The Bluetooth SIG announced formal adoption of the Bluetooth v4.1 specification on 4 December 2013. This specification is an incremental software update to Bluetooth Specification v4.0, and not a hardware update. The update incorporates Bluetooth Core Specification Addenda (CSA 1, 2, 3 & 4) and adds new features that improve consumer usability. These include increased co-existence support for LTE, bulk data exchange rates—and aid developer innovation by allowing devices to support multiple roles simultaneously.
New features of this specification include:
- Mobile Wireless Service Coexistence Signaling
- Train Nudging and Generalized Interlaced Scanning
- Low Duty Cycle Directed Advertising
- L2CAP Connection Oriented and Dedicated Channels with Credit Based Flow Control
- Dual Mode and Topology
- LE Link Layer Topology
- 802.11n PAL
- Audio Architecture Updates for Wide Band Speech
- Fast Data Advertising Interval
- Limited Discovery Time
Notice that some features were already available in a Core Specification Addendum (CSA) before the release of v4.1.
