What's New in This Version of Virtual Serial Port Driver

Electronic Team Nov 29, 2021

Virtual Serial Port Driver 10.0.944

Released: November 29, 2021

• Added: new drivers signed by Microsoft.
• Added: automatic check for the required version of Microsoft .NET Framework at the software installation.
• Added: the possibility to use the Software Development Kit on ARM-based systems.
• Fixed: issues with enabling the automatic reopening option for shared ports.

Released: November 10, 2021

• Added: support for Windows 11.
• Added: limited support for Windows on ARM-based systems.
• 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.
• Fixed: issues with reading the WAIT_ON_MASK event by the software drivers.
• Other minor improvements and bug fixes.

Released: May 11, 2021

Released: February 24, 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.

Released: May 23, 2019

• Improved: new software drivers have passed WHQL testing and are now digitally signed by Microsoft. Virtual Serial Port Driver can work on systems with Secure Boot enabled.

Released: August 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.

Released: December 7, 2016

• Fixed: a BSOD when an I/O operation was canceled by the program operating the port.
• Fixed: on Windows 2003 32-bit, a BSOD on opening the GUI with a certain ports configuration.
• Fixed: incorrect ports behavior after the system was woken up from sleep mode.
• Fixed: unreliable creation/removal of multiple ports, when done too quickly.
• Fixed: ports not being created in the VC example provided with the OEM version.

Released: July 14, 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.