Why is Serialization of S130 deprecated in SDK 12.1

[Christian Waldmann]

With the release of SDK 12.1 the Serialization of S130 is now deprecated. Within SDK 12.0 the Serialization was supported NOT at all.

When this is true, I have to stay with SDK 11.0 and a patched serialization for my nrf51822 application!

Why is Serialization of S130 deprecated in SDK 12.1?

Is the support for nRF51 series already phasing out?

[Adrian Eggenberger]

Hi I have managed to use the serialization of S130/S132 2.0 from SDK11 combined with the files from SDK12. It seems no problem mixing these environments. I would also prefer if the serialization would cover all supported softdevices. It should be possible to keep the various versions in different subfolders under "Serialization" in the SDK. Adrian

[Sigurd]

At the current time there is no support for multiple SD APIs (to distinguish different codecs). S130 uses the older version 2, while S132 now uses version 3. In order to use serialization with S130 and SDK 12, the serialization module can be copied from SDK 11.

[Christian Waldmann]

It is not only copy&paste, but copy and patch, as you can see in this post

[Sigurd]

That is true. You would need patch the bug that was in the SDK 11 serialization with the patch presented here.

[Christian Waldmann]

as already mentioned in the linked post, there is also a patch in github to get a stable solution.