[BRLTTY] 5.5 will be released soon.

[Dave Mielke]

Release 5.5 of brltty will be released soon. To this end, would as many of you 
as can please test the latest development code so that any problems can be 
resolved before the release.

There are, essentially, only two things that I'm waiting for. One is, as asked 
above, a short time to allow for user testing and problem reports. The other is 
to finish the imlementation of a really cool feature. This feature already 
works on Linux, but the plan is to also implement it on Windows and Android as 
part of 5.5. These are being done now, i.e. concurrent with waiting for the 
results of user testing.

The feature is that you no longer need to know the Bluetooth address of your 
braille device. In other words, just specifying bluetooth: is good enough. That 
tells brltty that you want to use Bluetooth, and brltty will then find your 
braille device. There is, of course, a way to handle you having more than one 
Bluetooth braille device. You can read about this feature in README.Bluetooth 
as well as in the Bluetooth section of README.Devices.

One of the benefits of this new capability is that the default braille device 
has been changed from usb: to usb:,bluetooth:. In other words, brltty will, by 
default, now check for both USB and Bluetooth devices.

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