SD140 6.0.0-6-alpha BLE issues

[Julie H]

Greetings -

I recently downloaded the latest SD140 images, 6.0.0-6-alpha, and began having issues with BLE communication.

I'm developing a custom device, based on the nRF52840, and we require both BLE and USB communication. The USB peripheral seems to be pretty much broken when the Soft Device is enabled, so I'm going to ignore that for the moment.

I recently migrated our code from the previous Soft Device, 5.0.0-5-alpha, which had working BLE (NUS and other services). When I attempted to discover and connect to the device using nRF Toolbox, I was unsuccessful. I reverted my code to the last working, pre-USB version, to remove any possible USB issues. This didn't resolve the problem. The only way to get BLE working again was to switch back to the 5.0.0-5-alpha version of the Soft Device.

[Julie H]

Would someone please confirm that there are NO SDK differences between S140-5.0.0-5-alpha (what we had) and S140-6.0.0-6-alpha? I am on SDK 13.1, which supposedly supports S140 and there is no new release of SDK 13.1. And 14.0 / 14.1 is a bridge too far at this time.