IMPORTANT: Bluetooth support being worked on; careful to use the dev branch

[kareldonk]

I'm currently working on adding Bluetooth support to QuantumGate. This means that the local instance will be capable of listening for incoming Bluetooth connections and will be capable of connecting to other devices running an instance of QuantumGate over Bluetooth.

This work is being done in the dev branch and is far from complete. In addition certain features are switched off or work only partially since they do not yet (fully) support Bluetooth connections. DO NOT use the dev branch in the coming weeks until I update this discussion that it is safe to use it again without breaking your projects. Use the master branch to be safe.

The dev branch has also been updated to require Visual Studio 2022. Another reason to be careful and think about it before you use the dev branch for your projects.

[kareldonk]

I’m currently wrapping up my work on Bluetooth support in QuantumGate. Adding Bluetooth support turned out to be easier than I thought and I’m a bit ahead of schedule. I think it might be possible to release this before 2022 — so sometime next week. The big work that’s still left to do is updating the documentation. After that I also want to write a series of articles detailing what can be done with QuantumGate using Bluetooth. One of the cool things is that there’s also support for relay connections over Bluetooth, in combination with TCP and UDP connections. So you can have a single relay connection with a mix of peers at each hop using Bluetooth, TCP or UDP connections.

Anyway, the dev branch is currently back in a state where most things are stable and work, though I am still testing. If you would like to try it out and see what changes you will have to make upon release you can now do that. I don't recommend using the dev branch but I saw that apparently there are some people using it probably to stay ahead with development, so that is the reason for this post.