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We’ve just published a new release of our WHQL-certified driver for SpringCard PC/SCThe de-facto standard to interface Personal Computers with Smart Cards (and smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. readers of course). SpringCard PC/SC Readers comply with this standard. This makes those products usable on most operating systems, using an high-level and standardized APIApplication Programming Interface: A definition of calling conventions through which an application program accesses to other services such as the operating system, drivers, databases, or middleware layers.. products. This new version (code name: SDD480-BB) fixes a few bugs that have been experienced with the earlier release:
- corrected a memory leakage that used to occur as a consequence of frequent SCardControl calls
- CSB6 now reports correctly “card mute” when a card is physically inserted but unresponsive
- improved overall stability on multi-slot readers thanks to a stricter synchronization of SCardTransmit calls

To download the driver, please go to http://www.springcard.com/download/find.php?file=sdd480. The installer now contains both x86 and x64 binaries, and select automatically the one adapted to your system. It will also be available through Windows Update in a few days.

As the previous one, this release targets all SpringCard USBUniversal Serial Bus. A standard Input/Output bus that supports very high transmission rates. Up to 120 devices can be daisy-chained to a USB port. CCIDCircuit Card Interface Device. A subset of the USB specification that is the standard for USB based smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. readers. readers :
- CSB6
- CrazyWriter
- EasyFinger
- Prox’N'Roll PC/SCThe de-facto standard to interface Personal Computers with Smart Cards (and smartcardIntegrated-circuit card. This is the standard name for a plastic card holding a silicon chip (an integrated circuit) compliant with the ISO 7816 standards. A common name is smartcard. readers of course). SpringCard PC/SC Readers comply with this standard. This makes those products usable on most operating systems, using an high-level and standardized APIApplication Programming Interface: A definition of calling conventions through which an application program accesses to other services such as the operating system, drivers, databases, or middleware layers..

Users are welcome to deploy this new release as soon as possible.