• Improved Compatibility update.

Bluetooth Framework

Common changes

• Fix Fixed the access violation bug that appeared when the RFCOMM client disconnects from a server when used with the BlueSoleil Bluetooth driver.
• Improved The documentation updated.
• Fix Fixed the freezing issue that appeared when a client disconnected from a remote server when used with the BlueSoleil Bluetooth driver (Delphi 2009 and above).
• Improved The authentication code was reworked for better support of parallel pairing requests when used with the Microsoft Bluetooth driver.
• Fix Fixed the access violation bug that appeared when receiving characteristic change notifications on a 64-bit platform.

Bluetooth Framework

Common changes

• Fix Fixed the issue in the WiFiSniffer demo application; when too many events are received, the app looks frozen.

.NET Edition

• Fix Fixed the bug in the wclWiFISniffer class that caused an exception raise when stopping frames capturing.

Wi-Fi Framework

Common changes

• Improved Compatibility update.

Wi-Fi Framework

Common changes

The new version of the Bluetooth Framework has just been released.

Bluetooth Framework

Common changes

• New The new wclWiFiSniffer class has been added.

Wi-Fi Framework

Common changes

• Improved Error code definitions were updated to make it more readable when you look for the error meaning in documentation.
• Improved Demo applications reworked to show error codes in HEX so you can easily find them in documentation.
• Changed The NumberOfPhyTypes field has been removed from the wclWiFiAvailableNetwork structure.
• Changed The PhyTypes field type has been changed to the wclWiFiPhysenumeration so you can easily check supported PHYs.
• Fix Fixed the installation bug when the wrong library path was specified for an IDE, and the IDE was not able to build demo applications.

Wi-Fi Framework

Common changes

• New The Information Elements (IEs) reading from a BSS has been added.

VCL Edition

• Fix Fixed the packages with source code installation issue.

Wi-Fi Framework

VCL Edition

• New The Embarcadero RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo support was added.

Wi-Fi Framework

Common changes

• Improved Small updates in the common library.

C++ Edition

• New The Visual Studio 2017 support was added.

Wi-Fi Framework

Common changes

• New The new wclNetworkListManager class.

Wi-Fi Framework

.NET Edition

• Changed The Wi-Fi Framework error codes moved to the wclWiFiErrors class.
• New The new Set Profile feature in the WiFiClient sample application now allows you to create new Wi-Fi profiles.
• Fix Minor fixes in the WiFiClient sample application.
• Improved The documentation was updated.
• New The online documentation was published by this link.

C++ Edition

• Changed The common error codes were redeclared as const.
• Changed The Wi-Fi Framework error codes were moved to the wclWiFiErrors header file.
• Changed The Wi-Fi Framework error codes were redeclared as const.
• New The new Set Profile feature in the WiFiClient sample now allows you to create new Wi-Fi profiles.
• New The WiFiClient sample application is now able to save an XML profile to a file.
• New The WiFiClient sample application is now able to read an XML profile from a file.
• Improved The documentation was updated.
• New The online documentation was published by this link.

VCL Edition

• Changed The Wi-Fi Framework error codes were moved to the wclWiFiErrors file.
• Fix Fixed the CBuilder demo applications building issue.
• New The new Set Profile feature of the WiFiClient demo application allows you to create new Wi-Fi profiles.
• Improved The documentation was updated.
• New The online documentation was published by this link.

Wi-Fi Framework

Common changes

• Fix Fixed the critical bug with enumerating BSS for the selected network.
• Fix When enumerating BSS, the interface should be connected.

Wi-Fi Framework