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Bluetooth? Core Specification Deprecation and Withdrawal Plan

      Core Specification deprecation and withdrawal 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 revision 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      The BoD also decided how deprecated and withdrawn specifications will be treated.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 Once a specification is withdrawn, it will not be maintained (errata and TSEs will not be processed for that specification), and members will not be permitted to complete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of members to ship products that have already been qualified to specifications that have since been deprecated or withdrawn. Members are invited to provide feedback to the Bluetooth Board of Directors by submitting a BoD Feedback support request. 

Bluetooth SIG為了鼓勵會員逐步棄用藍牙核心規(guī)格舊版本藍牙標準并轉(zhuǎn)而使用新的藍牙核心規(guī)格版本藍牙標準以提高互操作性及品質(zhì),Bluetooth SIG 董事會于2017 年12 月19 日正式批準了藍牙核心規(guī)格版本標準棄用及撤銷計劃。

1. 2017 年12 月19 日起執(zhí)行棄用藍牙核心標準版本2.0/2.0+EDR；

2. 2018 年7 月1 日起執(zhí)行撤銷藍牙核心標準版本2.0/2.0+EDR；

3. 2018 年7 月1 日起執(zhí)行棄用藍牙核心標準版4.0/3.0/2.1/2.1+EDR；

4. 2020 年1 月1 日起執(zhí)行撤銷藍牙核心標準版4.0/3.0/2.1/2.1+EDR；

5. 2019 年1 月1 日起執(zhí)行棄用藍牙核心標準版本4.1；

6. 2020 年7 月1 日起執(zhí)行撤銷藍牙核心標準版本4.1。

Bluetooth SIG 同時修改了針對棄用及撤銷標準的認證政策，比較之前政策有重大更新，以下新政策于2018 年7 月1 日開始執(zhí)行：

      取消允許以USD25000 購買Declaration ID用于新設(shè)計,基于棄用藍牙核心規(guī)格標準做資格認證的政策。

      藍牙標準棄用后對應(yīng)的標準將不再進行維護(不再處理對應(yīng)核心規(guī)格標準勘誤及測試標準勘誤),不允許新的產(chǎn)品設(shè)計用核心規(guī)格棄用版本完成藍牙資格認證。僅允許用核心規(guī)格棄用版本創(chuàng)建參考列名和使用原合格設(shè)計在不做任何修改的情況下完成資格認證。

      藍牙標準撤銷后對應(yīng)的核心標準將不再進行維護(不再處理對應(yīng)核心規(guī)格標準勘誤及測試標準勘誤),不允許用撤銷核心規(guī)格版本創(chuàng)建參考列名或進行任何資格認證,也不允許用撤銷核心規(guī)格版本做列名(無論是參考列名或資格認證列名)不允許添加新的產(chǎn)品型號和參考列名。

針對政策的解讀如下：

1. 2018年7月1日起新的藍牙產(chǎn)品申請資格認證的版本只能是4.1或4.2或5.0版本；

2. 2019年1月1日起新的藍牙產(chǎn)品申請資格認證的版本只能是4.2或5.0版本；

3. 2020 年1月1日起以4.0及以前版本完成認證的列名不允許再添加新的產(chǎn)品型號；

4. 2020年7月1日起以4.1及以前版本完成認證的列名不允許再添加新的產(chǎn)品型號。

針對Bluetooth SIG政策的更新STS 的專業(yè)建議如下:

      對于用藍牙核心規(guī)格4.0及以前版本已開發(fā)完成但未經(jīng)認證的藍牙產(chǎn)品抓緊時間在今年7月份前完成認證2019年1月1日起新的藍牙產(chǎn)品申請資格認證的版本只能是4.2或5.0的核心規(guī)格版本。

      對于用藍牙核心規(guī)格4.1版本已開發(fā)完成但未經(jīng)認證的產(chǎn)品抓緊時間在今年年底前完成認證。

      正在開發(fā)中或計劃開發(fā)的新產(chǎn)品推薦使用藍牙核心規(guī)格4.2或5.0版本完成開發(fā)并以相應(yīng)版本申請認證,絕大部份芯片商均4.2版本的藍牙核心規(guī)格協(xié)議棧已發(fā)布,成品廠商可聯(lián)系芯片商獲取最新的藍牙核心規(guī)格協(xié)議棧進行固件更新。

      以上政策更新并不影響已完成認證的產(chǎn)品狀態(tài)，已認證的產(chǎn)品仍然有效,可正常生產(chǎn)和銷售。