Gustavo Padovan, The big changes of BlueZ 5, su padovan.org, 22 febbraio 2013. URL consultato il 20 novembre 2018 (archiviato dall'url originale il 23 settembre 2017).
«As the MGMT interface is the only one to support the new Bluetooth Low Energy devices, BlueZ developers decided to drop support for the old interface once MGMT was completed. As a result, you need to be running Linux Kernel 3.4 or newer to use BlueZ 5.»