What's new in Virtual Serial Port Driver Pro 10.0 Build 10.0.944
Nov 29, 2021
- Added: support for Windows 11.
- Added: new drivers signed by Microsoft.
- Added: automatic check for the required version of Microsoft .NET Framework at the software installation. Changed: the Virtual Serial Port Driver End-User License Agreements have been updated.
- Added: the possibility to use the Software Development Kit on ARM-based systems.
- Fixed: issues with enabling the automatic reopening option for shared ports.
New in Virtual Serial Port Driver Pro 10.0 Build 10.0.844 (Feb 25, 2021)
- Added: a new, redesigned user interface.
- Added: the ability to create loopback connections.
- Added: the ability to assign custom names to serial port bundles.
- Added: the ability to view the port status within the selected port bundle.
- Added: detailed info about current settings and amount of data sent and received by the selected serial port.
- Added: the ability to save data from the Activity log to a file.
- Improved: the Standard and PRO versions of Virtual Serial Port Driver are now put together in one build.
- Improved: the software drivers have been updated.
- Fixed: minor issues with a loopback pinout scheme.
New in Virtual Serial Port Driver Pro 9.0 Build 9.0.567 (Aug 8, 2017)
- Added: Windows Server 2016 support.
- Added: full Windows 10 support.
- Improved: new software protection system.
- Improved: GUI compatibility with high-resolution monitors.
- Improved: displaying a more detailed information about the virtual serial ports in the device manager.
- Improved: drivers are digitally signed with WHQL.
- Improved: the ports are marked as occupied to the system, which prevents them from being overlapped (e.g. by USB to serial driver).
- Improved: the information about created virtual ports is removed after the application uninstallation.
- Fixed: displaying of the newly created virtual ports in the device manager.
- Fixed: timeouts processing during the read operation.
- Fixed: flow control displaying when a serial port was opened by HyperTerminal.
New in Virtual Serial Port Driver Pro 8.0 Build 8.0.412 (Jul 16, 2015)
- Added: possibility to create ports for the current user session only. Allows RDP users to create port with the same name (e.g. COM1) in each user session.
- Added: you can enable automatic update of ports' list, thus you can see pairs created in other user sessions
- Improved: instantaneous ports creation lets working with them even before PnP manager detects the newly added ports
- Improved: ports can be deleted even if they are open by other applications
- Fixed: loopback pinout wouldn't save for a ports pair after the system reboot
- Fixed several issues: canceling IRP and timeout Read/Write operations
New in Virtual Serial Port Driver Pro 7.2 Build 7.2.308 (Nov 7, 2013)
- Added: 64-bit version of Virtual Serial Port Driver library for creating 64-bit applications
- Added: Java code sample in the OEM build
- Improved: overall application stability
- Fixed: BSOD when serial port was opened by Ham Radio Deluxe software
- Fixed: BSOD when trying to cancel IOCTL_SERIAL_GET_WAIT_MASK request
- Fixed: BSOD when trying to cancel Read call
- Fixed: BSOD caused by low timeout value used with write requests accompanied by high system load
- Fixed: several BSOD cases, including those caused by timeout requests and attempts to cancel all read, write and ioctl calls
New in Virtual Serial Port Driver Pro 7.0.1.263 (Aug 2, 2010)
- Added: full Windows 7 support
- Added: signal lines pinout scheme while customizing pinouts
- Added: detection of the application virtual serial port was created with
- Added: program uninstaller verifies that Virtual Serial Port Driver is not launched
- Added: application restart is not required after entering registration info
- Added: virtual serial port pairs, created by Virtual Serial Port Driver, are removed after the program uninstallation
- Improved: Virtual Serial Port Driver and all of its internal drivers stability
- Fixed: BSOD when virtual serial port is opened with strict baud rate value less than 8 Bd
- Fixed: BSOD when virtual serial port, created by VSPD on a real machine, was used by a virtual machine as physical real port
- Fixed: data distortion during transmission on multicore systems
- Fixed: bug with granting port access to an application
- Fixed: data loss during simultaneous data transmission from both ports with "Xon/Xoff" option enabled
- Fixed: freezing of application, which opened virtual serial port created by VSPD, if RTS_CONTROL_TOGGLE parameter was enabled
- Fixed: multicore system freezing during data transmission with Xon/Xoff or Hardware Flow Control enabled
- Update: Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 support is available only in OEM version now
New in Virtual Serial Port Driver Pro 6.9 Build 6.9.1.134 (May 23, 2009)
- Fixed: bug in interface in Windows XP Embedded
New in Virtual Serial Port Driver Pro 6.0 Build 6.0.1.115 (May 31, 2007)
- Totally refreshed, more flexible and user friendly interface
- Virtual Serial Port Driver and all of its internal drivers are now digitally signed
- Virtual Serial Port Driver is completely compatible with Windows Vista
- Added: completely new Serial Ports Explorer, which helps you get full information about all serial ports present in system
- Added: port access list, which is used to restrict access to created ports for various applications (for Windows 2000/XP/2003/ Vista)
- Added: applications, which are connected to created virtual serial ports are displayed in Serial Ports Explorer
- Added: current virtual port settings (Handflow, Chars, Line, Baudrate, Timeout) are changing automatically depending on port settings at the remote end (OEM only)
- Improved: different pinout presets (standard/loopback/custom) for more convenient usage of various null-modem schemes
- Improved: virtual serial ports are now located in "ports" group in Device Manager
- Improved: multi-processors support
- Virtual port creation speed is greatly increased
- Fixed: some stability issues
- Fixed: minor glitches