New version of pcsc-lite: 1.6.5

I just released new version of pcsc-lite. Some of the improvements or changes have already been described in previous blog articles.

Changelog

pcsc-lite-1.6.5: Ludovic Rousseau
3 December 2010

• Power on the card _only_ if an application requests a connection. You can disable the feature using DISABLE_ON_DEMAND_POWER_ON in src/pcscd.h.in If DISABLE_AUTO_POWER_ON is defined then do not automatically power on the card. The card will be powered on on the first SCardConnect() See http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2010/10/card-auto-power-on-and-off.html
  
• SCardReconnect(): return SCARD_E_NO_SMARTCARD when card is removed and SCARD_W_UNRESPONSIVE_CARD when card is unresponsive instead of SCARD_E_PROTO_MISMATCH
• Install pcscd as sgid pcscd instead of suid root See http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2010/09/pcscd-auto-start.html
• SCardSetTimeout() is no more provided. This function is not provided by Microsoft and is deprecated since 2004 in pcsc-lite.
• SCardCancelTransaction() is no more provided. This function is not provided by Microsoft and is deprecated since 2005 in pcsc-lite.
• Parsing the CCID Info.plist (159 readers supported) was, on a i386 machine, done in 264306 s and is now done 5547 s => gain x47 or 4600% See http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2010/08/ram-and-cpu-improvements-in-pcsc-lite.html
• It is now possible to configure the local socket name to use using the environment variable PCSCLITE_CSOCK_NAME See http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2010/11/pcsc-client-and-server-on-two-different.html
• Wait until all connected readers have a chance to power up a possibly inserted card before accepting clients.
• restrict pcscd features when not run by root (so using suid): APDU logging or setting parameters are disabled for example
• fix compilation problem on kfreebsd-* systems
• PCSC/reader.h: HOST_TO_CCID_16() and HOST_TO_CCID_32() are now identity functions Since libccid 1.4.1 (revision 5252) the byte order is no more important
• If you want to use IFDHCreateChannel() instead of IFDHCreateChannelByName() then do not use any DEVICENAME line in the configuration file. IFDHCreateChannel() will then be called with the CHANNELID parameter.
• the CHANNELID parameter can also be a decimal number.
• Remove the support of IFDHandler v1 API. I don't know any driver using this API. See http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2010/10/ifdhandler-version-1-support-removed.html
• avoids a buffer overflow with badly formed ATR
• some other minor improvements and bug corrections

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