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On https://launchstudio.bluetooth.com/Listings/Search you can search for products certified by the Bluetooth SIG. Today I noticed Qualcomm got some more chips certified for Bluetooth 5.2, which make them viable to support LE Audio in the future (by firmware). Here is a full list of all Bluetooth 5.2 certified products as of today:

Declaration ID	QDID(s)	Company	Products	Specification Name	Listing Date
D046352	144468 - Component (Tested)	Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd. (QTIL)	QCC3040, QCC3046, QCC5141	5.2	2020-01-28
D046351	144919 - Controller Subsystem	Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd. (QTIL)	QCC3040, QCC3046, QCC5141	5.2	2020-01-28
D047381	144597 - Component (Tested)	Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.	WCN3998-1	5.2	2020-01-22
D049154	143926 - Test Equipment	Bluetooth SIG, Inc.	Bluetooth Profile Tuning Suite v7.6.0, v7.6.0	5.2	2020-01-15
D047380	143986 - Component (Tested)	Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.	QCA639x, QCA6696,	5.2	2020-01-15

Let's start at the bottom of the table. The QCA639x chips (including QCA6390) are better known under their marketing name FastConnect 6800, and is a Wi-Fi plus Bluetooth SoC for mobile devices. The QCA6696 is an automotive variant.

The WCN3998-1 looks like an successor the WCN3998 (branded as FastConnect 6200).

A few chips from the QCC3000 and QCC5100 series got Bluetooth 5.2 certification as well. Both the QCC3000 and QCC5100 series aims at wireless earbuds, headsets and speakers. Notably, none of the certified chips are publicly listed or announced yet. They did release a blog post about LE Audio linking to the QCC5100 series however. An announcement about the next generation QCC3040, QCC3046 and QCC5141 could be incoming soon.

If the chips are already certified, it means we could see the first devices utilizing Bluetooth 5.2 with LE Audio this year.

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FreeNAS 11.3 Released

Posted: 29 Jan 2020 01:22 PM PST

r/freenas: FreeNAS 11.3 Released

FreeNAS / Reddit Community,

Pleased to announce that FreeNAS 11.3-RELEASE is now available! This marks our first major release of 2020 and brings with it a slew of new features and functionality, including but not limited to:

Re-implemented Replication Engine, allows up to 10Gb replication speeds (a 10x improvement), resume support on failed transfers, as well as ability to replicate locally.

ACL Manager – Allows setup and management of SMB ACL's directly via the FreeNAS web interface.

SMB Shadow Copies are now enabled by default for new shares – Note: Snapshots will only show up in Windows "Previous Versions Tab" if the snapshot USED size shows changes to the file.

A repository of Community plugins has been created, users can now create and distribute 3rd party plugins which are not officially iXsystems supported.

Updated translations for Czech, French, Japanese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. Additionally, the process to add additional translations has been greatly improved.

iSCSI Wizard – Streamlines the process of creating new iSCSI targets down to a few clicks.

Alert System Overhaul – More granular alerts, as well as controls to set alert thresholds.

Dashboard Updates – The initial dashboard now shows a live view of system status, including network traffic, CPU / memory utilization and more.

NAT Support for Plugins – Eliminates the need for each plugin to have a dedicated IP address on your network.

Full featured 2.0 API – Includes both REST and Websocket connections, allowing FreeNAS to be fully scripted and driven via the same API used by the web-interface.

Large Pool Creation Assistance – When creating ZFS pools with large number of disks, the UI provides an automated way to repeat a VDEV layout across all remaining disks.

ZFS Performance optimizations across the board for many different workloads.

Full Release Notes:

https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/library/freenas-11-3-release/

Download:

https://www.freenas.org/download/

Issue Tracker:

https://jira.ixsystems.com

Thanks for reading and happy updating!