I decided to upgrade to Bluez-5.38 from 5.36. It mentioned a
few items which had been a problem for me such as OBEX
and others.

Following the upgrade I checked the current version using
the command line:

dpkg --status bluez | grep '^Version:'

The response was:

Version: 5.36.1

instead of the anticipated 5.38. I am lost here as to tracking
down what mischief is going on. Any suggestions?